The Toyota Farm to Table Tour will be at the Little Rock Farmers Market from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday (July 17) as part of an 11-stop journey across the country to showcase the connection between farmers, chefs, farmers markets and the communities they serve, and to give market shoppers a close-up look at Toyota’s hybrid vehicles.

Local chefs and farmers will be paired to highlight each market’s fresh offerings. The chefs will prepare bite-sized tastings for visitors to sample while they learn more about each market, its specialty farmers, its notable chefs, and ways to eat and shop more locally.

The Little Rock showcase will feature nine local chefs:

Visitors can select complimentary potted culinary herbs from the Highlander Hybrid Mobile Garden, enter for a chance to win a culinary trip to Santa Barbara for a cooking and farmers market tour, and take a ride in a 2010 Prius, Highlander Hybrid or Camry Hybrid and take home a John Boos cutting board as a memento of the experience.

Toyota will also make a financial donation to the market.

Other tour stops include Kansas City, Mo., Raleigh, N.C., Birmingham, Ala., Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Pa., Chattanooga, Tenn., Rochester, Minn., Minneapolis, Minn., Salt Lake City, Utah and Baton Rouge, La. 

To learn more about the Tour click here.