22 May Reminder: Local Food Potluck and Permaculture/ Citizen Gardener Graduation tonight – Wed., May 13th – Barr Mansion – 6:30 pm –

Tonight we are celebrating local food production and our newest crop of Citizen Gardener and Permaculture graduates. If you are just finding out this event is happening and your schedule is open this evening RSVP to this link
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=CMTPPAUKXUESMARGVVXS&inviteId=TNHBIUVEQUNHCAORFKHO&showPreview=false&x=987071397 and get cooking/chopping!

If you were already planning to attend or are just signing up and are willing to help out, please email dickpiercedesigns at gmail.com right away if you want to help support the production of this event. We could use a few more hands.

I look forward to seeing everyone who comes out tonight! Peace, Brandi

REMEMBER: This is a LOCAL FOOD ingredients potluck – at least one ingredient should be from the a farmer’s market, farm stand, CSA, or local section of the grocery store (don’t pick up a bucket of KFC on the way!)

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From: Dick Pierce
Date: May 7, 2009 11:27:22 AM CDT

Thanks to Melanie and Mark McAfee, we are having our Graduation Pot-luck at the magnificent Barr Mansion on Wed., May 13, 6:30 – 10:30 pm

Thanks to the over 120 graduates of the Spring 2009 Permaculture Design and Citizen Gardener classes, we have a great reason to get together and celebrate.

Thanks to a little rain and a growing (pun intended) core of dedicated, resourceful C-TX Farmers, Ranchers, Farmers Markets, Distributors, and support groups there is a wonderful abundance of fresh, nutritious, delicious, safe Local Food – we still have the spring green crops and now the Peaches, Blackberries, Tomatoes, Summer Squash,…..are starting.

It’s time, in mid-May, for Austin/C-TX to have a Local Food Celebration (and include Texas wineries and breweries as well, if you like).

You show up, with a dish that you made, with love, from primarily Local, In-Season ingredients that you purchased from a [small] local farmer, rancher, market, or distributor. In case you need to know, the Farmers Markets are in full bloom each Saturday from 9 – 1:00, downtown at Republic Square and at Sunset Valley, and several farm stands, like Boggy Creek Farm, are brimming and bustling. The attachment has lists of the great local veggies/meats available.

The aforesaid dish, a beverage of your choice, and a smile is all you need. Please come and help us celebrate, enjoy the food and the company, congratulate these new grads – many of whom will have used veggies from their own new gardens. Help push the viability, reliability, nutrition, and down-right fun of being a part of the Local Food Scene – whether you are a gardener, farmer, rancher, volunteer, market person, cook, restaurateur, ….or just like to eat tasty stuff. Come on over!…but please RSVP.

Brandi Clark Nita Durant Dick Pierce

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