Join Slow Food Northumberland Shore to learn about local sheep raising for fiber and meat, hear about cooperative approaches to marketing lamb and enjoy a convivial meal of local goodness.

When/Where: Sunday June 10, 2012

11:00am Ruth and Greta Mathewson’s Upperbrook Farm (www.woolies.ca )

989 Upper Brookside Road, Central North River, Colchester County, NS

1:00pm Brookside Abattoir and Northumberlamb Lamb Marketing Co-Op (‘northumberlamb@gmail.com’)

24 Brookside Branch Road, Bible Hill, Colchester County, NS

3:00pm Brenda Leenders and Ian MacHattie’s home 84 Fairview Drive, Truro, NS (893-4197)

for a Lamb Roast out of their wood-fired outdoor cobb oven and a Vegetarian Mezza!

Cost: $15/Slow Food Members, $25/Non-members (max 30 participants) CASH ONLY – EXACT CHANGE!

RSVP: sfnsns@gmail.com by Friday June 8th 2012

Notes:

1) Fine Wool products will be available for sale at the Upperbrook Farm

2) Northumberlamb is offering a Slow Food Deal on Frozen Lamb Chops!

- 45 per box. Sold for $12.99 per kg ($5.90/lbs.)

- Each box is weighed and is about 5-6 kg per box- so about $70-$75 per box

- payment with cash or personal cheque only – Bring your cooler/icepacks

3) For the meal – Please bring your own beverages, dishes, cups, utensils and lawn chairs if you have and want ‘em

Directions: From Truro – Take highway #311 North 8.3km; Turn right onto Upper Brookside Road. The farm is approx. 250 meters on the right, immediately after crossing the bridge.

Excerpts from the film may be screened here.

It is available for purchase for $10 plus shipping by emailing mail@slowfoodns.ca

It is also available for free as a loaner through the Nova Scotia Library system

After two extremely successful years, Slow Food Nova Scotia is back with its third annual Spring Supper. Billed as the down home, no fuss, culinary event of the season, this year’s dinner will feature 11 of the region’s top chefs working together to bring you a staggering 7-course, locally-sourced Nova Scotian church supper unlike any other! All courses will be paired with Nova Scotian wines. Local food producers, brewers, vintners and foodies alike will round out this incredible evening. This event is open to the public.

Participating Chefs/Restaurants include:

Chefs Craig Flinn (Chives Canadian Bistro),

Dennis Johnston (Fid Resto),

Roland Glauser (Charlotte Lane Café),

Renée Lavallée (The Feisty Chef),

Chris Velden (The Flying Apron Cookery),

Jason Lynch (Le Caveau),

Earlene Busch (Chanterelle Country Inn),

Martin Ruiz Salvador (Fleur de Sel),

Luis Clavel (Atlantica Hotel)

Zane Kelsall & Tara MacDonald (Two If By Sea Café).

This is a remarkable volunteer effort as all the chefs, servers & organizers donate their time and work collectively towards spreading the Slow Food ethos of good, clean and fair local food for all.

The Details:

• When: Saturday, May 5th, 2012

• Where: Christ Church Community Center, Lower Level, 61 Dundas Street, Dartmouth,  just up from the Ferry

• Tickets $85 each ($75 Slow Food members) + HST, available at Chives Canadian Bistro, Brooklyn Warehouse & Two If By Sea Café (Dartmouth location) Cash or cheque, in-person only.

• Ticket price includes the 7-course dinner paired with Nova Scotian wines

• Cash bar during reception (Garrison Brewing & a Nova Scotian signature cocktail created by Ironworks Distillery)

• Reception 6:30PM, Dinner 7:00PM Start

• 145 people (plus volunteers approx. 155)

• Main contacts: Craig Flinn (chefcraig@chives.ca) & George Christakos

(g.l.christakos@gmail.com).

Terra Madre and Salone Del Gusto

October 25-29, 2012

Torino Italy

 Invitation for SF members to apply for delegate status at Terra Madre and for Producers to Display at Salone Del Gusto 2012

This year, Terra Madre and the Congress are open to the public. Terra Madre is a biennial Slow Food event in Turin, Italy, that unites more than 5,000 producers, cooks, academics and activists creating a parallel system of food production and distribution. The Congress is the gathering of leaders representing the grassroots movement in their communities. Salone del Gusto is a public event that welcomes over 200,000 visitors over five days – a feast of the best – artisan, Ark of Taste and Presida products globally.

This is a two pronged invitation:

Slow Food Nova Scotia – mainland will have the opportunity to send 4 or possibly 5 delegates to Terra Madre. This means that you are a guest of Slow Food and your entrance fees, daily meals and accomodations are taken care of. Observer status is also available but only covers your admission fees to the event.

IF YOU ARE A CURRENT SLOW FOOD MEMBER AND ARE INTERESTED IN DELEGATE (or observer) STATUS, PLEASE EMAIL ME BY April 30th

Also, as Salone Del Gusto and Terra Madre are being combined into one event this year, Slow Food Canada has been asked to invite food producers from across Canada to exhibit at Salone Del Gusto. If you are a producer looking for new markets and a chance to show off your product to a potential 200,000 visitors please contact. There may some provincial support for this initiative – I am in early discussions with several Provincial Ministries to see about a collaborative effort to bring Nova Scotia products and producers to Torino

Sunday, Nov 27. 

with Chris Velden and Rupert Jannasch, in the Packing Shed at Ironwood Farm, 5184 Hwy 215, Summerville, Hants County. Includes a pork loin lunch.

The day starts at 11 am, with Chris showing us how he takes a pig apart and then how he makes sausage, salami, and prosciutto. You will be able to pre-order small quantities of these products and will get delivery once they are ready in 3-7 months!

It could be chilly in the packing house so this may take a bit of stamina or some warm clothing!

Please sign up for this event; sheilastevenson17@gmail.com There is space for 25 people.

$24 for members; $25 for non members

The Ecology Action Centre is conducting a root cellar tour on Saturday, November 26. We will be touring three different root cellars in HRM. The event is free of charge, but pre-registration is required as space is limited.

We will be starting at 3 pm sharp at the Ecology Action Centre at 2705 Fern Lane, Halifax. We will then be carpooling to two root cellars in HRM, returning to the EAC to visit our root cellar and ending with a potluck. You can register online here: http://www.ecologyaction.ca/content/root-cellar-tour

You can check out photos from last year’s tour here: http://adventuresinlocalfood.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/my-sunday-spent-underground/

Also, our second round of community root cellar funding has just opened. Read more here: http://www.ecologyaction.ca/content/community-root-cellar-funding-%E2%80%93-proposals-accepted-until-december-12

on Open Farm Day, September 18, 2011.

Check out her blog for her memories and photos

September 18

Ramble in Bramble Corner

Slow Food board member and entomologist, Rob Smith, will host us for an informal tour at the 20-acre family farm near Aylesford that has been in his family for 3 generations. He tells us: The farm has been in orchard since the late 1800s…….we have a few heritage trees of considerable vintage still in production, about 12 different apple varieties (including the Gravenstein) over 15 acres, a few pear, plum, cherry, peach. As well as vine crops……..melons, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, strawberry, raspberry,blackberry, hascap. We sell most of the tree fruit crop through Scotian Gold CoOP, and Kent CoOP as well as farm gate.

Time: 2pm till 4pm

Please let us know you`re coming (sheilastevenson17@gmail.com) so we have enough juice and Gravenstein apple cake for everyone! Remember to tuck a spoon and plate in your gear!

Find Bramble Corner Produce at:

Bramble Corner Produce

1584 Victoria Harbour Road

R.R. # 3

AYLESFORD, NS