You're invited to join the Second Annual Slow Food Hamilton HOLIDAY ECO-SCHMOOZE on Wednesday December 17 at Tapestry Bistro 7-9 pm. Enjoy complimentary appetizers, holiday punch and a chance to meet and network with people who care about good food and a healthy planet!
It's an opportunity to share stories and strategies; successes and suggestions; mishaps and media contacts... or just chill out and enjoy relaxing in one of Hamilton's most unique dining establishments.
Members of eco-friendly organizations are all invited to attend, such as supporters of Slow Food Hamilton, Hamilton Eat Local, Environment Hamilton, Food Not Bombs and more, so please feel free to share the news with folks who like to live on the green side. :-) Meet us on the mezzanine level of The Tapestry Bistro, located at the amazing Staircase Theatre at 27 Dundurn Street North. Please RSVP if you can, but feel free to drop in! Space is slightly limited, so come early!
Tapestry Bistro Brings Artistry to Tapas (say that three times, fast!)
An Urban Locavore's Dream Comes True: It's not officially open until November 28, but my first dinner at Hamilton's new Tapestry Bistro won't be my last before the end of this month! Located in the heart of The Staircase Theatre complex, Chef Sam Robertson and owner Roger Abbiss' labour of love is a welcome addition to our city's burgeoning local-food-lovin' restaurant scene. Call ahead to reserve your table if you can: 905.481.2166. Tapestry Bistro serves local, seasonal and organic food at 27 Dundurn Street North.
More to come once I've made my first 'official' visit.
Let's Sit Down Together for "TABLELAND"
"TABLELAND": a provocative new film about our rich culinary landscape.
Presented by Hamilton Eat Local and Canadian Organic Growers (film screening)
Friday November 28, Doors open at 7pm
Tableland by Pixel One Productions is a new and thought-provoking film. It is a culinary expedition in search of the people, places and tastes of North American small-scale, sustainable food production. From the Orchards of the interior of BC, to the Napa Highlands, rural Quebec and everywhere in between, Tableland showcases the successful production of local and seasonal food from field to plate. Guest speakers for the event will include farmer Inge Crowther of Clover Roads Organic Farm, writer and urban poultry enthusiast Yuki Hayashi, and Karen Burson of Hamilton Eat Local and founder of The Bread & Roses Cafe.
Friday November 28, Doors open at 7pm
Tableland by Pixel One Productions is a new and thought-provoking film. It is a culinary expedition in search of the people, places and tastes of North American small-scale, sustainable food production. From the Orchards of the interior of BC, to the Napa Highlands, rural Quebec and everywhere in between, Tableland showcases the successful production of local and seasonal food from field to plate. Guest speakers for the event will include farmer Inge Crowther of Clover Roads Organic Farm, writer and urban poultry enthusiast Yuki Hayashi, and Karen Burson of Hamilton Eat Local and founder of The Bread & Roses Cafe.
The film will be shown at The Sky Dragon Centre at 27 King William Street in downtown Hamilton. Doors open for organic popcorn at 7 - film begins at 7:30pm – the speakers start at 9pm - Q & A and snacks starting at 9:30. Please make a $7 donation at the door (2nd floor).
Pear and Cranberry Spice Rolls -- Bring Home the Bakin'
Sure you could spend your hard-earned money buying those dry, tasteless supermarket cinnamon rolls. Problem: who knows where or when they were actually baked? ...But making these yourself is surprisingly easy and cost effective -- never mind the 100% improvement in taste! These ones were surprisingly quick and easy to make.
Don't tell anyone, but you can improve your favourite cinnamon roll recipe by taking advantage of the taste and texture of seasonal fruit. In this case, I roasted some firm pears (to soften them while intenisfying their flavour) but you can used canned or frozen fruit just as easily. Replacing at least half of the butter with a soft pear puree significantly reduces the fat count and the ingredient cost ... no one will know!
Queen’s Park Celebrates Ontario’s Greenbelt Harvest
Preserving agricultural lands means preserving our priceless Greenbelt -- well, not quite priceless. A report published this fall by The David Suzuki Foundation attests to the fact that the Greenbelt contributes $2.6 billion to our economy.(Toronto) – The Honourable Steve Peters, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, hosted the Queen’s Park Plate on October 29, where MPPs and Mayors along with farming and environmental advocates celebrated a Greenbelt-grown harvest. Top chefs, vintners and brew masters from various Greenbelt regions tempted taste buds with delicious local food and beverages.
“We support Greenbelt agriculture from the ground up,” says Burkhard Mausberg, President of the Greenbelt Foundation. “The Queen’s Park Plate celebrates the restaurants, wineries and breweries that use local food. It is a fantastic way to share the bounty of Ontario’s Greenbelt.” The Foundation is dedicated to supporting farming and has committed some $8 million to local food initiatives. Grantees and projects include everything from environmentally friendly farm practices, to establishing new markets to improving public awareness of and access to local food. The Foundation also launched a new website recently, Greenbeltfresh.ca, where finding a local farmers’ market is as easy as entering a postal code.
Possibility grows in the Greenbelt. Wrapping around the Golden Horseshoe, the Greenbelt is 1.8 million acres of potential to make Ontario, and the earth, a better place. Encompassing the Niagara Escarpment, the Oak Ridges Moraine, Rouge Park, hundreds of rural towns and villages and some 7,000 farms, it is home to some of the most valuable agricultural land in Canada.
With files from The Greenbelt Foundation.
Farmers' Markets Go Futuristic
Could this be an answer to the local food distribution dilemma?
Inspired by permaculture concepts, a new system for online farmers market for families, retailers and bulk buyers is now a reality. As the company's website declares:
Visit the site at locallygrown.net and see the video that sums it all up.
Inspired by permaculture concepts, a new system for online farmers market for families, retailers and bulk buyers is now a reality. As the company's website declares:
LocallyGrown.net gives the internet's advantages to
Farmers' Markets. Whether you manage or sell at a traditional farmers'
market with many other vendors or use a small email list to market produce
off your farm, LocallyGrown.net is for you!
The cost?
It's completely free to start your market, and from there I'll be asking for 3%
of your completed sales to cover my hosting costs and development time. I've
give you a paypal link or a mailing address to send payment, and you can pay on
your own schedule. You'll find it to be much cheaper than trying to host your
own online ordering system!
You can see what we’ve done with our market
at athens.locallygrown.net -- feel free to look around,
"tour" our member farms (They’re used to me doing everything for them, but I’m
walking them through uploading photos, etc.), and browse our product
listings. Some other markets have already begun putting their markets
together using what I have in place so far. Cumberland Farmers' Market in
Tennessee is the farthest along -- you can find their site at sewanee.locallygrown.net.
Feel free to create a site
for your market to get the ball rolling and see for yourself how it works.
Visit the site at locallygrown.net and see the video that sums it all up.
Mother Earth - Terra Madre: A Slow Food Celebration of The Harvest
SLOW FOOD Halton-Peel, SLOW FOOD Hamilton and Hamilton EAT LOCAL
present
Mother Earth - Terra Madre
SATURDAY OCTOBER 25th, 2008
7 – 11 PM
AT GREEN VENTURE’S ECOHOUSE - 22 VEEVERS DRIVE
A food gathering celebrating our local bounty of Mother Earth, featuring gardener, seed saver, speaker and television personality, KEN PARKER Jazz guitarist Nick Bastian will provide dinner music.
Ken is the co-founder of Sweet Grass Gardens, the first Native North American nursery dedicated to native plants. Ken and Linda Parker were part of the Canadian Delegation to Terra Madre 2006 in Turin, Italy, proudly representing the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation community. This amazing experience organized by Slow Food International brought together almost 9,000 people with food producers from 1,583 food communities and 150 nations. Terra Madre is celebrated in Turin, Italy every two years and our celebration coincides with Terra Madre 2008, which runs from October 24-27.
OUR “BOUNTIFUL BASE” MENU
Potato Onion Crunch
BBQ Grilled Free-Range Chicken Wings
Poached Pears with Cinnamon Caramel Sauce
Apple-Cranberry Ginger Crisp
Tea and coffee
Add to this the delicious dishes from our home kitchens that make our potluck events so special!
$25.00 per person OR $10.00 per person bringing a potluck dish for 6!
present
Mother Earth - Terra Madre
SATURDAY OCTOBER 25th, 2008
7 – 11 PM
AT GREEN VENTURE’S ECOHOUSE - 22 VEEVERS DRIVE
A food gathering celebrating our local bounty of Mother Earth, featuring gardener, seed saver, speaker and television personality, KEN PARKER Jazz guitarist Nick Bastian will provide dinner music.
Ken is the co-founder of Sweet Grass Gardens, the first Native North American nursery dedicated to native plants. Ken and Linda Parker were part of the Canadian Delegation to Terra Madre 2006 in Turin, Italy, proudly representing the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation community. This amazing experience organized by Slow Food International brought together almost 9,000 people with food producers from 1,583 food communities and 150 nations. Terra Madre is celebrated in Turin, Italy every two years and our celebration coincides with Terra Madre 2008, which runs from October 24-27.
OUR “BOUNTIFUL BASE” MENU
Potato Onion Crunch
BBQ Grilled Free-Range Chicken Wings
Poached Pears with Cinnamon Caramel Sauce
Apple-Cranberry Ginger Crisp
Tea and coffee
Add to this the delicious dishes from our home kitchens that make our potluck events so special!
$25.00 per person OR $10.00 per person bringing a potluck dish for 6!
***Please RSVP to kburson.eatlocal@environmenthamilton.org – SEATING IS LIMITED***
Donations of non-perishable foods will be accepted for
Hamilton Food Share
Donations of non-perishable foods will be accepted for
Hamilton Food Share
photo by *karen b
What a Wonderful World Food Day!
Clear crisp October air, fresh locally grown organic produce, apple cider, smiles on faces young and old. If you weren't there you should have been! If you were there, then thanks for your support! We hope to see you at the next Hamilton Eat Local Mid-Week Morning Market... for now, we hope you'll enjoy the slide show. photos by *karen bA Westdale Village World Food Day Farm Market - this Thursday only!
Join us for a one-day World Food Day Farm Market presented by Hamilton Eat Local, Slow Food Hamilton & My Dog Joe
Thursday October 16th, 2007 - 9am to NOON in the parking lot near 1020 King Street West, rain or shine!
Visit My Dog Joe for:
· Home-made Muffins, Soup and More
· Superb-tasting Organic/Fair Trade Teas, Coffees, Espresso and Cold Drinks
Live Acoustic Music by riot nrrd 10–11 am
Fantastic Fall Farmers’ Market:
ManoRun Farm, Carluke Orchards, Bestow Bakery & Farmer Joanne Feddes
Field fresh flowers, pumpkins, cider, loads of organic potatoes and more!
Food Donations will be accepted for Hamilton Food Share, so see you there!
The IYP Mission: Celebration of the International Year of the Potato (IYP) will raise awareness of the importance of the potato - and of agriculture in general - in addressing issues of global concern, including hunger, poverty and threats to the environment.
Thursday October 16th, 2007 - 9am to NOON in the parking lot near 1020 King Street West, rain or shine!
Visit My Dog Joe for:
· Home-made Muffins, Soup and More
· Superb-tasting Organic/Fair Trade Teas, Coffees, Espresso and Cold Drinks
Live Acoustic Music by riot nrrd 10–11 am
Fantastic Fall Farmers’ Market:
ManoRun Farm, Carluke Orchards, Bestow Bakery & Farmer Joanne Feddes
Field fresh flowers, pumpkins, cider, loads of organic potatoes and more!
Food Donations will be accepted for Hamilton Food Share, so see you there!
The IYP Mission: Celebration of the International Year of the Potato (IYP) will raise awareness of the importance of the potato - and of agriculture in general - in addressing issues of global concern, including hunger, poverty and threats to the environment.
Hamilton Eat Local appears on CH Morning Live at Lindley's Farm!
We're not the only ones who find the "Eat Local" Logo Five Acre Corn Maze to be truly amazing... CH Morning Live sent a correspondent to talk to farmer Joe Lindley about all the fun going on at his family farm this season, and naturally Karen and Juby just had to be there!photos by *karen b
Thanks, Joe, we had a great visit. You'll find Lindley's Farm & Market at 900 Fiddler's Green Road, Ancaster, Ontario 905-648-4212 and there's information at http://www.lindleyfarm.com/. They're open daily from September 20 - October 31. "Solve the puzzle... win a prize".If you're running a special event on your farm and you'd like us to know about it, don't hesitate to contact Karen Burson (Project Manager) at kburson.eatlocal@environmenthamilton.org or Juby Lee (Communications Manager) at jlee.eatlocal@environmenthamilton.org .
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