Seed Saving Workshop - 3.20.2011

Cheese Making Classes at Bader Beer & Wine and Neighbors Market Coupon

Rumor has it if you attend one of Bader Beer & Wine cheese making classes, you'll get a coupon for a raw milk purchase at Neighbors Market  down on Main Street. Bader has sold out their first four Beginning Cheese Making classes, but they have a couple more schedule for Saturday March 5th and Saturday, March 19th.

Sign up for a class, learn how to make cheese and get your first batch of delicious, raw milk to make more cheese with...and support two of Vancouver's finest local businesses while you're having fun doing it.

Wild Bill Cole @ Neighbors Market - 1-29-2011

If you want to know about wild fungus and other wild edibles, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better source of wisdom  than Bill Cole. He and his lovely wife Laura run Nature's Wild Harvest/Nature's Choice . You can find their products at area farmers' markets as well as Neighbors Market . You can catch Bill in a rare live performance (talking about the art of wildcrafting) at Neighbors this Saturday @ noon.

Check it out!

Seed Saving Workshop Illustration Contest!

We are looking for black & white illustrations or photographs for use in flyers and other promotional materials for two March seed saving workshops presented by Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still from The Seed Ambassadors & Adaptive Seeds. Subject matter should include seed sowing, seeds, seed germination, or be of a similar horticultural nature. Submissions are due no later than February 10th. The workshops are scheduled for Saturday, March 19th in White Salmon, WA (hosted by the Gorge Grown Food Network) and on Sunday, March 20th in Vancouver, WA (hosted by Neighbors Markets, Slow Food Southwest WA and Urban Abundance). All submissions will become property of Clark County Food & Farm and will NOT be used for any commercial purpose, other than this workshop series, without permission of the submitter. 

Clark County Food & Farm is offering FIVE FREE packets of seeds from the Adaptive Seeds 2011 Catalog to one lucky winner!


Please submit all entries via e-mail in .png, .jpeg or .tif format. Highest quality images are preferred. Enter as often as you like. The winner will be announced on February 11th.


More info on the workshops coming soon!

Potluck & A Movie @ Neighbors Market - 1.18.2011

Time	Tuesday, January 18 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location	Downtown Vancouver - RSVP req'd
Created By	Summer Steenbarger @ Dee Creek Farm
More Info	Dee Creek Farm and Neighbors Market are hosting a Potluck & a Movie on January 18th, 6pm! This will be held downtown at Neighbors Market. RSVP's required as space is limited (no walk ins). We will be showing the film "Ingredients" (www.ingredientsfilm.com). "American food is in a state of crisis. Health, food costs and our environment are all in jeopardy. A movement to put good food back on the table is emerging. What began 30 years ago with chefs demanding better flavor, has inspired consumers to seek relationships with nearby farmers. This is local food." Lots of NW farmers (and a restaurant) featured! You will need to bring your own chair! We will have a donation jar for speaker rentals. RSVP by contacting Summer at Dee Creek Farm: Summer Steenbarger Email: summer@deecreekfarm.com Blog: http://summersperspective.wordpress.com/

Patch: A Time to Build Up Farms

Patch: A Time to Build Up Farms
Saturday, January 8, 2011
7:00pm
Sat, January 8, 2011, 7pm – 9pm
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 426 E Fourth Plain Blvd


The locally filmed Patch: A Time to Build Up Farms will be showcased at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in the Parish Hall at 7 pm. This film was created and produced by Vancouver School of Arts and Academics student Justine Hanrahan as part of the school’s Art for Change theme. The movie explores the importance of local sustainable farms in Clark County and features Urban Abundance’s own Warren Neth. The film includes interviews from local farms such as Inspiration Plantation, Storytree Farm, Osprey Organic Farm and Dee Creek. Stores and organizations featured are Vancouver Co-op, Neighbors Market and Urban Abundance. The showing is a chance to learn more about the agriculture in the area and speak with the farmers who provide Clark County residents sustainable products. Patch: A Time to Build Up Farms focuses on the importance of farms and how people can be a part of patching up the local farm economy. The director’s artistic vision is symbolized by a scarecrow being patched up with various patches which represent the different farms or organizations repairing the farming community in Clark County. The showing is free of charge and a great chance to meet farmers and gather information about the agriculture around you.

Dee Creek Farm Cheese Now Available @ Neighbors Markets!

Neighbors Markets is setting the bar higher for distribution of food that is good, clean and LOCAL. Way to go Lynn!!

You can now buy Dee Creek artisan farmstead cheeses 7 days a week at Neighbors Markets on Main Street in Uptown Vancouver.

Opening Day @ Neighbors Markets

The girls and I stopped by Vancouver's latest addition to our rapidly growing alternative, sustainable, organic, etc food movement, Neighbors Markets. Neighbors Markets is not a grocery store. It's more like a "Plaid Pantry" for foodies and folks who want to keep their food dollars local. Despite the curerntly spartan interior and limited initial offerings, the store radiates with promises of great things to come. I even ran into one of my favorite farmers, Summer from Dee Creek Farm there...and if the farmers are hanging out there, you know it's going to be good. And what they are currently stocking is shaping up to be some of the best of what SW Washington and our nearby neighbors have to offer. Pippin apples, Bosch pears and beets from Joe's Place. Garlic, shallots and winter squash from NW Organic Farm. Beer from Laurelhurst Brewing and Hopworks Urban Brewing. Bread from Je T'aime and Russell's Bread. Over the coming weeks you'll find more good stuff on the shelves and I'm sure Lynn, the proprietor, is happy to entertain requests.

I'll be doing an interview with Lynn soon so we can get a little deeper into the business of Neighbors Markets and find out more about Lynn too! In the meantime, stop on into the market, pick up some tasty treats and show your support for the coolest thing to hit Main Street since Niche Restaurant & Wine Bar opened earlier this month.

Neighbors Markets Opens Monday!

Don't forget about the grand opening of Neighbors Markets next week! Stop in, buy some fixins for dinner and say "Hi" to Lynn.

Here's a brief Q&A with Lynn Krogseng (the proprietor) via the good folks at the Vancouver Business Journal.

Meet Your Neighbors - Neighbors Market from Vancouver Business Journal on Vimeo.