Outstanding in the Field, Camarillo, CA McGrath Family Farms

Outstanding in the Field is an organization that encourages diners to eat farm fresh food. And by fresh, I mean straight from the soil, through the rinse, and onto your plate. It's a movement to make people aware of a fresh organic more sustainable way to shop for foods and feed your body. They travel the country in a big red bus and organize dinners at farms. They match local chefs with local farms and local produce. They set up one big long table for diners and prepare the meal on the farm. It's a unique special romantic experience. If only we could all live this way.

The menu for the evening:

Cocktail Appetizer:
goat cheese crudite with squash blossom relish

First Course:
Farm Fresh roasted carrot and squash salad

Second Course:
Haricot Vert soup

Third Course:
Fresh Caught Ventura Harbor Snapper with farm fresh beats

Fourth Course:
Grilled Pork Belly with farm fresh turnips

Fifth Course:
Lavender infused pound cake with farm fresh strawberries

From their website:

Outstanding in the Field is a roving culinary adventure - literally a restaurant without walls. Since 1999 we have set the long table at farms or gardens, on mountain tops or in sea caves, on islands or at ranches. Occasionally the table is set indoors: a beautiful refurbished barn, a cool greenhouse or a stately museum. Wherever the location, the consistent theme of each dinner is to honor the people whose good work brings nourishment to the table.

Ingredients for the meal are almost all local (sometimes sourced within inches of your seat at the table!) and generally prepared by a celebrated chef of the region. After a tour of the site, we all settle in: farmers, producers, culinary artisans, and diners sharing the long table.