Slow Food Lake Tahoe Dine Around Truckee

From my inbox to you:

Slow Foods Lake Tahoe presents "Dine-Around"

Pick up your ticket and visit all five of our participating host restaurants / wine houses for an evening of "Dining Around" downtown Truckee.

You will find a different taste of local and seasonal foods at each location paired with a nice wine to compliment each dish. Tastes happen at Dragonfly, Pianetta, Pacific Crest, Moody's Bistro and The Pour House.

Thursday, December 4th 6pm - 9pm
Tickets go on sale at The Pour House (10075 Jiboom St. , Truckee) starting November 19th thru Dec. 4th.

Slow Food Member Price: $70
Non Slow Food Member Price: $80
One ticket is good at all five stops for five appetizers and five paired glasses of wine

Lattin Farms Cornucopia of Corn

Here's a great family event! From my inbox to you:

Another harvest season has passed and the Lattin Farms Corn Maze is done for the year. Now, what will Farmer Rick do with all that corn? Give it away! Join us for corn picking & corn milling (on an antique corn mill) so you can take home as much corn meal as you can carry!

When: Saturday, December 13th from 10-3 pm
Where: Lattin Farms, 1955 McLean Rd, Fallon, NV 89406
For information, call 775.747.3910 or contact the River School.

Bring gloves and bags!

Custom Gardens Farm Holiday Open House at the Farm

Ray and Virginia at Custom Gardens are offering opportunities to come out to their place this holiday season. Learn something, buy something, or get a peek at the farm this very popular CSA program comes from. From my inbox to you:


HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AT THE FARM scheduled.
Silver Springs:

Custom Gardens Farm owners, Ray and Virginia Johnson are planning to greet weekend (Saturday and Sunday) shoppers, starting Saturday November 22 and ending on Sunday, December 21. Open House at the farm is scheduled from 10 AM to 2 PM. The Organic Produce farm is located at 3701 Elm Street in Silver Springs.

The Holiday Open House, at the farm, is to show and teach visitors hoop house production, what will grow in North-Western Nevada during off-season, and to show the various ways people can be involved with a local farm, not just during the summer months, but also from fall through winter and spring.

Featured and available for sale -- for the 5 weekends, (from pre-Thanksgiving to the Dec. 21 winter solstice) will be; a large variety of hoop-house grown Greens and “Roots”, (for salads, soups, stews and stir-fries) living herbs, Kamut wheat grass, micro-greens pots and trays, other edible treats for people and pets plus floral gift ideas, from the farm’s nursery.

To benefit a local food program, visitors, and shoppers are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items or make a cash donation in the farm’s “food-bank” - to be given to a community food program for holiday meal baskets.

For more information, please call the farmers, Ray or Virginia Johnson at: 775-577-2069. Information on the farm’s various programs, including CSA membership for 2009, is also available via snail mail or Email, upon request.

Find out what Nevada farmers and local food advocates are up to!

Nevada farmers, community members, and advocate groups have been working diligently to rebuild Nevada’s food production infrastructure. NCFMA, NevadaGrown, and groups like the Local Food Network are among those leading the way. Here’s an opportunity to learn what some of our most dedicated local food advocates have been up to.

Whether you’re a farmer, a wanna-be micro-farmer, or one of many who want access to tasty, fresh, local food, join us at the annual NCFMA meeting. Listen and learn, or join Local Food Network or NCFMA to help make abundant local food part of our Nevada lifestyle. See the full tentative agenda below.


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
Lattin Farms, 1955 McLean Rd, Fallon
(775) 867-3750 for directions

Attend the annual meetings for the Nevada Certified Farmers Market Association
(NCFMA) & NevadaGrown Farmers Association and discover what we can do
for you. Enjoy a complimentary lunch made fresh at Lattin Farms, meet your
peers and take advantage of great networking opportunities.

RSVP (775) 351-2551 or
markets@nevadagrown.com
NCFMA & NevadaGrown annual membership meetings & luncheon

10:30-noon NCFMA annual membership meeting *
Noon-1:00 Complimentary lunch with presentation by Rick Lattin,
NevadaGrown & Shelli Fine, Reno Redevelopment Agency
1:00 - 2:30 NevadaGrown annual membership
Join us at the farm
TENTATIVE AGENDA - Nevada Certified Farmers’ Market Association
10:30 a.m. - noon
Call to Order
Approval of minutes for 2007 annual meeting
Treasurer’s Report

Old Business:
• Update on Charles Schwab grant and West Street Market
• Status of vendor fees from Nevada state health department
• NevadaGrown website

New Business
• Election of board of directors for 2009/2010 term
• NV Dept of Agriculture update – Peggy McKie
• Updates from market managers on new & existing markets
• New policy for farmers markets managed by NCFMA, i.e., 2007 downtown Reno, 2008 Whole Foods
• Suggestions for consumer education projects
• Upcoming conferences & workshops (NAFDMA Feb 1-7, Savannah, GA)
• SFMNP & St. Mary’s WIC coupon programs – 2009 update
• Earth Day 2009 & other events – NCFMA participation
• Specialty Crop Institute educational workshops
• Other business

TENTATIVE AGENDA - NevadaGrown
November 21, 2008, 1:00 -2:30pm
Call to Order
Treasurer’s Report
New Business
• Update on NevadaGrown – changes & nonprofit status
• Appointment of bylaw committee
• Announcement of grant for Specialty Crop Institute agricultural workshops
• Suggestions for use of NevadaGrown marketing grant from Nevada Dept of
Agriculture
• Website updates
• Events – Earth Day, Women’s Expo, others?

Other business
Adjourn meeting
• Adjourn meeting

Order now for January 2009 chickens from Rise and Shine Farms

Rise and Shine Farms in Fallon is taking orders now for chickens to be delivered in January. Now's your chance to get the first local chickens of 2009.

Contact Rise and Shine Farms by November 15, 2008 to get your order in. Make sure you let them know whether you want broilers or game hens.

Mike says it is not necessary to pay right now; just drop an email and let them know how many you want. You'll be invoiced a week before delivery.

If you'd like to order and pay with your ATM/credit card right now go here.

Or, you can send a check payable to Rise and Shine Farms and mail it to:

Rise and Shine Farms
6166 Lakeview Dr
Fallon, NV 89406

For more information visit their poultry page. And bonus! Rise and Shine Farms delivers to the Reno/Sparks area.