Edible Monterey Bay’s 1st Anniversary party to provide a terrific farm-to-table dinner and a great opportunity to meet some of our local food heros
Here on the Central Coast, we’re fortunate to have a groundswell of local organizations that are devoted to using hands-on education about sustainable food systems as a vehicle to teach kids to be responsible, successful adults—and in the process make the world a better place.
Edible Monterey Bay is thrilled to be celebrating and shining a spotlight on four of these groups on Saturday, October 13th when they collaborate with us to put on a spectacular farm-to-table dinner cooked by the talented Chef Brad Briske and some of the youth themselves at Live Earth Farm, which also hosts a fifth such program. The collaborating groups are Food What?!, Lightfoot Industries, Pie Ranch and Santa Cruz Regional Occupational Program.
The event—at which we’ll also honor one of our photographers and the winners of our 2012 Local Heroes Awards as well as acknowledge the magazine’s 1st Anniversary—will begin at 3:30 with a farm tour by Tom Broz, Live Earth’s fascinating founder. The event will continue with a reception at 4:30 with local wines from Heller Estate Organic Vineyards, Storrs Winery and others and sparkling non-alcoholic fruit drinks from 3 of a Kind, with dinner and music from Anne and Pete Sibley to follow. Purveyors will include Fogline Farm, Food What?!, Live Earth Farm, Pie Ranch and Serendipity Farms.
The dinner will feature Chef Brad Briske’s creative take on a fall harvest dinner, including courses such as Albacore Crudo; a Clash of the Seasons in Brodo with roasted Winter Pumpkin, Dry-farmed Tomatoes and Handmade Prosciutto; Grape Leaf-wrapped Drunken Goat Cheese with Borage & Petite Syrah Vinaigrette and Fogline Chicken and Pork Sausages with Smoked Fingerling Potatoes, Sweet Apple & Pear Mostarda & Aioli.
The collaborating teen groups will also serve up their specialties—including Lightfoot Industries’ and Pie Ranch’s pies—and you’ll get to hear their inspiring stories along the way.
We’ll honor Jim Kasson for his national Edible Communities EDDY award for his photography in Edible Monterey Bay and the winners of our reader-selected, 2012 Local Heroes Awards, including Montrio Bistro’s Chef Tony Baker, GMO-Free Santa Cruz’s Mary Graydon-Fontana and Tarah Locke, Everyone’s Harvest’s Iris Peppard, MEarth’s Tanja Roos, Pinnacle Organics’ Phil Foster and Serendipity Farms’ Jamie Collins.
Tickets are $75, all inclusive, including dinner, wine, tax and tip, and we recommend that you book soon by clicking on the PayPal button below, as seating is limited.
For more information on the collaborating groups, please click here.
About the author
SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.
She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.
Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.
While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.
Wood now lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she is a freelance writer and manages communications for Samaritan Ministry, an antipoverty and antiracist nonprofit that provides struggling Greater Washington residents with highly personalized and compassionate life counseling and coaching.
