Mailtribune.com - Eat Local Challenge

The Eat Local Challenge promotes the consumption of locally produced foods. This year, a host of events is planned Sept. 5-14 at restaurants, grocery stores, growers markets, farms, wineries and elsewhere, organized by the group Thrive, food producers and restaurants. Find our stories about the events here, along with diaries of several people attempting to eat locally for a week, suggestions for how you can eat locally, a calendar detailing public events and more.

Eat-local stories

Root, root, root for these veggies - 3/18/2009
Because customers of Blue Fox Farm can hardly wait for local growers markets to open, Chris Jagger...
'Slow' Soup and Supper - 2/11/2009
Shuttering her Pilaf restaurant for good couldn't keep Susan Powell out of the kitchen.
Hidden Treasure - 1/28/2009
ASHLAND — The heady aroma of wet earth and decaying leaves summons shoppers from yards away,...
Farm-to-table meat - 1/7/2009
It isn't a lack of skill, passion or finances that's keeping local meat off tables at Standing...
Test Kitchen - 12/3/2008
ASHLAND — Local, organic potatoes, carrots and onions are on the lunch menu at Ashland Middle...
Farmers' Finale - 11/12/2008
The market's carnival air is gone, replaced by rain and chill.
Oregon bounty at its peak - 10/29/2008
Oregon's tourist season is winding down, but the state's culinary scene is in full swing.
The Garden Bistro debuts - 9/10/2008
As Jacksonville's McCully House expanded over the past year and a half, interest in local food did,...
Go Local - 9/3/2008
With the "eat local" bandwagon rapidly accelerating, a nonprofit business coalition is encouraging...
Tasty Tomatillos - 8/20/2008
Antonio Ruiz's arrival at Joshua Farms four years ago ushered in a new tradition, one firmly rooted...
Just Peachy - 8/13/2008
CENTRAL POINT — Premier peaches have prompted David Cunningham to visit Beebe Farms every...
Here's the beef (and more) - 7/16/2008
CENTRAL POINT — Two lambs met their maker minutes ago with the help of a local butcher.
Field Study - 7/9/2008
For a decade, Kids Unlimited summer camps have given local, low-income children a taste of...

Can they do it?
Eat-local diaries

Trying a CSA

This summer and fall, Stephanie Witt Sedgwick, a Washington Post columnist, is sharing her experiences as a member of a community-supported agriculture program.