Stowe Free Library

Eating Local: a year-long series

What's for Dinner?

Join us for a program on the health benefits of eating local, featuring recipes for those Farmer's Market veggies with registered dietician Laura Biron and a discussion of the benefits of grass-fed meat with John Clark of Applecheek Farm, at the Green Goddess Cafe in Stowe's Lower Village

September 17, 3 to 5pm
Join us for

Field Days with High Mowing Seeds

with a workshop on seed saving, information on heirloom varieties, and a chance to see the grounds of High Mowing Seeds

Also in September: every Wednesday from 6 to 8pm, the Stowe Free Library is supporting a series of hands-on workshops on canning and preserving  your harvest at the Morrisville Farmer's Artisan Market

 

Coming later in the year

 

In November: a Vermont wine tasting in partnership with Edible Green Mountains 

Previous Events in our series

January

Book Discussion: Animal, vegetable, miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

February
The social and political benefits of eating local, with Abbie Nelson of NOFA-VT and Vermont FEED

March
CSA & Farmer Showcase

Be sure to visit our participating organizations, farmers, and CSA providers:

• Applecheek Farms, Hyde Park, 888.4482
• Foote Brook Farm,Johnson, 635.1775
• High Mowing Seeds, Wolcott, 472.6174
• Honey Do Farm/Walker Famiy Farm, Morrisville, 888.3242
• Lamoille County Food Share, 888.6550
• Lamoille County Natural Resources Conservation District,888.9218
• Maple Wind Farm, Richmond, 434.7257
• Riverside Farm, E. Hardwick, 472.6169
• Rooney Family Farm, Morrisville, 888.8440
• Rural Vermont, 223.7222
• Salvation Farms, 505.1689
• Sandiwood Farm, Wolcott, 888.2881
• Valley Dream Farm, Cambridge, 644.6598
• Winding Brook Farm, Morrisville, 888.5922
• Windy Willows Farm, Johnson, 635.7300

For more local providers, see the LCNRCD's Farm and Forest Directory (PDF).

April

Planning a vegetable garden with Salvation Farms and High Mowing Seeds

Visit to the Kaiser Family Farm to see baby goats, sheep, and chickens

June

Part of the Stowe Culinary Classic: a chocolate tasting with Lake Champlain Chocolates, fillm showings with Salvation Farms, story sessions for children with Sally Dain of the Tiny Acorn in Waterbury, a visit with Marialisa Calta, and more! See the schedule at http://www.vermontculinaryclassic.com/.

As part of National Pollinator Week, we learned about bees and beekeeping with Ross Conrad, author of Natural Beekeeping, and explored bees with children with Carrie Riker and the Lamoille County Nature Center.

July
Rural Vermont Ice Cream Social

Other resources

The Farmer's Artisan Market, weekly on Wednesdays from 3 to 7pm, at RiverArts on Pleasant Street in Morrisville

Vermont's Mad River Valley has an excellent, established Localvore group. Check their site, http://www.vermontlocalvore.org/, for tips and events.

Jesse Roman of The Stowe Reporter profiled the Farmer's Artisan Market and our Eating Local series in the March 27, 2008 issue. Read the excellent article, Localvores go retail, at the Reporter's web site.