10/8 Deadline for Food Fun! and more October news
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Slow Food Spokane River Hall
Oct 6, 2010, 4:37:54 PM10/6/10
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Two upcoming events need your attention by this Friday, 10/8 at 5pm.
This Sunday, 10/10/10 (deadline to sign up is this Friday, 10/8!)
Farm Tour & Lunch Potluck for Climate Solutions
10:30am - 2pm
Join The Whole Plate and community members in combining a very local farm tour with one of the over 6,100 international events on 10.10.10 to promote climate solutions. Spokane and Spokane Valley combined have 3 different events to participate in 350.org's Global Work Party to draw attention and ACTION to making real changes to reverse the climate crisis.
Our group will meet at Lincoln Heights, where everyone will bike or carpool (4.25 miles) to Heron Pond Farms. We'll meet the goats, see how they make goat cheese, talk about food production close to town and enjoy a potluck from everyone's contributions (please try to include at least one local ingredient in your dish!) and try a little of their goat cheese!
$5.00 to sign up (limit 40ppl) - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/132723
Senator Cantwell was invited to attend with the support of our 350.org partners. Though she cannot join us, she did want to share this with all who support climate solutions...
“Congratulations and thank you for participating in what we hope is the largest assemblage of carbon pollution cutting events our planet has ever seen,” said U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA). “We need your voices now more than ever to overcome the special-interest polluters and science-denying politicians who are blocking our urgently needed transition to a clean energy future. Our dangerous overdependence on fossil fuels threatens the ecosystems we depend on and hinders efforts to build new growth industries that can support millions of high-wage, ‘green-collar’ jobs while providing more affordable energy choices. I believe setting a simple, fair, and transparent price on carbon is the key to tackling global warming and realizing the promise of a clean energy future. That’s why I so appreciate Bill McKibben’s support of the bipartisan CLEAR Act climate legislation that I proposed with my colleague from Maine, Senator Susan Collins.”
Next Sunday, 10/17/10
Kraut Making Workshop with Sun People Dry Goods
11am-2pm, 222 N. Havana (WSU Extension)
Slow Food Spokane River and Sun People Dry Goods bring in Master Food Preservers to lead a DIY class to walk people through the fun and reward of making your own sauerkraut!
$10.00 - with your own min. gallon size jar or crock
$20.00 - to order a 1 gallon jar with the class registration through Sun People Dry Goods (opening in Spokane late 2010)
deadline for the $20.00 option is October 8th!
More details on the attached flyer - feel free to circulate widely!
Additional opportunities for October food & farm fun...
Area farmers' markets run through October, and my goodness it is a beautiful walk of food and people, AND the food is abundant!
Make a date on your calendar to shop local, at least one day a week for the remainder of October and support our region's committed farmers!
10/16/10 - One World Cafe & participating restaurants host the:
Everybody Eats World Food Day Challenge
Spokane Restaurants will be like One World for a day. They will offer one complimentary item or meal.
Europa, The Flying Pig and Fresh Abundance are just some of the additional participants - contact Janice if your restaurant can step up too - 509-768-9479
That day to do something a little different, One World Cafe will have our entire lunch menu as our complimentary offering! Now that's a real
commitment to making good, healthy, local, organic food available to all in our community!
Donations will be accepted and encouraged to say thank you for spearheading such bold moves to help those in need.
Check their website for more details - www.oneworldspokane.com
10.20.10
EatwithyourEyes Book Discussion - Plenty
7-8:30pm, 44 W. Main, Main Market Co-op
There are lots of ways to learn more about food and choices you feel good making. The Whole Plate hosts 'Eat with your Eyes,' a series of book discussion groups, films and farm tours, to offer our community a variety of locations and experiences to explore local, sustainable, organic, (you name the modifier) FOOD!
Join us in October with a celebration of National Co-op Month!
In partnership with Main Market Co-op, we'll discuss the book Plenty, by Alisa Smith & J.B. MacKinnon (sneak preview the book here)
Free to attend, but please email wholepl...@gmail.com by 10/18/10 to RSVP, so we can prepare for the group size!
More details on the attached flyer - feel free to circulate widely!
If you're a Facebook user, sign up for the Slow Food Spokane River page.
Also, there's a new resource to find info about local, sustainable food. Look for The Whole Plate in the search box.
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