We have been very busy planning and connecting with fellow organizations in our area on various projects. Our committee has been very devoted to organizing activity that will need your support so we will keep you informed and post on our website.
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Looking Back
“Good Food, Good Beer and the Rest is History” was a huge success thanks to the participating restaurants, breweries, and more importantly the collaboration of Farm to City, Bob Pierson and his team. We have listed the participating team of restaurants and breweries on our website so you can view them and more importantly support them in return for the great support they showed us.
Looking Ahead: Terra Madre & Salone del Gusto
We are working with three groups of delegates who will be representing us at the Slow Food International Terra Madre conference this year, being held in Torino, Italy; PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture), Urbane Development, and Fair Food. For those of you interested in more information on Terra Madre or the International Food & Wine exhibition being held downstairs from the conference and open to the public Salone del Gusto, please visit the International Slow Food website www.slowfood.com for more details or their respective websites; www.salonedelgusto.it & www.terramadre.info. If you are planning on going, please shoot us an e-mail so we can meet up in Italy. This will be my third time attending Salone del Gusto and it never ceases to amaze and delight the mind and the senses.
Looking Ahead: Events this weekend and next week
- Here are a few events that we want to share with you that can use our support:
- The Heart of Haiti A Festival of Food, Art & Music held at the The Spring Mill Café,
- 164 Barren Hill Rd, Conshohocken, PA 19428
- this Sunday, August 22nd
- A Program in Two Parts: Choose one or both!
PART 1 - 3-6 pm - French-Creole food, with crawfish extravaganza Live music & art. Price $20 a person, including tax & gratuities, BYOB
PART 2 - 6:30 pm, Formal dinner with Musical Guest Doc Gibbs and friends
Menu: Banan Peze, Diri ak Pwa, Mayi Moulin, Pikliz, Griots, Hatian Boeuf Stew, Diri Ole
$35 a person, plus tax & gratuities, BYOB
RSVP: (610) 828-2550
20% of proceeds to go to Haitian Relief Fund
- Join Fair Food for their 10th annual Farm Tour Series as we tour the countryside, visit local farms and connect with family farmers to learn more about our unique food system.
- August 23, 2010
MEMBER/BUYER TOUR, LANCASTER CO. Smucker’s Meat, Maple Valley Organics, & Meadow Run Farm. This is a private tour with a limited number of spaces. - September 19, 2010
URBAN FARM BIKE TOUR, Starting at Greensgrow and ending with a celebration at Weaver’s Way Farm we will travel to … Kensington, S. Philly, W. Philly, N. Philly, Germantown, Roxborough & Mt. Airy! - For more info, please contact: christina@fairfoodphilly.org or 215-386-5211 ext 106
- August 23, 2010
- The Heart of Haiti A Festival of Food, Art & Music held at the The Spring Mill Café,
- Join us for a Rum tasting and presentation being held at World Café Live, next Thursday, August 26th, from 6pm to 8pm, tickets are $20 and can be purchased by going online to www.worldcafelive.com and going to the schedule section. Rum is produced from sugar cane a major commodity in colonial time in Europe that needed slaves to work the fields, trading company ships to carry it, and pirates to steal it. Our tasting will include four rums, finger foods, and a video presentation hosted by Joe Brandolo on the process of making rum. The rums include; Banks is made from a combination of pot stilled, sugar cane sourced from four islands, and aged white rum. Brugal Anejo started five generations ago in the Dominican Republic is a classic amber colored dark rum aged in cask for up to 5 years. Appleton Estate 12 Year Old produced at their Estate sugar plantation in a valley located in the heart of Jamaica and aged in cask for a minimum of 12 years. Ron Matusalem Gran Reserve was originally produced in Cuba, taking their recipe to the Dominican Republic, this offering is 15 Year Old Solera style aged rum.
Looking Ahead: Events and volunteer programs
We are working on many projects some social, some volunteer, hopefully all educational including a “Night in Venice” at Cichetteria19 on October 11th, featuring the local wines of Penns Woods Winery. We are also working on several volunteer programs with Urban Nutrition Initiative and will be looking for members who want to devote their time to working with school children on after school food education programs. More information to follow very soon on this and other programs we are working on for the fall.
A summer message from Joe
We hope that you, like we, are enjoying a bountiful harvest from your backyard garden. If not, we kindly ask that you support your local farmers market. To find markets in your area check out farmtocity.org or localharvest.org.
I would like to share with you someone who is doing great work in Milwaukee named Will Allen. Will is the CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center. A former professional basketball player, Will is widely considered the leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture. He believes that all people – regardless of their economic circumstances – should have access to fresh, safe, affordable and nutritious foods at all times.
Using methods he has developed over a lifetime, Allen trains community members to become community farmers, assuring them a secure source of good food without regard to political or economic forces. I recommend that you take a moment to go to Growing Power’s website www.growingpower.org and see what can be done by people dedicated to their communities and willing to work with what mother earth provides to all of us.
Enjoy the summertime,
Joe Brandolo
