Seattle's "Eat Local Now" Food Festival
treehugger.com has a posting about
Seattle's "Eat Local Now" Food Festival
This coming Thursday, March 30th, a Community Food Dinner, called "Eat Local Now! A Ballard Food Fest", will be held in Seattle, WA, sponsored by Sustainable Ballard and BALLE Seattle. Enjoy a night of artful cuisine and discuss the benefits of eating local food and produce. Meet local family farmers and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), talk with local chefs about fresh ingredients and hear about local programs helping the community find and enjoy the local bounty. And the delicious part of course is that you’ll eat fabulous food prepared by top Seattle chefs using the best of local farm harvests.
What a great idea. Is anyone doing this in Sarasota?
Here are some interesting links:
BALLE Business Alliance for Local Living Economy network in Seattle, Washington
What is a local living economy?
A local living economy provides secure and fulfilling livelihoods for all people, works in harmony with natural systems, supports biological and cultural diversity, and fosters a community life.
BALLE’s mission is to support, connect, and strengthen local, independent businesses dedicated to building living economies, which increase prosperity, fortify community, and ensure environmental health.
is a newly registered non-profit organization developing a grassroots vision of sustainability for the community of Ballard. Sustainability roughly means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs," and it is a philosophy which affects every sphere of human activity.
The mission of the GMS is:
"to strengthen the community's awareness of and connection to the urban ecology through locally-created visual representations of hometown environments. Mixing the ancient art of mapmaking with new, interactive media, citizens of all ages and backgrounds are invited to adapt and employ our global iconography and collaborative tools as they chart the green places, environmental resources and socially-significant sites in their own cities. Green maps illuminate the inter-connections between society, nature and the built environment, helping residents make lower impact lifestyle choices and discover great ways to get involved in the urban ecology, and simultaneously guide visitors (especially virtual ones) to successful initiatives they can replicate back home."
