How to Participate
- The first step is easy: Choose at least three different ways through which you pledge to eat local.
- Complete each activity and mark the card with a marker or sticker.
- Spread the word! Tell your friends about the challenge and join us for some great events during the Local Foods Week, October 1-8.
- After you’ve completed three or more activities, submit it to Local Matters by October 14th to be entered in the grand prize drawing!
>> Download the pledge card!
You can also pick up and submit your Pledge Card at one of the following locations:
- The Greener Grocer and North Market
- Cup O’ Joe locations around Columbus
- Columbus Metro Libraries
CONTEST/PRIZE INFO
- 6 months of groceries through the Greener Grocer‘s Weekly Fresh Market Bag (WFMB)
- A pantry makeover from the Hills Market
- Catering for an event from Two Caterers
- A cooking class with Local Matters’ own Chef RB
More ideas for eating local and delicious
- Do your weekly shopping at a Farmers Market
- Challenge yourself to prepare a dinner using as many local ingredients as possible. (and then of course, feast with your friends or family!)
- Visit the farm of a local food that you purchase
- Try a vegetable or fruit that you’ve never tried before!
- Eat at a restaurant that uses local ingredients.
- Host a barbeque using local Ohio meats (try Bluescreek Farm Meats or Weiland’s Gourmet Market)
- Learn to can or preserve local foods so you can enjoy your jam all year long!
- Go berrypicking at a “U-Pick” farm
- Plant a fall garden.
- Buy a share of a farm through a CSA (community supported agriculture).
