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Sunday, September 05 2010 @ 11:20 AM MST

Slow Food Shasta Cascade Dinner

Wednesday, October 03 2007 @ 09:04 AM MST
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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

Time to Act on the 2007 Farm Bill!

Monday, May 21 2007 @ 03:27 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 829

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".)

eight weeks of hard human labor

Sunday, May 13 2007 @ 07:00 AM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
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As the world passes peak oil production we will again be "subject to the net-energy principle: it takes energy to get energy from the environment, and costs have to be subtracted from gross yields." Richard Heinberg, in his 2006 E. F. Schumacher Society lecture, says "we've been living on virtually free energy for the past two hundred years." He invites us to "imagine pushing our car twenty or thirty miles," the distance that car could travel on one gallon of gasoline. "That," he says, "[is] the energy equivalent of roughly six to eight weeks of hard human labor." What the abundant energy of fossil fuels has facilitated is the mechanization of every imaginable process, including farming.

With peak oil--according to some analysts--in sight, the industrial agricultural model is looking increasingly unsustainable. As Heinberg states, ours is a "food system profoundly vulnerable at every level, to fuel shortages and skyrocketing prices. Both are inevitable."

"Is it possible," he asks, "that a solution lies…in deliberately de-industrializing production but doing so intelligently, using information we have gained from the science of ecology as well as from traditional and indigenous farming methods?" He believes that it is possible, and in fact, imperative that we apply such an approach.

With the Special Period in Cuba as reference, Heinberg estimates that to maintain national food production up to fifty million farmers will need to join the three to four million current farmers. However a return to the land would require more than just willing farmers. Heinberg believes that these farmers must be aided by affordable access to land, university training in small-scale ecological farming methods, direct financial aid through start up phase, and long-term low-cost loans.

"It is not a simple or easy strategy, and it will require a coordinated and sustained national effort. But in addition to averting famine this strategy may also permit us to solve a host of other seemingly unrelated social and environmental problems." Heinberg tells us that "if we do this well, it could mean the revitalization not only of democracy but of the family and of authentic, place-based culture."

In his lecture Richard Heinberg has vividly outlined the reasons for returning to an agricultural system designed specifically to supply food to its own region. As an expert on the future of oil and natural gas he is well positioned to tell us that we must begin making changes. The production of food is of central concern not only because it is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, but also because continued production is vital to our survival.

Heinberg would have us "accept the current challenge--the next great energy transition--as an opportunity to re-imagine human culture from the ground up, using our intelligence and our passion for the welfare of coming generations and for the integrity of nature's web as our primary guides."

Heinberg's 2006 lecture "Fifty Million Farmers" edited by Hildegarde Hannum, is now available in pamphlet form from the E. F. Schumacher Society. Cost is five dollars each. Pay with BerkShares (http://www.berkshares.org), cash, check, or credit card.

Link to entire article: <http://vtcommons.org/node/608>;

Food Unfit for Kids

Monday, October 30 2006 @ 04:04 PM MST
Contributed by: richardhroth
Views: 650

By Briana Kenney
In 2001, an overweight third grader, with slipping grades and low self-esteem, prompted Cindy Wolff to open O.P.T for Fit Kids. With nowhere to refer the 9 year-old, Wolff got grants and hired dieticians to help local children learn about healthy lifestyles.

O.P.T (Overweight Prevention and Treatment) for Fit Kids is a program that provides nutrition education for community groups and nutrition education services to families.

Wolff is one of the keynote speakers at 9 a.m. Nov. 2 at Chico State’s 4th Annual Sustainability Conference that will be held in the Chico State Bell Memorial Union. “This issue is huge. One out of three kids will develop type two diabetes. Rates have doubled in the last ten years,” Wolff said.

CHICO FOOD NETWORK'S 3RD ANNUAL REAL FOOD DINNER SET FOR SATURDAY 11/4 AT GRILLA BITES IN THE GARDEN VILLA

Saturday, October 14 2006 @ 11:10 PM MST
Contributed by: rhirshen
Views: 2,676

PARTNERING WITH CSU CHICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND PLANT SCIENCE CLUB'S 4TH ANNUAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ORGANIC FARMING CONFERENCE, THE CHICO FOOD NETWORK BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESENTS OUR 3RD ANNUAL GALA BENEFIT LOCAL-ORGANIC-NATURAL REAL FOOD DINNER AND EVENING. THIS YEAR'S GALA WILL BE HELD AT GRILLA BITES NEW RESTAURANT IN THE GARDEN VILLA ON COHASSET ROAD, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4TH AT 6:00 PM. READ ON FOR CONFERENCE AND DINNER INFO AND LINKS! DINNER TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE IN SEPTEMBER, WILL COST $25 PER PERSON AND WILL BE LIMITED/GO FAST!
*SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! BECAUSE SEATS ARE LIMITED, A SEPARATE, AT-A-LATER-DATE COOKING LESSON/DINNER WILL BE OFFERED THROUGH KINDERKITCHEN/GROW CUISINE FOR CHILDREN! chefrichie@msn.com for details.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE FROM AUGUST 7-9, 2006 AT THE HYATT REGENCY, SACRAMENTO, CA

Thursday, May 18 2006 @ 09:38 PM MST
Contributed by: rhirshen
Views: 9,707

Integrating Technology, Science and Policy to Address the Environmental Challenges in the Agricultural Setting.

August 7-9, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento, CA

Follow this link for all of the essential info:
http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/conf/ag&environment/registration.shtml

As consistent with our own mission, the Chico Food Network Board of Directors urges you to attend this important conference.

You are also invited to the CSU Chico College of Agriculture and Plant Science Club's 4th Annual Conference on Sustainability and Organic Farming on the CSU Chico campus November 2-4, 2006.

The Chico Food Network will, in conjunction with this conference be holding our 3rd Annual Gala Benefit Organic Dinner and Soiree at California Park's Lakeside Pavilion on Friday November 3rd.

Look for more info about the conference and dinner on this website and e-mail CFN Board President Richard Hirshen at chefrichie@msn.com.

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GROWING ARTICHOKES TIPS AND FACTS

Thursday, May 18 2006 @ 09:30 PM MST
Contributed by: rhirshen
Views: 2,067

If you're like me, you'll want to grow your own artichokes!
THEY ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLANTS!
Here are some essential gems of information for you to set yourself up for success! Look for a few of my favorite recipes in the Foodology Topic Section of this site soon!

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Hippy Gourmet at a Winery in Italy link

Thursday, May 18 2006 @ 09:23 PM MST
Contributed by: rhirshen
Views: 5,864

Click on (or copy-paste into your address bar) the link below to see a Hippy Gourmet video shot at a winery in Italy that WILL blow your mind!

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GRILLA BITES 2ND CHICO ORGANIC-NATURAL RESTAURANT IS OPEN!

Monday, May 08 2006 @ 03:55 PM MST
Contributed by: rhirshen
Views: 1,125

GRILLA BITES second Chico location has opened on Cohasset Rd! Now you can go ORGANIC-NATURAL-SUSTAINABLE at two local locations! Plus, a Medford, OR restaurant is also open and the Ashland, OR location will open any day! Fred Marken's new GRILLA BITES RESTAURANT is in the new Garden Villa next to the new Golden Valley Bank.

The address is 196 Cohasset Rd. Chico, CA 95926.

For more info call (530) 343-4876, go to www.grillabites.com and GO TO the new restaurant!

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Real Water Buffalo Mozzarella!

Wednesday, March 15 2006 @ 11:36 PM MST
Contributed by: rhirshen
Views: 7,178

Real (The Only American) Water Buffalo Mozzarella! Other cheeses too! www.realmozzarella.com

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