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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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Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local
December Open House at Sylvan Star Cheese!
Event Notice from Sylvan Star Cheese – CALGARY (November 23, 2009)
On Saturday December 5th 2009, Sylvan Star Cheese will have an ‘Open House’. We finished our new cheese plant and Farm-Direct-Market and we want to celebrate this with you. If you ever wanted to know how Champion Gouda Cheese is made, come in and check out our brand new production facility.Also be sure to visit out our new Farm-Direct-Market, with a wide selection of local and gourmet products.
Find out which high quality products your local community has to offer. As always, it is possible to try our award winning Gouda cut straight from the wheel, but also our Gruyere and Edam can be purchased here. We also offer many other cheeses such as Cheddar, Feta, Blue Cheese and several specialties. Besides cheese we sell many other local products like meats, eggs, crackers, soups, jams & jelly, chocolates, cookies and much more! Everyone is welcome to come in and tour our facility and try samples of our products at our Farm-Direct- Market.
The doors open at 10.00 am and close at 5.00 pm.
Please visit www.sylvanstarcheesefarm.ca for more information and directions.
Community, Events, Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local
Flavours of the Foothills Harvest Festival – August 22 & 23, 2009
Press Release: August 7, 2009… A local feast for the body, mind and soul.
This fourth annual event is now two days. Farms, galleries, artists and producers invite you to participate in a rural driving tour just south of Calgary.Come celebrate our local farms, food, art, landscape and history.
The Flavour of the Foothills members will be partnering with the growers and artists at five great locations, hosting special demonstrations, tours and activities.
Drive through the scenic foothills, get off the beaten track and discover the side roads.You will be able to taste local specialties – black currants, mead, turkey, bison, elk, honey ice cream and more.
Learn about our farming pioneers, how artists work their magic, how bees make honey and about cowboy culture.
For more details, including how to purchase an Advance Family Passport for only $45 (before August 15th), visit: www.flavoursofthefoothills.com
Contact Carmen Ditzler, Flavours of the Foothills Coordinator, for questions about the event: 403-931-4891 / cditzler@telus.net
Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local
Singing the praises of Highwood Crossing’s Organic Canola Oil
It’s great to see a treasured local product get some national press.
Read about how Tony and Penny Marshall’s (Highwood Crossing) organic canola oil has inspired chefs with its warm, bright complex flavours and is raising the profile of the oil itself: The Globe and Mail
Find out where to buy Highwood Crossing’s Canola Oil: Highwood Crossing
Growers and Farmgate Sales, Local, Slow Food Calgary
Alberta Farmers – Elna & Doug Edgar – featured in Slow Food Times
Slow Food Times is a Slow Food International newsletter highlighting inspiring developments throughout the global Slow Food community.
It was great to see Alberta’s farming community represented in a recent issue.
Here is the piece as it appeared:
Open Gate: Canadians Elna and Doug welcome students to their farm
Edgar Farms sixth-generation family property in central Alberta, Canada, is today managed by Elna and Doug Edgar who have launched an on-farm educational program, opening their fields to school groups during the harvest window in late May and June.
The tours, for students aged 10 and 11, offer hands-on experience in the various produce of the farm: dairy, beef and asparagus, bean and garden pea crops. Elna encourages the children to ‘touch, taste and feel’ and to pick the produce as she leads them around the property and teaches them about natural life cycles and seasonal consumption.
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