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Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
May-June 2012 Foodshed Rural Routes Road Trip
sponsored by city palate
You know your doctor, you know your lawyer, you know your accountant….Who’s your farmer?
Writer, chef, poet, and food advocate dee Hobsbawn-Smith takes to the road with this provocative question. Visit the farmers close to you and learn more about
Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet, the intimate guide to Alberta’s sustainable food scene.
Check out the locations and dates of all the stops on the Rural Routes Road Trip:
Foodshed_AlbertaTour
Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Local 101, 201…A Festival of Films and a Celebration of the Local Environment, Local Food and the Farmers who Produce it
Local 101: Ingredients for a Sustainable Culture
April 29th and 30th- The Uptown, 612- 8th Ave. S.W.
Local 201: Alberta Small Farms Summit
May 1st- The University of Calgary, ICT Building -CLICK FOR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS MAP
TICKETS:
Friday Evening: $20, $10 for students ( ID must be presented) and low income
Saturday Day Pass: $50 for Slow Food Members, $60 for non-yet-members, $30 for students and low-income.
*25% Calgary Dollars accepted
All sessions are FREE for CHILDREN 12 & under
Tickets available at Sunnyside Natural Market, 338, 10th St. N.W. and Forage/Infuse Catering, 3508, 19th St. S.W.
NOTE: Tickets will also be available at the door for Friday ($25), Saturday afternoon ($45) and Saturday evening ($25)
*DOOR PRIZES*
Raw Bar at Hotel Arts – $100 Gift Certificate
Janice Beaton Fine Cheese – $100 Gift Certificate
FARM – $125 Gift Certificate
River Café – 2 x $125 Gift Certificate
Boxwood – 5 x $20 Gift Certificate
LOCAL 101: Friday Schedule April 29th @ The Uptown
6:00PM- Doors open
6:30 PM-Welcoming Remarks- Kris Vester, President, Slow Food Calgary
6:35 PM- Local 101 History- Wade Sirois, Founder of Local 101/201, local food chef
6:45 PM- Opening Keynote: Thomas F. Pawlick, (Author, ‘The War on the Countryside’ and ‘The End of Food’)
7:00 PM- Film: DIRT (running time 80. mins)
LOCAL 101: Saturday Schedule April 30th @ The Uptown
9:00 AM- Community Walk- Interested participants meeting at Higher Ground on Kensington Rd., walking through Sunnyside and checking out alternative energy systems, community garden, pesticide free park, other interesting sites, continuing on through downtown and looking at “green” architectural elements in some downtown commercial buildings, ending at the Uptown with time to stop for lunch before things get rolling for the afternoon. (No charge)
12:00 PM- Doors open.
12:30 PM- Talk: Water- Speaker, Julia Ko, Water Matters
12:45 PM- Film: ‘Burning Water’ (Running time, 43 mins.)
1:30 PM- 15 min. break
1:45 PM- Talk: Pollinators- Speaker, Eliese Watson
2:00 PM- Film: ‘Vanishing of the Bees’. (Running time, 90 mins.)
3:30 PM- 15 min. break
3:45 PM- The Foundations of Food Panel discussion: Soil, Water, Pollinators, Nutrition and Economics
4:30 PM- Talk and video presentation: Nutrition, Weston Price Foundation, Calgary Chapter.
5:00- 6:00 PM- Dinner break (Local food establishments will be selling local food)
6: 15 PM- Local Food Panel discussion: John Wright (Thomson Small Farm), Paul Hughes (Urban Agriculture), Tim Axe (Terra Caratatis Patris Farm), Wade Sirois (Chef, Infuse/ Forage).
7:00 PM- Film: ‘The Economics of Happiness’. Running time, approx. 90 mins.)
8:30 PM- Closing Keynote: Hugo Bonjean, (Author, ‘Seed of Germination or Termination’ and ‘A People’s Power’
SOCIAL GATHERING: Attendees are invited to congregate in the Marquis Room at The Uptown for drinks and networking!
LOCAL 201: Sunday May 1st Schedule @ The University of Calgary, ICT Building
10:00 AM- Slow Food Calgary AGM for Slow Food Members- ICT room 122, University of Calgary
or
10:00 AM- Sustainable Energy Workshop -Sponsored by Arusha Centre- ICT room 114, University of Calgary
11:30 AM- Light lunch – and producer information available all day -Food supplied by Sunnyside Market – ICT room 116, University of Calgary
12:30 PM- Local 201: Alberta Small Farms Summit – ICT room 102 (theatre), University of Calgary
Breakout sessions to follow in ICT room 121, University of Calgary
HEAR about the local history of agricultural fairs and exhibitions!
ASK about the implications of the incoming provincial land use framework!
BRING your farm bio!
WIN the Silver Buffalo!
MEET the good folks of ‘FarmOn’!
LEARN about the ‘Expand/Explore Local’ program!
SPEAK in a panel discussion!
“DON’T FARM ALONE! Join other local “small” producers at the Summit. Share info and insight on issues ranging from legislation and current best practices to marketing options. All producers planning to attend are asked to bring a current bio to participate in a peer review process and the opportunity to take home the Silver Buffalo award. Admission to the Summit is free but participants are asked to confirm attendance by emailing farmsmall@gmail.com. The Summit will explore where we (as small farmers) are coming from, where and who we are and where we’re going. Please continue to check this website for additional details of presenters and panel participants. Questions or concerns can also be forwarded to farmsmall@gmail.com.”
Community, Events, Global, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Slow Food Calgary
Café Divine in Okotoks hosts a Terra Madre Dinner on International Terra Madre Day
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN GOOD, CLEAN AND FAIR FOOD?
Join DIVINE in celebrating Terra Madre Day as the restaurant and its staff honour local producers from Southern Alberta and share their stories.
Guests will enjoy a locally-inspired 4-course dinner and will have the opportunity to hear local producers talk about growing and raising food in Southern Alberta.
WHEN: Friday December 10th @ 6 p.m.
WHERE: Café Divine in Okotoks
COST:$105 per person
RESERVATIONS: Call Divine @ 403-938-0000
From the proceeds of the evening, DIVINE will be donating money to sustainable food practices.
International Terra Madre Day is December 10th.
The date was established last year by Slow Food International. It is an annual opportunity to celebrate good, clean and fair locally grown and raised food and to raise funds for the cultivation of good food practices.
For more information, visit:
Slow Food Terra Madre Day
Community, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary, The Alberta Snail Trail Passport
Get the 2010 Alberta Snail Trail – your guide to good, clean and fair local food
It’s out and despite the title, is moving fast!
If you would like a copy of this second edition of the Alberta Snail Trail, we will send one to you (by snail mail of course).
Just send us $2.00 and your address:
Slow Food Calgary
P.O. Box 75092
Cambrian RPO
Calgary, AB
T2K 6J8
OR Come to a Slow Food Calgary event.
We will be handing out this latest edition of the Alberta Snail Trail
for FREE while supplies last.
Community, Global, Growers and Farmgate Sales
Island Chefs Encourage Field to Fork Dining
Victoria, BC is well known for its love and support of local food and an extension of this is the Island Chefs Collaborative (ICC) Farm Market. Now in its fourth year, the popular downtown market will return to Bastion Square on June 3, 2009.
The ICC identified a need in downtown Victoria for urban residents and visitors to taste some of the Island’s finest produce with local, primarily organic fruits and vegetables for sale at farmgate prices. What began as a small two table market has quickly grown to represent over 100 local farmers and producers.
Each week, ICC chefs will be on hand at the market to provide recipes, cooking tips, and explanations of the more exotic items for sale. The two-day ICC Farm Market will be held every Thursday and Friday through September, from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
The ICC aims to increase public consumption of Island-grown produce and to decrease reliance on imported foods. Sales from the market will help provide income for local farmers; many of whom have come through the Island Chefs Collaborative funding program. For more information visit : www.iccbc.ca
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, 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, 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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