UNH Slow Food

Slow Food UNH needs new members, new officers, and people who are inspired!!!! Come learn about our club and how you can become a part of this very important movement!

Do you like to eat lots of fresh vegetables and try new things? Do you want to support a local farm and get to know the people who grow your food?

Seacoast Eat Local will be hosting a CSA + CSF Day at their upcoming Winter Farmers’ Market on Saturday, February 27th, at the Wentworth Greenhouses in Rollinsford. Residents will have the opportunity to learn more about CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and CSF (Community Supported Fisheries), meet the farmers and fisherfolk offering shares, and sign up for the 2010 season. Fifteen CSA farms are signed up to take part in this event.
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Hi Everyone! This Friday marks the first community dinner of the spring semester. These dinners are put on by the UNH Organic Club and other UNH community volunteers who love good, fresh, local food.  Slow Foodies will be baking fresh bread for the dinners this semester. The cooking begins at 2pm, and the meal begins at 5pm at the St Thomas Moore student center. After our bellies are full and the dishes are clean we will be heading over to the MUB for the Jukebox 2 Student Activities Fair (MUB Granite State Rm) from 8-12PM. Hope to see you all there~

A comment period is now open until February 16,2010 which allows you to
tell USDA That You DO Care About GE Contamination of Organic
Crops and Food! In USDA’s Environmental Impact Statement (Docket No.
APHIS-2007-0044) on genetically engineered alfalfa, USDA claims
that there is no evidence that consumers care about
contamination to organic alfalfa and alfalfa-derived foods from
Monsanto’s GE Roundup Ready alfalfa.

http://ga3.org/campaign/alfalfaEIS?rk=O1IXcx1aH2M2W

Local Shrimp!
Learn to Cook, Peel, Eat, and Store
Wednesday, February 10, 6 - 8pm
UNH Thompson School Culinary Arts Program, Durham
Come to this event to learn how to cook, peel and store fresh Northern Shrimp! Chefs from the Culinary Program will be demonstrating how to prepare these local gems in a variety of ways for you to taste. Leave the workshop with recipes and educational materials so you can enjoy shrimp at home and with your friends

http://www.falsecreek.com/photos/shrimp.jpg

$10 per person.  To register visit:  http://www.tinyurl.com/localshrimp.

More at: http://blog.seacoasteatlocal.org/2010/01/11/shrimp-local-learn-to-cook-peel-eat-and-store/

For those of you who haven’t seen this film, here is your chance! Learn more about how most of this country’s food is produced. This award winning film educates viewers about  factory farms and how they have drastically changed food production.  The Meatrix

Thank you to everyone who bought fresh foods or gave cash donations to the Cornucopia food pantry at the Rollinsford farmers market on January 23. We will be collecting more donations on February 27, and March 27.

Area winter farmers’ markets by date
Shop for local food all winter long!

2010
January 9 - Seacoast Eat Local Market at Exeter High School
January 16 - Rye at the Congregational Church
January 16 - Newmarket at the Stone Church
January 23 - Seacoast Eat Local @ Wentworth Greenhouses, Rollinsford
February 13 - Seacoast Eat Local, Exeter High School
February 20 - Rye at the Congregational Church
February 20 - Newmarket at the Stone Church
February 27 - Seacoast Eat Local @ Wentworth Greenhouses, Rollinsford (Food Pantry Donations)
March 13 - Seacoast Eat Local, Exeter High School
March 20 - Rye at the Congregational Church
March 20 - Newmarket at the Stone Church
March 27 - Seacoast Eat Local @ Wentworth Greenhouses, Rollinsford (Food Pantry Donations)
April 10 - Seacoast Eat Local, Exeter High School
May 1 - Opening day for the Portsmouth Farmers’ Market, outdoors!

SeacoastEatlocal.org

November 14, 2009: 50-Mile Thanksgiving!! Portsmouth NH
There are two options for UNH students who would like to attend:
1. bring a dish to share & 10 dollar donation to get a seat and enjoy dinner
2. Bring a dish & volunteer to help set up/clean up. No seat reservation but a free dinner!
RSVP ASAP, carpooling will be available.

Cornucopia Holiday Baskets - please let us know if you would like to help us donate fresh food for the holiday baskets. These donations will help give families in need have good food during the Thanksgiving holiday. Deliver to Waysmeet center on November 23rd
So far we have…
Sarah - eggs, pumkins
David - gourds, nut butter
Robin - potatoes
Megan - apples
Daniel - oatmeal

Friday November 20th & Saturday November 21st, 2009: Gourmet dinner - featuring Mollie Katzen, author of the Moosewood cookbook. Book signing of her newest cookbook, Get cooking.
www.wsbe.unh.edu/gourmetdinner

Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmers Markets:
Saturdays 10am-2pm
Wentworth GreenHouses
November 21
December 5
December 19
January 23
February 27
March 27

Exeter High School
December 12
January 9
February 13
March 13
April 10

Seacoast Eat Local needs volunteers for all of the winter markets!! If you would like to volunteer, please contact Erin Ehlers at erin@yogaonthehillkittery.com.

Next week our speaker will be Scot Mackinnon who will teach us about new urbanism and urban gardening.

Are you ready to bake?? We will be baking pumpkin and apple pies together soon! meeting TBA

50 Mile Thanksgiving hosted by Seacoast Slow Food - Tentative date is Nov 14th. We will be posting more information soon! This is a great event you will not want to miss!!