Yesterday the Kent Federation of agriculture held a brief presentation at Smith and Wilson wines in Blenheim to reveal the new “Buy Local! Buy Fresh!” website for Chatham-Kent
This is just an opportunity to celebrate what Chatham-Kent has to offer.
The website lets you check on what’s in season, find growers, learn out about events and try some great recipes. Hopefully this website will be maintainted better than others that have tried to do similar things in the past.
Spring is here but we’re still waiting for large harvests to appear. Some people who are growing veggies under glass say that they’ve managed some lettuce with all this sunshine we’ve had!
While we wait patiently we can still enjoy the other things that our region offers including local meat.
A great event is happening this weekend so if you’re looking for something to do…
Jamie Waldron is a butcher that used to live in our area and returns on occasion to share his knowledge. You can check out his blog here.
At the recent Bring Food Home conference, Sarah Elton was a panelist in the discussion on “How to Make Your Food Stories the Media’s First Course”. It was an interesting panel and it was great to get some new tips as well as learn that I’ve been doing a few things right.
Sarah’s blog is thelocavore.ca and on March 20, her book titled “Locavore” will be available.
This interesting article from Victoria, B.C. discusses the book and some locavore living. One great quote from the article:
The question at this point is not ‘Can we escape the city?’ but ‘Can we make the city a livable and sustainable place?
If you go to my Media page you can listen to some MP3s from the Bring Food Home conference. I’ll be adding more notes and MP3s this week.
Join butcher Jamie Waldron and chef Ted Dimoglou as they butcher a half Berkshire pig.
Sanson Estate Winery/From Field to Fork and the 255 Restaurant Group would like to invite you to an evening of porcine pleasures to take place at the Buddha Room, 255 Ouellette Avenue (downtown Windsor), on March 28th.
A five course dinner with wine pairings, matched by Sommelier Sarah Dewar, will follow the demonstration. The evening begins at 4pm.
Tickets are $100.00 (includes tax and gratuities).
For more information please call Chanoso’s at 519-254-8530 or visit their website at www.255downtown.com
There are a lot of food-related events coming up and there will be more as the warmer weather gets closer. Soon you’ll be able to go to a local food event every week. Bring on spring!
March 11 @ 7:00pm – Waterlife film screening in Erie Hall (UofW)
March 11@ 7:30pm – Guerilla Gardener presentation at St. Therese Church
March 25 – Micro FIT Solar Workshop for Farmers at Ridgetown College
Amherstburg council has approved the Amherstburg Farmer’s Market; look for it in June
Alberta’s agricultural sector offers this advice for farmers needing a website; funny that the article is so in depth and has many background steps that will be time consuming…wonder if they asked farmers why they didn’t have a website…most probably would have said, “No time.”
More food recalls in the U.S. this week. Are you ready to eat local yet??
Sorry for the hiatus! Things have been very busy and this week I was gearing up for the Bring Food Home conference.
The conference is great and I am learning a lot from the workshops. I have been taking notes and recording a lot of things so I will be posting all of that in case it interests anyone else.
The guest speaker last night was Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms. Joel is famous (or infamous) for his mention in Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and the films “Food Inc.” and “Fresh”. Joel has also written a few books inlcuding “Everything I Want to Do is Illegal”. I was lucky enough to hear Joel speak earlier in the day and, since I agree with many of his views on farming and politics, I find him very inspirational.
I will add more info as I get time to make updates.
Steve Green and I were lucky enough to meet Joel Salatin after his keynote speech at the Bring Food Home conference.
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