MEDIA ADVISORY
Weathers Challenges SC Restaurants to Serve What’s
Fresh on the Menu
WHO: Hugh Weathers, SC Commissioner of Agriculture
Cathy Forrester, Coastal Conservation League
Jamee Haley, Lowcountry Local First
Fresh on the Menu Restaurant Participants
WHAT: The South Carolina Department of Agriculture, together with the
Coastal Conservation League and Lowcountry Local First, will
announce the launch of the Fresh on the Menu program, the
restaurant phase of the South Carolina Department of
Agriculture’s Certified South Carolina Grown program.
WHEN: February 7, 2008 at 10 a.m.
WHERE: Boone Hall Plantation’s The Cotton Dock
1235 Long Point Road
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
WHY: The Certified South Carolina program is an exciting cooperative
effort among producers, processors, wholesalers, retailers and
the South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) to brand
and promote South Carolina products. Our goal is for
consumers to be able to easily identify, find and buy South
Carolina products as the state emerges as a culinary destination
in the U.S. With the Fresh on the Menu program,
Commissioner Weathers and the SC Department of Agriculture
are extending the Certified SC Grown brand and challenging
local restaurants to incorporate locally grown produce and
products into their menus. Already, more than twenty-five
restaurants have agreed to participate in the program.