Eating Locally: Renee Brooks Catacalos & Eat at Bill's

Does buying from local farmers really save family farms? Eat At Bill’s tells the story of California’s Monterey Market, where second-generation storekeeper Bill Fujimoto’s passion for produce has literally saved dozens of small farms, including the tangerine farm of filmmaker Lisa Brenneis. Renee Brooks Catacalos, publisher and editor of Edible Chesapeake, will lead a discussion of innovative approaches that keep farms in our own area afloat and suggest recent books that examine how the path of food from farm to table has drastically changed since World War II.

Catacalos describes her own discovery of eating locally: “A couple of summers ago, my whole family discovered together how fabulous eating fresh could really be. On a lark, I challenged us to eat food exclusively from within a 150-mile radius of our suburban Washington DC home for a month, and that ‘experiment’ turned into a new paradigm of eating for us. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the idea of eating locally was taking root in all of us. And for me, it was blossoming into a true passion.”

Sponsored by the Prince George's County Memorial Library System. This event is free and open to the public.