Burlington Eats Local This Week!

City Market's Eat Local Week Starts this Saturday, Oct. 6 and goes through the following Sunday, Oct. 14.

Eat Local Week presented by City Market is "Burlington's celebration of local farms and local food," according to the website. Included in the week of celebrating Vermont's amazing farmers and delicious food are Eat Local events, a photo contest and fully-local menu items at participating restaurants.

Eat Local events include a Grande Isle Bike Tour where participants will visit a vineyard, farm, art gallery and cafe, as well as tastings, treats and lunch included in the package. There's also a 10th Annual Harvest Celebration, which gathers together local farmers and producers with lots of samples, prize giveaways, face painting and kids' activities, among other things! Check out the full list of events here; there are ones each day of Eat Local Week and they all sound amazing!

The photo contest is called "Who Grew Your Food?" Where you can enter to win a gift card to City Market by taking a picture of your local meal, and in the caption tag each farm or local producer who grew the ingredients in your dish. For the full contest details, click here!

The participating restaurants are New Moon, Pistou, the Skinny Pancake, Sugar Snap, the Farmhouse Tap & Grill, Leunig's Bistro, City Market and Bluebird Tavern. Head to any of these restaurants during Eat Local Week and grab a "100 percent local dish with ingredients grown right here in Vermont during Eat Local Week!"

I hope you all get a chance to go out and enjoy all the wonderful things our local Vermonters offer. Happy Tuesday!

Information & logo via the Eat Local Week site

Image 1 via Time Magazine & image 2 via Bluebird Tavern