Farm Fresh Produce (photo by Kevin Connors, courtesy of morguefile.com)

It’s more challenging for a restaurant to serve farm fresh food than use large distributors, but as an Associated Press report observes, doing so “allows customers to know where their food is coming from.” The AP article published by Yahoo! describes Founding Farmers, a new restaurant in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood near The White House in Washington, D.C.

According to the restaurant’s web site, Founding Farmers is dedicated to serving “the goodness and incredible flavors of fresh Farm-to-Table American inspired true food and drink.”

The farm-to-table movement includes restaurants buying from family farmers and occasional dinners prepared and served at a farm. Founding Farmers is unique in that it is the first of two restaurants developed with $6 million from a collective of North Dakota farmers. They “believe that everyone benefits by all of us knowing more about the source of our food and its journey from seed to harvest to table.”

The AP says the restaurant’s management also aims to be "Washington's greenest restaurant." It “was built to comply with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a third-party certification for the design, construction and operation of green buildings.”

If you’d like to read the Associated Press article cited above go to: Farmers bet 'green' eatery will catch on

To visit the web site of Founding Farmers restaurant go to: Welcome to Founding Farmers

For more information on the concept and the firm that developed and managed the concept visit: Vucurevich Simons Advisory Group