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Local Food Features

This event planning guide published in 2008 will walk you through the process of planning an event featuring local grown food.
Plan your own event featuring local food (pdf)

Promoting Wisconsin Farms, Food and Flavor - Requesting local food literally puts local farms on the table. Below are several events featuring local food and examples of menus that incorporate local food into them. This simple request not only produced great meals, but redirected thousands of dollars into local farms. 

Going Green - Sustainable Communities and Farms
Wisconsin Association of RC&Ds 2008 Annual Meeting
September 11-12, 2008

Wisconsin Artisan Cheese Makers and Chefs
Milwaukee Public Market Mooo & Brew Event - May 1, 2008
Living on the Wedge, Madison - May 24, 2006

Town and Country RC&D Annual Meeting
February 7, 2008

Farmer Chef Events/ Ecotrust
2007-2008

Oconomowoc Lake Club Members' Cooking Classes
2007-2008

A Chefs' Tasting Dinner To Promote WI Homegrown Lunch
June 24, 2007

SARE National Conference
August 15-17, 2006

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin
June 2006

Turtle Valley Wildlife Restoration Celebration
June 16, 2004

<Chef Jack talking with one of our local producers at an event for our members to mingle with the people who grew their food.