Get your Good Food on in Santa Monica

It’s local, it’s delicious, it couldn’t be better for you—no, we’re not just talking about the perfect organic fig.

We’re talking about five days’ worth of great food, plus valuable lessons on gardening, beekeeping, backyard chicken raising, urban homesteading and all-around sustainable living at the Good Food Festival & Conference in Santa Monica from September 14-18.

Launched in partnership with FamilyFarmed.org as a celebration of the 30^th anniversary of the Santa Monica Farmers Markets, the festival will feature some of L.A.’s top chefs and some of California’s most provocative voices on the issue of food.

Nancy Silverton, Suzanne Goin, Mark Peel and other celebrity restaurateurs will be doing kitchen demonstrations, and a speaker series will feature such luminaries as pioneering rancher Bill Niman, “Food, Inc.” director Robert Kenner and Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold.

There also will be a screening and discussion of the film, “The Harvest,” and an oceanfront “Localicious Gala” featuring 30 of L.A.’s best chefs and baskets full of the Santa Monica Farmers Markets’ best produce.

Click here for tickets, here for a complete event schedule and here for more information.  Bon appétit!

Posted 9/14/11