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Text Box: Field to Family Benefit Culinary Walk 08 Thurs., Sept. 4, 5:30-8PM, in downtown Iowa City Tickets $25/person, 6 and under free; available at New Pioneer Co-op Enjoy hors d’oeuvres made from local ingredients at the hip downtown Iowa City  restaurants that support local food producers. Proceeds support Johnson County Local Food Alliance. Participating restaurants include: Atlas, Devotay, Motley Cow Cafe, New Pioneer Food Co-op, One Twenty Six, and The Red Avocado.   Field to Family Chef at the Market:  Featuring Chef David Burt of The Red Avocado Sat., Sept. 6, 9:30-10:30 AM Free and open to all Under the bridge at the IC Farmers Market, Washington and Van Buren St., IC Chef David Burt will shop the market for fresh ingredients and show how to create delicious menu items.  Samples will be available.   Field to Family Market Fair Sat., Sept. 6, 7:30 -11:00 AM Free and open to all: Under the bridge at IC Farmers’ Market, Washington and Van Buren St., IC Meet the folks who are working to promote local, sustainable food and a healthy community and environment. Visit tables, gather information, talk to kindred spirits.  Move It! Dig It! Do It! Sun., Sept. 7, 2008, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Johnson County Fairgrounds Click Here for Details. Field to Family Garden Learning Tour What is Permaculture? See it in action! with Mary Crooks and Fred Meyer Sun., Sept. 7, 2008, 1-4 PM FREE Meet at New Pioneer Co-op, Washington and Van Buren Streets, Iowa City. See permaculture patterns and principles in action at the yards of Fred Meyer and Mary Crooks. Mary’s yard is undergoing a complete ecological landscape design makeover and Fred’s yard features an established vegetable and herb garden based on permaculture principles. This event is being held in conjunction with New Pioneer Food Co-op and Field to Family 08. We will meet at the Iowa City New Pioneer Co-op store and carpool to the two sites.   Benefit Book Reading and Hors d’oeuvres: Chef Kurt Michael Friese reads aloud from A Cook’s Journey: Slow Food in the Heartland, published by Ice Cube Press. Sun., Sept. 14, 4:30-6:30 PM at Motley Cow Café Restaurant  160 North Linn Street (Iowa City) $10 suggested donation Enjoy beef from Kevin Powell, the Strawberry Point beef producer featured in Kurt’s book. Thank you to Motley Cow for offering beer and wine for sale! Books autographed by the author will be available for sale.     New Pioneer Food Co-op presents Field to Family 08 Local Food Preservation   Get Cultured! From Pickled Daikon to Mead, with Martha Franzen and Pete Flynn Tues., Sept. 16, 6-8 PM $15/person, limit 20 students, at CV store You must register with Steph at 338-9441 or visit “classes” at www.newpi.com Boost your digestive health and general immunity by cultivating friendly microorganisms in your food! Moving beyond common cultured items like yogurt and beer, innovative fermenter Martha Franzen will explain and demonstrate techniques for culturing vegetables, specifically; Cultured Carrots and Ginger, and Pickled Daikon and Green Beans. Learn about and sample the famous cultured tea-based drink Kombucha. Pete Flynn is seeking to make the perfect mead, and is willing to experiment with many different possible source materials. Pete will share how to make vinegar, too!   New Pioneer Food Co-op presents Rediscover the Lost Art of Food Preservation! Sept 20, 2008  123 E. Market IC, IA 52245 (Gloria Dei Lutheran Church)                 Free and open to all; please reserve your place by calling Steph at 319-338-9441 (So we can plan for the event) Or go to “classes” at www.newpi.com Sample preserved foods at the Co-op Annual Member Meeting 6-7 PM, Nov. 7 at 10 S. Gilbert St., IC   Schedule 9 -10 AM Pickled Green Beans and Tomato Salsa, with Emily White Jazz up your canned vegetables with fresh flavors from the garden! Canned goods are an instant winner in the winter, and are safe from power failures.   10-10:45 AM Learn about Root Cellars, with Mark Quee of Scattergood Friends School of West Branch Identify the conditions required for successful root cellaring, and sleuth your best site! Learn what crops are good keepers, and how to successfully manage your cellar.   10:45 AM-noon Green Tomato and Apple Chutney, with Birgit Coffman Preserve the goodness of those abundant end-of-the-season green tomatoes and surplus apples! Chutney enlivens winter meals and makes a great gift.   12-12:45 PM Learn About Food Dehydration, with Jan Temple, Health & Nutrition Johnson County Extension Dehydration is an ancient and easy way to preserve food. Fruit is well suited to drying. We’ll look at various pre-treatments and helpful equipment.   12:45-1:45 PM Potluck Lunch 2:00-3 PM Queen of Sweden Raspberry Blueberry Jam, with Birgit Coffman Handmade jam fit for a queen. All the tips from a real jam enthusiast. 3:15 -4:15 PM Home Canned Grass Fed Local Beef, with Nancy Fries Pressure canning assures safe, tasty convenient storage of meat, in this case Iowa grown grass fed beef. Nancy will show how to prepare her favorite Pickled Beets as well!   Home    

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