Stories

We at Eat Local First have been long-time fans of Port Townsend Coop‘s blog The Beet! Check them out for Olympic Peninsula food news, product highlights, amazing recipes, and more! This story was originally published there on March 26, 2024. SoulCedar Farm is a small scale, holistic farm located on the Olympic Peninsula in...

Crave Catering is a Bellingham-based catering business with a focus on local, chef-inspired food for all manner of events: intimate and large-scale weddings; reception celebrations; benchmark occasions; corporate events; non-profit functions; general family dining; and more.   Kimberly Anderson, Crave’s general manager, shares how Crave has evolved over the years to be the pinnacle of farm-to-table...

There are many reasons why people choose to eat local first – from supporting their neighbors to making their dollars go further in the local economy to the joy of tasting seasonal and sustainably raised food.   One more reason to eat local first? The ability to select food that’s grown, raised, caught, and harvested...

Tele Aadsen is a female commercial fisherman and writer, connecting people to salmon through the stories she shares and the fish she catches. She knows first-hand how the power of storytelling shapes our relationships to the food we eat and the folks who grow, raise, harvest, and catch it. Both fishing and writing have...

Sunnyfield Farm, LLC is a small, family-run goat dairy providing wholesome, high-quality goat milk products to their Lopez Island community and neighboring islands. Do you have a moment that inspired you to become a farmer? Well, not so much, but I do remember being about 21 or 22 and reading about Buddhism and specifically...

As one year closes and another begins, we take this time to reflect and integrate all we’ve learned over the last twelve months. Or at least… we try! There can be quite a pressure to make and keep New Years’ resolutions, which is why we want to think about how we can make positive change sustainable. So we decided, let’s make it fun!   We’re starting...