June 2009 Events

Slow Food Huron Valley Leadership Meeting
Friday, June 5, 7:30-9:00am, Zingerman's Next Door, Upstairs
Everyone is welcome to attend monthly leadership team meetings, and we encourage you to think about joining the team or leading a project or committee!

Field Trip to Calder Dairy
Sunday, June 14, 3:00pm, Calder Dairy in Carleton, Michigan
Meet to carpool at 2:00pm at the Community High parking lot near Zingerman's. Please RSVP to: natashak@umich.edu
June is Michigan Dairy Month so we're observing the great tradition of dairying with a field trip to the excellent Calder Dairy. Family owned and run, Calder still delivers milk to your doorstep and they still put their milk in glass bottles because it tastes better.

Calder says their tours include: milking a cow, feeding a calf a bottle of milk, feeding the goats, a hay ride and an ice cream cone from a choice of 43 flavors of farm made ice cream. Tour cost approximately $8.25 per person.

See more tour information, including a map, here: http://calderdairy.com/visit_the_farm.htm

July 2009 Events

Slow Food Huron Valley Leadership Meeting
Friday, July 3, 7:30-9:00am, Zingerman's Next Door, Upstairs
Everyone is welcome to attend monthly leadership team meetings, and we encourage you to think about joining the team or leading a project or committee!

3rd Annual Pie Lovers Unite!
Saturday, July 25, 7:00-9:00pm, Ladies Literary Club, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Slow Food Huron Valley announces our 3rd Annual Pie Lovers Unite! celebrating local, sustainable food and our food community at an old-fashioned hootenanny glorifying Great Michigan Pie.

This event honors pie-making traditions in Michigan by inviting people to bake, bring, share, and taste pies made by hand by the great pie-makers of our area. Started as part of the Sustainable Table’s Pie Across America/Eat Well Guided Tour across the United States, Pie Lovers Unite! is now in its third year and we're expecting a sell-out crowd.

We’re celebrating our food traditions and putting our region on the map as a place where people are working together to reinvigorate our local food system and community. When the theme is PIE it doesn’t get much better. We’re planning a pie walk, a pie contest with prizes, recipe swap, pie music, pie quotes, and of course PIE EATING - all with a focus on what’s local, sustainable, and delicious! And once again this year - our Pie-ku contest. Bring your haiku with a pie theme or dream one up while you’re in the presence of dozens of fabulous pies. New this year: Pie Charts!

We need a big bunch of volunteers to help: email kimbayer@gmail.com to sign on!

August 2009 Events

Slow Food Huron Valley Leadership Meeting
Friday, August 7, 7:30-9:00am, Zingerman's Next Door, Upstairs
Everyone is welcome to attend monthly leadership team meetings, and we encourage you to think about joining the team or leading a project or committee!

September 2009 Events

Slow Food Huron Valley Leadership Meeting
Friday, September 4, 7:30-9:000am, Zingerman's Next Door, Upstairs
Everyone is welcome to attend monthly leadership team meetings, and we encourage you to think about joining the team or leading a project or committee!

Slow Food "Time for Lunch" National Potluck
Labor Day, Monday, September 7, Time and location for our potluck TBD
Everyone is invited to this potluck in support of healthy food in schools and real food for our kids. Currently less than $1 per child per day is spent on the food that feeds our kids in schools. Because of the lack of funds, schools have to use the lowest quality commodity foods and often allow processed food and sodas from vending machines. This has contributed to an epidemic of health problems and obesity among our children nationwide.

We're joining together to ask congress to re-authorize the Child Nutrition Act in 2009 to include an additional $1 per day per child to be spent on real, healthy food. Please get in touch with us about how you or your organization can get involved in our area. Email leadership@slowfoodhuronvalley.com

Second Annual HomeGrown Festival
Saturday, September 12, 5:00-10:00pm, Ann Arbor Farmers' Market, Kerrytown
Once again, celebrating our local food, farms, and community. More information at: http://homegrownfestival.org

October 2009 Events

Slow Food Huron Valley Visit to Al-Mar Orchard and Westwind Milling
Sunday, October 11, 9:00am-3:00pm (approximately), Meeting for rides TBD
We'll be visiting two of the best organic producers in our state - Al-Mar Orchard for organic apples and cider and Westwind Milling for organic flour and other grains. Details TBD.

Local Farmer's Markets

Download "CSA Farms and Markets" Brochure

Ann Arbor Farmer's Market, 315 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI

Saturdays 7am - 3pm AND Wednesdays 7am - 3pm, May - December (Saturdays only December - May)

Chelsea Farmer's Market, Park St, Chelsea, MI

Saturdays 8am - 12pm, May - October

Jewett Street Market, 1289 Jewett St., Ann Arbor, MI - New in 2007

Thursdays 5 - 7pm, beginning June 21, benefits Clonlara School

West Side Farmer's Market, in the parking lot of Zingerman's Roadhouse, corner of Jackson and Maple Rds., Ann Arbor, MI

Thursdays 3pm -7pm, June - September

Ypsilanti Farmer's Market, Historic Depot Town, 641 Rice St., Ypsilanti, MI

Saturdays 8am - 3pm, Wednesdays 10am - 2pm, May - November

Downtown Ypsilanti Farmer's Market, Key Bank parking lot, at Michigan Ave. and Hamilton, Ypsilanti, MI

Tuesdays 2 - 6pm, starting in May 2007

Michigan Farmer's Market Association

http://www.farmersmarkets.msu.edu