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

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

• Edgar Farms hormone & antibiotic free naturally raised BBQ beef ribs basted

with Flavors of the Foothills barbeque sauce with Black Currents & honey

• Slow roasted Eagle Creek Farms Fingerling Potatoes basted in Olive oil,

Rosemary & garlic

• Slow Roasted Edgar Farms pesticide free home grown Sweet Mamma Squash

drizzled with Olive Oil & Freshly Grated 3 year old Parmesan Cheese

purchased at Salone del Gusto Italy  Terra Madre 2008

• Slow Roasted Edgar Farms pesticide free home grown Beets drizzled with Olive Oil

• Cole Slaw home made with Beck Farms Red & Brovo Cabbages

• Edgar Farms pesticide free home grown onions

• Edgar Farms pesticide free home grown carrots and dressed with Mayonnaise & Edgar Farms home made Asparagus Relish

• Home baked Hearty Whole Grains Buns made from Highwood Crossings Whole Wheat

Flour Local free range eggs from Holmes Hus Antiques and the Farm with the Good Food

• Nixon’s Honey & Edgar Farms pesticide free home grown applesauce

• Chinook Arch Meadery buckaroo Buckwheat Mead Honey Wine

• Strawberry Shortcake – Edgar Farms pesticide free home grown Strawberries

served over  Barley Drop Biscuits home made from Hamilton’s Barley Flour,

Local free range eggs from Holmes Hus Antiques and the Farm with the Good

Food & Nixon’s Honey

Liz Mills specialty Home made Crabapple Liqueur

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