Get Your Tickets for the Farm-to-Fork Dinner on Tower Bridge 
  
Plans are being finalized for the farm-to-fork dinner that will be the culmination of the inaugural Farm-to-Fork Week Sept. 29.
 
Held on Tower Bridge, the dinner will join Sacramento with Yolo County, where much of the local food is produced. More than 20 chefs will contribute to the dinner, and tickets go on sale on the Farm-to-Fork Capital website at 9 a.m. July 1. To purchase a table of eight, please email Joe Klegseth at [email protected]. General tickets will not be available over the phone, so check the website for details.
 
While the dinner celebrates the end of Farm-to-Fork Week, a cattle drive down Capitol Mall on Sept. 23 will be the kickoff for the week's festivities. Join Sacramento in celebrating all that makes us America's Farm-to-Fork Capital, and keep reading the newsletter for continued updates.
~Featured Stories~
Shop a Farmers Market Like a Chef: 'Follow the Chef' Tours Going on Now

Have you been to one of Sacramento's many farmers markets? Grange Chef Oliver Ridgeway is a regular, and seasonal tours allow you to see how a pro shops for the freshest foods, and there's a multi-course meal at the end.  Read more...  
Farm-to-Fork Meets Tech: Local programmers develop app to 'gamify' eating local
 
Three teams of Sacramento programmers took part in the Code for Sacramento challenge to create an app that would provide a service to locals and involve food. The "Locavore" team won the competition that was part of the National Day of Civic Hacking by creating an app to turn eating local into a game and connect users with local produce. Read more... 
Local Voices: Q & A With Capay Organic's Thaddeus Barsotti

One of the local farming regions supplying Sacramento is Yolo County's Capay Valley, and Thaddeus Barsotti is following in the footsteps of his parents, who founded Capay Organic in 1976 and dreamed of seeing the region eat local food year-round. Barsotti says that that dream is now being realized. Read more... 

Photos and Review: Farm-to-Fork Shines Local Light on Hotel Dining at Dawson's  


Hotel restaurants' reputations are easily bashed: high prices, bland atmosphere and a laissez-faire relationship with seasonal cuisine, never mind anything grown and raised locally. But that's not the case at Dawson's in the Hyatt Regency Downtown Sacramento, writes food reviewer Ed Murrieta
Read more... 
~In The News~
June 3, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee: by Debbie Arrington
Sacramento Second-Grader's Healthy Food App Sprouts Success

June 6, 2013 - The Sacramento Press: by Patricia Willers

 

June 9, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee: by Stuart Leavenworth
Views on Food: What are 'Gaps' to Eating Local?

~Upcoming Events~
Sierra Foothill Farm and Wine Bus Tour: 
April 4 - June 30 - Event Website
 
Farm-to-Fork Seasonal Dinner at Mulvaney's: Sacramento
June 14 - Event Website
 
Farm-to-Fork Week: Sacramento Region 
Sept. 21 - 29, 2013 

Farm-to-Fork Festival: Capitol Mall, Sacramento
Sept. 28, 2013: Time TBA

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The mission of the farm-to-fork movement is to bring awareness to the Sacramento region's local food production, consumption and sustainability as well as the contribution and exportation of sustainable products to the rest of the nation and world. 

The Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau is proud to lead the regional "America's Farm-to-Fork Capital" efforts. The farm-to-fork campaign is a year-round endeavor and collaborative process with the area's chefs, farmers and growers, as well as regional elected officials, and the people and organizations who are dedicated to the area's agricultural heritage and culinary treasures.