I love reading all of the posts on the NCGA Co-op Association’s Eat Local America! blog-site, from local food lovers far away! It’s inspiring and encouraging to see how much we all have in common, and to smile at the regional differences!
To top off Eat Local month here in the California foothills, we’re all going to the Come Home To Eat festival and picnic dinner. Volunteers are working at all of the things they are good at to prepare for this event. Everything from parking directors to radio promotions to washable dish rentals…it’s all organized by volunteers from all over our local food-lovin’ community.
The food folks are the most amazing, of course. They’re preparing a full meal – veggie or meat lover’s options, all made with local ingredients … for 1000 people !! That’s more cookin’ than I can even pretend to imagine! Posters and artsy things are my contribution – I’m not goin’ anywhere near the kitchen!
This will be the fourth year for the Come Home To Eat event. Each year it has a slightly different theme, but always focuses on bringing the community together to honor our farmers and ranchers. Through dinner ticket sales, we’re always able to pay the farmers a fair price for the incredible local fruit, vegetables, beef, lamb, eggs, chicken, flowers, greens and grains that become the community meal.
This year’s Come Home To Eat event is a family festival, complete with Contra Dancing and a Dunk Tank .. where you will find many of our favorite local heroes on the dunking seat !
Sunday, August 22 at 3:00, Western Gateway Park in Penn Valley, California.
Dinner tickets are on sale now, get yours before they run out. Bring your appetite, your sense of humor, and some extra change … Local beers and wines will be available for sale. And you’ll find me sellin’ Cool Smoothies in the hot sun with Clan-Fudenjuce. All proceeds from the blended delights will go right back to the farmers who grow the juicy fresh berries and peaches !
Now, back to work for me ….. I’ve got a life-sized cardboard cow to paint for the “Tour of the Farm Guide
” meet-the-farmers exhibit. 
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