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Homestead Harvest Farmers’ Market

Posted in events, market, tagged , , on July 14, 2011|

Verde Gardens, site of the new  Homestead Harvest Farmer’s Market.

Please join us for the opening of the Homestead Harvest Farmers Market at Verde Gardens!

Friday, July 15th
4:00 to 8:00 pm
12700 SW 280 Street, Homestead, FL 33038

We are celebrating the opening of this beautiful, new building with the first of the Locavore Lounge events — bring some food to share, buy a smoothie from the new juice bar, or shop for local produce at the Farmer’s Market.

This new year-round market is dedicated to improving access to sustainably-grown local food for all and will double EBT benefits for the first $10 spent, and offer a wide variety of organic and sustainably grown products from the region.

In the fall we will start selling produce raised next door at the 22-acre permaculture farm we are now developing at Verde Gardens, as well as inviting in more local farmers to offer their products.

This building will be a center for cooking classes, micro-enterprises creating value-added products, and more with a fully functional commercial kitchen, serving the residents of Verde Gardens and the surrounding communities.

Supported by the Homeless Trust and Carrfour Supportive Housing, operated by Urban Oasis Project and Earth Learning.

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MCI’s Organic Culinary Garden opens

Posted in agritourism, chef, events, location, tagged , on July 11, 2011|

Miami Culinary Institute’s Organic Culinary Garden  

Official Grand Opening on July 14th at 10:00 am

Gabriele Marewski, in a newly formed partnership with Natural Greenscapes, brings the ambiance and magic of Paradise Farms to the new Culinary Garden for the new Miami Culinary Institute at the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus. All of these partners are very excited about being on the cutting edge of effecting change in how culinary students come to know their ingredients: a new Seed to Soil initiative.

The garden has over 40 different fruits, 30 different herbs and a variety of delicious tropical shrubs and edible flowers.  This living classroom brings to the students a unique opportunity to be directly involved in planting and harvesting their own food. Food scraps from the Institute’s kitchen will be composted and used in the garden for a true “soil to soil” sustainable process.

Gabriele will also teach a class in Fall as part of the Institute’s Enthusiasts Program, as the garden becomes the platform for growing culinary gardeners (www.miamidadeculinary.com).

The garden is located on the southeast corner of NE 6th St. & NE 1st Ave.  Please join us on Thursday, July 14th at  10 am for the Grand Opening!

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

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Paradise Farm open house

Posted in agritourism, events, tagged , on July 6, 2011|

It’s not every day that farmer Gabrielle Marewski holds an open house at her Paradise Farm. Usually the only time you can visit is for one of her well-known Dinners in Paradise, held in the winter. To get a tour in the off season is a rare treat. From her invitation:

Come visit the farm this Saturday from 9 am to noon!

We would like to thank you for all your questions about organic gardening as well as your inquiries about our produce and other items we sell! Your excitement is certainly contagious and we have decided to offer a tour and a farm market on Saturday July 9th.

Please join us for a tour of our farm! Our farm market will include items such as our delicious oyster mushrooms, organic plants for your garden, iced flower-power tea, and much more! Reservations are required so that we may plan accordingly. The tour will begin promptly at 9:30am so please arrive at least 15 minutes before hand.

The tour is $10 per adult and $6 per child. Please call to make a reservation: 305-248-4181. We look forward to seeing you!

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Florida Small Farms Conference

Posted in events, tagged on June 24, 2011|


The University of Florida’s (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) and Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) Small Farms and AlternaTeam are pleased to announce that the third annual Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference  will be held in Kissimmee, Florida July 15 – 17, 2011.

Only in its 3rd year, the conference already attracts nearly 800 people. It provides farmers with in-depth, cutting edge educational information; facilitates networking, dialog, and visioning among members of the Florida small farms community, and increases awareness of the small farms industry to decision makers, supporting institutions, and the general public.

Who Should Attend

· Small Family Farms
· Transitional Farmers
· Beginning Farmers
· Allied-industry Reps.
· Educators
· Researchers
· Agricultural Associations
· Policy-makers
· Foundations
· Anyone interested in becoming a part of, and strengthening the small farm community in Florida

Additional Conference Highlights

In addition to the educational sessions and optional pre-conference activities, highlights include:
·    Featured Florida farmers
·    Livestock arena with live animal exhibits
·    Local foods
·    Large exhibition showcasing products and technologies

For more information and to register online
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/smallfarms/index

For specific questions, please contact Mandy Stage, conference coordinator, at mstage@ufl.edu

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Local goes national

Posted in agritourism, events, media, tagged on June 11, 2011| 1 Comment »

Remember Earth Dinner in April? It attracted the attention of Matt Kronsberg, a freelance writer in New York, who flew down to partake of our locavore bounty, and wrote an article about the feast for Gourmet Live. (You may remember Gourmet magazine. It stopped publishing on paper a while ago and migrated into cyberspace, continuing in form of a web site, and an iPad publication called Gourmet Live.)

Those of us without iPad or iPhone can’t even see the article, so I asked Matt to send a copy, which he graciously did. I converted his email into a 4.3 MB PDF file, which you can download here. Don’t know how many copyright laws I’m violating with this deed! Enjoy it while you can, and feel free to post your comments about Matt’s article.

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