St. Johns County has an Agricultural Liaison, and on Nov. 17 the county is putting her in a room at The Floridian with whatever restaurants, retailers and chefs turn up.

The session runs 2 to 3:30 p.m. at 485 Old Beach Road. It is free, it wants a registration through 904Tix, and the county’s own release says staff will help facilitate connections between businesses and farmers and will talk through what grows in Northeast Florida and when.

The hook the county is hanging it on is the Snail of Approval, which is Slow Food First Coast’s designation for local producers, purveyors, restaurateurs and artisans. The release lists six things it is given for: sourcing local or sustainably produced products, environmental stewardship, cultural diversity in food, community involvement, employee support, and inclusive business practices.

Six commitments, no threshold on any of them.

What the release does not price

It does not say what a Snail costs a restaurant to get or to keep. It says former designated businesses can learn how to renew, which means there is a renewal, and it does not say what renewing involves or what it runs.

It does not say how many businesses in this county hold one right now. The Floridian is named as one of the original ones and is hosting, and that is the only designated room the release identifies.

So a cook reading this is told there is a designation, told it recognizes six virtues, and told nothing about the price of the sticker.

The part that is actually useful

Strip the program out and what is left is a county employee whose job is agriculture sitting down with kitchens to talk about seasonality and supply.

That is a real thing and this county has not had a public version of it on a calendar before. The release says the event will also help identify farmers who can meet local demand for specific crops.

Prissy Fletcher, the county’s Agricultural Liaison, is quoted in it: “Connecting our local businesses with our farmers creates opportunities to strengthen our local food system while helping businesses better understand what is grown here and when it is available.”

The other partners on it are Slow Food First Coast, which the release says was founded in St. Augustine in 2007 and is part of Slow Food USA, and the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra & The Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau, which is the county’s tourism arm and the same body that publishes the restaurant directory this desk reads every month.

If you run a kitchen here

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2 to 3:30 p.m., The Floridian, 485 Old Beach Road. Free, register first.

It is a weekday afternoon, which is service industry sleep, and that is who it is for.