Plan on Attending Gala Locavore "Dinner With the Dairymen"

The public is invited to a unique dinner highlighting the richness and variety of North Texas foods at the Renaissance Dallas Renaissance Hotel at 6 p.m., Saturday July 11.

Join the members of the American Guernsey Association for a dinner featuring: 

• Tomato Napoleon Salad with Caramelized Onions, Baby Greens and Chives with Balsamic Vinaigrette
• Burgundy Pasture Beef Short Ribs with Thai BBQ Sauce served over Mashed Potatoes, pasture-raised chicken from Windy Meadows Farm and vegetables from the McKinney Farmers Market
• Texas Cheese Plate with cheeses from Lucky Layla Farms, Dallas Mozzarella Co., Veldhuizen Farms and Pure Luck Farm and Dairy
• Collin County Blackberry Cobbler

The menu was designed by Slow Food member and chef, Claudine Martyn, and Renaissance Hotel Chef Rob Richards, who worked together to incorporate local producers.

The dinner is part of the 133rd annual meeting of the American Guernsey Association, which is holding its convention in Texas for the first time in 50 years. Local host and Texas Guernsey Breeder member Todd Moore of Lucky Layla Farms conceived the dinner to showcase Texas producers to Guernsey breeders from around the world.

Tickets can be purchased here and picked up at the Texas Guernsey Breeders Hospitality Room at the Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel, 900 Lookout Drive, Richardson, TX 75082

Sign Up Now For Our Special Southern Farm Tour

The folks at Food Roots have developed a special EatGreenDFW tour that includes stops at JuHa Ranch, Oak Grove Farms and Garden Harvests. The tour, which will be on July 11, includes round trip transportation from Dallas by chartered bus, guided tours of the farms and lunch at the Brown Street Cafe and Kolache Depot in Ennis. Cost is just $89 per person. Find out more about the tour and sign up here.

Oak Grove Farms Mirai Corn Is Here and Almost Gone!

It has been compared to peaches and melons, and now you can order Mirai® Corn exclusively through EatGreenDFW.com until Saturday, July 4. Then it's all gone until next year.

Tommy and Kristi Copeland from Oak Grove Farms in Ennis, planted some 10 acres in Mirai on their Certified Naturally Grown farm, and the last planting is ready for harvest. So if you don't order by Saturday, it'll probably be too late.

Place an order now we’ll ship your fresh-picked ears to your door overnight so you can enjoy it for the weekend. Be among the first (and the few) in the DFW area to taste a corn that has been described as “nature’s candy.”

It’s so tender and sweet that it hardly needs any cooking—two minutes at most. Find out more about Mirai Corn here.