Eat Local First

Kick-Off Event

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Date:: 7/14
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Culinary Education Crawl

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Date:: 7/15
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Femivore Happy Hour and Ticketed Dinner

Location:: RIS
2275 L Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20037
Date:: 7/16
Time:: 5:30-7 p.m. – Happy Hour and Awards Reception
7 p.m. – Dinner Salon
Price:: $35 – Happy Hour and Awards Reception
$85 – Dinner Salon

Celebrate Women Leading the Local Food Movement

What is a Femivore? A Femivore is a passionate, driven woman who understands the importance of a local, sustainable food economy. Farmer, gardener, chef, businesswoman, teacher or mentor; she never tires in her quest to improve our food system.

Think Local First DC and RIS will celebrate these women with the Femivore Award Happy Hour Reception on Monday, July 16, 2012, and Femivore Dinner Menu available throughout Eat Local First Week, July 16 – 22.

Three amazing women will compete for guest votes during the Happy Hour for a $1,000 award to support their locally sourced food projects built around the ideas GROW, FEED or INSPIRE. A Dinner Salon will follow hosted by owner and successful Femivore, Ris Lacoste, celebrating local women food producers where it matters most, on the plate and in the glass. The same menu will be available throughout Eat Local First Week with a portion of the proceeds going towards Think Local First DC programs all year.
Show your support of Women in the DC Food Movement by sponsoring FEMIVORE as part of our week long celebration of local food, farms, chefs and independent businesses.

Registration through the Eat Local First website will be open soon!

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Title Sponsor – $1,000
*Listed as co-sponsor of the event with RIS and Think Local First DC in all media promotions
*Title sponsor logo included on all day-of signage
*Title sponsor logo included on invitation
*Title sponsor logo included on eat local first week website
*4 tickets to reception and dinner

Sustaining Sponsor – $500
*Sustaining sponsor logo included in all day-of signage
*Sustaining sponsor logo included on eat local first week website
*2 tickets to reception and dinner

Supporting Sponsor – $250
*Supporting Sponsor name listed as contributor on day-of signage and materials
*1 ticket to reception and dinner

APPLY FOR THE FERMIVORE AWARD

The 2012 Femivore Award will be granted to a woman who is creating change in the local food community. This award will recognize and encourage those women in DC who are catalysts for changing the local food movement as farmers, mothers, businesswomen, chefs, non-profit leaders and activists.

Three Femivore finalists will be chosen to present their project during the event in the categories of GROW, NURTURE and INSPIRE. The audience will select one winner based on the most promising and inspiring project presented at the event.
The winner will receive a $1,000 grant to put toward her local food initiative. Each of the three finalists receive a one-year membership to Think Local First and a $500 cash prize.

Criteria for the Applicants:
The project must be initiated and led by a woman; as well as be based and carried out in the DC. Projects should make best efforts to source locally when possible. The project can either be a new initiative that does not currently exist or a plan to invigorate an already existing project. The project must fall within one of the following three categories.

GROW – Women starting a project aimed at producing food locally within the sustainable agriculture format. This can be either large or small scale food production and includes fruits, vegetables, and/or animals.

FEED – Women wanting to start a business cooking local food or making value-added products. This could include a bakery, food truck, restaurants or canning, pickling, cheese making, etc.

INSPIRE – Women with a project that gives back to the local community through local food. This could include, but isn’t limited to educational projects, art-based projects, soup kitchens or food banks.

Urban Garden Tour and Community Potluck

Location:: Old City Green, 9th and N Streets
Date:: 7/17
Time:: 5-8 p.m.
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Tour starts at OLD CITY green in the garden at 9th and N Streets, NW in Shaw.

Come see and be inspired by local DC residents who have created sustainable and edible gardens here in a historic heart of the city. Set up as a self-guided tour (bike, walk or drive), you will have the opportunity to meet the gardeners, ask them questions and get inspired.

After-party back at OCg with jammin’ bluegrass from the Sligo Creek Stompers, delicious food, good drinks and great company. From 8:00 p.m. until…