How to Celebrate Earth Day? With Food and Wine!

by Katherine Gustafson · 2010-04-16 06:00:00 UTC
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What better way to celebrate Earth Day than eating some good-for-the-planet food and wine with like-minded eco-eaters?

If you're in Central California, check out the 2010 Earth Day Food and Wine Festival, a weekend-long event held at various locales up and down Cali's Central Coast. The featured event of the celebration, taking place Saturday at historic Santa Margarita Ranch, will include some 200 purveyors of sustainable delicacies and intoxicants and involve a program of activities to highlight food-sustainability issues.

While it may be too late, too far and too expensive (tickets are $75 each for the event at Santa Margarita) for you to make it to this particular celebration, the idea of enjoying sustainable food and drink to recognize Earth Day is a good one. Here are some ideas for hosting your own party:

  • Put together a tasting party of local cheeses and wines from your area.

  • Procure an amazing piece of grass-fed meat from a local, small farm and host a dinner party for some friends who might not have been exposed to such things before.

  • Have a movie-watching party that involves a screening of Food Inc. and sustainable and organic snacks.

  • Arrange a field-trip to a nearby organic farm involving a picnic of local foods. Bring kids! And ask the farmer to show you around and describe how he or she does things.

  • Hold a cook-off using seasonal ingredients from the farmers market. It can be like sustainable Iron Chef without the Kitchen Stadium.

  • Go on a tasting tour of local vineyards.

Whether you attend a fancy-dancy celebration that brings you the best of a region or host your own little shindig that involves dunking cookies made with organic flour in milk from a local dairy farm, Earth Day is a great excuse to explore the joys of local and sustainable eating.

Have fun!

Photo: adactio via Flickr

Katherine Gustafson is a freelance writer and editor with a background in international nonprofit organizations.
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