The Buy FRESH program promotes a close connection between you and those in the community who grow your food.  By choosing items with this logo, your dollars are directly supporting local food producers.

Facilitating Trade

Buy FRESH is overcoming obstacles by connecting local food producers, restaurants, retailers, and institutions through:

You can Buy FRESH!

• To ensure that you and your family have the freshest and healthiest food possible, look for the Buy FRESH logo at the Bellingham Farmer’s Market and at the following local restaurants, grocers, and caterers
• You’ll see us at community events too! Click on the event to see photos of the Buy FRESH all-local veggie team that won first place (in the produce category…) of the 2005 Ski to Sea and Bellingham Traverse races!
• Produced in partnership with Whatcom Farm Friends, the 2006 Whatcom Farm Map & Guide provides the means for visiting farms directly and purchasing the freshest, most delicous produce imagineable from the person who grew it.  The Farm Map can be found at: Participating Buy FRESH farms, restaurants, and retailers, Whatcom Farm Friends, The Bellingham Public Library and The Whatcom County Courthouse, Vvisitor's bureaus from Bellingham to Seattle. The Farm Map is also included in the Where the Locals Go Coupon Book.
• Eat Local Week--September 2006

Celebrate local food in the first week of September by pledging to eat entirely from Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, and Island Counties.  This fun event is sponsored by retailers and restaurants all over Whatcom County who offer mouth-watering specials made entirely from ingredients grown, raised or caught in our region.  In joining dozens of other local eaters, those who take the pledge are affirming that local food means better taste and more nutritional value, a stronger local economy, fewer food miles and ecological costs of long-distance food transportation.  By eating local, they are also learning about our own “food shed” and the way that working farms and fishermen connect us to our land and preserve our home's rural character.  

Click Here for more details about the 2006 Buy FRESH Eat Local Week