We've found a new partner with the amazing Edible Santa Fe. For the whole month of October, Edible asks New Mexicans to buy local. Their description reads, "Partners from every part of our local food system urge you to dine out, cook in, and celebrate the ingredients, landscape, and people behind our plates through a month’s worth of events, restaurant meals, and plenty of cooking and drinking at home." The NM Oxfam Action Corps couldn't be more on board. 
When small-scale farmers thrive, their local communities thrive too. This is fantastic news locally, and the ramifications go global. Whether we're talking about growing, selling, preparing or eating food, we are all interconnected. The choices we make every day--at the grocery store, in the kitchen, are more powerful than we might think. Simple things like the GROW Method (saving food, conserving energy, shopping seasonally, eating a little less meat, and supporting small-scale farmers) go a long way. So fight world hunger starting at your kitchen table. 
Celebrate the month of Eat Drink Local by hosting a meal, sharing recipes, and discussing the GROW Method. Throughout New Mexico, Oxfam aims to inspire meals that foster conversations about where food comes from, ways we can make the food system more just, and how we can protect farmers and farmland around the world. We encourage these conversations every year during the month of October to celebrate World Food Day and are super excited to participate this year in New Mexico's first Eat Drink Local Month. Click here to order free materials to host your own World Food Day Dinner.
If you prefer to eat out, we have the solution for you. Part of Edible's celebration includes the Moveable Feast, where 40 restaurants throughout the state are serving specials or dinners made with at least 60 percent local ingredients. The following restaurants are featuring World Food Day Dinners on Wednesday, October 16th, and therefore will be distributing Oxfam materials. Eating at these restaurants shows you care, and also makes you part of a global movement to decrease poverty and hunger.
Participating Restaurants:
Artichoke Café
Farina Pizzeria
*Flying Star
*Green House Bistro
Jennifer James 101
*Joe's Dining
*Marcellos
Rasoi
*Revolution Bakery
*Savoy
Slate Street Café
Slate at the Museum (Museum of Art and History)
Slate at the Museum (Museum of Art and History)
Thai Cuisine II
*Yanni's Lemoni Lounge
*Moveable Feast Restaurants
Here are some other ways you can participate throughout the month of October:
- Take the Eat Drink Local Challenge
- Attend one of the many local events occurring during Eat Drink Local Month (Local Food Festival and Field Day, Hops and Harvest Festival)
- Attend our free World Food Day Community Dinner on Saturday, October 19th from 6-8pm. The NM Oxfam Action Corps is preparing a meal for 100 people from donated produce from the Downtown Growers Market. Join us for delicious food and hear from local farmers from Valle Encantado and Cecilia's Organics about access to land in New Mexico.
- Help protect farmers worldwide by visiting Oxfam America's website and signing the petition to ensure small-scale farmers aren't kicked off their land.
