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Local Food Sound Food Blog
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What kinds of food are grown locally? When are they in season? How can you prepare them? Our writers share thoughts, information and inspiration about eating locally.
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Local Food
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Written by Carolyn Goodwin
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 16:52 |
Sound Food's F erry Farm Stand was included in Seattle Weekly's "Best of Seattle 2009." Here's what the Weekly has to say about our Wednesday evening markets at the ferry terminal: "The farmers market comes to the boat dock, allowing Bainbridge commuters to shop for dinner on the way home and shop local. Organized by a group called Sound Food, the Bainbridge Island Ferry Farm Stand sells $5 bags of locally grown fruit and veggies on Wednesday afternoon landings (at 3:45, 4:40, and 5:30 p.m.) through September. In this case, local means grown on the island itself or on nearby Kitsap County farms. This commuter-tailored market offers a quick, grab-able way not to plop down a lot of money to get green—in food and deed." |
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Written by Carolyn Goodwin
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:49 |
Busy ferry commuters will be able to stock up on locally-grown produce at the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal starting tomorrow. Sound Food's Ferry Farm  Stand will offer produce from Kitsap County farms each Wednesday through September. We'll be there to meet passengers coming off the 3:45, 4:40 and 5:30 pm ferries from Seattle.
This week's offerings will include luscious strawberries from Bainbridge island Farms, sugar snap peas, salad greens, broccoli and carrots from Butler Green Farm, and flower bouquets from Leapfrog Farm. Everything is packaged in convenient $5 quantities to make sure everyone gets to their bus, car or bike without delay. Each week we'll feature different local farmers.
The Farm Stand is staffed by Sound Food volunteers, and the proceeds go directly back to the farmers. We bring the farm to you, so you can support local farms and get the very best local produce without going out of your way!
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Written by Carolyn Goodwin
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 18:29 |
All One Family Farm in Chimacum delivers tree and vine ripened Certified Organic Fruit from Eastern Washington to Kitsap County. In July they will bring cherries, apricots and peaches to Bainbridge Island, Port Orchard, Silverdale and Bremerton.
Weather dependent, the season begins with cherries the end of June and lasts through next February ending with apples and pears. Reserve your fruit now and pay by check when you pick up. Checks are made to Rob Story. Reservations are required and you can purchase on any of the projected dates listed below. You may add orders up to the week before any delivery. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. For more details please visit http://www.allonefamilyfarm.com. Box sizes are listed in the order area and they will collect your empty boxes to reuse if you bring them back to the pick up site. After cherry season begins they will provide another order forms listing the
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Written by Carolyn Goodwin
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:06 |
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The highly acclaimed documentary film Food Inc. opens Friday June 19 at the Egyptian Theatre in Seattle. Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. Obesity is increasing, particularly among children, and there is an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. The movie features interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. It's not a pretty picture, but the movie also looks at hopeful new trends. Official Web Site |
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Written by Carolyn Goodwin
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:42 |
Thousands of ferry commuters departing the evening ferries from Seattle to Bainbridge Island will soon be able to grab a bag of fresh local lettuce, some crisp sugar snap peas, and a box of sweet Island strawberries right at the terminal. The “Ferry Farm Stand” will open each Wednesday evening beginning June 24 at the Bainbridge terminal, offering locally-grown produce in convenient $5 bags.
A project of the local non-profit group Sound Food (www.soundfood.org), the Ferry Farm Stand debuted in June 2008 to encourage Kitsap commuters to eat more food grown close to home. In its first year the Ferry Farm Stand realized sales of over $10,000, all of which went directly to Kitsap County farms. At the same time, it enabled busy commuters to buy locally-grown food. The project has received national attention as a model for distributing locally-grown produce at commuter locations. Articles have been published in online publications such as Springwise and Grist.
“We wanted to find a way to make it easy for people to buy local food – especially those who can’t make it to the Farmers’ Market on Saturday,” said Sound Food founder Sallie Maron. “What better place than right where they get off the boat on their way home to dinner?”
The Ferry Farm Stand will be located near the Bainbridge Chamber of Commerce’s yellow information station between the terminal and the Kitsap Transit buses. “This couldn’t have happened without the support of the Chamber and Kitsap Transit,” Maron said. “Both groups were excited about the opportunity and allowed us to use their space to make it happen.”
Produce will come from many of the local farms that sell at the Bainbridge and Poulsbo Farmers’ Markets. For the Farm Stand’s debut on Wednesday June 24, the produce will come from Butler Green Farms and Laughing Crow Farm. Offerings will include Butler Green’s salad mix, tender young carrots, sweet sugar snap peas, and Laughing Crow Farm’s fresh garlic and garlic scapes. If the weather cooperates, the Farm Stand may also offer local strawberries from Karen Selvar’s Bainbridge Island Farm. Everything will be packaged in $5 increments to streamline transactions and get commuters on their way. There will be recipes and information available for each week’s offerings at the Sound Food website, www.soundfood.org.
The Ferry Farm Stand will be open each Wednesday throughout the harvest season from 4:15 pm to 6:15 pm, meeting commuters off the 3:45 pm, 4:40 pm and 5:30 pm ferries from Seattle. Buying locally-grown food has been shown to benefit both the economy and the environment. A study by a group called Sustainable Seattle found that a shift of 20% of our food dollars into locally-directed spending would result in a nearly one billion dollar annual income increase in the Central Puget Sound region, which includes Kitsap County.
Most produce currently travels an average of 1500 miles from farm to table. University of Washington researchers have found that the greenhouse gas emissions associated with an apple grown in New Zealand and shipped to Puget Sound are double that of a Washington apple, and the climate impact of an Idaho-grown potato is double that of a Washington potato consumed here. Consider that Laughing Crow Farm’s Betsey Wittick grows her potatoes using horsepower (as in her horse Sam), and that difference grows even greater. It's also been said that one of the best ways to keep farmland from being developed for commercial use is to expand demand for locally-grown produce, creating a higher value for those lands as active farmland.
The Ferry Farm Stand is organized and staffed by volunteers from Sound Food, a group founded in 2007 as a project of Sustainable Bainbridge.
About Sound Food
Sound Food, a project of Sustainable Bainbridge, was founded to encourage the use of local, seasonal and sustainable food by offering information, recipes, and supporting community on Bainbridge Island and the West Sound region. Its first project was to map food producers in Kitsap County. To find the map and more information on local food visit www.soundfood.org .
About Sustainable Bainbridge
Sustainable Bainbridge is a non-profit organization with a vision for a vibrant future, and a call for collaboration by a diverse group of island residents and organizations in order to meet our shared sustainability goals. For more information visit www.sustainablebainbridge.net
Media Contacts:
Sallie Maron
Sustainable Bainbridge and Sound Food
206-842-5306
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Carolyn Goodwin
Sound Food
206-842-1551
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