Come out to Calgary’s Cheekiest Food Festival this Saturday!!
Celebrating local food, small business & real communities
WHEN: Saturday June 8th, from 10 am to 3 pm
WHERE: 2505, 17the Ave., SW @ Casel Marché
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Slow Food Is…Slow Food Est…
We are looking for your Slow Food experience!
Slow Food in Canada is seeking a national identity. From coast to coast, we each have different ideas of what Slow Food is in this vast country of ours.
What is your personal definition of Slow Food?
We invite you to share with us YOUR Slow Food.
It’s easy to participate. Here’s how:
• 1) Join our event!
• 2) Share your Slow Food using the sentence:
Slow Food is…
• Share words, verse, photos, videos to the event.
• 3) Tweet your Slow Food using the hash tag #slowfoodis
• 4) Invite all of your facebook friends!
• We are accepting submissions until June 20th 2013
• For more information on Slow Food in Canada: www.slowfood.ca
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Forage and Feast in the Foothills
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—For a true taste of Alberta, join Karen Anderson of Calgary Food Tours Inc. onFriday, June 14, 2013 to Forage and Feast in the Foothills. Guests will meet at Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat for a light breakfast before exploring the fields, streams and forest of this glorious setting with Anderson and expert naturalist, Julie Walker of Full Circle Adventures.
After sustainably harvesting from nature’s bounty, guests will return to Diamond Willow’s sun-filled kitchen for a cooking lesson with Anderson and owner Doug Lothrop. The four-course meal will be made exclusively from ingredients foraged on property and gathered from the surrounding “cool little towns” of Okotoks, DeWinton, High River and Millarville, Alberta. Some of the finest local producers will be featured in the feast including Highwood Crossing Farms, The Saskatoon Farm, Kayben Farms, Canadian Rocky Mountain Ranch, Chinook Honey and Chinook Arch Meadery.
“We are excited to offer this tour for the first time and partner with Full Circle Adventures as well as Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat and to experience Alberta’s true terroir, sustainably,” says Karen Anderson. “Guests are always surprised by the variety of what’s available in the forests around us. We typically find morels and a variety of spring greens,” says Julie Walker.
Event: Feast and Forage in the Foothills
When: Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (Rain or Shine)
Where: Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat, Black Diamond, Alberta
Cost: $200/person incl. Breakfast and 4 course lunch with wine, and gratuity.
What to bring: camera, backpack, sturdy footwear, layers, and rain gear
Tickets: www.calgaryfoodtours.com or 403-968-2783
Diamond Willow Artisan Retreat is one hour south of Calgary on the famous “Cowboy Trail” just west of Black Diamond and Turner Valley. Owners Pat and Doug Lothrup frequently host artist’s group retreats and the great room doubles as a gallery with the artists they represent. Rooms are available for guests that would like to extend their visit.
Full Circle Adventures – Julie Walker is the Nature Guide and Program Director for Full Circle Adventures. As a naturalist & outdoor guide for over 25 years, Julie has provided programming for youth, seniors and adults. She is certified in Wilderness First Aid, and by the Interpretive Guides Association.
Calgary Food Tours Inc. – Since 2006, founder Karen Anderson has been showcasing the food scene throughout Alberta and beyond, including her exotic annual excursions to India. Karen is a columnist for City Palate magazine and CBC Radio One’s alberta@noon.
Contact:
Karen Anderson, Owner
www.calgaryfoodtours.com
T – 403-968-2783
Facebook & Twitter @calgaryfoodtour
Blog: savourfoodsavourlife.com
CALGARY EATS!
Spring Forward into Community Action
WHEN: June 12 from 6 to 9 pm
WHERE: Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association
Do you want to put forward your food project ideas and work with others to realize them or join in on existing projects that need more support?
Are you interested in connecting with others and sharing your passion for the value of food?
Then join us!
Check out the Calgary Eats Poster
RSVP today! Space is limited.
For more information, please contact food@calgary.ca or Steph Gagnon at 403-268-1034.
Thanks!
Calgary Food Committee
Local 301 presents…
MEAT MATTERS
A how-to on understanding and choosing sustainable meats…
Do you know where your meat comes from and what sustainable meat is really about?
Organic? Natural? Free range? Hormone free?
Learn about raising chickens and cattle, and
what questions to ask when shopping for your eggs and meat.
Featuring some of Alberta’s very best sustainable farmers –
Kris Vester of Blue Mountain Biodynamic Farm
Jon Wright of Thomspon Small Farm
Wade Nelson of Highwood Valley Ranch
WHERE:
Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association
1320 – 5th Avenue N.W. Calgary
WHEN:
May 1st, 2013 @ 7p.m.
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