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Sacramento is staking its claim as the Farm to Fork capital of the world.
But is it the flavor of the month,
or does it have staying power? Is it about the food,
or something else? What does it mean for us in Sacramento?
When I was at the farm to fork roundtable
I got the opportunity to meet with a lot of movers and shakers in the Sacramento Food
scene--people who run farmers markets and people who work in
kitchens and I think the general consensus we all came to, even though we
are all working in very different parts of the food scene, was
we need to focus more on education in Sacramento. Everyone's already
got this great appreciation of the food that we grow and the food that we prepare,
whether they're going to a restaurant or doing it at home, based on
what's behind all that food, who's making it how's it being made and what are its
implications and ramifications.
The Farm-to-Fork name is new but a big part of Sacramento's history is the
agriculture in our region and we've always had
farmers markets, we've always had restaurants using the the products from
those farmers markets and
people with backyard gardens and community gardens and
now that we've put a name to it and we've staked our claim as America's Farm-to-Fork
Capital, we're seeing
great community involvement in the movement. It
seems like there's a food event every weekend. People get to
visit the farm and get their hands dirty and later in the day they can
eat the food from that farm and actually experience
food so it's a great way to bring people together and the
the tourism industry is very responsive to that and those are the types of
experiences that people are looking for.
Looking at Sacramento's history, farm-to-fork
is Sacramento, that's what we do here, that's what we've always done here it's not a
fad here.
Even though the name is new and the marketing is new
Sacramento has always been a farm-to-fork community with all the farmers markets
and the agricultural land
and all the restaurants and chefs embracing that
and the farmers and chefs working together, that's the way Sacramento's
been for
150-something years and that's how it's gonna be
going into the future.