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Thursday, July 03 2008 @ 10:35 PM MST

2008 Gardeners' Swap Meets

Friday, May 23 2008 @ 04:19 PM MST
Contributed by: Jeremy
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FREE GARDENER'S SWAP MEETS
Do you have an excess of eggplants and a shortage of tomatoes? A plethora of peaches but a craving for apricots? Fill your ChicoBag (or container of choice) with your extra (but edible) home-grown fruits and/or veggies and SWAP them with another grower for something you like better. The swap meets are a free, weekly, community-building event sponsored by the Chico Food Network. Don' have a garden? No problem--wild blackberries, the fruit from neglected plum trees and the like are welcome as well, but please avoid picking from plants growing close to major roads.

Gardeners' Swap Meets will be held Wednesday evenings in Chico from June 4 to October 8. Biking or walking is recommended. As with last year, please plan on going home with at least as much produce as you arrive with. Unloading seven zucchini and taking a single plum is not nice.

For more information, email Jeremy Miller at jeremy(at)jeremymiller(dot)org

2008 SCHEDULE:

1ST Wednesday (6/4, 7/2, 8/6, 9/3, 10/1)
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. @ The Cause, 727 W. 4th Ave

2ND Wednesday (6/11, 7/9, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8)
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. @ the Chico Community Children's Center, 2224 Elm Street
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. @ the Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave (near Rodeo Ave)

3RD Wednesday (6/18, 7/16, 8/20, 9/17)
6:00 p.m. � 8:00 p.m. @ the Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway

4TH Wednesday (6/25, 7/23, 8/27, 9/24)
6:00 p.m. � 8:00 p.m. @ W 16th Street and Normal Ave

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Good Food, Good Business
Preparing for the conference - check out this short video;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySskJR-a0S4&NR>

Real Food Dinner Fun

Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 07:58 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 192

Emily Alma is presented with her "Woman of the Year Award" for her work as founder of Community Collaborative for Youth. Luisa Garza presented her with the award while Richard Roth looks on. Richard Hirshen, CFN Board President had presented CCY with a $500.00 earlier this year.

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Growing Healthy Kids

Thursday, October 18 2007 @ 11:16 AM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
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The public is invited to a Professional growth nutrition workshop & dinner for parents, child care providers & teachers on Thursday, November 8th from 5:30 to 9:00 PM. Featured Speaker will be Dr. Cindy Wolff, Director of Opt for Fit Kids.

Suggested donation is only $5.00 and includes a special dinner prepared by Nutrition Educator and Chef - Eartha Shanti. Kids (with parent) are welcome and eat freee!

Additional Speaker/Demonstrator are Danielle Baker, Butte Co. Ag Extension - Master Gardener; Debra Abbott, Dardens in the Classroom After-School Teacher, and Earth Shanti, Nutriion Activist, Instructor, and the evening's Chef

Feature Video presentation will be "The Greates Diet on Earth by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, authro of "Disease Proof Your Child".

Location is the Chico Grante Hall, 2775 (Old) Nord Ave..

This is a child friendly event so bring the kids!

Reserve your ticket by November 7th! Call Chico Community Children's Center 891-5363 or come by the office at 2224 Elm Street, Chico. The event is hosted by Chico Community Children's Center in collaboration with the Chico Food Network.

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Real Food Dinner - November 3rd!

Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 03:27 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 247

The Chico Food Network is hosting our 4th Annual Real Food Dinner Saturday November 3rd at 5:30 pm at Grilla Bites in the Garden Villa at 196 Cohassett Road in Chico.

Dinner tickets are $25.00 and can be purchased at Grill Bites in the Garden Villa or by contacting

Jillian Buckholz. Email: jbuckholz@csuchico.edu

Slow Food Shasta Cascade Dinner

Wednesday, October 03 2007 @ 09:04 AM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 220

October 14th is the date. $5.00 from the sale of each ticket goes to support the Grange. Tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com. Click twice on image to view full size.

Slow Food Shasta Cascade, Chico Sustainability Group and the Chico Grange Hall invite you to enjoy
Harvest the Flavor of Fall!

Come celebrate the end of summer's bounty and the first harvest of fall by tasting an array of delectable local products prepared by Chico's finest chefs and caterers! Food will be available for munching and grazing from 4PM on. Local brew and wine tasting too! Live music by Steve Johnson and Lyn Brown. Come early to mingle through the Sustainable Food Info Salon and learn more about the local programs creating a more sustainable food community.
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When: Sunday, October 14th, 2007 - 4-8PM
Where: Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Nord Ave (old Nord Hwy)
Tickets: $30 general, $25 for members of Slow Food, Grange and Chico Sustainability Group, $10 for ages 12 and under, or kids free if wearing a food inspired costume!
**Tickets available at Lyon Books, Zucchini & Vine and www.brownpapertickets.com***
Details: If possible, please bring your own non-disposable dinnerware to reduce our waste - plates will be available if needed; carpools encouraged.

For questions contact Noelle at (530) 894-5194.
www.slowfoodshastacascade.org

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CCY receives $500.00 donation from Chico Food Network

Friday, September 14 2007 @ 03:22 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 190

This year's annual Chico Food Network $500 gift/donation to a community organization goes to the CCY (www.ccychico.org), Chico's Community Collaborative for Youth, a 501c3 non-profit that counsels and creatively supports our community's at-risk youth. The funds will be primarily used for obesity and nutrition education; kitchen improvements; and an already-begun Edible Schoolyard.

In addition to the gift/donation, Emily Alma, the Director of the CCY is being honored as the Chico Food Network's Woman of the Year, for her years of community service through the CCY. Emily is stepping down from her directoship this autumn and we are honored to be recognizing her.

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The Eat Well Guided Tour...coming to Chico

Monday, July 23 2007 @ 05:42 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 261

The Eat Well Guided Tour of America

August 2 � September 8, 2007 You are where you eat!
Food & Water Watch and Sustainable Table cordially invite you to
The Eat Well Guided Tour
...coming to Chico for a Movie Night with Pie & Local Dessert Wines! Where: Chico Women's Club, 592 E. 3rd Street When: Sunday, 7�10PM What's Showing: The Meatrix & Eat At Bill's Join Sustainable Table as we visit Chico on our cross-country tour to celebrate local, sustainable food and the small family farmers that help make it happen! Special guests include Diane Hatz, producer of
The Meatrix

http://www.youtube.com/v/HM0lEcg8ynA
and Executive Director of Sustainable Table along with several local farmers...the real food celebrities! Free admission with a suggested donation of $5 to $50. Fundraiser for the local Chico Grange Hall revitalization.

Chico Farm to School Idea Gets A Boost

Wednesday, July 11 2007 @ 09:33 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 245

Lauri Niles and Karen Goodwin inspect a possible space for a Farm to School Program distribution center. Lauri approached Maria of the Red Tavern Restaurant about the idea and she is tentatively offering the space as a possible resource for such a project if the front part of the building can be rented out to defray the costs.

Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America

Tuesday, June 26 2007 @ 08:40 AM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 281

Written by Alice Friedemann
Released April 10, 2007

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peak Soil: Why Cellulosic ethanol and other Biofuels are Not Sustainable and are a Threat to America�s National Security

Part 1. The Dirt on Dirt.
Part 2. The Poop on Ethanol: Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROEI)
Part 3. Biofuel is a Grim Reaper.
Part 4. Biodiesel: Can we eat enough French Fries?
Part 5. If we can�t drink and drive, then burn baby burn. - Energy Crop Combustion
Part 6. The problems with Cellulosic Ethanol could drive you to drink.
Part 7. Where do we go from here?
Appendix
Department of Energy's Biofuel Roadmap Barriers
References

Editor's note: There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann�s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way.

The author looks ahead to post-petroleum living with considered conclusions: "Biofuels have yet to be proven viable, and mechanization may not be a great strategy in a world of declining energy." And, "�only a small amount of biomass (is) unspoken for" by today�s essential economic and ecological activities. To top it off, she points out, "Crop production is reduced when residues are removed from the soil. Why would farmers want to sell their residues?" Here�s an Oh- god-she-nailed-it zinger: "As prices of fertilizer inexorably rise due to natural gas depletion, it will be cheaper to return residues to the soil than to buy fertilizer." Looking further along than most of us, Alice has among her conclusions: "It�s time to start increasing horse and oxen numbers, which will leave even less biomass for biorefineries." - JL

Time to Act on the 2007 Farm Bill!

Monday, May 21 2007 @ 03:27 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 242

Support Healthy, Affordable, Local and Regional Foods from Family Farms in Underserved Urban and Rural Areas.

Update:
As many of you know, there is a lot of action happening on Capitol Hill right now related to the Farm Bill. House Chairman Peterson is releasing parts of his �mark� as the subcommittees meet to write their own parts of the Farm Bill. The first two subcommittees will release their ideas next week. A number of bills have been introduced in both the US House and Senate that promote access to healthy foods for all people in the United States and create new, profitable markets for small and mid-sized family farmers and ranchers.

The healthy foods sections of these bills work to increase the availability and affordability of healthy and fresh foods through existing nutrition programs, increasing fruits and vegetables in schools, promoting urban agriculture, removing barriers that have kept local farmers from selling products to schools, and supporting value-added agriculture and farmers markets.

Two bills that were introduced on May 17 are more focused on healthy, local foods: Local Food and Farm Support Act, H.R. 2364 introduced by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR, 3rd) and FOOD for a Healthy America Act, S. 1432 introduced by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY).Talking points for various issues in these bills are below.

Your voice is critical � here are a few simple things to do before June 4: (Click on "read more".)