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!

Seasonal Feast - Local Food & Social Mixer - 11.12.2010

Celebrate the completion of Urban Abundance's first year harvesting the Urban Orchard with a 3-course Seasonal Feast created by Jo Foody Catering and prepared with local farm goods. The farmers will be introduced during the feast, making it a true "farm to table" experience. LOCALS will be adding a social mixer to the evening that will help us not only deepen our connection to locally grown food, but also help us to get to know our neighbors.

The evenings program will include an intro by Jo Foody and local farmers on "connecting the dots within our local food system", a brief introduction to the estates from which Paper Tiger sources its coffee from and a digital storytelling session by Emily Jameson about Urban Abundance's first year harvesting the Urban Orchard.

The menu prepared for the evening will have both a Carnivore and Vegetarian options and will be developed between the farmers and Jo Foody based on the freshest available produce that week.

Tickets are available for purchase online:
http://www.discoverlocals.org/pages/page126.cfm

5:30 and 7:30 seating

Join us for this lovely evening sponsored by 3 great local nonprofits:
LOCALS http://www.discoverlocals.org/index2.cfm
Slow Foods SWWA http://www.slowfoodswwa.org/
and Urban Abundance http://www.myurbanabundance.org/

Slow Food Southwest Washington Potluck - 8.10.2009

Monday, August 10: Informal Potluck Gathering 6:30 pm

306 W. 21st St. Vancouver 98660

This month's informal potluck gathering will be hosted by Amy McFall Prince. Thanks for having us, Amy! Please join us for a relaxed evening of great food and conversation. Please bring a dish to share. Kids are welcome. Please RSVP via e-mail to Amy.

Slow Food Southwest Washington v2.0

I am pleased to announce the return of Slow Food to Southwest Washington! The Slow Food folks are kicking off their re-birth with a potluck on Wednesday, July 8th. Here's the scoop:

Please join past and future members of SFSWWA at the home of Stephani Sutherland for an informal potluck dinner. Our goal is to fill our leadership posts and just to get to know one another face to face. Whether you're an old friend of SF or never heard of us before, come find out what we have in mind for SF SWWA in the coming months! Kids welcome. Please bring (obviously) a dish to share and, if you like, a plate and utensils to reduce the need for disposables. This will be the first of what I hope will become a regular event for our convivium.

Stephani Sutherland
9817 SE 12th St. Vancouver, WA 98664
360.718.2411

Slow Food Southwest Washington Web Site