The Turtle Restaurant To Host Brownwood Farmer's Market Benefit Dinner

The Turtle Restaurant, 514 Center Ave, Brownwood, TX 76801 is sponsoring a Brownwood Farmer's Market Benefit Dinner to help recruit growers and promote the market while deomstrating to the community how a restaurant can utilize farm to table produce and protiens. Chef Morgan E. Robinson is planning a three course dinner made entirely from the market. The Brownwood Farmers' Market is a Texas Certified Market. The Turtle Restaurant was one of the first Go Texan Restaurants and a member of Slow Food USA. "Buying local produce is part of the local economy paradigm we follow," says Chef Morgan. "We are trying hard to buy as many of our ingredients from area farmers as possible. Supporting restaurants that support the local farming community makes sense on the most basic level. You can feel good about yourself while enjoying a wonderful meal. Here are some of the benefits:

Locally-grown food does not use as much oil due to less travel time. Because the food has traveled a shorter distance, it is fresher and tastes better.

There is more variety in your diet due to seasonal changes.

Keeping family farms alive keeps rural landscape alive, supporting less sprawl.
Spending your money where you live keeps your community thriving.

As a tourist looking for local flavor makes your visit more authentic. If you come to our town taste what we grow.

Central Texas is particularly blessed with an awakening community of small farms and food producers. Try our goat, our goat cheeses, our farmstead cheeses, our beef, our lamb, our wine and our seasonal produce. And if all of this is not reason enough, think of the health and safety of you and your family. Small, local farms are less likely to use hormones and more likely to raise grass fed or free-range animals, and organically-grown vegetables. If you know your farmer you know where to ask questions; the shorter the route from the farm to your table, the more knowledge you have at hand and the more flavor you have on your plate. As Wendell Barry said, "...eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. "