August 2009 Events

Slow Food Huron Valley Leadership Meeting
Friday, August 7, 7:30-9:00am, Zingerman's Next Door, Upstairs
Everyone is welcome to attend monthly leadership team meetings, and we encourage you to think about joining the team or leading a project or committee!

Date Change - Slow Food Huron Valley Leadership Meeting (replacing the September 4th meeting)
Friday, August 28, 7:30-9:00am, Zingerman's Next Door, Upstairs
Everyone is welcome to attend monthly leadership team meetings, and we encourage you to think about joining the team or leading a project or committee!

September 2009 Events

Announcing Slow Food Huron Valley's Local Food Action Hero Awards and Screening of Chris Bedford's new film: "Coming Home"
Thursday, September 3, 6:00-9:00pm, Michigan Theater
Kicking off this September's Local Food Month, Slow Food Huron Valley is thrilled to announce our Local Food Action Hero Awards, honoring people working toward community food security in our area. Please come to help celebrate the care, hard work and integrity of the people who are showing us the way to a secure and sustainable future of good food for all.

For this event at the beautiful Michigan Theater, we will also be serving some delicious food and gathering for an update on the many re-localization efforts in progress since our Local Food Summit meeting in January.

We are excited to host Chris Bedford's new film called "Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy" together with the filmmaker himself as part of our celebration and dialog. Please join us afterwards as well for a happy hour and after-party at the new Grange Kitchen and Bar at 118 W. Liberty Street!

This event is made possible with the generous support of Whole Foods Cranbrook - Slow Food Huron Valley was a recipient of their most recent Community Support Day!

Note: Space is limited, but advance tickets are on sale now, for $5 each, at Brown Paper Tickets.

Slow Food "Time for Lunch" Community Potluck Supporting Healthy Food in Schools
Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 12:00-2:00pm, Mitchell Elementary School (3550 Pittsview Dr., Ann Arbor) Come "Eat-In" at Mitchell Elementary School on Labor Day! A fun, family potluck and advocacy event.

Slow Food Huron Valley is organizing an "Eat-in" in Ann Arbor, and we invite you to join us. The potluck will occur on Labor Day (Monday, September 7, 2009) from 12:00 to 2:00 pm on the Mitchell Elementary School grounds in Ann Arbor (3550 Pittsview Dr.). The event is part of Slow Food USA's Time for Lunch campaign to support our schools in providing nutritious food in school lunches. Potlucks will take place across the country on Labor Day - the day before school starts here in Ann Arbor - to let our policymakers know that we want the Child Nutrition Act to make room for healthy, locally-sourced foods - and to support school gardens, too!
 
At the event we will have activities for kids, music, prizes and information about the bill and how parents (and kids, too!) can contact their representatives in Congress. The goal of the event is to raise awareness about the potential for change in the Child Nutrition Act’s reauthorization, and show our policymakers that there is support for more nutritious school lunches among parents and community members.

The Child Nutrition Act, which mandates the National School Lunch Program, is up for revision and reauthorization this year. As you may know, food service directors are limited in their options for sourcing local, fresh, whole foods by the required bidding process and low budget meal plan – they have about $1 to spend on food for each lunch.  Children are eating nutritionally inadequate meals as a result. Parents are growing concerned, Farm-to-School programs are gaining in popularity, and the time has come to make a change.
 
Contact: Deirdra Stockmann, Slow Food Huron Valley – deirdras@gmail.com

Second Annual HomeGrown Festival
Saturday, September 12, 5:00-10:00pm, Ann Arbor Farmers' Market, Kerrytown
Once again, celebrating our local food, farms, and community. More information at: http://homegrownfestival.org

Slow Food Huron Valley Book Club
Tuesday, September 15, 6:30pm, Contact Judy Heady for location and details: jheady@umich.edu
In addition to a (delicious!)potluck dinner, we will be reading and discussing "The Beginner's Guide to Preserving at Home," by Janet Chadwick, 2009, Storey Publishing. Then heading home to pull out the jam kettle and the pickle crocks!

October 2009 Events

Slow Food Huron Valley Visit to Al-Mar Orchard and Westwind Milling
Sunday, October 11, 9:00am-3:00pm (approximately), Meeting for rides TBD
We'll be visiting two of the best organic producers in our state - Al-Mar Orchard for organic apples and cider and Westwind Milling for organic flour and other grains. Details TBD.

Slow Food Huron Valley Book Club
Date and Time TBD. Contact Judy Heady for location and details: jheady@umich.edu
We haven't decided yet what we're reading. Let us know what you'd like to read!

Local Farmer's Markets

Download "CSA Farms and Markets" Brochure

Ann Arbor Farmer's Market, 315 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI

Saturdays 7am - 3pm AND Wednesdays 7am - 3pm, May - December (Saturdays only December - May)

Chelsea Farmer's Market, Park St, Chelsea, MI

Saturdays 8am - 12pm, May - October

Jewett Street Market, 1289 Jewett St., Ann Arbor, MI - New in 2007

Thursdays 5 - 7pm, beginning June 21, benefits Clonlara School

West Side Farmer's Market, in the parking lot of Zingerman's Roadhouse, corner of Jackson and Maple Rds., Ann Arbor, MI

Thursdays 3pm -7pm, June - September

Ypsilanti Farmer's Market, Historic Depot Town, 641 Rice St., Ypsilanti, MI

Saturdays 8am - 3pm, Wednesdays 10am - 2pm, May - November

Downtown Ypsilanti Farmer's Market, Key Bank parking lot, at Michigan Ave. and Hamilton, Ypsilanti, MI

Tuesdays 2 - 6pm, starting in May 2007

Michigan Farmer's Market Association

http://www.farmersmarkets.msu.edu