The Ultimate Local Food: Growing Your Own
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Date: |
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Thursday February 1 |
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Time: |
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6pm |
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Location: |
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The East Warren
Schoolhouse/Rootswork |
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Type of Event: |
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Potluck and discussion
about growing your own food
(please see important info
below about potlucks) |
Rootswork,
Inc. is a non-profit organization devoted to protecting,
promoting, and nurturing agriculture in the Mad River
Valley. Their mission is to plan and implement a working
model for community-based sustainable food systems and
to provide services and resources for others with
similar interests.
As a resource
to the community, Rootswork helps people interested in
growing their own food get started with gardening.
In addition to offering community gardens (garden plots
that individuals rent for the season to grow their own
vegetables/fruits, and herbs), this year they will be
starting a program called A Year in the Garden.
A Year in the Garden is a program that will bring
together 10 to 12 people interested in learning more
about the full cycle of growing their own food from
planning to planting, tending to harvesting, and finally
preserving.
During this
potluck dinner, representatives from Rootswork will
discuss the programs they are offering as well as answer
general gardening questions including when should you
start your garden, what should you plant, and how do you
get started.
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IMPORTANT
INFORMATION ABOUT THE POTLUCKS
- Please do not plan on kitchen
facilities to cook, heat, or chill foods
that you bring to the potluck.
There should be electric outlets at all
potluck sites so you may use a hot
plate, crock pot, etc.
- Bring your own eating utensils,
plates, bowls, cups, etc. We will have
some available for those who do not
bring their own, but that will mean that
they need to be washed and dried, etc.
We are trying to keep extra work to a
minimum and we are also trying not to
use earth un-friendly disposables.
- We will have a donation box at every
event and encourage you to bring an
offering of a non-perishable item or
fresh storage vegetables such as locally
grown potatoes, carrots, turnips.
We will be donating these items each day
to the Mad River Valley Food Shelf.
- Donations from the Hunger Moon Feast
will go to the Mad River Valley Food
Shelf.
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