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Dinner in Paradise 2013-2014

Posted in agritourism, chef, events, food, locavore, tagged , , on October 30, 2013|

Paradise Farms OrganicThe farm to table tradition continues! Dinner in Paradise at Paradise Farms Organic features the finest chefs in Miami preparing a delicious five course meal made with local organic products and paired with fine wines. The magic and charm of the lush edible landscape coupled with the finest chefs in Miami creates a uniquely intimate dining experience under the stars.

November 17, 2013

Tongue & Cheek: Jamie DeRosa
HaVen: Todd Erickson
Market 17: Lauren DeShields

December 8, 2013

Ocean Reef: Philippe Reynaud
Taster’s Grill: George Patti
Cheeca Lodge: Richard Smith
Pierre’s: Jouvens Jean, Joe Wiktorek

January 12, 2014

Area 31 at Epic: Wolfgang Birk
Bar Lorenzo at The Redbury: Tony Mantuano, James Versfelt
The Forge: Dewey LoSasso

January 26, 2014

The Federal: Cesar Zapata
Buccan / Imoto: Clay Conley
Kris Wessel

February 8, 2014
Valentine’s Day (Saturday)

Johnson & Wales

March 15, 2014
Edible Flower Festival (Saturday)

Richard Sandoval Restaurants: Chef Jose Luis Flores
Intercontinental: Alex Feher
Toro Toro: Eric Do

March 23, 2014
Palm Sunday

Essensia at The Palms Hotel & Spa: Julie Frans
Eating House: Giorgio Rapicavoli
Azul at Mandarin Oriental: Chef TBA

April 6, 2014

Sugarcane / Bocce Bar: Timon Baloo
Oak Tavern: David Bracha
EDGE Steak and Bar at Four Seasons Hotel: Aaron Brooks

April 13, 2014

Meat Market: Sean Brasel
Lido Restaurant at The Standard: Mark Zeitouni
Pubbelly: Jose Mendin

April  27, 2014

Cecconi’s: Sergio Sigala
Salumeria 104: Angelo Masarin
Bread & Butter: Alberto Cabrera

Each year, Paradise Farms Organic donates proceeds to a local charity or organization philosophically in line with their vision of sustainable, healing, and healthy organic food. This year “Learning in Paradise,” the farm’s outreach program to host children’s educational field trips to the farm, is sponsored.

5:00 pm for cocktail reception
5:30 pm farm tour
6:00 pm dinner
(In March, times move back one hour.)

Each dinner is $165.50 per person + tax and processing. Gift certificates are available.

*Reservations are required.* RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY FRIDAY AT NOON SO THAT THE FARM STAFF MAY HARVEST ACCORDINGLY. For more information and to make reservations, please visit the farm’s web site.

Paradise Farms would like to thank the event’s generous, long-term sponsors including Whole Foods, Schnebly Redland’s Winery, Lucini Italia, Brustman Carrino Public Relations,  Strategic Importers and Hani’s Mediterranean Organics as well as DIP co-founder Michael Schwartz.

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Plants and tastes from Three Sisters Farm

Posted in agritourism, chef, events, farm, farmer/grower, food, interview, locavore, tagged , , , on October 18, 2013|

This weekend, come meet farmer Rachael Middleton and chef Jon Gambino of Three Sisters Farm, which is located, quite conveniently, across the street from the Fruit and Spice Park. Rachael and Jon are bringing plants and tastes of their farm to GrowFest!

The farmer and chef couple will have an assortment of edible plants for sale, whatever they are able to haul across the street for the weekend. “We have some interesting different fruit trees, and cool tropical roots, like malanga. We have a good variety of heirloom tomato seedlings and some different peppers,” Rachael told me. Besides vegetable seedlings, they’re also offering larger plants as well.

“We have a lot of big stuff that we can’t bring across the street, but we will have a plant list and give a sampling of what our nursery has right now. Since we are an active farm year round, we are always producing root stocks and pups, and have suckers in abundance at the farm. People are welcome to contact us if they are interested in getting plants anytime throughout the growing season,” Rachael said.

Tastes will come mostly from whatever is in season at their organic and biodynamic farm. “We will offer a variety of drinks, including a sorrel drink (it really tastes like Hawaiian Punch). We’ll also have jaboticaba sorbet (and a limited quantity of fresh jaboticaba fruit!).”

Chef Jon recently acquired a wood fire oven, which he has been using to bake fresh bread for his Farm Meals. “The oven is one of our favorite new things this season,” Rachael said. “It’s amazing, and we have been doing a lot of baking at the farm lately because of it. We are going to bring the oven over to the park and bake fresh bread and make pizzas.” Come find out what kind of tropical toppings will grace goodies hot out of the oven at GrowFest!

Three Sisters Farm

If you would love to visit and dine at Three Sisters Farm, chef Jon Gambino offers a Farm Meal every Saturday by reservation only. “The meal begins with a private tour where you get to see everything we are growing on our active, working, natural farm,” Rachael said.  “At the end of the tour, you are seated on our beautiful tropical tiki deck, where if you time your reservation right, you will be able to catch a beautiful view of the sunset.

“The farm meal uses all of our own ingredients (sometimes supplementing with some of the best of what our neighbors have to offer) to create a multi-course gourmet tasting feast. Our ingredients are a wide variety including tropical fruits, veggies you know and love and some you may not know you love yet, tropical roots, and spices.  What Jon does with all those amazing ingredients is equally varied and exciting. He also makes delicious handmade pastas, fantastic breads and pizzas (baked in our wood fire oven, which you can see from the tiki deck).

“The Farm Meal is $85 a person and we sometimes offer a fish option for an additional $15. Don’t worry about not being full, it’s a multi-course (at least 5) feast. Do dress comfortably for walking around on the farm and outdoor dining.  It’s BYOB, no cork fee.”

The next Farm Meal is scheduled for Oct. 26th. This Saturday, Oct. 19th, there is no Farm Meal because of the festival. “We are pretty much a two man (sometimes three) show,” Rachael explained.

For reservations and more information:
Three Sisters Farm
18401 SW 248th St.
Homestead, FL 33031
305-209-8335

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Start your gardens!

Posted in agritourism, events, location, market, tagged on September 19, 2013|

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Saturday October 19 and Sunday October 20, 2013 
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

GrowFest! 2013 is right around the corner, and it’s a tremendous opportunity to get your seedlings, companion plants and fruit trees for your fall garden. Farmer Margie Pikarsky and her staff have been hard at work growing heirloom tomato starts and other baby plants for the event.

Bee Heaven Farm will offer over 80 varieties of heirloom tomato seedlings, several varieties of eggplant, hot peppers, basil, arugula, chard, kale, Asian greens and perennial herbs like garlic chives, curryleaf, and lemongrass. Other vendors will have fruit trees, native and companion plants to promote beneficial insect habitat, and gardening supplies. SNAP/EBT dollars can be used for buying veggie seeds and seedlings. And those dollars will stretch twice as far, courtesy of Urban Oasis Project/Wholesome Wave Foundation’s double-value program, to get those gardens growing!

Browsing through a sea of seedlings in the heirloom tomato section. (GrowFest! 2012)

Browsing through a sea of seedlings in the heirloom tomato section. (GrowFest! 2012)

Questions about growing? Answers here for backyard growers, urban farmers, small and big farms. The UF/Miami- Dade County Extension Office is our local source for growing information tailored to our subtropical South Florida climate. Check out their presentations and demos. There will be special emphasis on organic and environmentally friendly practices, and establishing building blocks for healthy eating.

Want to learn how to prepare healthy food and kid-friendly snacks? See local chefs use fresh local ingredients to create fun and tasty dishes, school lunches, and snacks. Pick up copies of three awesome books all about local foods — Local Flavor: Recipes Raised in the Florida Redland — Field to Feast: Recipes Celebrating Florida Farmers, Chefs and Artisans — Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida.

Melissa Contreras, author of Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening.

Melissa Contreras, author of Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening.

Enjoy fresh, great food!  Tired of that same old fair food? We’ll have a great selection of healthy foods showcasing locally-grown Fresh From Florida and Redland Raised ingredients. Local cottage food and artisanal producers will share their stories and sell their goods.

Explore the park!  The only tropical botanical garden and public park of its kind in the U.S., the Redland Fruit & Spice Park hosts over 500 varieties of tropical fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, nuts and edible plants. If you’ve ever been to the park, you know what a nice place it is to visit and learn about the amazing variety of edible plants you can grow in South Florida.

For sponsorship opportunities, contact Margie at GrowFest@beeheavenfarm.com

Want to be a vendor or exhibitor?
Click here for GrowFest! 2013 vendor application.

Location:
Redland Fruit & Spice Park 
24801 SW 187th Avenue, Redland, FL 
(corner of Coconut Palm Drive & Redland Road)

Admission:
$8 advance purchase 
$10 at the gate 
children under 12 free
Includes raffle tickets for a chance at some great door prizes!

The heart of the matter was found at the Bee Heaven Farm tents.

The heart of the matter was found at the Bee Heaven Farm tents. (GrowFest! 2012)

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GrowFest! 2013

Posted in agritourism, events, market, tagged , on September 3, 2013|

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October 19-20, 2013
10:00 am – 5:00 pm

A Bee Heaven Farm ~ Redland Organics Event

If you attended the inaugural GrowFest! event last fall, you were one of the hundreds who had a great time browsing for plants, enjoying local food and drinks, and relaxing to sounds of local musicians. Farmer Margie received lots of positive feedback, and with over 900 attending, it was an unqualified success. Now GrowFest! is back for a second year, just in time for planting season.

The stars of the event are undeniably all the heirloom tomato starts that Farmer Margie is famous for. Come pick up all the varieties you love. Lots of other growers will be there also, to provide plants and knowhow for your gardening success.

Grow Fest! is about connecting the dots between farms/gardens and your dinner table. It’s also about providing the knowledge and materials to grow, forage, buy, prepare, and eat good, local, seasonal food.

By engaging, encouraging and enabling visitors about gardening, and giving them the tools to grow some of their own food, you’ll gain a better appreciation of what it takes for farmers to produce the food we all eat, and whet your appetite for the best and freshest produce.

This year’s event will be held, once again, at the Redland Fruit and Spice Park. It’s the perfect venue, as the park hosts over 500 varieties of tropical fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, nuts and edible plants. It’s the only tropical botanical garden and public park of its kind in the country. Take some time to explore all its nooks and crannies. If you’ve never been to the park, this is the time to visit. Redland is the heart of our local agricultural production, so what better place to kick off the winter growing season in South Florida!

This year’s GrowFest! will benefit our own locally-based Urban Oasis Project. Door prizes will be raffled off.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Admission:
$10/$8 in advance (coming soon), children under 12 free
Military families free via VetTix (coming soon)

Location:
Redland Fruit & Spice Park
24801 SW 187th Avenue
(corner of Coconut Palm Drive & Redland Road)
Redland, FL

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Farm Day 2012

Posted in agritourism, events, farm, tagged on December 20, 2012|

8th Annual Farm Day Open House at Bee Heaven Farm

Come to the country! Fun for the whole family!

Sunday, December 23, 2012
11:30am – 3:00pm

* Hay Rides and other Activities *
For all the kids at heart

* Farm Market *
Locally-grown seasonal organic produce, dried tropical fruit, raw farm honey, heirloom tomato and veggie starts, and other goodies for sale.

* Live Music *
With local singers Jennings & Keller

*Food*
Chef Keith Kalmanowicz’s Love & Vegetables Community Pop-Up Café featuring fresh-from-the-farm food lovingly prepared and served buffet-style.

A suggested donation of $10 to help cover food costs and provides support for the Bee Heaven Farm internship program. Your donation includes a raffle ticket for door prizes. Extra raffle tickets are available at  5 for $20.

Directions:
From southbound on US1, turn west (right) on Bauer Drive (SW 264th St), and go approx. 5 miles. The farm is 1/3 mile west of Redland Road (SW 187th Ave) on the left side of the road. Look for the farm sign and flags. Please angle park on the swale.

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