Downtown Woodland Swirl & Slice

A Downtown Woodland tradition has returned, to celebrate the changing of the seasons, downtown businesses, all while benefiting a local school garden program.

For the seventh time, Christy Hayes of Mojo’s Lounge and Kitchen428 partnered with  Yolo Farm to Fork to host Swirl & Slice: a Food, Wine, and Beer Walk.

At registration, guests received a wine glass and a Downtown Dining Passport, which served as a guide to designated eateries and breweries where they enjoyed appetizers plus wine or beer.

Swirl & Slice stops included: Mojo’s Lounge,, Las Brasas, Father Paddy’s, Blue Note Brewing, Woodland’s Edible Learning Garden at City Hall, and Yolo Farm to Fork's new office!

This Swirl & Slice benefited Yolo Farm to Fork’s Growing Lunch Program at Woodland’s Whitehead Elementary - to support Whitehead students to grow and harvest fruits and vegetables in their school garden to be served in the cafeteria.

Promoting farm-to-fork values comes naturally to event organizer Christy Hayes. Her restaurant, Kitchen428, crafts meals around “seasonal, locally sourced” ingredients. In 2012, Hayes organized the first Swirl & Slice event in partnership with the Historic Woodland Downtown Business Association to promote its burgeoning food scene. Since then, the popular Swirl & Slice concept has been repeated multiple times with rotating themes.

Event sponsors included Grow West,  Davis Food Co-op, Hunt & Sons, Mojo's Kitchen428, Jim Hilliard