Today’s Event for Eat Local Month at Stone Barns
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture is one of the partners in the Locally Grown recipe contest, and they have issued an Eat Local challenge: to get everything you eat in August from within 100 miles. They’ve got a month’s worth of programming to help you along.
Here’s what’s going on today:
Eat Local Community Potluck
Tuesday 8/05 4:30 pm FREE
This event is open to Stone Barns members and participants in the 100-mile Challenge.
Are you interested in signing up for the Challenge? Stop by the Farm Market, Info Kiosk
or e-mail Erika at erikah@stonebarnscenter.org.
Click below for more information on the contest.
The Locally Grown Recipe contest is looking for the best recipes using locally grown ingredients. It’s presented by LoHud.com, mypersonalfarmers.com, Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture and Community Markets.
Finalists will participate in a “Top Chef”-style cook-off Sept. 9 at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, which will air on LoHud.com and RNN-TV. The winner will be announced at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture’s Harvest Fest on Oct. 4.
The grand prize includes a dinner for two at Blue Hill and a $300 gift certificate to mypersonalfarmers.com.
Other prizes:
First prize: $100 gift certificate to the farm store at Stone Barns and $100 to shop at any Community Markets farmers market.
Second prize: $100 to shop at any Community Markets farmers market.
Third prize: A package of tickets for 4 people to Stone Barns’ signature Insider’s Tour, an in-depth look at the farm offered every Friday and Saturday year round.
We’ll also feature recipes from the contest throughout the months of August and September in the Life&Style section of the Journal News and on the Small Bites blog. So get in there and enter — even if you don’t win, we might publish your recipe!
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