Choosing and Celebrating Local during September Harvest
Eat Local Week
Communities across the country are catching on to the value of local food, and staging Eat Local Week campaigns to help spread the word to eaters, restaurants, and markets about the wealth of fresh and delicious options available close to home.
Eat Local Week, September 14-20th gets underway in Skagit Valley communities with celebrations in Mount Vernon, Conway, La Conner, Anacortes, and Edison.
Communities across the country are catching on to the value of local food, and staging Eat Local Week campaigns to help spread the word to eaters, restaurants, and markets about the wealth of fresh and delicious options available close to home.
Eat Local Week, September 14-20th gets underway in Skagit Valley communities with celebrations in Mount Vernon, Conway, La Conner, Anacortes, and Edison.
Eats: Sponsored by Slow Food Skagit and the Skagit
Valley Food Co-op, Eat Local Week
happens mostly at the end of your fork. Area
restaurants will be ramping up the local specials
on their menus to take advantage of the bountiful
harvest. You can help support the health of your
local economy by choosing to shop and eat at the
many fine independent local businesses and
restaurants in the Skagit Valley, during Eat Local
Week, and all year long!
Farmer Markets and Picnics: The spotlight is on local eggs, produce, meats, milk, cheeses, wines, and beer, and you can meet the farmers and producers who make it happen by heading to your local farmer market in Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley, Mount Vernon, or Conway that Saturday and stocking up on good food to make into a locally-focused dish for your community’s potluck picnic on Sunday afternoon from 1-4pm!
Picnic hosts include:
Anacortes: 29th Street Community Garden
Conway: The Muse
Edison / Burlington: Blanchard Community Club
La Conner: Hedlin Farms
Mount Vernon: Pine Square
To learn more about the local farms and restaurants participating in Eat Local Week, and to get the details on your community’s potluck picnic, visit www.slowfoodskagit.org.
Movies: The Lincoln Theatre, in partnership with the Skagit Valley Food Co-op is announcing the First Ever Skagit Food & Film Contest! Create a short film (five minutes or less) depicting your love of all things edible in Skagit County and you could win twenty whole shiny dollars. The top five films, as selected by the Lincoln Theatre and Co-op staff, will be shown on September 11, the opening night of "Food Inc". Audience vote will determine the winner!
To enter, submit your film to skagitfoodnfilm@gmail.com by 11:59pm on September 4th and subscribe to youtube.com/skagitfoodnfilm to see all the entries!
The Lincoln Theatre will be showing Food, Inc. September 11-14th (www.foodincthemovie.com, www.lincolntheatre.org ).
The Skagit Valley Food Co-op will be hosting a special community screening of FRESH (www.freshthemovie.com , www.skagitfoodcoop.com) on Wednesday September 16th at 7:30pm in Room 309. Your $3 suggested donation will go to benefit the Skagit Food Share Alliance, to help provide fresh local produce to our region’s food banks.
For the Month of September: September is Fun with Farms and Food Month at the Skagit Children’s Museum, where all month long soils and plants and harvest in the Skagit Valley will be center stage.
With visits from local farmers, classes on worm bins, and fun art projects involving fruits and veggies, it’s worth bringing the family on a number of visits.
September 8th is Community Free Day, and the weekend of the 19-20th, the Children’s Museum will host a bi-lingual soils exhibit from the Pacific Science Center. This month is sponsored by Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland and the Skagit Valley Food Co-op. For a full calendar of events, stop by the Children’s Museum in Cascade Mall.
The Lincoln Theatre, in partnership with the Skagit Valley Food Co-op is announcing the First Ever Skagit Food & Film Contest!
Create a short film (five minutes or less) depicting your love of all things edible in Skagit County and you could win twenty whole shiny dollars. The top five films, as selected by the Lincoln Theatre and Co-op staff, will be shown on September 11, the opening night of "Food Inc". Audience vote will determine the winner! To enter, submit your film to skagitfoodnfilm@gmail.com by 11:59pm on September 4th and subscribe to youtube.com/skagitfoodnfilm to see all the entries!
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Farmer Markets and Picnics: The spotlight is on local eggs, produce, meats, milk, cheeses, wines, and beer, and you can meet the farmers and producers who make it happen by heading to your local farmer market in Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley, Mount Vernon, or Conway that Saturday and stocking up on good food to make into a locally-focused dish for your community’s potluck picnic on Sunday afternoon from 1-4pm!
Picnic hosts include:
Anacortes: 29th Street Community Garden
Conway: The Muse
Edison / Burlington: Blanchard Community Club
La Conner: Hedlin Farms
Mount Vernon: Pine Square
To learn more about the local farms and restaurants participating in Eat Local Week, and to get the details on your community’s potluck picnic, visit www.slowfoodskagit.org.
Movies: The Lincoln Theatre, in partnership with the Skagit Valley Food Co-op is announcing the First Ever Skagit Food & Film Contest! Create a short film (five minutes or less) depicting your love of all things edible in Skagit County and you could win twenty whole shiny dollars. The top five films, as selected by the Lincoln Theatre and Co-op staff, will be shown on September 11, the opening night of "Food Inc". Audience vote will determine the winner!
To enter, submit your film to skagitfoodnfilm@gmail.com by 11:59pm on September 4th and subscribe to youtube.com/skagitfoodnfilm to see all the entries!
The Lincoln Theatre will be showing Food, Inc. September 11-14th (www.foodincthemovie.com, www.lincolntheatre.org ).
The Skagit Valley Food Co-op will be hosting a special community screening of FRESH (www.freshthemovie.com , www.skagitfoodcoop.com) on Wednesday September 16th at 7:30pm in Room 309. Your $3 suggested donation will go to benefit the Skagit Food Share Alliance, to help provide fresh local produce to our region’s food banks.
For the Month of September: September is Fun with Farms and Food Month at the Skagit Children’s Museum, where all month long soils and plants and harvest in the Skagit Valley will be center stage.
With visits from local farmers, classes on worm bins, and fun art projects involving fruits and veggies, it’s worth bringing the family on a number of visits.
September 8th is Community Free Day, and the weekend of the 19-20th, the Children’s Museum will host a bi-lingual soils exhibit from the Pacific Science Center. This month is sponsored by Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland and the Skagit Valley Food Co-op. For a full calendar of events, stop by the Children’s Museum in Cascade Mall.
The Lincoln Theatre, in partnership with the Skagit Valley Food Co-op is announcing the First Ever Skagit Food & Film Contest!
Create a short film (five minutes or less) depicting your love of all things edible in Skagit County and you could win twenty whole shiny dollars. The top five films, as selected by the Lincoln Theatre and Co-op staff, will be shown on September 11, the opening night of "Food Inc". Audience vote will determine the winner! To enter, submit your film to skagitfoodnfilm@gmail.com by 11:59pm on September 4th and subscribe to youtube.com/skagitfoodnfilm to see all the entries!
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