**** Spring Local Food Kick Off! ****** **Come join us for community celebration of the abundance of our local bounty and eat food grown where you live! Tompkins Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (TACSAC) will host a Local Foods Potluck on Saturday, June 14^th from 4 -7p.m. at the large pavilion in Stewart Park in Ithaca. Fun activities for children such as planting seed trays and kickball games for all ages. Come waltz to the gorgeous harmonies of the women of Five2, be inspired by the "thanks and praise" music of Kevin Kinsella, and stomp along to Burke and Bone playing 20’s and 30’s blues. Please bring a dish-to-pass and a place setting so we can reduce and re-use before we even get to recycling!
Community Supported Agriculture is an agreement between community members and farmers : A family invests in a farm and the farm grows them food! This keeps our dollars in our hands, ensures that food producers are stewards of the land, and minimizes our carbon footprint. We find that knowing who grows your food and the land they grow it on greatly increases consumers’ healthy peace of mind. Small-scale farming is safe for the land, the food, the economy and you. There will be an opportunity to learn about and support a local initiative to make locally grown food accessible to all people in our community called the Healthy Food for All program. This program provides subsidized CSA shares to income-eligible families and is a practical way to make a difference right here in our community! TCSAC is a new organization of CSA farms and farmers who are working together to build awareness around local food, to strengthen our CSA communities, to collaborate on business strategies and support each other as farmers. We serve approx. 1000 CSA members in Tompkins County. This means there are approximately 1000 households who have a share in a local farm and eat local produce all summer long in Tompkins County! Participating Farms: Early Morning Organic Farm Full Plate Farm Collective – - Stick and Stone Farm - Remembrance Farm - Three Swallows Farm Hendy Hollow Organic Farm Muddy Fingers Farm Sweet Land Farm Thomson Farms Three Sisters West Haven Farm **** The Local Foods Potluck is free and everyone is welcome! **** For more information: Katie Church 607.342.7632 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Elizabeth Viviana Karabinakis /Community Food Educator/ Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County 615 Willow Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607.272.2292 Fax: 607.272.7088 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
