SEQUIM — Advance tickets are on sale now for the 12th annual 100-Mile Harvest Celebration Dinner, which will honor Bob Caldwell, a founder of Friends of the Fields, as the feast’s special guest.
The dinner — made up almost entirely of ingredients grown or made within 100 miles of Sequim — will be at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at the SunLand Country Club at 109 Hilltop Road in Sequim. The social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m.
The head chef will be Gabriel Schuenemann of Alderwood Bistro of Sequim.
Tickets are $99 if purchased by Friday or $115 after. No tickets will be sold at the door.
The North Olympic Land Trust and its farmland division, Friends of the Fields, are the sponsors of this fundraiser. Proceeds will go to farmland preservation.
Sequim-based Friends of the Fields, a nonprofit devoted to preserving farmland, merged with the North Olympic Land Trust in 2010.
Caldwell, a Sequim resident, was a founding director of Friends of the Fields in 1999.
He served on the committee that worked out details before the merger and served as a land trust board member. He recently retired from the land trust board of directors.
Caldwell retired to the North Olympic Peninsula in 1994 after 29 years with USDA Soil Conservation Service.
“Bob Caldwell has been one of the most beloved and valuable members of the Friends of the Fields and North Olympic Land Trust team for over a decade,” said Matthew Randazzo, development director of North Olympic Land Trust.
“We feel this event is a perfect opportunity to honor and thank him for his hard work on behalf of farmland preservation in the Olympic Peninsula.”.
Tickets can be ordered online at http://FriendsofTheFields.org or http://tinyurl.com/3ctocpa or by phoning 360-681-8636.