Advance registration for most of Ambler Farm’s Fall programs begins today. Enrollment is limited for many programs so register early so you don’t miss out.  Click here for Complete Program Information + Online Registration.

Fall Programs

• Saturday, September 18th - Family Garden Tour
• Sunday, September 19th - Honey Harvest
• Saturday, September 25th - Sheep Shearing
• Sunday, October 3rd - Ambler Farm Day - A fun fall family event with apple slingshots, trebuchet launches, hayrides, scarecrows, homemade pies, goats + lambs, pumpkins and more.

• Thursday, October 14th - Seasonal Cooking Series: Pumpkins + Squash*
• Sunday, October 17th - Beginning Beekeeping
• Friday, October 29th - Fright Night*
• Saturday, October 30th - Fright Night*
• Tuesday, November 16th - Seasonal Cooking Series: Thanksgiving Sides*
• Friday, December 3rd - Art of the Wreath registration begins in October
• Sat 12/4, Sun 12/5, Sat 12/11 + Sun 12/12 - Holiday Greens Sale pre-sale begins in October

*Cooking Series + Fright Night registration is open to 2011 Members only today, September 1. Registration will open to the general public on September 15th, space permitting. Click here to learn more about membership.

Visit Ambler Farm’s website for additional programs, including their Farm Reads series with the Wilton Library which runs throughout the fall. Ambler Farm is located at 257 Hurlbutt St., Wilton, CT.

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For Immediate Release

SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND BEVERAGE PIONEERS INCLUDING DRESSING ROOM FOUNDER MICHEL NISCHAN FEATURED AT TWO-DAY LIVE GREEN CONNECTICUT! FESTIVAL

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NORWALK, CT - (August 16, 2010) - Scot Weicker and Daphne Dixon, co-founders of Live Green Connecticut! announced a partial list of featured guests and a sampling of the newest exhibitors for the September 18^th-19^th Festival to be held at Taylor Farm Park in Norwalk.

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  Michel Nischan, Founder & CEO of Wholesome Wave

  Michel Nischan, Dressing Room restaurant owner and founder, James Beard award-winning cookbook author and chef, sustainable food pioneer and CEO of the non-profit Wholesome Wave. Michel will be speaking at 1:00pm on Saturday, September 18th and signing his latest book, “Sustainably Delicious: Making the World a Better Place, One Recipe at a Time.” For a complete profile of Michel Nischan, click here.

• The Westport Farmers’ Market is bringing the market to the festival! Bring your reusable bags to shop for CT Grown fruit and produce and specialty foods like cheese, granola, coffee and tea.  Lunches featuring locally grown meats, poultry, cheeses, vegetables and fruits are available from market vendors Sugar & Olives, Boxcar Cantina and Skinny Pines.

• Special screening of the documentary film Vanishing of the Bees at 1 pm on Sunday.
  

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  Marina will be signing her book "Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper", which made the Washington Post's "Books We Love 2009" List

  Marina Marchese, Red Bee Honey Founder, Beekeeper and Author will be speaking on Sunday, September 19^th at 2:30pm following the screening of Vanishing of the Bees. Brush up on your honeybee and honey facts because 20 lucky audience members who correctly answer Marina’s trivia questions each will win a bottle of her artisan honey courtesy of Whole Foods Market Westport. The Martha Stewart Blog just posted a story about Marina & Red Bee Honey! For a complete profile of Marina Marchese, click here.

• Newman’s Own,  Ducky Life Tea, Yumnuts and Catch a Healthy Habit have joined the list of exhibitors.

• Peace Tree Desserts and Taste by Karla Sorrentino will be serving their delicious foods using local ingredients. Peace Tree Desserts offers lovingly crafted desserts made using local ingredients and environmentally conscious practices to Fairfield County and the surrounding areas.

• Planet Fuel will be sampling and exhibiting delicious, low-sugar, organic juices for kids with no preservatives, additives or refined sugars. A portion of proceeds from Planet Fuel product sales goes to conservation groups working hard to protect habitats around the world.

• Snow Natural Soda + Vitamins All the fun, exuberance and delicious indulgence of soda without any of the unhealthy ingredients. Samples will be available.

• Analiese Paik, Founder of the Fairfield Green Food Guide, will be sharing information about the upcoming Farm-to-Chef Harvest Celebration Week sponsored by the CT Dept. of Agriculture. Sugar & Olives, Boxcar Cantina and Skinny Pines, mentioned above, are all participating in this special event highlighting the quality and diversity of CT Grown to be held during the week of September 26-October 2, 2010.

Weicker and Dixon stated: “We are so proud to have all of these wonderful businesses and organizations participating in Live Green CT!  We are showcasing the best of Connecticut and there is a lot of excitement from our exhibitors and speakers. The message of our event is spreading, and people throughout the state are talking about it and looking forward to joining us September 18^th and 19^th at Taylor Farm Park in Norwalk.

Live Green Connecticut! will take place at Taylor Farm Park in Norwalk, Connecticut September 18^th and 19^th. Featured attractions and exhibits include marine ecology and nature center exhibits, wind and solar displays, farmer’s market, hands-on kid’s activities, environmental and conservation organizations and speakers, alternative fuel vehicles, landscape and garden centers, green careers and education, eco-art, eco-fashion, entertainment, food and beverages, the SoundWaters Schooner and so much more!

Proceeds of Live Green Connecticut! will benefit the Norwalk Seaport Association, SoundWaters, Norwalk River Valley Trail and the Calf Pasture Beach Wind Power Project.

Live Green Connecticut! will be a fun-filled two day festival which will promote education, business, non-profit organizations, green technology, recycling, conservation, health and wellness, climate protection and sustainable living.  Eco-friendly businesses will showcase their green products and services. Individuals and families will come away with money saving ideas and tax incentive opportunities.

In order to be environmentally sensitive, Live Green Connecticut! has established an interactive website for the schedule of events, exhibitor information, registration and news leading up the festival.  Please visit: www.livegreenct.com.

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For more information on the festival, please contact:

Scot Weicker & Daphne Dixon, Co-Chairs
W: (203) 536-9377/(203) 536-4695
Email: info@livegreenct.com

Live Green Connecticut!
P.O. Box 59
Old Greenwich, CT 06870
203-536-9377
203-698-1766 (fax)
info@livegreenct.com

For media inquiries, please contact:

Peter Barhydt

Aberdeen Associates, Inc.

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On any given day surprises await at the Double L Market in Westport. These are surprises of the local-organic variety. A hidden gem located in the same cluster of stores as Flower Fall, this boutique green grocer has a heart and soul. Partners Lloyd and Michael will tell you the provenance of every fruit and vegetable in the store and the story behind it.

This week I was too slow to respond to a message about local figs and missed them entirely. No surprise that a rare treat like that would go quickly. I was delighted to find some fresh-picked cranberry beans and super-sweet corn from Cheshire, local shallots, organic peaches from Pennsylvania, and the fattest, juiciest raspberries of the season. Cranberry beans, aka shell beans, cook quickly and are fantastic with corn and squash, tossed with pasta (pasta e fagioli), or used in a soup.

And the fun won’t end once the summer is over. According to Lloyd, farms that extend the summer growing season into the late fall and begin the spring season early with the help of hoop houses, greenhouses and cold frames will continue to supply them with local-organic vegetables for their discerning customers.

The Double L Market is located at 730 Post Road E. in Westport, just across the street from the Toyota dealership and in the same shopping plaza as Flower Fall. Open 7 days a week from 9-6.

Related posts:

A Beloved Farm Stand Reinvented: The Double Market

The Westport Farmers’ Market is held every Thursday from 10-2 at the Imperial Avenue Parking Lot adjacent to the Women’s Club through mid November. Be sure to visit the web site to sign up for their weekly e-newsletter that alerts you to special events at the market, let’s you know what’s in season, and provides you with recipes using seasonal ingredients.

The Market Master this year is Lori Cochran Dougall, so if you are interested in becoming a vendor, please send your inquiries to her at director@westportfarmersmarket.com or simply download a vendor packet from the web site.

Highlights:

* May 27-Nov 18 (Thursdays , 10-2pm)
* 5th year
* 30 vendors (increase from last year)
* Prepared lunches available (tamales, wood-fired pizzas, vegan/vegetarian options, sandwiches and much more
* Fish and Charcuterie vendors
* Community supported (this is your event)
* Extra food is donated weekly to The Bridgeport Mission
* The support of the Town of Westport (especially Shelly Kassen (Second Selectman), Town Farm(GVI), and Rebecca Howe
* Same location (Imperial Lot)
* Voted Best Farmers’ Market in Best of Gold Coast (2009)
* Weekly e-newsletter with recipes
* Weekly artist booth, non-profit, Chef at the Market and Non-profit
* 3 (Fabulous) interns from Staples High School

Currently Registered Vendors

* Michelle’s Pies, Norwalk, CT
* Whistle Stop Bakery, Ridgefield, CT
* Wave Hill Breads, Wilton, CT
* Bake Local, Southbury, CT
* Two Guys From Woodbridge, Hamden, CT
* Sankow’s Beaver Brook Farm, Lyme, CT
* Skinny Pines, LLC, Easton, CT
* Riverbank Farm, Roxbury, CT
* Rose’s Berry Farm, South Glastonbury, CT
* Sono Baking Company, South Norwalk, CT
* Ladies of Levita Road, Lebanon, CT
* Fort Hill Farm, New Milford, CT
* Sugar & Olives, Norwalk, CT
* Beltane Farm (Paul) Lebanon, CT
* El’s Kitchen, Weston, CT
* Boxed Goodes, LLC Litchfield, CT
* Arogya, Westport, CT
* The Little Chocolate Company, Greenwich, CT
* Olive Oil Factory, Watertown, CT
* Andrew’s Honey, Connecticut
* Blue Bell Bars, Westport, CT
* Box Car Cantina, Greenwich, CT
* Judith Miller, Connecticut
* Greyledge Farms, Roxbury, CT
* Starlight Gardens, Durham, CT
* Westport Aquaculture, Westport, CT
* Newgate Farm, East Granby, CT
* Moorefield Herb Farm, LLC Trumbull, “We have 35 varieties of heirloom tomato plants, 15 varieties of hybrid tomato plants, 10 varieties of chilis, 10 varieties of bell peppers, all sorts of exotic pumpkin, gourd, and squash plants, cucumber plants, 300 varieties of herbs, and yes, organically grown alpine strawberry plants. Plus a whole lot more…”

Market Special Events

Each week will feature a local non-profit organization, a local chef providing samples and recipes from the market, and a local artist. You can also look forward to a few “guest” book signings throughout the summer.

In the Kids’ Corner: kids’ yoga classes will be offered once monthly, beginning June 10, in an effort to teach kids about leading a healthy and active lifestyle.

Introducing a new membership program! Become a Friend of the Westport Market and receive weekly discounts and special offers from market vendors. Please look for Lori at the Market Master’s table to register to become a Friend of the Westport Market; cash or checks are accepted.

Guest Chef Program Schedule (remaining events)

August 12, Le Farm with Chef/Owner Bill Taibe

August 19, Main Course Catering with Chef Cecily Gans

August 26, The Mindful Chef with Chef Daniel Lanzilotta

September 2, Catch a Healthy Habit with Chef/Owners Glen Colello and Lisa Storch

September 9, Rizzuto’s Wood-Fired Kitchen with Chef Olivier Flosse

Ken Lewis is serious about his coffee. He has to be. He’s a partner and Chief Marketing Officer at Sun Coffee Roasters in Plainville, CT, a triple bottom line company just as dedicated to satisfying taste buds as it is to people, planet and profits. Sun imports the highest quality, organic Fair Trade coffee from all over the world, and then custom blends it for colleges, universities, wholesale suppliers and retailers including Stop ‘n Shop, Whole Foods and Big Y.

According to industry statistics, despite a recession the North American organic coffee market grew to $1.4 billion in sales in 2009, topping growth in the conventional coffee market and making it the most valuable imported organic product on the continent.

Sun Coffee Roasters is currently one of a handful of roasters in the country using a 100% Made in the USA, state of the art, energy-efficient roaster that incorporates computing technology designed to perfectly roast made-to-order blends for each customer, every time. Once roasted, the coffee beans are cooled, then either left whole or ground, packaged into brick or fractional packaging using environmentally friendly packaging film with a nitro valve to ensure freshness. Sun’s just in time inventory system is designed to get coffee to their customers within days of roasting to ensure a premium cup of coffee by the end consumer. According to Ken, coffee will begin to lose its freshness 12 days after being packaged.

Sun ships coffee in single pot fractional packaging bi-weekly to coffee distribution specialists who provide point of sale services to restaurants, hotels, coffee shops and business offices in the form of delivery, equipment and servicing. Ken stressed that these specialists help ensure the freshest and highest quality product for the end consumer.

Colleges and universities, however, constitute the bulk of their business and Sun offers a comprehensive program exclusive to this market that creates three different revenue streams for the school- margin on the coffee sold on campus, licensing fees, and a scholarship program - plus marketing and promotional support.  Under this private label program, colleges and universities create a custom label for their coffee that’s branded with their school’s logo and color scheme, enabling them to highlight their commitment to the organic Fair Trade movement. Sun Coffee Roasters not only pays the college a royalty for using the college name and logo on the label, but also donates a percentage of every pound of Sun Coffee Roasters coffee sold on campus to a university-controlled scholarship fund to promote sustainable living.

Sun works with schools to create point of sale collateral to promote organic Fair Trade coffee via education. An easel at the point of sale might talk about the organic Fair Trade movement and how it helps farmers move out of vicious cycles of poverty. Realizing that the economics of coffee, from bean to cup, would make great discussion in class, and furthering their commitment to encouraging dialog and education about sustainability, Sun Coffee Roasters is working on creating a Fair Trade curriculum for colleges  and universities in coordination with The Smithsonian Institute, TransFair USA, Utz Certified and ELAN Organic the program.  According to Ken, “coffee is one of the most highly traded commodities yet four multinational companies control 60% of the market. While prices have stagnated over the last 70 years, a cup of conventional coffee now sells for 10 times the price paid to farmers.”

Online at Sun Coffee Roasters’ University, students are invited to join their “Wake Up Your Campus” campaign. Here, students are empowered and rewarded for becoming a brand ambassador for Sun Coffee Roasters at their school and leading the charge to get students to sign a petition aimed at convincing school officials to offer Sun Coffee Roasters coffees on campus.

But how does it taste you ask? A recent, very professionally organized and run blind tasting of five organic French roasts published on Grist.com evoked some great responses from tasters including “It’s the only one I’d drink.” The panelists concluded that “freshly roasted stuff is best. So, if you are able and lucky, find yourself a small, local roaster.” Fellow coffee aficionados, consider ourselves lucky to have an organic Fair Trade roaster right in our state.

Find Sun Coffee Roasters online at www.suncoffeeroasters.com and on Facebook and Twitter. Ken Lewis, partner and Chief Marketing Officer, can be reached at 860-517-8163.

The Litchfield Saltwater Grille

Farm to Table Inspired Wine Dinner Series

presents…

March Farms Dinner (Bethlehem, CT)

featuring Certified Biodynamic Benziger  Wines

on Sunday August 8th at 3pm

Chef Albert Clugston III will prepare a five course farm fresh menu paired with four certified sustainable Benziger wines.  The menu will feature:

March Farms peaches, plums, nectarines, corn, blueberries, tomatoes, broccoli, and more!  As well as Local…

Farm Fresh Eggs, (Windswept Farm, Litchfield)

Arethusa Farm Dairy Products, (Litchfield)

Bantam Bread, (Bantam)*  Beltane Farm Artisan Cheese, (Lebanon)

Percy Thompson Meadows (Bethlehem)

Urban Oaks Organic Farm, (Kent) * Mountain View Farm (Kent)

Percy Thomson Meadows Farm (Bethlehem)

Mountaintop Mushrooms, (Waterbury) * Local Grass Fed Beef

Chef Albert Clugston III’s Organic Garden, ( Litchfield)

Call now for reservations 860-567-4900

Click here to learn about Benziger’s Green Farming practices.

Click here to view the complete menu.

The Litchfield Saltwater Grille

fine FOOD • WINE • ATMOSPHERE at its best

IN THE NEWS:

Pick up your copy of this months issue of Connecticut Magazine!

The cover story “Farm Dinners,”  by Elizabeth Keyser features

The Litchfield Saltwater Grille’s Farm to Table Dinner Series as one of Connecticut’s up and coming in this new trend.

Brett Clugston is invited to Fox CT to discuss the upcoming dinner series.  Check out the beautiful March Farms Tomatoes in the segment.

Click here to watch.

26 Commons Drive, Route 202, Litchfield, CT 06759

860.567.4900 swgcorporate@optonline.net

www.litchfieldsaltwatergrille.org

www.connecticutcaterers.org

Whole Foods Market Westport is Hosting a LOCAL Food Tasting Extravaganza

Tuesday, July 13th from 11:00am-3:00pm at:

Whole Foods Market

399 Post Road West

Westport, CT 06880

Summertime is when everything is in season for Connecticut. Come and taste how good products from your backyard really are!

From Maggie Trujillo, Market Master at the Rowayton Farmers’ Market.

Please join us this Friday, July 2, at the Farmer’s Market in Rowayton, Noon to 5.

It’s July 4^th Weekend and we have everything you need for the PERFECT PICNIC!  Please welcome Eagle Wood Farm and their naturally raised beef and pork available in a wide array of primal cuts and sausage.  They will bring Alaskan Wild Salmon too.

So there you have it, the best farm produce in Connecticut and pickles, butter, eggs, coffee, smoothies, chocolate, breads and baked goods, snacks, cheeses and condiments await you.  And bring home some potted plants, herbs, and vegetables, or some beautiful roses picked fresh from the farm.

If you need a gift or a little treat for yourself, the work by the artisans will also delight you. There will be two new artisans joining this week - Tie-Dye Mama’s and Abbey Road Designs

SURPRISE:  WE’LL HAVE PONIES FOR PETTING AT THE PARK THIS WEEK TOO, SO BRING THE KIDDIES!!!  (1-3 pm for the Ponies)

Happy July 4, from your friends at the Rowayton Farmer’s Market!

2010 ROWAYTON FARMERS, PRODUCERS AND ARTISANS

FARMERS AND PRODUCERS ATTENDING WEEKLY:

Artisan Made - Artisan Dairy, Goat, Sheep, and Cow Cheeses, featuring Beltane and Cato Farm Cheeses

Bake Local - Baked breakfast goods, snacks and desserts, using CT grown ingredients

Calcutta Kitchens - Chutneys and other Indian Delicacies

Dough Girl Baking Co. - Cookies, Cakes and Ice Cream Sandwiches

Eagle Wood Farms - Naturally Raised Beef and Pork in an array of primal cuts and sausages.  Wild caught Alaskan Salmon.

El’s Kitchen - Gourmet Dry Rubs for Grilling

Horman’s Best Pickles - Pickled Products Galore

Jonas White’s Better Butter - Herb and Infused Butters

Little Chocolate Company - Organic Chocolate and Biscottini

Maui Wowi Hawaiian Smoothies - Fresh Fruit Smoothies

Michele’s Pies - Pies and Baked Goods

Ola! - Hand-Crafted Natural Granola

Roses for Autism at Pinchback Farms- Fragrant, Sustainable Roses and Lilies Grown on a CT farm Employing Adults on the Autism Spectrum

St Ex - Artisan Bread, Mozzarella, Pesto, and Baked Desserts

Smith’s Acres - Produce, Orchard Fruit, Plants, Juices, Cut Flowers

Espresso Neat - Direct Trade Whole Beans and Artisan Iced Coffees and Teas

Vaszauskas Farm - Produce, Orchard Fruit, Plants, Eggs, Cut Flowers

Wave Hill Bread - Artisan Bread, Croutons, Crackers, Vinegars

ARTISANS ATTENDING BY APPOINTMENT:

Abbey Road Designs - Photography, Mixed Medium Art and Terrariums

April Marin - Women’s Custom Clothing

Designs by Rali - Gold, Silver, Gemstone Hand Made Jewelry

Lobster Co-op - Locally Inspired Clothing and Accessories

Maggie Coyne Jewelry - Hand Made Jewelry and Charms

M. Saverine Decoupage - Decoupage Plates

Oliver Green - D Ring Belts

Rose Curtin Design - Hand Sewn Gifts

Riverstone - Spirit lock and healing stone jewelry

Rugamarole - Recycled Textiles Made into Rugs, Blankets and More

Seaside Delights - Beach Themed Apparel and Accessories

Susan O’Neill Paintings - Paintings, Prints and Gifts

Soundview Millworks - Custom Wood Products

Townie Style - Custom Screened Local Art on Tees

Tie-Dye Mamas - Tie-Dyed Children’s Fashion

Zebedede - Appliqué Children’s Fashion and Home Goods

The Fairfield Green Food Guide is proud to co-sponsor this special event with Audubon Greenwich, Edible Advocates Alliance and the Fairfield Organic Teaching Farm. Thank you to Fairfield Bread Company for donating their artisan baguette, The Flaxette, to the wine and cheese reception and CT Farm Fresh Express for helping provide the local cheeses.

NEW! Sunset Meadow Vineyards in Goshen, CT, owned and operated by the Motel family, has generously donated their award-winning sustainable wines to the event and will be on hand to tell us more about them during the wine and cheese reception. Sunset Meadow Vineyards has been recognized as a 2010 Editors’ Choice in Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England. This designation is awarded by Yankee’s editors and contributors, who name select restaurants, lodgings, and attractions in New England to the exclusive list.

Wednesday, July 14
6:00 pm: Local Wine & Cheese Reception with Exhibitors
7:00 pm: Film Screening (83 min.)  & Panel Discussion

Made from the same elements as stars, plants, and human beings, dirt is very much alive. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, DIRT! The Movie introduces viewers to soil’s fascinating history and explores Earth’s most under-appreciated and valuable source of fertility. This insightful film tells the glorious story of the material beneath our feet - from its miraculous beginning to its tragic degradation. More than a film, it’s a call to action. To learn more about this amazing film, visit our Special Events page or visit: www.dirtthemovie.org.

RSVPs required and space is very limited. To secure your seats now, buy tickets online for $12/person or RSVP and pay $15.00 at the door, space permitting. To buy online, visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/114370. To RSVP, call Jeff at 203-869-5272 x239 to check door ticket availability.

Panel Discussion:

• Moderator: Analiese Paik - founder and editor of the Fairfield Green Food Guide website.
• Emily Brooks - founder of the Edibles Advocate Alliance/Shared Harvest CT and advocate for increasing awareness about the role of local & sustainable agriculture in human health.
• Jeff Cordulack - Environmental Council of Stamford (ECOS) President and Audubon’s Greenwich’s Events & Communications Manager.
• Annie Farrell - farm manager at Millstone Farm in Wilton, organic farm consultant, and a pioneer in the sustainable agriculture movement.
• Mike Nadeau - owner of Plantscapes Organics, LLC and one of the original developers of NOFA’s Organic Land Care standards.

Exhibitors:

• Edibles Advocates Alliance/Shared Harvest CT - a consultant for grass-roots, agricultural, and socially innovative organizations. (http://www.ediblesadvocatealliance.org/)
• Fairfield Green Food Guide - a free website dedicated to helping consumers source local and sustainably grown food and connecting with the green food community. (www.FairfieldGreenFoodGuide.com)
• Fairfield Organic Teaching Farm - A proposed working farm and organic educational center on town-owned land in Fairfield,CT.(http://www.fairfieldorganicteachingfarm.org/)
• Flaxette Bread Company - a local artisan bread company.
• Millstone Farm - an organic farm in Wilton owned by Betsy and Jesse Fink and run by Annie Farrell. (http://millstonefarm.org)
• Mike’s Organic Delivery - a farm-to-door, organic & local food delivery company servicing Greenwich and other nearby towns. (www.mikesorganicdelivery.com)
• Mow Green US - a lawn care company using ‘reel mowers’ to provide quiet, clean and green mowing at no additional cost. (www.mowgreen.us)
• Peter’s Garden - a supplier of ‘licorice root’ mulch for gardens.
• Plantscapes Organics Inc. - a NOFA accredited organic land care professional helping residents and businesses to green their properties. (www.plantscapeorganics.com)
• Red Bee Honey - a Wilton-based artisanal honey and honey-based skin care product producer practicing organic hive management. (www.redbee.com)
• Southfield Sustainable Community Platform - a year-round indoor/outdoor farmers’ market and eateries featuring locally grown, organic and epicurean gourmet foods in Stamford.

June 20, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Teresa Mucci

CT NOFA Event Coordinator

Email: Teresa@ctnofa.org

Phone: 203-888-5146

CONNECTICUT NOFA CELEBRATES ITS 10TH ANNUAL TASTE! ORGANIC FESTIVAL

CT NOFA will celebrate its 10th Annual TASTE! Organic Connecticut festival on September 19th at Manchester Community College, Great Path Road, Manchester, CT from 10 am to 4pm.

This year’s TASTE will highlight local and organic food as always but with a new twist by showcasing local celebrity chefs known for their work with local and organic food. Chef John Turenne, president of Sustainable Food Systems, and fresh from his recent TV appearance with “The Naked Chef” Jamie Oliver, will be designing this year’s NOFA food-booth menu. Seen Lippert, who was a chef at Chez Panisse for 11 years, will be working with John Turenne to create a diverse menu of Connecticut-grown foods, and will also host a workshop on using the abundance of your summer garden. New Haven celebrity chef Bun Lai, owner of Miya Sushi will teach a workshop and share his insights after his restaurant was named one of the top-ten sustainable restaurants in America.

There will be an opportunity to meet and greet the dynamic Severine von Tscharner Fleming, the founder of The Greenhorns, and see a sneak-peek screening of her new documentary, “The Greenhorns” about young farmers in America, as well as an archival film compilation of rare agricultural footage.

See:

www.thegreenhorns.net

www.serveyourcountryfood.net

www.youngfarmers.org

www.thegreenhorns.wordpress.com

Music will be by The Whiskey Boys, Trainwreck Jerry and Deborah Simmons throughout the day.

Attendees can shop at the Farmers’ Market and visit vendors of all kinds. Among the many activities there will be a Children’s Area with crafts, storytellers, games, pony rides and last year’s favorite - hoop dancing. There will be enchanting Environmental Theater by ART FARM for all ages at noon. Visit farm animals; go for a Bio-diesel tractor ride; see a state of the art “chicken tractor” that will make you want one. Choose to attend numerous free workshops and weed walks. Bid on a raffle of local products, services and much more.

Join us! And help support CT NOFA.

All this for a fee of $7 ($5 for NOFA members & MCC students and faculty).Children under 12 are FREE. More information at www.ctnofa.org, 203-888-5146 or contact Teresa@ctnofa.org