Meet Your Farmer Dinner featuring HolmesStead Ranch

Locally sourced Farm-to-table dinner featuring a five course meal by Chef Joel Cordes. El Sancho’s mission is to provide the Central Oregon community with high quality street food at an affordable price in a sustainable manner. Chef Joel travels through Mexico has resulted in his authentic meets Pacific Northwest cuisine and recipes. El Sancho has two locations in Bend, a brick and mortar near Bend High School and the food cart at Crux Fermentation.

The Meet Your Farmer menu consists of: Lengua Taquito (lamb tongue, corn tortillas, salsa verde, and crema), Chicken Tamales (streamed tamale with charro beans), Birria (lamb and goat in a chili broth with fresh tortilla), Pork Chop Adobado (pork with cilantro rice and sweet potato), and Choco Taco (chocolate dipped shells with Addy Mac’s ice cream).

Locavore’s Meet Your Farmer dinners consist of a locally sourced, gourmet meal hosted and prepared by rotating local restaurants. During dinner, you will be treated to a presentation by the evening’s featured farmer. Mike and Debbie Holmes started HolmesStead ranch in 2000. Both have full time jobs outside of the farm but still manage to raise and care for loads of chickens, goats, pigs, turkeys, and sheep.

Meet Your Farmer dinners benefit Central Oregon Locavore, a nonprofit organization that’s been promoting a local, sustainable food system in Central Oregon since 2010. Proceeds from this event help promote a more ecologically and socially just food system, public health and diversification of the local economy.