garden-to-fork

adj.

Describing or relating to food grown in a person's own garden. Also: garden to fork.

Example Citations:

Headteacher Mo Brown said: "What an amazing achievement by our green, mean eco-team. This rich garden-to-fork experience is the very essence of Curriculum for Excellence."

—" Grass-roots education at its best: http://www.selkirkweekendadvertiser.co.uk:80/news/local-headlines/grass_roots_education_at_its_best_1_90947," Selkirk Advertiser, June 25, 2010

In his love letter to Root Down, Cheshes admits falling for the joint's cocktails, design and garden-to-fork food.

—Lori Midson, " Four Denver restaurants get major shout-outs from the New York Times: http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2010/08/denver_restaurants_get_shout-o.php," Denver Westward, August 27, 2010

Earliest Citation:

Last week I ate the first head of lettuce it was amazing, all that garden to fork crap is true.

—" Lettuce Give Thanks: http://thebigfatfoodmanifesto.blogspot.com/2009/08/lettuce-give-thanks.html," The Big Fat Food Manifesto, August 8, 2009

Notes:

Here's an even earlier citation that uses a variation on the phrase:

Heronswood Café manager David Weill counts gardeners as part of his kitchen team. "It's a garden-fork-to-kitchen-fork approach," he says. Heronswood, after all, is primarily a garden. It's famous, in fact, for its heritage vegetables.

—Donna Coutts, "Garden to plate," Herald Sun, April 15, 2008

Also, here's a early cite that uses garden to fork non-adjectivally:

California first lady Maria Shriver has her shovel at the ready. She plans an 800-square-foot garden in downtown Sacramento that she'll use to teach where food comes from, its nutritional value and how it moves from garden to fork.

—"First garden a role model," Sacramento Bee, March 27, 2009

Related Words:

100-foot diet

cookprint

farm to fork

food miles

foodshed

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intentional gardening

locapour

locavore

SPIN

window farm

Categories:

Food and Drink

Plants and Gardening

Environment