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Caterers
- Placer County Grown – www.placercounty.org – PlacerGROWN is a nonprofit, membership organization formed to assist local agricultural producers market their produce and agricultural products. The goal is to bring farmers, ranchers and community members together to maintain and enhance the viability of agriculture in Placer County. The following are four objectives of the PlacerGROWN program:
- Develop expanded demand for locally grown and processed foods.
- Increase agricultural production profitability and opportunity.
- Create and promote a sustainable local food system.
- Enhance and increase economic development and stability in Placer County.
- Local Food Coalition - www.localfoodcoalition.org/ – Local Food Coalition mission: “Working together to support local farmers, preserve local farms and farmland, and ensure a local food supply in the western Nevada County area.” The Local Food Coalition is not an organization per se. Instead it is an informal network of agricultural organizations and agencies, farmers and ranchers, community non-profits, businesses, and individuals. The purpose is to facilitate communication, coordination, and collaboration among all the sectors of our community that care about local agriculture and local food production.
- Nevada County Grown – www.nevadacountygrown.org – Our place on the web to support, bring to market, and celebrate the local farmer and rancher in Nevada County, California. Located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Nevada County is home to a healthy and vibrant base of local agriculture producers. From grass fed beef to organic vegetables, from bees to Christmas trees, from incredible compost to delicious Cabernets, our county offers numerous micro-climates and healthy watersheds to support a complete local harvest. Whether you choose to join our growing family or whether you are searching for genuine local fresh food, enjoy our home on the web. info@ NevadaCountyGrown.org
- Slow Food Nevada County – www.nevadacountyslowfood.com - Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.To do that, Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable.Today, we have over 100,000 members in 132 countries. – PO Box 1356, Grass Valley, CA 95945 (530) 277-2877 – ncslowfood@gmail.com
- Think Local First – www.localfirstfoothills.org – The Think Local First program seeks to create local living economies throughout the Western Nevada County. Following a model developed by BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) the Think Local First program works to ensure that economic power resides locally, sustaining healthy community life and environmental quality as well as long-term economic prosperity. Through celebratory events, marketing of local independent business, networking, local buying guides and coupon books, and other educational efforts, we seek to foster support for the business and people that make our communities special and strong and grounded in personal and community relationships. We also work to foster working relationships between Local food producers and restaurant owners and support Briar Patch in their Local Food Challenge in August. Eat Local First!
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