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Due to the weather forecast, Dinner with the Cows, scheduled for tonight — Saturday, August 29—at Sunnyfield Farm is canceled. The events committee will meet to plan a substitute event, so we’ll keep you posted.
Sunnyfield Farm really needs a generator. The ice storm situation was an extreme hardship for Dan and Ruth. Not only did they have to milk all the cows by hand, they spent most of those days carrying water to the 40 cows and fowl from quite a distance…..
Please consider making a donation in lieu of your dinner tickets. Checks can be sent to Slow Food Monadnock, 121 East Road, Greenfield, NH made out to Sunnyfield Farm(memo post:generator fund) or be given directly to Dan and Ruth.
If you have any fundraising ideas please share with me!! ~ Aasta
Meryl Streep was a guest on Steven Colbert’s show on August 6, 2009, promoting her tour de force reincarnation of Julia Child in the movie “Julie & Julia.” Just wonderful!
Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.
Slow Food is an international member-supported, volunteer-based organization that has developed many structural entities to help realize its projects. Slow Food Monadnock is the local chapter serving the Monadnock region of New Hampshire.
Location: Sunnyfield Farm, Route 136, Peterborough, NH
Description: This extraordinary event will be held under a tent in one of the farm fields, surrounded by the Sunnyfield Cows. The meats, veggies, milk, cream eggs to be served will be Sunnyfield Farm’s own. This will be a fusion feast: Monadnock region meets Near East… Menu to follow!
Start Time: 5:00pm
Date: August 22, 2009 (rain date: August 29th)
Join us for a sumptuous family style feast!
This extraordinary event will be held under a tent in one of the farm fields, surrounded by the Sunnyfield Cows. The meats, veggies, milk, cream eggs to be served will be Sunnyfield Farm’s own.
A fusion feast:
- Monadnock Region meets Near East
- Beef & Lamb Kabobs
- Roasted Vegetables
- Tabbouleh
- Cous Cous
- Salads made with local greens & potatoes & vegetables
- A selection of vegetarian dishes &
- scrumptious desserts with fresh from the farm cream
- BYOB
Tickets: Adults $25
Children under 6 free
Children 6 to 12 half price
Seating is Limited!
Reserve now by calling Aasta at 547-2301
Special Guest Author David Gumpert will discuss his soon-to-be-published book, “The Raw Milk Revolution”
Dan and Ruth Holmes will also talk to us about
”Life on the Farm”
This event will benefit Sunnyfield Farm’s generator fund.
Bring your friends and family!!
Be well, go slow!!
Link out: Click here
Description: The Argentinean network meets to define a common national strategy
Start Time: 12:00pm
Date: December 10, 2009
Location: Enfield Shaker Museum site, Enfield, NH to benefit the museum
Link out: Click here
Description: Daylong program featuring keynote speaker Sandra Oliver speaking on “Every Dish Has a Past: Doing a Recipe’s Genealogy.” Oliver is the editor of Food History News and the author of “Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and their Food at Sea.”
Also speaking will be Anne Mendelson discussing with a panel, “Back to the Future with Small Scale Dairy Farming.” Mendelson, of New York City, is the author of the recently published “Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages” and “Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking.”
Start Time: 8:00
Date: 2009-10-24
Title: Growers Dinner – Keene
Location: 100 Eagle Court, Keene, NH
Description: “First Course” Culinary Training Program will be catering a Growers’ Dinner in Keene. 100 Eagle Ct., Keene. Call (603) 352-1385 for reservations.
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2009-09-10
Title: Wicked Wine and Brew Festival
Location: Mel’s Funway Park, 454 Charles Bancroft Hwy (RT. 3A), Litchfield, NH
Description: The Wicked Wine and Brew Festival will feature beer and wine from across New England. Live music, food, vendors and artisans round out the event to be held at Mel’s Funway Park in Litchfield from 2 p.m to 7 p.m. $20 (Click here for $5 off online tickets sales.)
Start Time: 2pm
Date: September 12, 2009
Start Time: 7pm
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 12:00
Date: September 7, 2009
Dear Friend:
During the past month, you’ve heard about Slow Food USA’s Time for Lunch campaign, which is working to ensure schools have the resources they need to serve real food for lunch.
Time for Lunch is also the beginning of something much larger.. It is the first wave of a national movement of people who care about the food they eat and where it comes from, people who are demanding change to make it easier and less expensive to find food they believe in.
Advocates within the food movement – along with politicians on both sides of the aisle – have long said that a strong grassroots voice demanding a transformation of the food system is critical to creating corporate and political change. The Time for Lunch campaign is our chance to demonstrate that the demand is stronger than anyone predicted.
This Labor Day is our first opportunity to show that our movement is strong and far-reaching. But we need to make sure the media and national leaders hear the message. You’ve signed the petition, made plans to participate in the National Day of Action, and perhaps even written your Congressman. Today, I’m asking for another critical element of support: your financial contribution. Your gift will allow us to take the message to policy makers and the media that people in this country care about what kind of food they eat and what we serve our children at school.
Your support is our most important tool in the effort to create a better food system. I hope you’ll take a moment today to make a donation to this important effort.
Yours truly,
Josh Viertel
President, Slow Food USA
p.s. Your gift of $60 or more will now renew or initiate your annual membership in Slow Food USA, connecting you to a local community and growing international movement of people who want to eat food they believe in. Please show your support today!
Location: Capitol Center for the Arts, South Main Street, Concord, NH
Description: New Hampshire Farm to Restaurant Growers’ Dinner at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord will feature a four-course dinner of locally produced food prepared by the students of New Hampshire Food Bank’s “Recipe for Success” Culinary Job Training Program. $50 (603) 669-9724 x145
Start Time: 6:00pm
Date: August 24, 2009
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