Second Annual Farm to Table Dinner – Slow Food Greater Olympia

When:
August 24, 2013 @ 4:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Where:
Colvin Ranch
16816 Old Highway 99 Southeast
Tenino, WA 98589
USA
Cost:
$60 members / $75 non-members
Contact:
Greg Nordlund

Join us for an memorable evening and delicious meal made from the best of locally grown, produced and raised food.

The dinner, hosted at the Colvin Ranch, will feature a relaxing meal of local wines, vegetables and meats, as well as vegetables from the Slow Food Ark of Taste Gardens. The Ark of Taste Garden produces rare and at-risk plants that celebrate our country’s biological and culinary heritage.

Dinner will be prepared by Chefs Treacy Kreger (Slow Food Board Member) and Will Taylor (Acqua Via).

You will also learn about sustainably raised, grass-fed beef on the historic Colvin Ranch and working beef ranch in the Rock Valley just south of Tenino. Ranch owners, Fred and Katherine Colvin, will share the story of one of the oldest ranches in Thurston County. Dinner guest will meet close up with the gently raised cattle.

Fred Colvin will share information on the Managed Grazing System he uses in raising his beef and the meal featuring Colvin grass fed beef as well as local produce.

Suggested donation for the dinner is $60 for Slow Food members and $75 for non-members.

To register use PayPal on the website or contact Liz Douglas at eadouglas@comcast.net

The Farm to Table dinner is a fundraiser to support Slow Food Greater Olympia.

Slow Food, is a non-profit organization founded in Italy 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life and people’s dwindling interest in where our foods come from. Slow Food brings together the pleasure in shared meals with awareness of our responsibility as we make individual food choices. Today, Slow Food has more than 100,000 members in 150 countries.