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Tag: local food

  • Wednesday, June 26, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Going Local Without Going Crazy: 25 Tips to Increase Your Local Footprint

    Julie Shanks will help us understand how to bring healthy, local foods into your kitchen and stay on budget too, in this Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop on Wednesday, June 26, beginning at 6 at Elm Bank in Wellesley.  Julia has a passion for and an expertise in locavorism, and is eager to share easy ways we can all make change that connect us to the food and farmers in our own communities. The world is changing as more people are supporting local, small businesses and returning to homemade food to avoid the unsavory health and social consequences associated with processed foods. Join Julia for a discussion, Q & A, complete with recipes, ideas, and a healthy dose of delicious fun. Julia is the co-author of The Farmers Kitchen: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying your CSA and Farmers’ Markets Foods. Their book has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Taste of the Seacoast, and Growing for Market, and was cited as a reference in Michelle Obama’s American Grown.

    Cost – $20.00 for members, $25.00 for non-members.  Sign up at www.masshort.org.

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  • Saturday, October 2, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm – Boston Local Food Festival

    Come to the Boston Children’s Museum, Congress Street, on Saturday, October 2, from 9 am – 6 pm, for the first annual Boston Local Food Festival, put on by the Sustainable Business Network, with support from the USDA in combination with the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. This festival will be an outdoor autumn celebration of the many virtues of locally grown and produced food. Held in Boston overlooking the historic Boston Harbor, it will showcase and support a cornucopia of food grown and produced in and around greater Boston and stretching across Massachusetts into other New England states. The festival will also provide opportunities for local food- related businesses, initiatives and nonprofits to share their products, services and programs.  Festival attendees will be able to eat great-tasting local food, learn the benefits of fresh, sustainably grown/produced food, take home food from farmers and vendors, and on top of all this, have a lot of fun. For more information log on to www.sbnboston.org.  (image courtesy of www.treehugger.com)

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  • Saturday, February 6, 5:00 – 9:00 pm – Earth Dinner

    The First Parish Church, 3 Church Street in Cambridge will host an Earth Dinner potluck on Saturday, February 6, from 5 – 9 pm, which will feature local foods, with a Slow Foods Boston representative, local farmers, and food producers discussing the local food movement.  For more information, log on to www.slowfoodboston.com, or call the church at 617-876-7772.

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  • Sunday, November 22, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – South Shore’s Harvest Festival

    Join USA Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for the Edible South Shore’s Farmers Market on Sunday, November 22 from 11 am – 3 pm.  There is no better way to cook your Thanksgiving dinner than by using locally grown fresh produce and foods.  Vendors will offer fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, eggs, cut flowers and plants.  Local food crafters (their word – ah, the evolution of the English language) will bring cheeses, gelato, yogurt, jams, sauces, honey, grain side dishes, breads, baked goodies and other handmade sundries, such as soaps and herbal infusions.

    For directions and more information please call Diana Scolponeti at 508-224-4044 or email events@cmrevents.com.

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  • Thursday, November 2, 7:00 pm – From the Farm to Your Plate

    The Museum of Science will sponsor a lecture on Thursday, November 12 beginning at 7 pm entitled From the Farm to Your Plate.  What we eat and drink has significant ecological consequences.  Where does our food come from and how does it get to us?  What are “food miles”?  Learn how the production, packaging, and transportation of food affect our environment.  Consider how food is produced and transported in other countries and what we can do to reduce the environmental impact of food packaging and consumption on the local and national level.  Free.  For more information, call 617-589-4250, or email forumrsvp@mos.org.

  • Saturday, October 24, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Greater Boston Food Bank Open House Celebration

    Do you know the  Food Bank feeds 83,000 people each week? Come to the open house on Saturday, October 24, from 10 – 2, and learn, get involved, and get inspired.  The event will take place at the Yawkey Distribution Center of the Greater Boston Food Bank, 70 South Bay Avenue in Boston.

    To achieve its mission, The Food Bank feeds more than 320,000 people annually in nine counties in eastern Massachusetts. They’re poor to middle-class people who can’t make ends meet. They’re our friends, neighbors, and colleagues. The Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and one of the largest food banks in the country. It distributes more than 30 million pounds of food and grocery products annually to a network of nearly 600 member hunger-relief agencies. It is a trusted and efficient resource for these local food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless and residential shelters, youth programs, senior centers, and day-care centers, providing the food they need to feed the hungry.

    Bring a non-perishable item to participate in their food drive.  There will be limited complimentary parking on site.  For directions, and to let the good folks who work there know you’re coming, log on to www.gbfb.org/openhouse/.

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  • Tuesday, November 3, 6:00 pm – Feast or Pharmacy? Meeting Micronutrient Needs with Local Food

    Ellen Messer, Visiting Professor of Gastronomy at Boston University, will present a free lecture on Tuesday, November 3 at 6 pm, entitled “Feast or Pharmacy? Meeting Micronutrient Needs with Local Foods.”  The lecture will take place at 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 117, and is free and open to the public, although Boston University asks that you call to reserve a space – 617-353-9852.   Dr.  Messer is an anthropologist and specialist in human rights, food security, and religion, with a special interest in religion and development. She has taught Religion and Development and, in a cross-cultural approach, Nutrition and Food Security, at Brandeis University. The talk is part of BU’s ongoing MLA in Gastronomy Lecture Series in Food Studies.  More information on all the lectures can be found at www.bu.edu/foodandwine.

  • Saturday, October 3, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – Westport Rivers Harvest Festival

    Saturday, October 3, from 11 – 5 at Westport Rivers Winery, 417 Hixbridge Road in Westport, Massachusetts, enjoy this year’s Harvest Festival. Rain or Shine, Admission is Free. Live Music with: Putnam Murdock 11-1pm.  Grape Stomp with Co-Owner/ Vineyard Manager Rob Russell at 1pm.  Face Painting for Kids with Gerri Rodrigues 12-3pm. Live Music with: The Bluegrass Invitation Band 2-4pm. Walking Vineyard Tours at 1pm & 3pm. Local Painter Betsey MacDonald, with works on display in the Russell Gallery. Artist meet and greet from 3-5pm. Golden Touch Farm, Alpaca petting pen. Dartmouth Orchards, sampling and selling; apples, mulled cider, jam, jelly, candy apples, apple butter, honey, haystacks, cornstalks, pumpkins, gourds, etc… Shy Brothers Farm, sampling and selling; locally made artisan cheeses from Paradise Hill Farm & Friends, fresh off the local Farmer’s Market circuit will be on hand with products and produce for sale. Gallo Family Foods, sampling and selling; locally made biscotti. Just Beer Inc. will offer samples of their brand new farm fresh brews.  If you would like to purchase anything from our local farmers while browsing their stands please do so, we hope to encourage your support of local food and agriculture. For a fee there will be beer and wine available by the glass and light fun food options available from Green Gal Catering. Discounted wine tastings will be taking place all day long and includes an etched logo wine glass. For more information please call us at 508-636-3423 ext.2 or email retail@westportrivers.com.  Westport Rivers will also  release one of the most sought after wines to the general public! Westport Rivers 2008 Riesling will be available for purchase in the Company Store. This limited release wine sells out consistently year in and year out and this vintage will be no different. This clean, crisp, off dry Riesling is out just in time for autumn and may not last until Thanksgiving. They held off on releasing this limited supply of 2008 Riesling and for months, and only made it available to Wine Club members because of the limited quantity on hand. They have satisfied their obligations to their Wine Club members and the retailers who support them by carrying the Riesling out in the marketplace. What they have left will go out on display and be available for sale at this HARVESTFEST event. So if not for the music, food, and family fun please do come down to visit this coming Sat. Oct. 3rd to get your case of 2008 Riesling while you can.

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  • Thursday, August 20, 5:30 pm – From Farm to Table: An Inspired Dinner at Tower Hill Botanic Garden

    Under the setting sun over Wachusett Reservoir, the culinary team of Pepper’s will offer an inspired evening featuring an enticing menu created in the tradition of the Slow Food Movement, with the best local raised or produced ingredients from area farms.  Proceeds from the evening support Tower Hill Botanic Garden.  Crystal Brook Farm from Sterling provides fresh goat cheese for the dessert.  The chefs also collaborate with Keown Farm of Sutton, Massachusetts and with John Lee from Allandale Farm in Brookline, Massachusetts, creating foods made from the best that nature has to offer.  John Trexler, Executive Director, will offer a spirited tour of Tower Hill Botanic Garden and dinner will follow.  The date is Thursday, August 20, beginning at 5:30 pm.  Members of Tower Hill – $100, $125 non-members.  Register on line at www.towerhillbg.org.  You may also call 508-869-6111, ext. 124 to register by phone, or email registrar@towerhillbg.org.

    The Menu

    Heirloom Tomato, Watermelon & Cucumber Stacked Salad

    Roasted Assorted Variety of Baby Fingerling Potatoes

    Pan-Seared Local Striped Bass with Lobster Sauce and Stuffed Squash Blossoms

    Braised Short Ribs of Local Beef with Organic Mixed Mushrooms

    Selection of Artisan Breads

    Goat Cheese Cheesecake with lemongrass-scented stone fruits