Louisville Community Supported Agriculture: Events

Sustainable City Series: Water

The fifth forum of the Sustainable City Series, WATER, will be held on Tuesday, August 12th beginning at 6:00 pm at Glassworks (815 W Market Street).

It is not news that we need clean water to survive, but most people take access to clean water for granted. Our global water systems are under great stress. Shifting weather patterns, population growth, poor environmental regulations, pharmaceuticals, aging infrastructure, and waste among other factors have led to increases in contamination and reductions in our supply of fresh water. Louisville's own combine sewer system is in trouble due to overflow issues leading to unacceptable levels of wastewater discharge. Please join us on August 12th for an engaging discussion on water and learn what you can do to help make our city, region, and the world more sustainable.

Ramsi's Café on the World will be providing food for the event and coffee will be provided by Heine Brothers Coffee.

This event is free to the public, however space is limited, so if you or anyone else is interested please go to:

http://uds.louisville.edu/index.php?option=com_attend_events&Itemid=30&task=view&id=5 to RSVP for the August 12th event.

Kentucky Farmers Market Week Celebration

Tuesday, Aug 5th, Phoenix Hill Farmers Market, 829 East Market Street, (in the parking lot of Felice Winery, Melillo’s Italian Restaurant, and The Bodega @ Felice) will be celebrating Kentucky Farmers Market week. There will be chefs, music, giveaways, raffles, etc.

Market Meals Cook-Off

The Mayor's Healthy Hometown Movement, Kentucky Proud, and Pennyrile Allied Community Services are sponsoring a series of events this summer at Louisville's neighborhood Farmers' Markets.

Local chefs will compete across the city to create "Winning Market Meals," dishes created from fresh, local ingredients that can be easily recreated by cooks at home in approximately 30 minutes. They will be judged on originality, nutrition and overall taste, and how easily the recipe can be replicated by the average home cook. The competition is part of an effort to promote healthy, home cooked meals and increased consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables grown locally.

On July 26th, chefs from Mr. Lou's dining will compete using ingredients from Misty Meadows Farm and other vendors.

Slow Food Bluegrass/Locust Grove Picnic

Come to Historic Locust Grove on June 22nd to celebrate “slow” and all things handmade! Locust Grove and Slow Food Bluegrass are teaming up to create a fun, family picnic day that will involve local farmers, chefs & artisans.

The day will also feature cooking demonstrations, gardening lectures, a farmers market, heirloom seed and plant sales, rare breeds of farm animals and live music by Jawbone.

Bring your own picnic basket or sample the delicious food available from the local farmers and chefs.

Special admission price for the event of $5.00 per car load. Walkers and bikers get in free! Tours of Locust Grove for the regular fee.

Field Day Farm Picnic

Presented by the Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm
Saturday, May 31 from 11 a.m.-3p.m.
at Field Day Farm, tenant vegetable operation at Oxmoor Farm
9001 Limehouse Lane, near Hikes Point
(Directions at www.foodliteracyproject.org)
Enjoy a fun and educational day on the farm celebrating local agriculture
- Harvest garlic and make garlic ice cream
- Bake bread in a solar oven (if sunny) with homemade butter
- Take home your own planted seeds for your garden
- Crafts, activities and games
- Meet the worms
- Bid on Silent Auction items to benefit the Food Literacy Project
Bring a picnic lunch and a blanket
$5/person suggested minimum donation
*all donations to the Food Literacy Project are tax deductible.
For more info call (502) 413-5989 or visit our website:
OUTDOOR EVENT . DRESS APPROPRIATELY . IF RAINING MAY 31, CHECK WEBSITE
FOR UPDATE

St. Matthews Farmers Market Opening Day

If you thought the variety of vendors last summer was amazing, you'll be doubly pleased to see the new additions to our market:

Holden Farm-flowers, garlic, perennials, produce
Honey Ridge-beeswax, honey, flowers, veggies

Our Farm-culinary and medicinal herbs and teas

Rabbit Farm-honey, mushrooms, pork, rabbit meat

Salyers Farm-cheese, flowers, ice cream, milk, pork, produce

Sherwood Acres-beef

Soup Girl-gourmet breads and soups, vegetables

Almost all of last year's vendors are returning for the second season of our market.

We'll kick off the season Bluegrass-style with Kentucky Sassafras. The five band members are all in their teens and have a wealth of vocal and instrumental talents.

Sustainable City Series 4 - Climate Change

the Sustainable City Series on Climate Change will be held on May 13^th at Glassworks (815 W Market Street, Louisville, KY). This event will help us understand what can be done on a local level to address the global issue of climate change from two very knowledgeable and engaging speakers with an extensive background on the subject.

Art Williams recently attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali and heads up efforts on climate change locally through the Climate Change Committee of the Partnership for a Green City. Keith Mountain, who was recently appointed State Geographer by Kentucky Governor Beshear, is a glaciologist and global warming expert with over twenty years of experience.

Ramsi's Cafe will be catering the event. The event again is free, but space is limited. If you plan on attending the event, please RSVP early so we have a better idea of how much food and seating we need for the event. We apologize for the lack of seating at the last event due to a large number of unexpected non-RSVP'd attendees adding up to a crowd of over 300 people. Though the more people who attend the better, please let us know if you plan to attend.

To RSVP please visit (http://uds.louisville.edu/index.php?option=com_attend_events&Itemid=30&task=view&id=4).

For more information please go to our website http://uds.louisville.edu or call 502-587-7015.

Sustainable City Series

Local Food & Agriculture

Learn about Louisville Metro's local food initiatives, community farms, food access, the slwo food movement, farmers' markets and much more.

Guest Speakers: Susan Hamilton, Louisville Metro Economic Development Department; Ivor Chodkowski, Community Farm Alliance; Bill Huston, Urban Fresh; Chef Mark Williams, Slow Food Bluegrass

Space is limited so please go to uds.louisville.edu to RSVP by Friday, March 21st to reserve your seat. You can also RSVP by sending an email with name, email address and/or phone number for each attendee to udslouisville@gmail.com. This event is free to the public. For more information please call 502.587.7015 or visit http://uds.louisville.edu.

Fall Family Farm Day

Enjoy a fun and educational day on the farm celebrating local agriculture. Make pumpkin ice cream. Grind flour out of rye and make bread. Prepare farm-fresh eats out of fall greens and root crops. Includes garden crafts, activities, games, face painting. Door prizes will be given away.

Bring a picnic lunch and blanket. Minimum suggested donation is $5 a person, $20 per family.

For more information, visit www.foodliteracyproject.org Call (502) 413-5989 or email foodliteracyproject@gmail.com

Phoenix Hill Farmers' Market FALL FESTIVAL

The Phoenix Hill Farmers' Market is having a Fall Festival on Tuesday, October 2 from 3 - 7 p.m. at 829 E. Market St. There will be cooking demonstrations by the Cooperative Extension Office, music, door prizes, refreshments, and other fun. Come pick out your pumpkins for Halloween, decorative gourds for your table, mums and pansies for planting, and pick up something for dinner while you're at it. Produce in season right now includes tomatoes, summer and winter squash, green beans, okra, beets... plus we have chicken, pork, beef, eggs, honey, salsa and other condiments, wine, kettlecorn, and cut flowers.

Come join the fun, support your local farmers, and eat healthy. "Kentucky Proud, nothing else is close."

For more information, contact Cindy Brown Kinloch at phoenixhillassociation@juno.com, 589-0975 or 583-7133.

Kentucky Farm Dinner

For $100, guests will receive a dinner prepared by Jay Denham of Park Place. For more information, call (502) 515-0172 or check out this link: www.diningonmain.com

Misty Meadows Farm Picnic

It will be potluck, so bring your favorite dish, your favorite drink, your favorite game, your farm shoes…(sandals are terribly good for the farm). Hours will be posted later on. .If anyone has a guitar or a band and wants to play…you are welcome to

Misty Meadows Fall CSA Begins (Tues Pickup)

The first Tuesday pickup for the 12 week fall session begins.

Misty Meadows Fall Soup Fest

Our Fall "soupfest" and annual meeting is now set. Mark your calendars for Thursday, November 8th at 6:00 pm at Bardstown Rd Presbyterian Church, 1722 Bardstown Rd, Louisville. There is no cost and you can bring your family. As we get closer, I'll ask how many you'll be bringing with you, so I can be sure to make enough soup. Bring an appetite, this is our way of thanking you for being so supportive of Misty Meadows Farm. This is also the time that we will talk about the year's CSA and ideas for the next CSA. This is also where we start taking memberships for the following year and of course there is always a discounted price to pay early and even more if you pay for the Spring and Fall sessions at one time. We will have door prizes and surveys and if anyone else has things they'd like to say... well, let us know and we'll put you on the Speakers list (not that we really have one, but we always welcome your views, ideas, suggestions, etc.)

Many blessings,

Ralph and Kathy Packard

Misty Meadows Fall CSA Begins (Thurs pickup)

The fall season lasts for at least 12 weeks.

Phoenix Hill Farmers' Market Festival

3 to 7 p.m. Music, cooking demonstrations, games for the kids, and other fun things.

Box pickup for Misty Meadows

pickup