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Buy Fresh Buy Local Week
Celebrate Locally Grown Food
July 12th- July 20th
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF EVENTS
Saturday July 12th
Fair Food Farm Tour with Tom Forrest
and Sandor Ellix Katz
Wills Valley Farm Products
Holtwood, PA
Enjoy a day out as farmer Tom Forrest shows you around his certified organic farm, specializing in unpasteurized lacto-fermented vegetables and jam making, joined by Sandor Ellix Katz, esteemed author of "Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition and Craft of Live-Culture Foods" and "The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements". Tickets include a picnic at Pinnacle Point featuring foods from Wills Valley.
Tickets and Information: www.whitedogcommunityenterprises.org
Phoenixville Farmers’ Market BFBL Festival
Phoenixville, PA FREE
9am-1pm
The Phoenixville Farmers’ Market is a producer/grower market committed to providing locally grown, fresh food; to preserving our agricultural heritage; and to building community. The Buy Fresh Buy Local Festival features live music by Hoots and Hellmouth, and local artists.
For more information:
www.phoenixvillefarmersmarket.org
Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk
with Earth Elders Endeavors
Inverbrook Farm
West Grove, PA
9am-1pm
Learn to recognize and utilize the incredible resources available just beyond your doorstep: edible and medicinal plants growing in a chemical-free environment, an abundant source of potent, vitamin-rich food and medicine. You will be surprised at how much Nature has to offer.
Classes given by: Donna M. Merrill, Registered Nurse & Registered Herbalist (AHG) and Sarah Dickinson Murray, French Ethnobotanist and Wild Foods Gourmet.
Tickets: Contact Donna M. Merrill (302) 235-2185 or sage.herbal@verizon.net
Overbrook Farms Farmers’ Market Grand Opening
63rd Street between Overbrook Ave. and Sherwood Rd. Philadelphia, PA FREE
10am-2pm
Join The Food Trust and the Overbrook community on opening day for festivities and farm fresh fruits and vegetables, artisinal baked goods, and much more!
Cooking Demonstrations
Lancaster Central Market FREE
9am-1pm
The Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival
Reading Terminal Market
12th and Arch Street, Philadelphia
10am-4pm
Celebrate Buy Fresh Buy Local and National Ice Cream Month with America’s oldest ice cream company, Bassetts Ice Cream, during The Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival on Saturday. Bassetts Ice Cream, Reading Terminal Market’s oldest vendor, joins forces with WHYY and Philadelphia’s leading independent frozen dessert artisans including The Franklin Fountain, Fisher’s Ice Cream, Bellissimo Gelato and Sorbet, Chilly Philly, and Georgeo’s Italian Ice for a day of frozen fun at the height of summer featuring demonstrations, games, contests, tastings, music, and more. All participating frozen dessert vendors will have their product for sale during the event. A sample size portion can be purchased for either $1 or $2.
WHYY and Bassetts Ice Cream will announce the winner of the “WHYY Experience” – an ice cream flavor that reflects the values and quality of WHYY! Over 100 entries have been narrowed down to five contestants with the winner to be announced at the Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival!
Info: 215-922-2317, www.readingterminalmarket.org
Cooking Demonstration withe Marisa McClellan and Scott McNulty from Fork You TV at Foster's Homeware
399 Market Street Philadelphia, PA FREE
Come watch what Marisa and Scott will cook up using fresh, local, and seasonal ingredients from The Food Trust Farmers' Markets. Get ready to watch, learn, laugh and eat!
Sunday July 13th
Buy Fresh Buy Local Kick Off Party at Philadelphia Brewing Company
Philadelphia, PA
3-7pm
Start celebrating Buy Fresh Buy Local Week right with Philadelphia Brewing Company beer, local music by The Spinning Leaves, and local ingredient chili (veg. available) made by Feast Your Eyes Catering! Plus watermelon from Greensgrow Farms and fudge from Betty's Tasty Buttons! Reduce waste- Bring your own cup up to 16oz.!
Tickets: $20 before the event, $25 the day of
$35 family rate (two parents and two children 12 and under)
Go to home page to purchase tickets.
Fukuoka Farming with the Dig It! Project
Chicques Creek Farm
Manheim, PA 17545
2-3 p.m.
The Dig It! project is experimenting with a style of farming created by revolutionary agriculturalist Masanobu Fukuoka, whose book, the One-Straw Revolution, turned modern farming on its head in the late 1970's. Chicques Creek Farm hosts a 5 acre field that is one of only a handful of "Fukuoka Farming" sites in North America. Come for a walk-through and discussion with Dig It! farming crew.
Info: Contact Ben Weiss at bazzrad@yahoo.com
Fermentation on the Farm with Sandor Ellix Katz
Maysie's Farm Conservation Center $35/person
15 St. Andrew's Lane
Glenmore, PA 19343
1-5 p.m.
Participants will learn about the important health benefits of adding traditionally fermented foods to one's diet. Through this demonstration workshop, all will be encouraged to use the foods available to them at this time of year to try some fermenting on their own. A small meal of locally produced fermented morsels included! Please bring beach chairs to sit on.
For tickets and more information email Annmarie Butera or call 610-466-7593.
Wednesday July 16th
Local Beer and Local Hors d’oeuvres at Standard Tap
Fundraiser for White Dog Community Enterprises
featuring Philadelphia Brewing Company Beers
2nd and Poplar Streets Philadelphia, PA FREE
5-7pm
Upstairs!
www.standardtap.com
Everyday Gourmet Cooking Demonstration with Fair Food
Reading Terminal Market- Lunchtime!
12th and Arch Streets Philadelphia, PA FREE
Celebrate Local Flavors @ the George Street Cafe
304 North George St. Millersville, 872-0800. Reservations recommended. Food sourced from Promised Land Farms, Millersville.
Mill at Anselma Farmers’ Market BFBL Festival
Chester Springs, PA FREE
Anselma Farmers’ Market and Artisans Market will feature fresh and local cooking demo with Cooking for Real, trials for the Zucchini 500, a recipe contest with prizes awarded for most originality and least amount of travel miles from all ingredients in the recipe, a cookbook and gardening book sale/exchange, and activities for kids including pre-compost fruit and veggie sculpture making based on illustrations from the book Gus and Button.
Locavore Delight: Hot Summer Nights
Cooking with Essen
Lancaster, PA
6-9 p.m.
Celebrate Buy Fresh Buy Local Week with Essen to create an everyday meal for hot summer nights. To show Essen’s support of Buy Fresh Buy Local, all fresh ingredients will have been locally grown and/or raised in Lancaster County. A healthy portion of proceeds from this Essen Class will be donated to Buy Fresh Buy Local Lancaster.
Reservations required. Visit breathelivegrow.com or call 717.391.8270
Thursday July 17th
Southwark Happy Hour
Special Locally Sourced Menu with Bluecoat Gin and Slyfox Beers
701 S. 4th Street
Philadelphia, PA
5-7pm
Half price Bluecoat Gin drinks, 1/2 price Sly Fox beers with a special happy hour menu by Chef Sheri. Southwark is a leader in supporting local food, now sourcing 85% of their regular daily menu from local family farms.
For more info visit:
www.southwarkrestaurant.com
Friday July 18th
Kennet Square Farmers’ Market BFBL Festival
Kennet Square, PA FREE
Food on Film: “King Corn”
308 E. King St. Lancaster, PA
8 – 9:30 p.m.
$5.00. Bring your own lawn chair!
Saturday July 19th
Good Food, Good Beer, and the Rest is History
Hosted by Farm to City
The Shambles
2nd and Lombard Streets
Philadelphia, PA
5:30-8:30pm
Local restaurants and micro brewery tastings under the shambles at New Market in Philadelphia's Society Hill. This is the 4th annual fundraiser for the Philadelphia Convivium of Slow Food and Green Village Philadelphia.
Tickets: http://www.farmtocity.org/event.asp. Tickets available at the door if event is not sold out.
North Hills Farmers’ Market Grand Opening
110 Pennsylvania Ave. (near Twining Road) Oreland, PA FREE
10am–2pm
Join The Food Trust and the North Hills community for festivities on opening day at the North Hills Farmers' Market where you can buy artisinal baked goods, fresh from the farm fruits and vegetables and much more!
Cooking with Kids!
Lancaster Central Market FREE
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dig It! Urban Farm
A Guided Walk-Through
3 p.m.
Join Urban Farm manager Ben Weiss along with Threshold board members for a guided tour of Lancaster's only urban farm.
Info: Contact Ben Weiss at bazzrad@yahoo.com
Sunday July 20th
Cooking Demonstrations and Cookbook Swap at Headhouse Farmers' Market
Hosted by The Food Trust and The Book and The Cook
2nd and Lombard Streets, Philadelphia, PA FREE
10am-2pm
Farm Fresh Food Fans and Creative Cooks are invited to a Cookbook Swap featuring Cookbook Author Booksignings and Seasonal Cooking Demos highlighting locally Grown Foods available at the Sunday Headhouse Market.
