Heads up Slow Foodies, this event has your name written all over it.
Locust Grove, it could be said, is an original home of “slow food” with our hearth kitchen, smoke house, and dairy – the perfect location to celebrate food and farming. This family-oriented festival will feature a Cast Iron Chef Cook-off contest, a “Best Dessert with local fruit” contest as well as exhibits and demonstrations by slow crafters and green businesses. Plant, produce and seed swaps are encouraged! Local chefs will prepare local food to purchase and bringing your own picnic basket is also encouraged. We’ll have talks and demonstrations on how to raise chickens in your backyard, and demonstrations on how to make cheese and to smoke meats are planned.
Admission to the event is only $5 car, bikers & walkers free, and it also includes a visit to the recently restored ca. 1790s home and gardens.
The picnic is from 11:00AM-4:30PM. At noon & 2PM there will be screenings of a movie called “Fresh” that sounds all kinds of interesting.
FRESH the movie celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are reinventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision of our food and our planet’s future. Featuring world-famous sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, FRESH addresses an ethos that has been sweeping the nation.
August 16, 2010
East End, Food, Kid Friendly, Outdoors