Posts Tagged ‘Winter Farmers’ Market’
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One Big Block Party
Move over Crescent City. It’s Burlington’s turn to let les bons temps rouler. The Magic Hat Mardi Gras Celebration in downtown Burlington, Vermont, opens with music at Higher Ground on Friday night. On Saturday, live bands on Church Street will fill the air with Cajun/Creole sounds as pubs and cafes will serve up tasty New Orleans fare.
The King & Queen of Mardi Gras Costume Contest begins at noon outside City Hall. Winners are each awarded $500 and will help lead the Grand Parade with Magic Hat’s Alan Newman and Mayor Bob Kiss. The event, now in its fifteenth year, will benefit the Women’s Rape Crisis Center.• If you go, keep in mind: Smart revelers park their cars at Magic Hat HQ on Bartlett Bay Road in South Burlington or Burlington High School and take the free Mardi Gras shuttle into town.
• Buy your beads to throw at the Magic Hat Mardi Gras Headquarters located in the old Maplehurst Florist shop on Church Street in Burlington. Sales benefit the WRCC.
• It’s going to be chilly! Fingerless gloves are best for catching the beads, authentic Louisiana moon pies and Lake Champlain chocolates as they fly from the floats!
• Families with children under 7 years old are welcome to catch the parade from the Little Jambalaya Viewing Zone, on the corner of Main Street and South Winooski.
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted.)
Thursday, February 25
Ron Krupp, local author of Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis offers up practical actions for Vermonters. 7 to 9 pm at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Free. -
The New Last W-O-R-D for Gardeners
Some Vermonters will be TIVO-ing next Tuesday’s Olympic curling and hockey coverag
e so they can head to Montpelier to hear the latest from Ed Smith, Vermont’s gardening champion. For more than a decade, Smith’s Vegetable Gardener’s Bible has inspired countless gardeners to follow his W-O-R-D to produce bountiful harvests of organic vegetables using the Wide rows, Organic methods, Raised beds, Deep soil method.Gardener and author Ed Smith will be at Bear Pond Books to sign the just-released revised and updated second edition of his VG Bible, which includes coverage of 15 additional vegetables, a section on extending the growing season into the winter months and much more. Tuesday, February 23 at 7 pm.
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Friday, February 19
Social Media Seminar: Joe Mescher of Social Media Commando delves into Internet marketing tools such as Facebook and Twitter. 8 to 9:30 am at the Vergennes Opera House on the Green in Vergennes. -
A Big Weekend Ahead
Talk about an action-packed weekend! Between the NOFA Conference, the Olympics, several winter farmers’ markets, Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year, you’ll have to work hard to squeeze in 15 minutes of bird
watching for the annual Great Backyard Bird Count.Walk-ins are welcome at the 28th Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont’s Winter Conference February 13 to 15. Register at UVM’s Billings Center (by the Ira Allen Chapel) beginning at 7 am on Saturday. Don’t forget the NOFAvore Party (6 to 9 pm) and Young Farmer Mixer Saturday night (8 to 10 pm) at the Firehouse Gallery at 135 Church Street. Limited tickets will be available at the door.
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Friday, February 12
Celebrate the Year of the Tiger at the Children’s Museum in West Hartford, CT. Enjoy the planetarium program “Dragons in the Stars” and listen to folktales from Asia, told by Andre Keitt, the Greatheart Griot. Themed crafts, Chinese refreshments and telescope viewing in the courtyard. Pre-registration requested. 6 to 9 pm. Cost: $8 per person. Information and registration: 860.231.2830, ext. 44.Saturday, February 13
Winter Farmers’ Markets
Brattleboro 10 am to 3 pm
The Robert H. Gibson River Garden, 153 Main StreetExeter, NH: Seacoast Eat Local Farmers’ Market, 10 am to 2 pm
Exeter High School, 1 Blue Hawk Drive (315 Epping Road for GPS)Lyndonville 10 am to 2 pm
Tom Breslin Center on Main StreetMiddlebury 9:30 am to 1 pm
American Flatbread at the Marble WorksRutland 10 am to 2 pm
Old Strand Theater (77 Wales St.) behind the Rutland Natural Food MarketShelburne 10 am to 2 pm
Route 7 and Shelburne Town Gym, next to fireWaterbury 10 am to 2 pm
Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe Street
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Farming for the Future Conference
It’s not too late to register for the PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture) 19th Annual “Farming for the Future” Conference to be held February 4 to 6 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania. One of the most respected and possibly the largest
gathering of sustainable food enthusiasts in the country, this year’s conference examines hot topics in the great sustainable challenge with workshops on Innovations in Organic No-Till, Conservation Payments for Organic Farming, Energy Realities in a Sustaining Food System, The Benefits of Networking, The Lost Art of Unpowered Cold Farming and much, much more.Keynote speakers include Michael Reynolds, a world leader in sustainable housing, and Lisa M. Hamilton, the author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness (Counterpoint, 2009).
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Thursday, January 21
Intro to Permaculture: Learn how to boost health and productivity in your own backyard at this workshop given by Burlington Permaculture’s Mark Krawszyk. 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Burlington Public Works Department. $10 donation. Call 802.999.2768 for more info.
Indoor Gardening Workshop: Learn the steps to harvesting pea shoots in your home kitchen in just seven days. 6 to 7 pm, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier. Call 802.223.8004 x202 to reserve a place.
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Lift the Yoke Tonight at City Market!
Local author and Vermont ag expert Ron Krupp leads a visual tour through his new book, Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis, tonight at City Market in Burlington. While many see the national food system as a failure, Krupp
finds solutions in our own backyards.An activist in farm and food issues for nearly four decades, Krupp started the Brattleboro Farmers’ Market in the early ’70s, coordinated the Tommy Thompson Community Garden in the Intervale, worked with the Heartbeet farm in Hardwick and published “The Green Mountain Farmer,” a monthly newsletter in the early ’80s. He’s also the author of The Woodchuck’s Guide to Gardening, which received the Christian Science Monitor’s Garden Book of the Year award for New England in 2002. VPR listeners know him as the station’s farm and garden commentator. The free discussion begins at 7 pm: sign up at the customer service desk.
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Stop by the Pierson Library in Shelburne to see “Rural Vermont’s Activist Farmers,” a traveling exhibit of photographs and stories on the lives of 15 Vermont farmers that share a vision of economic justice. The exhibit will be on display through the end of January. Next stop will be the Griswold Library at Green Mountain College in Poultney for the month of February.
FarmScapes, a juried art show, opens tonight at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts in Lake Placid, New York, featuring works inspired by the local working landscape and local produce. Twenty-four North Country artists contributed to the show, which runs through February 14.
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A Better Loaf
In Vermont, the per capita ratio of artisan bread bakers is perhaps greater than anywhere else in the country–which means the bar is set dauntingly high for the typical homemade loaf. Fortunately there’s hope for the home bread baker, and it’s just off Route 5 in Norwich.
The Baking Education Center at King Arthur Flour is offering the four-day class “Bread: Principles & Practice” this coming week. Lectures, given by several of the BEC’s world-class instructors, will cover every aspect of bread baking for the home baker, including the function of ingredients, pre-ferments and how to facilitate maximum rise. There will be hands-on work in yeast breads, from basic bread through whole grains, sweetened breads, sourdough and starter-based breads.For home bakers with a sweet tooth and just a few hours to spare, there’s a class on sticky cinnamon buns on Saturday taught by Bonny Hooper.
Enrollment in either class comes with a 10% discount at The Baker’s Store for two weeks beginning the day of your class. Classes fill up quickly—to enroll or check out more classes throughout the year, call 800.652.3334.
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Friday, January 8
Pownal marks its 250th anniversary beginning at 6 pm tomorrow with a celebratory reading of the town charter plus bagpipes and more traditional music, as well as a cardboard cake complete with 250 cardboard candles created by Pownal grade-schoolers. (A real cake will be served too.) All are welcome. The celebration takes place at the elementary school at 94 Schoolhouse Road.
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Holidazed & Confused on Tap
Straight-from-the-hearth pizza isn’t the only draw at American Flatbread on a cold winter’s evening in Burlington, Vermont. The St. Paul Street eatery is also home to Zero Gravity Tap Room, where if you were to sip a different beer every night starting tonight, you’d be there until the first day
of spring. As the Winter Solstice approaches, Zero Gravity’s staff is getting ready for the annual Holidazed & Confused Festival.The celebration of “holiday madness, cellared wonderment, aged beauties, seasonal specialties and winter warmers” takes place for two full nights this year, next Monday and Tuesday, from 5 pm to midnight, and will feature more than two dozen seasonal brews, including ZG cask-conditioned Dubbel with cherries, Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence ‘08 and Anchor Xmas ‘07.
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Friday, December 11
Meet the Man With the Magic Hat: Alan Newman, founder and president of Magic Hat Brewery in Burlington is the featured speaker at the “Table Talk: Side Dishes for Thought” monthly discussion at Mary’s Restaurant at the Inn at Baldwin Creek in Bristol. Dinner begins at 6:15 pm followed by the talk at 7:30 pm. $25 dinner; the talk is free. Call 888.424.2432 or email linda@innatbaldwincreek.com. For more information on this event, check out FarmPlate’s feature on it.
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