The Eat Local Challenge promotes the consumption of locally produced foods. This year, a host of events is planned Sept. 7-16 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 and local food producers, suggestions for how you can eat locally , a calendar detailing public events and more.
Eat-local stories
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Flavor Infusion - 3/13/2013
Like most health-conscious cooks, Lisa Doyle always used olive oil — until her family hit on...
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Food Summit - 3/6/2013
Stocking convenience stores with fresh foods, funding more purchases at farmers markets and...
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Gourmet Gifts - 12/19/2012
A self-professed lover of salt, Jody Van Buskirk figured gourmet seasonings also would please...
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Fish Mission - 9/19/2012
The freshest fish Floyd Williams has eaten since moving from Port Orford to Ashland wasn't plucked...
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'Dream' come true - 9/12/2012
Like many startup businesses founded on family recipes, Lemon Dream Ice Cream first got the thumb's...
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Pierogi Power - 9/5/2012
Just in time for the seventh annual Eat Local Challenge, a new Talent restaurant plans to serve...
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Chop Shop - 8/22/2012
Customers clamor for cuts of pork and lamb raised organically on Applegate's Iron Age Farm and sold...
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Origins of Taste - 6/27/2012
Guests won't just hear tales of Southern Oregon's past at monthly gatherings this summer on Hanley...
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Honey Buzz - 6/20/2012
Producing honey for going on 50 years, Mike and Angelika Curtis' Eagle Point farm now has a sweet...
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'Pop-up' restaurants - 6/13/2012
Agricultural landscapes and the food they yield inspired Matthew Domingo's culinary-events company.
from the archives
- Countertop Crunch - 5/16/2012
- Succulent Spears - 5/9/2012
- 'Cooking Rogue' - 4/4/2012
- Setting a FEAST - 2/29/2012
- In Good Taste - 12/21/2011
- How do you like them apples? - 9/21/2011
- Free-Range Flock - 9/14/2011
- Meeting the challenge - 9/7/2011
- Hog Harvest - 8/24/2011
- The Scoop - 7/20/2011
- Bloom Food - 7/6/2011
- CSAs help you take advantage of nature's bounty - 4/13/2011
- Representing Raw - 3/16/2011
- Rooted in flavor - 3/9/2011
- Fermented Foods - 2/9/2011
- CSAs share the bounty - 1/12/2011
- Tasteful Giving - 12/22/2010
- 'In Praise of Pears' - 9/22/2010
- Ancient Grains - 9/15/2010
- Eat Your Greens - 9/8/2010
- Mouth-watering melons - 9/1/2010
- Emu: The other red meat - 8/11/2010
- 'Freshest of the Fresh' - 8/4/2010
- Time for U-pick blueberries - 7/14/2010
- Peas out of the pod - 6/30/2010
- 'Artik' Freeze - 6/16/2010
- Virtually Fresh - 6/9/2010
- Spring Lambs - 6/2/2010
- Farm to Fork - 5/26/2010
- Eat Fresh Pasta - 5/19/2010
- Fresh from the Farm - 4/7/2010
- Pastured Pork - 1/27/2010
- History in the Bag - 12/9/2009
- From farms to freezers - 12/2/2009
- 'Heritage' bird is the word - 11/25/2009
- Neighborhood Harvest shares bounty - 10/7/2009
- Urban Vino - 9/30/2009
- Conscious Catch - 9/16/2009
- Eat Local Challenge - 9/9/2009
- Spotlight on Tomatoes - 8/26/2009
- Buying bison - 8/19/2009
- Test Kitchen - 12/3/2008
- Farmers' Finale - 11/12/2008
- Oregon bounty at its peak - 10/29/2008
- The Garden Bistro debuts - 9/10/2008
- Go Local - 9/3/2008
- Tasty Tomatillos - 8/20/2008
- Just Peachy - 8/13/2008
- Here's the beef (and more) - 7/16/2008
- Field Study - 7/9/2008
- Uptown Flavors - 5/21/2008
- Hothouse to your house - 5/14/2008
- What's your food print? - 4/23/2008
- Cider in the raw - 2/6/2008
- Bakers join crowded Ashland market - 1/16/2008
- A pear in the rough - 10/17/2007
- Good apples - 9/12/2007
- Pasta, pasta, pasta - 9/5/2007
- Find your lamb here - 5/30/2007
- Growing together - 5/9/2007
- 'Purple passion' - 4/25/2007
- The best in goat cheese - 3/14/2007
Take the pledge
Locavore Supreme: All foods that I consume during the week will be grown, raised or produced within 200 miles (and I even agree to give up coffee, chocolate and non-local spices).
Locavore: All foods that I consume during the week will be grown, raised or produced within 200 miles (but I still want my coffee, chocolate and non-local spices).
Taster: All foods that I consume during one meal per day throughout the week will be grown, raised or produced within 200 miles.
Sampler: All foods that I consume during two meals during the week will be grown, raised or produced within 200 miles.
Photos and videos
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