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“Love Your Park” Desert-Dining Food Tour helps Joshua Tree National Park

Dining in the high desert has never been better, and now eating at some of your favorite restaurants can now make a positive impact on our national park. Culinary reporter Jef Harmatz joins us with a look at this delicious fundraising event.

The first ever “Love Your Park” Hi-Desert Food Tour is in full swing and just in time for Valentine’s Day. By ordering a specialty food or drink item from a participating restaurant, a portion of your purchase between 10 and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Joshua Tree National Park Association to fund programs in Joshua Tree National Park. The event begins tomorrow and runs until February 19.

Participating restaurants include:

  • The Copper Room
  • Frontier Café
  • Food For Thought Café at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center
  • Pappy & Harriet’s
  • The Red Dog Saloon
  • The Restaurant at 29 Palms Inn
  • Roadrunner Grab + Go
  • Sky High Pie
  • Spaghetti Western Saloon
  • The Tiny Pony Tavern
  • 2 Guys Pies Brick Oven Pizza.

To see what each restaurant is serving, visit this link.

Z107.7 is a media sponsor of this event.

“Love Your Park” Participating Restaurants (joshuatree.org)

Jef Harmatz

Jef Harmatz is the co-host of Z107.7’s “Morning Show with Cody and Jef” and Z107.7’s News Director. He has worked as a journalist, cartoonist, chef, and delivery driver. He is known nationally for his writing and comics in publications like TimeOut, Popula, Roadtrippers, Solrad and Spiralbound, and for his album covers for Third Eye Blind and Sir Sly. He is known locally for his pop-up barbecue restaurant Hot Dog Panic. He remains unknown in the field of beekeeping, because he is too afraid of being stung to try it. When not on the radio, he draws comics and self-publishes little books. He lives with his partner and his dog Sunday in Yucca Valley, where he cooks them both elaborate meals.


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