If you can’t grow it, eat it

Add comment June 16th, 2009

The Openfields Dinner Series, which features farm-fresh foods at local restaurants, kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at The Celtic Thistle, 104 W. Main in Rockton.

Generally reservations and payment are preferred a week in advance; call 815-986-4357 or go online at the University of Illinois Extension. You can also find the menu there (Kohlrabi? Elk steak? Wow!)

The rest of the schedule is as follows:

July 18 – Pine Row Farm, catered by Kiki B’s/A Moveable Feast (11449 Havenswood Road)

July 23 – Octane (124 N. Main St., Rockford)

Aug. 6 – Brio (515 E. State St., Rockford)

Aug. 20 – Severson Dells, catered by Toni’s of Winnebago (8786 Montague Road, Rockford)

Sept. 10 – Celtic Thistle

Sept. 24 – Noonan’s (Aldeen Golf Clubhouse, 1902 Reid Farm Road, Rockford)

Oct. 8 – Cru (509 E. State St, Rockford)

Oct. 24 – Kiki B’s “Harvest Dinner” (1641 N Alpine Rd, Rockford)