Join PCC Farmland Trust for a spectacular 4-course dinner at Tilth, Chef Maria Hines' reknowned restaurant in Wallingford. Local Chefs for Local Farms brings together chef, farmer and eater, to enjoy a seasonal local feast and deepen the connection to the source of our food.  Farmer Kia Kozun Armstrong of Nash's Organic Produce will be speaking alongside Chef Maria Hines and PCC Farmland Trust – discussing the benefits and challenges of eating and growing local, organic food. Tickets are $85 per person and include tax & gratuity.  Vegetarian options are available. Please contact the Trust at 206-547-9855 with any questions about the event. 

Your Host, Chef Maria Hines

Tilth features New American cuisine prepared with certified-organic or wild ingredients sourced from as many local farmers as they are able to support. Executive chef and owner, Maria Hines, is a James Beard Award winner for Best Chef of the Northwest, as well as one of Food & Wine Magazine’s 10 Best New Chefs of 2005. In 2008, the New York Times deemed Tilth one of the best new restaurants in the country. Tilth received its organic certification from Oregon Tilth, an unaffiliated organization that promotes sustainability. Situated in a 1910 craftsman bungalow in Wallingford, Tilth strives to make guests feel as if they are welcomed into a home. Maria has served as president of Seattle Chefs Collaborative, a committee member for National Chefs Collaborative, is a founding member of Seattle Restaurant Week and is currently a board member of PCC Farmland Trust.

Special Guest,  Kia Kozun Armstrong

1st Course Full Circle Farm Potato & Leek Soup radish, dill, chive 2nd Course Carnaroli Risotto nash’s carrot, rainbow chard, pine nut 3rd Course Slow Cooked Sockeye Salmon spring onion, parsley pesto, sumac 4th Course Theo Chocolate Ganache Cake sea salt, chocolate shortbread, cocoa chantilly

Kia Kozun Armstrong has been working at Nash's Organic Produce for 8 years and helps manage the farm's sales, outreach, field crews, farmers markets and packing shed.  She has also served on the board of the Tilth Producers of WA, of several year round farmers markets, and is passionate about farm to cafeteria programs and the importance of GMO education and awareness.  When she's not slinging veggies or fighting the good food fight, you can find kia hiking in the olympic mountains or picking tunes with her husband Cort Armstrong in their old time country-blues band, Blue Rooster."