What is Dine Fresh Dine Local? Dine Fresh Dine Local, a special one-day culinary celebration of good local food, will be held Thursday, September 11, 2008 in St. Croix River Valley restaurants. During this event, Minnesota and Wisconsin eateries along the St. Croix River will feature menu items with ingredients sourced from Valley growers and processors. St. Croix Valley residents and visitors who dine in participating restaurants on September 11 will enjoy fresh, delicious and healthy vegetables, fruits, meats, dairy products, honey and bakery goods and more produced by regional farms and businesses. Food service providers in hospitals, nursing homes and schools are also invited to celebrate by serving local food on September 11.
Co-sponsors of this event are the St. Croix River Valley Buy Fresh Buy Local Chapter, the River Market Community Co-op, Renewing the Countryside and the St. Croix Scenic Byway.
Farmer/Buyer Workshop set for June 26
Farmers and food buyers interested in making connections in the St. Croix River Valley are invited to a special workshop Thursday, June 26, from 1.p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Phipps Center for the arts in Hudson, WI. If you are a farmer interested in getting your product into a restaurant, grocery store or institution (school, hospital, etc.), or a food buyer for a restaurant, caterer, market or institution, register online at gotlocalhudson.eventbrite.com or call 612-871-1541 or 866-378-0587.
The workshop will provide information to assist farmers and food buyers in the St. Croix River Valley who want to connect and explore best practices in working together. It will include a "speed-dating" inspired networking opportunity—a chance to forge new relationships for the 2008 growing season and beyond. This will be a great opportunity for restaurants and farmers to gear up to participate in the September 11 Dine Fresh Dine Local event in the St. Croix River Valley.
The farmer-buy connection workshop is being hosted by Renewing the Countryside , The Land Stewardship Project’s St. Croix River Valley Buy Fresh Buy Local Chapter, River Market community Co-op, the St. Croix Scenic Byway, Minnesota Grown and the "What We Need Is Here" Partnership
Sponsors
River Market, conveniently located on Main Street in Stillwater, is a full-line natural foods market offering the largest selection of organic, natural and local foods in the St. Croix Valley. In addition to outstanding foods, River Market offers household, cleaning and health and body care items. River Market offers products that are as local as possible and support sustainable production methods and use minimal packaging. We are a cooperative business owned by people like you, who care about what you buy and how it was produced. Everyone is welcome to shop at River Market! www.rivermarket.coop
Land Stewardship Project is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic of stewardship toward the land, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities. Our work is based in grassroots organizing and constant dialogue with people who share our vision of a sustainable future on the land. Land Stewardship Project’s members include people on farms, in cities and in suburbs. Together we are working to secure a healthful food supply, preserve soil, water and wildlife, support diversified, profitable family-sized farms and organize communities for positive change.
www.landstewardshipproject.org
The St. Croix River Valley Buy Fresh Buy Local Chapter is hosted by Land Stewardship Project in its Community Based Food Systems and Economic Development Program. Its goals are to expand local markets for local growers, increase the consumption of local healthful food, diversify the economic base and protect the ecological and scenic resources of the St. Croix River Valley.
Partners in the chapter include organizations and agencies that support the development of a community based food system as well as farmers, food processors, restaurants and retail businesses selling local food products. The St. Croix River Valley BFBL is engaged in a campaign to educate Valley residents about the economic and environmental benefits of buying local and help them find local food products. www.landstewardshipproject.org/foodfarm-main.html#st.croix
Renewing the Countryside (RTC) works to provide inspiration, ideas and assistance to individuals and communities who are looking for sustainable ways to strengthen their regions. To this end, RTC has co-produced 8 books, including the newly released Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook and Renewing the Countryside Wisconsin. RTC administers Green Routes - a sustainable tourism initiative that enables communities and regions to share their natural and cultural assets with visitors, and does so in a way that is respectful of the natural world and the local community. RTC also produce fun, educational events and programming around local foods and sustainable agriculture including the Local Food Hero radio show and Healthy Local Foods at the State Fair's EcoExperience. Find out more at www.renewingthecountryside.org; www.greenroutes.org; and www.localfoodhero.com.
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that support the development of a community based food system as well as farmers, food processors, restaurants and retail businesses selling local food products. The St. Croix River Valley BFBL is engaged in a campaign to educate Valley residents about the economic and environmental benefits of buying local and help them find local food products. 