D.C. Farm to School Week Kick-Off Event!

All are welcome to the third annual D.C. Farm to School Week kick-off celebration!  It will be an exciting event featuring four local chefs battling to create the tastiest seasonal salad for a panel of esteemed judges. Chefs will use D.C. school garden produce and a pantry of items furnished by Whole Foods to make “top-chef” style salads, engaging an audience of over 200 students and community leaders.  There should be enough for students and attendees to taste, as well!  Student-led tours of the school’s Great Garden of Anacostia will follow.

Chef Lauren hands out samples to students at last year's event -
she'll be back for the competition this year! 
Photo: Christiana Aretta Photography

The kick-off event will take place on Monday October 3, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School and Savoy Elementary School shared gymnasium, located at 2427 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast Washington, DC.

The event will also commemorate and kick off nationwide celebrations for the first ever National Farm to School Month, designated by a House Resolution passed in November 2010. White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses will emcee the event and the list of other V.I.P. guests and speakers will be announced as the event nears.

View the kick-off event invitation here, and the press advisory here, with information about how to RSVP.  For more information about D.C. Farm to School Week, please visit www.dcfarmtoschoolweek.org. View pictures and quotes from D.C. Farm to School Week 2010 at www.storiography.com/50voices.