Chefs Collaborative announced their 2012 Sustainability Awards after a call for nominations in three categories - Pathfinder, Foodshed Champion, and Sustainer. The awards recognize individuals changing the sustainable food landscape.

For Foodshed Champion, the award went to Lora Lea and Rick Misterly from Quillisascut Farm in Rice. This award honors a food producer committed to working with chefs and who exemplifies the following principle: Good food begins with unpolluted air, land, and water, environmentally sustainable farming and fishing, and humane animal husbandry.

(Image courtesy of Real Time Farms.)

From Chefs Collaborative: "I feel it is the duty for all of us who love working with the land to share the information we have gained with others. This farm school is my goal for passing on the knowledge gathered over the last 20 years on this piece of land," says Lora Lea Misterly, co-owner of Quillisascut Farm in Rice, WA. For thirty-one years, Rick and Lora Lea Misterly have been living the "slow life," growing Quillisascut Farm. They started out with a bare piece of ground; gradually over time they have built a home, a farmstead, a cheese business and a culinary school to share their love for all things farm to table - building healthy soil, maintaining a vibrant garden, nurturing seeds that tell a story of love, beauty, taste and seasonality.

Congratulations!

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