Hey, my farm is on TV! This week’s episode of “Chefs A’Field: Culinary Adventures That Begin on the Farm” (pardon the pun, but what a mouthful!) showcases Chef Holly Smith of Cafe Juanita in Kirkland, and the farm that provides me with my goodies every other week: Full Circle Farm.

I haven’t watched the Chefs A’Field show before. Actually I try to avoid watching food shows whenever possible. I still remember when we first got the Food TV channel, and I was hooked there for a while, watching all the cooking shows. Then I realised that they were making me hungry, and then I gained about 10 pounds. So now I don’t watch food shows.

I really like the format of the Chefs A’Field show. There’s a narrator but no evident interviewer. In fact after the beginning where Chef Holly addresses an unseen person behind the camera, she takes over the interviewer job, and talks to everyone who provides her with food (she’s a great conversationalist by the way). You get to see this sort of life cycle where you find out where the food comes from, and then where it goes. Chef Holly and many other local chefs in this area really make an effort to use local produce and “cook within the season,” so to speak, so you get a sense of their connection to the land.

Along the way, you see quite a lot of Andrew Stout, the Full Circle Farm guy. My farm — or rather, HIS farm — does five farmers markets a week including Pike Place Market’s Organic Producer Day, the University Market, and the Redmond Farmers Market. While at Pike Place, Chef Holly also stops by Pure Food Fish Market.

Last stop, Mario Batali’s dad’s shop: Salumi, to make some charcuterie. Then back to the restaurant kitchen, to whip up some braised octopus, olive oil poached potatoes, and cotechino with cipollini and agrodolce.

And now I’m hungry again.

The next showing of the Chef Holly episode is on channel 9 (KCTS) on September 10 at 4:30AM. Also tune in to KCTS for Chef Greg Atkinson and Islandwood on Bainbridge Island later this month.