2014 GMP Week events
Sunday, April 27
Seasonal Cocktail Workshop
3 - 5 PM
CoBo Sushi Bistro & BAR |
Join CoBo Bartenders, Teddy and Sarah, for an interactive workshop and discussion about making cocktails using seasonal ingredients. We will discuss how to make bitters and syrups that highlight locally grown products. Participants will taste three cocktails featuring these local ingredients, and receive a bitters and two syrups to take with them to experiment with at home. Participants must be 21 years old to register. Snacks will be available. The class is limited to 20 participants, registration is required.
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Tuesday, April 29
Farm to School High School Project |
Students in the Mountain Alliance organization will travel to Against the Grain farm. They raise a variety of vegetable crops in addition to corn for cornmeal and sorghum for molasses. They also raise pasture pigs, poultry and goats. Cold tolerant greens are grown in tunnels, and students will harvest Swiss chard and kale for a culinary cooking contest the next day.
On Wednesday, April 30th, students in the Foods II Enterprise class will compete in 4 groups, preparing the greens that have been harvested for the faculty and staff to judge. The green recipes will be made available for the judges. Prizes will be awarded on May 1st. |
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11:30 AM
Appalachian Regional Library Seed Planting at the Regional Library |
Children's book reading about spring and the food Meet Mr and Mrs. Spring and plant seeds with Tara from Earth Fare.planting greens with the children.
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Bees & the food chain
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Local beekeeper will talk
about the honey making process, including difference between local and store
bought honey, and why pollination is important
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Greer Auditorium 7PM- FREE
A place at the table
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Fifty million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity.
Ultimately, A Place at the Table shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides — as they have in the past — that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all. |
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WEdnesday, April 30
"DIG INTO LOCAL" FAIRASU's Plemmons Student Union
12-3 PM |
Celebrate Greening My Plate Week with a Dig into Local Fair on Appalachian State University's Sanford Mall! This event will showcase community and on-campus organizations who promote local food. The Dig into Local Fair will feature information booths and interactive activities, where participants can learn more about localfood opportunities and engage in the local food movement. This free event is open to the public and will run from 12 pm to 3 pm.
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Eating Alabama
F.A.R.M. Cafe
7PM- FREE |
View filmmaker Andrew Beck Grace's Eating Alabama at F.A.R.M. Cafe. Taken from the film's website, "In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as they navigate the agro-industrial gastronomical complex, they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed since farmers once populated their family histories. A thoughtful and often funny essay on community, the South and sustainability, Eating Alabama is a story about why food matters." This free event is open to the public and will begin at 7 pm. Refreshments will be available.
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Thursday, May 1
New Life Farm
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Join the Bryk family for a fun and educational day of helping processing chickens.
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Vermiculture for kids!11:30 AM
Appalachian Regional Library |
Learn about vermiculture at the Library and meet Wiggle the Worm.
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Saturday, May 3
Kids Corner at Farmers Market! |
“Plant a green veggie table”. Kids will spin a big wheel (“Wheel of Green”) that will land on a particular green veggie. A sample of that veggie will be put on their little white paper plate to green it up. Don't miss the veggie coloring page activity & handouts on how to encourage kids to eat healthy foods.
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MOZZARELLA Cheese Making Demonstration1 pm - 3 pm
$15 Donation Agricultural Conference Center |
Join Holly Roark as she demonstrates how to easily make mozzarella cheese at home. Mozzarella cheese is one of the simplest and quickest cheeses to make - it is perfect for beginners! In this workshop, Holly will walk participants through the cheese making processes from start to finish. She will also discuss important factors in choosing milk and other necessary ingredients. Snacks following the workshop will be provided by Stick Boy Kitchen. The class is limited to 40 participants, registration is required.
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Sunday, May 4
S.E.A.M. local Foods Dinner
6 PM
$30 Donation Basil's Fresh Pasta & Deli |
Sunday, May 4th 6 PM
Supporting Economic Alternatives in the Mountains (SEAM) brings together good ideas and community investments in the High Country. SEAM encourages participatory decision making by forming a platform where local entrepreneurs can share their project with community members at a locally-sourced dinner. At Basil's Fresh Pasta and Deli, three local entrepreneurs will present their project ideas, and dinner attendees will choose to fund each project at three different levels (60%, 30%, and 10%) of the crowd-sourced funds raised through the dinner tickets. To read more about the selected-projects and to purchase tickets, please visit seamnc.org. Drinks and music by local band RedLeg Husky will begin at 7 pm; tickets cost $30. |
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