Still at the Fairchild Farm & Garden Festival… Ducked out of the lecture on preserving the harvest (sorry, Margie!) to catch Robert Barnum’s cooking demo under the big tent. Robert, as you might recall, is also known as the Cantankerous Chef. And Saturday he was downright crabby, showing his recipe for fried piper betel leaves [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens’
Good eats in the Garden
Posted in chef, events, farmer/grower, food, photo, recipe, tagged Margie Pikarsky, Gabriele Marewski, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Claire Tomlin, Miguel Bode, Farm & Garden Festival, Laura Lafata on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It was a great weekend for the Fairchild Farm & Garden Festival, sunny and warm but not yet excruciatingly hot. A lot was going on, and I was running from presentations in the Garden Room to various tents and back trying to keep up with interesting events. On Saturday morning, I dropped in at the [...]
Food & Garden Festival
Posted in events, food, tagged Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens on April 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Food and Garden Festival at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden Saturday, April 24, 2010 – Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM Several Redland Organics growers will participate at the Fairchild Food and Garden Festival. Look for a cooking presentation by Robert Barnum aka the Cantankerous Chef, and lectures by Margie Pikarsky and Gabriele [...]
Ramble over for good eats
Posted in events, food, market, tagged Adri Garcia, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Hani Khouri, Sous Chef 2 Go on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cherokee Purple, Amish Paste, Mortgage Lifter, Brandywine. If you missed out on grabbing heirloom tomato plants last weekend, you have one more chance. Redland Organics will be at Ramble, Fairchild Garden’s annual festival of food and plants, on Friday Nov. 20, Saturday Nov. 21 and Sunday Nov. 22. In addition to tomato plants, Farmer Margie [...]
Gardening in South Florida
Posted in agritourism, food, location, locavore, market, tagged Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, gardening, Redland Organics on September 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some people have been asking me, licking their lips, “So, what’s good from the farm this week?” Their appetites were whetted by all the fabulous fruit we’ve been having this summer. Now they’re ready for veggies. Now? You gotta be kidding! There’s nothing growing right now except for weeds! While the rest of the country [...]
