Franciscan Family Farms

Ok, so I know most of our readers and customers are less coastal and more midwestern, but I had to share this link to a local business in California.

A friend of mine from grad school shared a link on Facebook to her sister’s business – “The Burger Bus”, which is a local, grass-fed burger business on wheels. I love the linked video, where Cheryl describes her business in terms of “locals selling local food”. The burgers also look absolutely delicious (I’m going to try making my own CBJ – Cheeseburger and Jelly – asap). I thought this might spur some local entrepreneurs to open a mobile restaurant of their own — I just happened to know a good supplier of local, grass-fed ground beef. And if you’re in Santa Barbara, by all means, head over to their web site (http://www.theburgerbus.com) and find out where they’re going to be for lunch tomorrow!

The Burger Bus experience:http://vendr.tv/video/burger-bus/

One of the keys to this movement is finding ways to get more people connected with farms and their food, so it is inspirational to see businesses like this spring up to help make that happen. There are only a certain number of people that are going to go out of their way to find local foods… how many of those Burger Bus customers were going to make the effort to go to a farm or even a farmer’s market to buy their food?