Today’s Events for Eat Local Month at Stone Barns

August

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:

Hone Your Home Skills Series: Foraging Walk with Sarah Elisabeth
Saturday 8/30 1:00 pm â€“ 3:00 pm $12

Hone Your Home Skills Series: Backyard Composting Workshop
Saturday 8/30 1:00 pm â€“ 3:00 pm $25

For more on the contest, click below:

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 â€” even if you don’t win, we might publish your recipe!

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 at 10:58 am by Liz Johnson.
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