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Please visit our local recipe page to sample the winning recipe of the first SaveOurFood.org recipe contest.  Also we will be launching another contest in early 2009, so start testing your local recipes for another chance to win.

 

Save Our Food has joined several popular social media networks to reach a broader audience. Click on our social media page to learn more.

 

Saving Our Food Begins with You

 

Fresh, safe, local foods have a special place in our lives. And our need for agriculture is as critical as when Virginia colonists started farming 400 years ago.

 

Agriculture is Virginia’s first and largest industry, and Virginia farmers are proud of that. But their farms and your food could become threatened if we don’t all take steps to preserve them.

 

It’s a cause that’s as personal as your plate!

 

Do you have a favorite market or farm where you buy fresh, local food? Don't see it in our fresh food locator? Please send your suggestions and recommendations to marketsuggestions@saveourfood.org

Current News & Issues

Cooking at home more? Don’t forget food safety

In the midst of a challenging economy, many people are trying to stretch their food dollars by doing more cooking at home. While saving money is important, practicing food safety is essential.

  

CSAs help consumers eat locally, connect with farmers

You don’t have to be a farmer to enjoy fresh produce, but it’s easier to eat locally if you’re part of a community-supported agriculture system, or CSA

 

Grower offers tips for poinsettia care

It just wouldn’t seem like the holidays without the dramatic color of poinsettias. 

 

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Events Calendar

20 DEC 2008

Ali d'Oro Gold Gala, Mt. Crawford

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31 DEC 2008

2nd Annual New Year's Eve Blast, Roanoke

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08 JAN 2008

Art After Hours, Richmond

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18 JAN 2008

Virginia Beach Restaurant Week, Virginia Beach

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Join Our Cause

What if all the foods your family enjoyed—fresh, ripe tomatoes, juicy peaches and watermelon, steaks and burgers on the grill—were available only from foreign countries?

 

It might sound far-fetched, even ridiculous.

 

But while Americans are becoming more and more interested in fresh, locally grown foods, more and more American farms are being lost each year.

 

Becoming a member of Virginia Farm Bureau is a simple yet powerful way to put your support squarely behind the farms that produce your family’s food.