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Check out the Farmers and Artisans Market in the North Village Arts District on Sundays from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. For more information visit their website here.

!!!THE FORECAST IS FOR RAIN BUT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD INDOORS IN THE NEW CONFERENCE CENTER AT BRADFORD!!!

Tomorrow, Thursday September 9, from 4 to 7:30 PM, Bradford Research and Extension Center will host the annual Tomato Festival.  This family event will feature more than 50 different kinds of tomatoes that include popular garden types and the old varieties that our grandparents grew (heirlooms).

This year the festival will include the hottest pepper on earth–the Bhut jolokia–in 10 different salsas to sample.  Think you can handle a pepper that is four times hotter than the habanero?????  Try it and see!

The 6th Annual Tomato Festival at
Bradford Research and Extension Center
When: 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday Sept 9
Where:  4968 Rangeline Road. Directions: Go east on Broadway past Columbia city limits. Turn right at Rangeline Road. After about two miles, turn right into the Bradford Research farm. 
Take this short and beautiful drive out into the country and have a great family time that is FREE of charge!

Casey Corbin will lead a parade of cars who would like some guidance to the farm at 5:20 pm tomorrow from the Columbia Farmers Market Gravel Pad across from the ARC.  Meet there and we can all carpool and follow each other out to the festival!!  If you want to join in the carpool parade, email casey — casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org or call 823-FOOD 
Rain?  Who cares? This event is indoors in the new conference center at the reseearch center!

For more info:

http://aes.missouri.edu/bradford/events/tomato-festival.php

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/09/06/how-hot-can-you-go/

Thanks to everyone who made the 2010 Taste of the Market such a great success. 

Here is just a partial list of folks to THANK!

Emcees: Peggy Kirkpatrick & Judy Baker and Win Grace

Sponsors:  Boone County National Bank, The Columbia Farmers Market, Columbia’s Kitchen, Kilgore’s Medical Pharmacy, MFA Oil, Missouri Legacy Beef, MU Bradford Research and Extension Center, Twaddle Orthodontics

Food from:  Annie’s Breads, Boley Farm, Crocker Farm Pork, Kenny Duzan, Grower, Main Squeeze Natural Foods Café, Missouri Legacy Beef, Nobis Farms, Pete’s Produce, Phil’s Garden, Rt. B Greenhouse, Shepherdsfield Bakery, Show Me Farms Beef, Shrock’s Greenhouse & Produce, Thoenen Ag Sales, Uprise Bakery, and Walk-About Acre- Honey Ice Cream

Entertainment from:  The Bubbas, The Rambling Daniels, LaMovida, Dancers- Ashley from studio B, Face Painters: Ami Romero-Perez & Sam Albert

IRON CHEFS: Craig Cyr from The Wine Cellar & Bistro; Aaron Wells-Morgan from Les Bourgeois Blufftop Bistro; and Jina Yoo from Jina Yoos Asian Bistro.
The Iron Chef Judges:  Mayor McDavid, Andrea Cobb  Karen Touzeau, John Turchiano, and Nick Twenter.  Sous Chefs: With Craig Cyr- Martha Dragich, With Aaron Wells-Morgan- Mindy Lonkausky, With Jina Yoo- Nazak Birjandifar

Event Photographer Kevin Dingman

The Steering and Advisory Committee Members for the Pavilion Campaign

And the nearly 100 Volunteers who helped plan, set up, run and clean up the 2010 Taste of the Market!  We could not have done it without you!!!

ENJOY THE SLIDESHOW.  If you have any fun pictures from the event and you are willing to share them with our site, please email them to me!  casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org.

Judy Baker, Chris Stevens, Don Ginsburg and other local celebrities enjoy the feast!

At the Taste of The Market, 2009, three Local Chef/Local Farm Dinners were auctioned to benefit Sustainable Farms & Communities Pavilion Project. Chef Ben Randolph and farmer Dan Kuebler teamed up to host a dinner for eight at the Salad Garden Farm. Our dinner was bought by Sharon & Don Ginsburg, Judy & John Baker, Bonnie Trickey & Larry Giddeon, and Jennifer Perlow & Chris Stephens. Kim Coldicott and I were on hand to assist.

We began with icy mint tea and a tour of the farm showing vegetable production in the fields and high tunnels, along with the solar powered irrigation system. Dinner started on the deck under a canopy but rain moved us inside to a grand harvest table.

Ben Randolph, former Executive Chef at Trattoria Strada Nova and currently Chef at Harpo’s, created a seasonal tasting menu highlighting local foods from our farm and others at the Columbia Farmers Market. The multi course meal featured many small plates giving a sense of the chef’s style and range.  The guests enjoyed seven courses:

Tomato Trio
Gazpacho
Caprese Salad
BLT with Crocker Farm’s Bacon & Heirloom Tomato

Yellow Sweet Corn Bisque
Powdered Salsa
Shrimp Ceviche

Herd Salad in Truffle Vinaigrette

Troutdale Farm’s Trout
Sautéed and Sweet pickled Chard
Baby Patty Pan Squash
Green Beans

Susie’s Grass Fed Lamb Strip Steak
Mint
Eggplant
New Potato
Red Onion
Chili Oil

Grilled Peaches
Ginger Crème Anglaise
Beurre Noisette (Brown Butter handmade) Ice Cream

 Goats Beard Farm Fromage
Feta with Pink Peppercorns and Bonne Femme Honey
Chèvre with Country Goodies Apricot Preserve
Missouri Moon with Dates and Norton Syrup

 The presentation was glorious with unique and artistic plating. Chef Ben did an excellent job matching the impromptu selection of wines brought by the guests with the corresponding courses. Fabulous food and excellent  conversation were enjoyed by all.

Chef Ben Randolph and Farmer Dan Kuebler will be donating another Chef’s Tasting Dinner at this year’s Taste of the Market. Other auction dinners available are Chef Trey Quinlan at Deep Mud Farm and finally Mike Odette of Sycamore will host a dinner for six in the winning bidder’s home!!  These auctions will be held at the 2010 Taste of the Market this Saturday, Aug 7, from 6-9:30 pm across from the ARC!

Go to the homepage to get tickets to the event and bid on one of these amazing dinners!

Diane La Mar
The Salad Garden
Diane is a local psychotherapist and freelance writer, and lives at The Salad Garden Farm with her husband Dan Kuebler.

Mark Your Calendar
The 2010 Taste of the Market is Saturday August 7, 2010 starting at 6pm and going until 9:30.  Last year 3,300 people attended and this year the event has been redesigned!  Everyone gets a full plate of food as well as all of the entertainment!  We need volunteers!  Email us to help!

THIS YEAR WE ARE LIMITING TICKET SALES…SO GET YOURS NOW!

The 2010 Taste of the Market will be a bit different than last year.  First we are pre-selling tickets starting at the Farmers Market June 19, 2010.  We are doing a fresh, live and MASSIVE local foods BBQ.  Everyone will get a full plate of food and great entertainment as well.  Tickets are more this year but you will not have to wait in line forever at the chance of getting a tasty morsel.  The motto for this Taste of the Market is:  Slow Down!  There is no rush and no reason to hurry.  There will be more than enough food for everyone and you can even buy extra food if you are still hungry!

Keep in mind that this is our ONE BIG FUNDRAISER of the year.  It allows us to continue our campaign for the Columbia Farmers Market Pavilion and Education Center AND run our community programs such as the new Access to Healthy Foods (AHF) fund, which will double the value of foodstamps at the market so that everyone has the ability to afford healthy, safe and local foods!

• Full plate of ALL local foods BBQ including Brat, burger or veggie option, ear of fresh corn, fancy slaw, and ice cream!
• Live Iron Chef Competition!
• Kids activities!
• Music from the “Akers,” the “Bubbas” kids group, and la Movida!!!  Plus a Latin dance group to join the music and help you shake your thing!
• Wine and Beer sampling…you may need to resample to be sure!
• Buy extra food if you are still hungry!
• Unlike years past there in NO hurry!  Get your food at a slower pace and help reduce the rush!  There will be more than enough food to go around and you can watch the celebrity grillers working their magic!
• Please feel free to help us reduce waste!  If you bring your own plates, and silverware you can get a Pavilion Shopping bag for ONLY $5 (normally $20) to carry your used items home!  Show your plates and buy a bag!  Also bring a folding chair if you want!

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!  WE WILL HAVE AN OPTION ON THE WEB SOON!

Email/Call or stop by our booth at the market to get your tickets now!

Tickets

Before July 5
Individual $15, Couple $30, Family $50

After July 5
Individual $20, Couple $35, Family $60
Kids 8 and under free but they do need a ticket for food lines.

So…when is the best time to buy?  Hmmmmm????
All proceeds go to the pavilion campaign and to our community programs!

 SPONSORS include:  Boone County Bank, MFA Oil, Twaddle Orthodontists, Kilgore’s Medical Pharmacy and the many vendors of the Columbia Farmers Market.  To become a sponsor contact:  casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org

Today’s Quote: Love the Land

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” Aldo Leopold

!!WINNER!!    Blog Naming Contest from Local Minds!

Thanks to Holly Bollinger!  As you can see this is now the “Sustainable Advocate!”  Way to go Holly, and enjoy those farmers’ market tokens!  Thanks to everyone else who entered!  We are all about local, and we want your input on all that we do.

Design the new SF&C Logo!  Win $200 cash!

Are you ready to get your creative juices flowing?  Are you pretty good with graphic design and brand concepts?  Do you want be known as the artist who designed the SF&C logo?  Want to get recognition and a $200 prize?  Click on the link at the top of the page “What’s Growing On” for more details and requirements.  Contest runs through the end of May or until we have a new logo.

John Ikerd’s Releases His Latest Book- Free Online!

John Ikerd is a Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri, Columbia.  He was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time and spent thirty years in various professorial positions at North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Georgia, and the University of Missouri before retiring in early 2000. Since retiring, he spends most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability with an emphasis on economics and agriculture. Ikerd is author of Sustainable Capitalism, A Return to Common Sense, Small Farms are Real Farms, and Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture.

John Ikerd has released his latest book “A Revolution of the Middle… and The Pursuit of Happiness” online and free of charge.  This eleven chapter work explores the myth of the assumed “American Dream” and the realities that most people face under our version of capitalism.  John then takes us on a journey in discovering the real American Dream, which he contends must start with an internal movement toward happiness and away from the media driven and pervading obsession with consumption and wealth.  It remains a great irony that those who are least likely to ever be allowed to achieve power and wealthy will, in their dream state, defend the 5% that do hold the wealth and power from any threat to their standing all in the hopes that they too will be given a seat at the table.

Excerpt:  Wealth, fame, and power are all defined by the few people who have them and the many people who do not. If we were all wealthy, there would be no poverty by which to distinguish our wealth. If we were all famous, none of us would be more widely known than any other. And if we were all powerful, there would no weak over which to have power. Any one of us, or some few of us, might become wealthy, famous, or powerful, but only if the vast majority of us do not. Even in our own local communities, the few who are considered successful are defined by the many who are not. In today’s materialistic culture, most of us simply cannot join the ranks of the successful, no matter how well we prepare or how hard we work. Chapter 5

I asked John a few questions for this article.

SA: If you could distill all of the issues surrounding sustainable farming and healthier lands and food, what would be the greatest threat or opportunity that we all should focus on right now?

JI: “The current local food movement is the most exciting, and potentially most important, phase of the ongoing transition from industrial to sustainable systems of farming and food production. The greatest challenge is to understand that the growing popularity of local foods is not just about freshness and flavor, but instead is a quest for food that has ecological, social, and economic integrity. As the Slow Food movement puts it, more people are demanding food that is ‘good, clean, and fair.’”

SA:  We are far too often “preaching to the choir.”  How would you suggest we get the important information into the minds of people who either have not noticed the issues or do not feel it is really something to get involved with?

JI:  It’s important that we keep “preaching to the choir” because we all need periodic reaffirmation from likeminded people. However, we do need to find ways to reach out to more people who either aren’t aware of the degradation of our food and food system or don’t believe they can do anything about it. We each have a circle of influence, some larger and some smaller, within which we can share our perceptions of what’s happening to our food system and what we personally are doing about it. In the larger public arena, we can seize opportunities to localize and personalize the messages in books such as “Fast Food Nation” and “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” in movies such as ”Food Inc.” and ”Fresh; the Movie,” and TV programs, such as “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.” If we each have the courage to do whatever we personally can do, together, what we do will be enough.

SA:  How has Missouri changed in its approach to agriculture in the past 20 years?  Have some areas gotten better?

JI: Agriculture in Missouri has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. On the one hand, conventional agriculture has become more industrialized, meaning fewer farmers and larger farming operations that are increasingly controlled by agribusiness corporations through comprehensive production contracts. Genetically modified crops, large-scale confinement animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and ethanol production from corn are characteristic of this trend. On the other hand, organic crop production, grass-based livestock, and direct marketing of local foods have offered viable alternatives to agricultural industrialization for a growing number of Missouri farmers. The growing popularity of farmers markets and community supported agriculture organizations (CSAs) are characteristics of this trend. Missouri farmers now have a choice as to what kind of lives they want to live, what kind of neighbors they want to be, and what kind of earth they want to leave for future generations.

Advocate Feature- Tilapia- A Healthy Choice?

I used to love the fish orange roughy!  I would blacken it on the grill…YUM!  Do you remember how you could not go to a store or a restaurant without seeing it!  What happened?  Why do we only see “farm raised” tilapia now?  Is it just as good?

Well I knew something was “fishy” when I saw a great seafood item being replaced by a farm raised fish.  I did a little research and sure enough, we overfished the orange roughy, which was very, very good for us.  It is now on “top fish not to eat” lists and countries are seeking its placement on endangered lists as well.  So, there went that fish.  Done!  Now it is Omega-6 rich tilapia.  You mean Omega-3 right Casey? No, I mean 6!  What is Omega-6?  Omega 6 (O6) fatty acids are normal for body tissues, but we only need a ratio of O6 to O3 of about 4 to 1 for normal healthy function.  However, our current western diet tends to have in excess of a ratio of 10:1 and sometimes 30:1.  But the clot thickens!  Not only do we not need all of this O6 fat but it is preventing us from even gaining the benefits of the O3 we are trying to eat.  You see O6 is a bully and competes for the connections on cells where O3 would like to hang out.  But O6 says “hit the road” and O3 washes away.  The prevalent high ratios of Omega-6 fats in our western diet can be linked to atherosclerosis, asthma, arthritis, vascular disease, thrombosis, immune-inflammatory processes, and tumor proliferation.  One study in the The International Journal of Cancer showed that O6 caused increased rates of breast cancer in post-menopausal women.

Eat what you will, but Tilapia is not the healthy choice you may have assumed, but it is very cheap and easy to grow.  They use hormone treatments to force the fish to all be male and they grow very fast.  Yum!  Alaska Salmon is a much better choice from what I have read and tasted.  Here is just one article from Dr Weil.
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400472/Avoid-Tilapia.html

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