Event: Feeding Our Future Network Meeting

Announcement from GreenStar Community Projects:

Interested in creating an equitable food system right herein Tompkins County?

Save the date!  The next network gathering will be on Thursday, May 23^rd, starting at 6:00 pm, at the Brooktondale Community Center (524 Valley Road - off Route 79, .in the Town of Caroline).  

More details will be forthcoming.

For more information, or to help with network planning efforts, you can contact us at education@greenstarcommunityprojects.org.

Mayor Svante Myrick reflects on visiting food pantries during his youth

From the Food Bank of the Southern Tier:

Good Life Farm invites you! Asparaganza 2013 is May 11, noon- 7pm

Announcement:

Good Life Farm invites you! Asparaganza 2013 is May 11, noon- 7pm

Join the Good Life Farm and friends for our second annual ASPARAGANZA!
A celebration of Community, Spring and Asparagus.

Saturday, May 11, 2012
Noon-7pm
Good Life Farm, 4017 Hickok Rd., Interlaken NY 14847
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/326200457502822/
Website: http://thegoodlifefarm.org/asparaganza-2013/
(607) 351 3313

FREE
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FUN FOR YOU, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS

Good Life Farm's Asparaganza is a time to celebrate with your friends and loved ones, and enjoy the special taste Spring on the farm. Join us as we sing, play, race, eat, taste and tour all the good that our region can provide. Come for lunch or dinner, stay to dance, learn, play and enjoy our orchards, draft horses and friends.

Food! (all day)
Cayuga Creamery
Crooked Carrot
The Piggery
Red Newt Bistro

Drink! (all day)
Finger Lakes Cider Alliance tasting feat. Bellwether Hard Cider, Eve's Cidery and Redbyrd Orchard Cider
Ithaca Beer
Red Newt Winery

Play! Learn! Dance!

12:30- 2pm: Allemande Farm Worksongers (group music event!)
2:30- 4:30pm: music from Steve Selin and friends, Double E mushroom log workshop, Wolftree's playing with wool and scything demo, sack races
5-7pm: music from Toivo, Double E mushroom log workshop, Wolftree's playing with wool and scything demo, relay races

Please note: Food, Drink and Workshop costs sold separately- cash or check only.

Thank you to our SPONSORS:
LuckyStone Partners

Red Newt Winery and Bistro
Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farms

Ithaca Beer

Northland Sheep Dairy

Three Stone Farm

Event: Growing an Edible Garden Oasis (5/13/13)

Announcement:

Paradise Lot: Growing an Edible Garden Oasis - a talk by Jonathan Bates

Monday May 13, 6pm

Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, Borg Warner Room

101 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850

Jonathan Bates, contributing author of "Paradise Lot: Two plant geeks, one-tenth of an acre, and the making of an edible garden oasis," speaks about his 10-year-old edible forest garden in Holyoke, MA.

By using the principles of permaculture design, Jonathan and co-author Eric Toensmeier created a thriving edible ecosystem from a blighted dead landscape. Enjoy learning about our delicious uncommon fruit and perennial vegetables, a year-round food bioshelter greenhouse, raising micro-livestock like black soldier flies and aquaponic fish, using microclimates for growing figs and kiwis, starting a successful backyard plant nursery (foodforestfarm.com), and enjoying the cornucopia with friends and family. Jonathan will present his challenge-to-opportunity story through vibrant pictures and enlightening discussion. Signed books will be available for purchase.

Hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County (ccetompkins.org)

Ithaca Children's Garden (ithacachildrensgarden.org)

Cornell Garden-based Learning (www.gardening.cornell.edu)

Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FingerLakesPermaculture.org)

Home Green Home (www.homegreenhome.com)

Announcement: Salad Farmers & Spring Open House

Announcement from the Ithaca Children's Garden:

Sunday, May 5

Spring Open House

Celebrate spring and help "open" the Garden for the season! Join us between 1 and 4 pm and get dirty planting early crops, investigate tadpoles in the wetlands, explore the magic of fairies, make treats for the birds, and create a special Mother's Day gift. A ribbon cutting celebration will open the Bulb Labyrinth Memorial Garden at 2pm.

Thank you to our Spring Open House sponsors, Audrey Edelman/RealtyUSA abd Longview.

Register Now!
Begins Monday, May 6
Salad Farmers
Salad gardening from design to harvest!
Lots of hands-on gardening, garden ecology, games and fun.
Each child will adopt their own garden plot and use the different colors, textures, and sizes of lettuce, greens, edible flowers, and other spring veggies to design a salad garden as beautiful as it is tasty.
Every Monday from 3-4pm beginning May 6
For families with children ages 3 - 9.
Registration required, space is limited. $60-$90 per garden plot, self determined sliding scale.

The Ithaca Children's Garden's purpose is to support healthy kids and a healthy planet. We constantly explore new and creative ways to do that. We appreciate your support and participation in helping us fulfill our purpose! We always welcome your ideas and partnership. Thank you!

Food Bank participates in social media competition

Announcement:

The Food Bank of the Southern Tier is currently participating in a social media competition that puts them in the running for $45,000 for their BackPack Program -- the program that sends kids in need home with food for the weekend. Elizabeth Herendeen, Youth Programs Coordinator, says that the money would help us expand BackPack to all 41 school districts in the Southern Tier plus set up some fresh fruit/veggie pilot projects around the region, distributing local New York fruits and veggies to children in need.

To win the $45,000 they need to generate as many votes as possible through Facebook. Here's a link to the voting page: http://bit.ly/FoodBankST

The deadline is April 30.

Event: Soil as a Foundation for Health & Resilience (4/30)

Announcement:

Soil as a Foundation 

for Health & Resilience

Tues. April 30, 2013, 3 - 4:30pm  

Mann Library, Room 102

Please join us for a panel presentation and discussion exploring soil as a critical foundation for the health and resilience of people, farms, communities, and the planet. The Cornell Soil Health Test will be presented as a holistic assessment tool, demonstrating collaboration and knowledge exchange between researcher, outreach, and practitioner.

Panelists include:
· David Wolfe, faculty member in the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University.
· Bianca Moebius-Clune, Extension Associate in Cornell University Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
· Dorn Cox, Cornell alum and current Univ. of New Hampshire Ph.D. student, working with his family on a 250-acre four generation diversified organic farm in Lee, NH.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REFRESHMENTS SERVED

More info: http://bit.ly/soil-health