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What Is Your Most Important Question?
Last modified on 2008-08-04 20:40:05 GMT. 1 comment. Top.
You may have noticed on the left side navigation column that we have a link to a page on our site that asks you: “What Is Your Most Important Question?”.
The reason we ask that question is that, really, that’s what this site is all about, asking the most important questions that you have about buying local food in Kitsap and tracking down the answer until we break the logjam and help to bridge the way to more local production and consumption.
I guess maybe I need to move the link to the question page because I was really hoping that more people would take the time to write in their question because, well, it’s important. From time to time we ask the question in different ways and I did receive a question from an anonymous respondent. He or she did not leave their name but for the first answer to my question, “What is your most important question about local food in Kitsap?” was a real zinger. I wish she had written it in the comments on the page.
The person responding to my question asked:
“How can I receive locally grown produce and meat/poultry through my local supermarkets?”
That’s a great question! I am going to spend a lot of my most precious resource, my time, trying to answer that one and post it here in the blog. So, I hope you will consider writing your question so I will have lot’s more great questions to explore with you. Go here right now and write your most important question about buying local food in Kitsap.
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1 What Is Your Most Important Question? | Buy Local Food In Kitsap // Aug 4, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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2 Jim Freeman // Mar 25, 2009 at 10:06 am
Well, this website does already have much of the information you requested. Just follow the links “Become a Member” or “About KCAA”. Better yet, schedule your calendar to come to our next monthly meeting and meet folks face to face to get your questions answered. Person to person is always best.
3 Michelle Hecker // Apr 24, 2009 at 10:52 am
I need a little help. We have a small restaurant in Bremerton, The Patio and we keep trying to find local, organic farms that deliver seasonal food to the restaurant. We cannot go to the farm unfortunately (new baby and demanding restaurant). Each spring I call around to the farms and they are not so interested in delivering to a restaurant even if we do co-op advertising for their farm. Can anyone help us find those farms interested in selling and delivering in Bremerton. Thanks so very much!
Michelle
4 Jim Freeman // Apr 24, 2009 at 11:29 am
Michelle, the obstacles that you have enumerated are exactly the ones that KCAA is attempting to resolve. Our community wants businesses like you and the farmers that you buy from to succeed. That’s why we have assembled our KCAA task force. Information about the task force is presented on a page on this blog and is an active group of 20+ volunteers including farmers, business people, educators and consumers who are working on concrete tasks to help make growing and eating local food a mainstream activity. The best answer to you for now is to consider joining our task force group headed by Dale King of Wildly Organic and Jeff Waite of The Harbour Pub. This group is looking to solve the problems that you have.
The task force groups usually meet one hour before the monthly educational meetings to coordinate efforts. Information about the meetings is always posted beforehand on this blog.
5 Virginia Pykonen // Aug 9, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Is there anyplace in Kitsap, or within an hour’s drive, where I can get locally raised dairy products like milk and cheese?
6 Jim Freeman // Aug 10, 2009 at 10:08 am
I am personally unaware of any cow dairies still operating in Kitsap County. Clallam County is home to Dungeness Valley Creamery which is a producer of raw milk. Smith Dairy Farm and Maple View Farm are the only other two remaining conventional dairies in Clallam that I am aware of. Several farmers in Kitsap are offering goat’s milk and cheese including Fox Dog Farm and Little Rascals. Mt. Townsend Creamery in Port Townsend produces local artisan cheese. Their products are available at several Kitsap outlets including the Poulsbo Farmers Market.
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