Eat Local Week, September 7-14 2008
Welcome to the 4th annual Eat Local Week!
This week-long culinary extravaganza is packed full of fun and delicious events celebrating the local bounty of Whatcom County’s harvest season.
From all-local fine dining at your favorite restaurants, to classes and recipes helping you Buy FRESH for your own kitchen, to guided tours of local farms, and farm-fresh food appearing in local cafeterias and on unexpected streetcorners, it's a true smorgasbord of events, promotions & specials, all featuring the finest of local food & agriculture.
For breaking Eat Local Week news and tips, check back often and also visit the Eat Local Week blog!
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Click the links below for more information:
Sustainable Connections Suggests: the week at a glance
Cook at Home: Classes, Cookbooks & Recipes
Farm Tour: by bus, bike or carpool
Film Screenings: Good Food & Broken Limbs
The links above contain the most complete, accurate and up-to-date information on Eat Local Week's events and specials. You can also download a printable pocket reference for the week HERE.
WIN $100 in Market Bucks, redeemable at the 100+ vendors at the Bellingham Farmers Market, and other great prizes by tracking your week and sending the Passport to Prizes in by September 30. (Psst, the odds are fantastic!)
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Now’s your chance to take an extra step—or ten—in eating local. We hear monthly, weekly, daily even, about the environmental, economic, and social benefits of buying our food from local farms. We believe in the importance of keeping our farmland in agriculture. We want the good feeling of knowing the people who grew or raised our food, knowing the miles it traveled, knowing the hands it passed through, and knowing that our dinner had a positive effect on the land, water, and people from whence it came, and that it will have a nourishing, healthy and delicious effect on us now. Yet, in our global food system, it is a big challenge to change our habits and eat local. The research, questioning, attention to detail and commitment needed are more than most of us are willing to do. Eat Local Week is an opportunity to try it on, just for one week—to go a little further into our local foodshed than you’ve been before!
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Many thanks to Organic Valley and their 57 local farms in the Pacific Northwest for supporting Eat Local Week 2008
Many thanks to our 2008 Food & Farming Program Sponsors
