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Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Local 101 and Local 201: Two LOCAL events about eating local food and meeting people who are a part of the local food movement.
Local 101: Eating food you know from people you know.
An afternoon of presentations by farmers and cooks followed by a sampling of local foods and beverages.
SATURDAY MARCH 13TH, 2010 @ 1:30 PM
@ River Park Church Auditorium
Tickets $20
Tickets are available from Forage
Tel: 403•269•6551
Go to www.foragefoods.com for more details.
Local 201: Connecting people in the local food movement
Hear what’s happening at the core of the local food movement followed by a panel
discussion and lunch.
SATURDAY MARCH 13TH, 2010 @ 9:30 AM
@ River Park Church Auditorium
Tickets $40
Tickets are available from Forage
Tel: 403•269•6551
Go to www.foragefoods.com for more details.
Click here to view event poster: 101201poster
Community, Events, Local, Slow Food Calgary
10th Annual Roots & Shoots Dinner at River Café
When: Monday March 8, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Where: River Café, Prince’s Island Park
Our annual hopeful celebration of Spring’s return is once again hosted by
River Café. Join chef Scott Pohorelic and his team, along with a cadre of
several guest chefs, for a magnificent seasonal multi-course prairie menu,
accompanied by stellar Canadian wines. If you thought there’s little to eat
in Alberta in early March, Roots & Shoots will delight your palate in
learning otherwise! This popular event is always a sell-out. Dinner at 6:30
pm.
Members, $115; non-members $150. GST and gratuity included. Tickets
available @The Cookbook Co Cooks, 722-11 Ave SW, Calgary, or by phone at
403-265-6066.
Community, Events, Local
Free Showing of Food, Inc.
FOOD, Inc. is one of the scariest movies in recent years. The New York Times calls it “an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding, (force-feeding) Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy”.
If you want to know why many of us are seeking out nearby organic food sources and enjoying our home gardens, come join us at the Unitarian Church on Friday, February 5th at 6:30 for a light supper and a screening of FOOD, Inc. beginning at 7:00 PM.
Wickenden Hall
Unitarian Church of Calgary
1703- 1st Street NW
*Free parking available in the Balmoral School lot next door.
The Green Sanctuary Committee, Unitarian Church of Calgary
Co-Sponsored with ARUSHA and The Calgary Horticultural Society
Community, Events, Local
Local Food Events: Two Workshops Coming Soon
Here is notice of two, FREE one-day workshops where you will hear more about innovative local food events and the smart practices involved in organizing them – in Alberta and across the continent.
Featuring:
• Edmonton Regional Toursim Group’s Taste Event
• Dine Kalyna
• Community Connection Dinners
• Badlands Long Lunch
The full-day sessions covers:
• the details of various local food events
• ideas and opportunities for creating your own local food event
A locally sourced lunch is available and there will be ample time to network.
DATES & LOCATIONS:
February 16 – Camrose
U of A Augustana Campus Chapel
9 am to 3 pm
To register call 780-672-2710 or email: laura@boomtowntrail.com
February 25 – Brooks
Douglas Country Inn
9 am to 3 pm
To register call 403-830-9707 or email: cmmcell@telus.net
BOTH WORKSHOPS ARE FREE BUT YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND.
Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
A Kitchen Party at Infuse Catering featuring Blue Mountain Biodynamic Farm
There is room for just 24 lucky people to join Chef Wade Sirois and local producer Kris Vester of Blue Mountain Biodynamic Farm in the kitchen at Infuse Catering. Chef Sirois will prepare several lovely tasting plates with food grown on this farm. Don’t know what biodynamic is? Come and find out and while you are at it bring your Valentine for a cozy winter’s night in a hot and happening kitchen.
Monday, February 8, 2010
6:30 – 9:00 pm
@ Infuse Catering
3510 – 19 St SW, Calgary
403-269-3902
Slow Food Members: $35.00|
Not Yet Slow Food Members: $45.00
• Price includes food and drink tastings.
Reserve tickets by calling:
The Cookbook Co. Cooks at 403.265.6066
Community, Events, Local
Food…The next oil?
CALGARY (January 18, 2010)
The Alberta Farmers’ Market Association, Just Food Edmonton and Greater Food Security Alberta are hosting an event that is relevant to the Slow Food movement…
Food: Today, Tomorrow, Together
7:00 pm, Thursday, February 18, 2010
Red and White Club, 1833 Crowchild Trail NW, McMahon Stadium,
Calgary
• Local Food & Artisans on site
• Tickets cost $30 each and are available for purchase by contacting Naomi Provencal at 1-866-753-4337.
Canadian Agrologist and farm columnist Wendy Holm will talk about why emerging public focus on food is happening “just in time” and what communities can do to support it. There will be local food and artisans on site with samples of their products for tasting and purchase. Julie Van Rosendaal, freelance food writer and regular contributor to several newspapers and magazines, and author of the best-selling cookbooks One Smart Cookie and Grazing, is the MC.
Community, Events, Global, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Latest Terra Madre Day Tidings…
Karen Anderson, a pillar of the Slow Food Calgary planning committee, had 30 women to her house for “Ladies eating Local” on Dec 10, Terra Madre Day.
She says: “The Very Local Menu proves that, yes, you can eat local in December in Alberta”.
Tilly Sanchez, host Karen Anderson and Chef Tanya Geutre
Kayben Farms Black currant punch, Okotoks, AB
Blue Mountain Brut Rose Sparkling Wine, Oliver, BC
Valta Bison Chili, Valhalla Center, Peace River, AB
Tres Marias Blue Corn Chips, Calgary, AB with salsa from
Gull Valley Tomatoes and Cucumber Man basil, Calgary Farmer’s Market
Red Lentil Hummus with Highwood Crossing’s Flax Oil, Aldersyde, AB
Spelt Pizza from the Ladybug with Sylvan Star Gouda and Sunworks Farms
Rosemary Chicken Sausage from Sylvan Lake and Armena, AB
Saskatoon Tarts from Pearson’s Berry Farm, Innisfail, AB
Chocolate Truffles from Choklat in Inglewood
$330.00 was raised to help send a youth delegate to Terra Madre in Turin, Italy in 2010.
Chantal Leblanc and Slow Food Calgary President Dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Catharine Hortsing and Penny Marshall
Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
TM Day at Kathleen Charpentier’s Farm
Kathleen Charpentier has just been elected Women’s Vice-President of the National Farmers’ Union – congratulations!
She sent us words and images from her TM day celebrations on the farm…
"Our celebration took place on a day that was minus 35 degrees centigrade."
"Despite the cold, we feasted on bison ribs, mashed potatoes, homemade butter, homemade pumpernickel bread, curried carrots, green beans, pickles, saskatoon-apple crisp, raw cream and plenty of wine."
"Everyone watched Food Inc. (including the teenagers) and the discussion was intense."
Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
TM Day Tidings continued…
This menu from Slow Food Planning Committee Member, chef, proprietor of Meta4 Foods and devoted locavore, Eric Geisbrecht, who prepared these toothsome dishes for his staff at work on December 10th…
• Ewe-nique Lamb Saddle, with a local honey and cider glaze, stuffed
with Lund’s carameilzed onions, and roasted Okanagan pink lady apples.
(yes, i still had a stash of Lund’s onions!)
• Braised white cabbage with caraway, Broek Acres Berkshire bacon and chestnuts
• ‘Blumenthal style’ “boiled crispy” local potatoes
• Lund’s carrot salad with fresh mint and organic hazlenuts, Banyuls vinaigrette
It was a great meal and the guests were stunned at the quality of the food.
Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Terra Madre Day Tidings
We will be posting menus, stories and images from the homes of Albertans who took up the Alberta Locavore Challenge in celebration of Terra Madre Day on December 10th.
Here is an account of Doug and Elna Edgar’s (of Edgar Farms) Terra Madre Day dinner…
Local product list:
Gruyere cheese from Sylvan Star Cheese
Local free range eggs from Holmes Hus Antiques and the Farm with the Good Food
Highwood Crossings Whole Wheat Flour
Hamilton’s Barley Flour
Eagle Creek Farms Fingerling Potatoes and Garlic
Edgar Farms hormone & antibiotic free naturally raised BBQ beef ribs
Home-grown Asparagus soup
Pesticide-free home-grown apples
Pesticide-free home -grown strawberries
Pesticide-free home grown onions
Pesticide-free home-grown sweet mamma squash
Pesticide-free home-grown carrots
Flavors of the Foothills barbeque sauce with Black Currents & honey
Chinook Honey Mead
Nixon’s Honey
Beck Farms Cabbage
Eagle Creek Farm Garlic & Fingerling Potatoes
The Menu
• Home made Barley Rolled Oats Sesame Crackers made with Hamilton’s Barley
Flour & Nixon’s Honey served with Eagle Creek Farms slow roasted garlic &
• Sylvan Star Gruyere Cheese
• Home made Edgar Farms Cream of Asparagus Soup with a choice of garnishes -
Blue Cheese, Cheddar Cheese & Chives
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