Bribes from Kraft Employee Lets Tomato Vendor Sell Tainted Food
By Robin McDermott, on February 26th, 2010
The New York Times reports that Robert Watson, a top ingredient buyer for Kraft Foods, needed $20,000 to pay his taxes, so he called a broker for a California tomato processor that for years had been paying him bribes to get its products into Kraft’s plants. Days after the money was sent, federal agents descended on Kraft’s offices near Chicago and confronted Watson. He admitted his role in a bribery scheme that has laid bare a startling vein of corruption in the food industry. And because the scheme also involved millions of pounds of tomato products with high levels
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Did You Miss Andrew Meyer’s Presentation on Hardwick?
By Robin McDermott, on February 19th, 2010
Good news! You can see the entire presentation including the really fabulous Q&A session after the talk right on Channel 44 – Mad River Television. This week (February 20, 23 and 25) you can see it at 12:10pm or 8:10pm.
Charlie Nardozzi – Eat Your Landscape Presentation
By Robin McDermott, on February 16th, 2010
You’ve heard him on the radio, seen him on TV, now meet him in person!
Vermont’s own Charlie Nardozzi
Senior Horticulturist for the National Gardening Association
Eat Your Landscape!
March 11, 2010
6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Montpelier High School
Montpelier, VT
Sponsored by: Central Vermont Master Gardeners, chapter of the
University of Vermont Extension Master Gardeners
Suggested donation at the door:
$5.00 per person or food for the Vermont Food Bank
Why grow trees, shrubs, and flowers that are just beautiful, when you
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Cool Summer Cooking Opportunity at Center for Whole Communities!
By Robin McDermott, on February 10th, 2010
Whole Foods Chef Position
Knoll Farm
Waitsfield, Vermont
We offer a fantastic opportunity for one or two experienced chefs to produce creative meals, using all locally grown, organic foods, for educational gatherings of leaders of environmental and social change organizations. Center for Whole Communities in a nonprofit educational organization which convenes retreats throughout the summer for environmental and social change leaders. We are based at Knoll Farm, a 400-acre organic farm in the Mad River Valley of central Vermont. Each week-long retreat includes 25 adults, and serving locally grown, whole foods is a major element of what we teach.
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Souper Bowl eBay Auction – Time is Running Out!
By Nancy Baron, on January 28th, 2010
We have the final two pairs of tickets up on eBay. The lucky auction winners will walk in the door with two of the hardest tickets to get in the Valley, with a handful of raffle tickets to start off their evening. I just checked this morning and both auctions are sitting very close to cost, $60 for 2 x $20 tickets + $20 in raffle tickets. It’s a great deal that supports a few of our favorite causes! THE AUCTIONS EXPIRE LATER TODAY:
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=localvores+souper+bowl&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=localvore+souper+bowl&_osacat=0
Waterbury Winter Farmers Market – This Saturday!
By Robin McDermott, on January 22nd, 2010
Waterbury Winter Farmers’ market Saturday, 10 – 2
Waterbury Winter Farmers’ Market at TBPS Cafeteria on Sat., January 23rd
Vermont farm products, prepared foods and crafts will be sold at the Waterbury Winter Farmers’ Market on Saturday, Jan. 23rd at the TBPS cafeteria from 10am to 2pm.
The acoustic folk-rock duo, Dan Haley is Mr. Casual, will be playing from 10am to 1pm. A kids’ craft table will be set up for making winter-themed crafts, 10am to 2pm. And, the Children’s Room will also be open and staffed from 9:30am to 11:00am.
New products
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Learn about Vegetable Fermentation this weekend at the Capital City Farmers’ Market
By Robin McDermott, on January 14th, 2010
LEARN ABOUT VEGETABLE FERMENTATION: DEMOS – UNUSUAL KRAUTS, AND KIMCHEE-MAKING DEMO FROM NOON TO 1:00 PM
Contact person: Carolyn Grodinsky, 223-2958. manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com
Come to the Capital City Farmers market on Saturday January 16th and learn from the experts about different ways to ferment food. From small-scale, first-time beginners to larger-scale commercial operators making food in big batches, you’ll learn a process that fits your needs. Staff will be on hand from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to show the basic equipment needed, to teach the nutritional health benefits of fermented foods, and to hand out samples of
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Sandor Katz Wild Fermentation Video Now Available!
By Robin McDermott, on January 8th, 2010
Hey you fermentation fetishists…check out this fabulous video of Sandor Katz doing a fermentation workshop right here in the Mad River Valley. Many thanks to Chelsea Green for this fabulous information and for bringing Sandor here to the valley.
Curious about how Sandor’s Kimchi turned out? You can taste it at the Souper Bowl – but only if you have tickets…they are going fast!
2009 – A good year for locally grown food in the Mad River Valley!
By Robin McDermott, on January 7th, 2010
Originally appeared in the Valley Reporter, December 23, 2009
Despite the devastating late blight disease that wiped out just about every tomato plant in the Valley this summer, Localvores should be feeling pleasantly satiated with the increasing availability of locally grown food that 2009 brought to the Mad River Valley. This year, the Mad River Valley Localvore Project released the first edition of their Foodshed Map featuring 25 agricultural enterprises ranging from cheesemaking to vegetable farms to fledgling vineyards. The Localvores plan to produce a new edition of the map for 2010 because several new
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