Our Workshop line up for Saturday!

by Gail Brill on August 31, 2011

9-9:20 – Grow your Own Garlic, Gail Brill

9:30-10- Know your Beef – Craig Dumond

10-:10:20 – Goats are Great – Rose Bartiss, Gail Huston

10:30- 11 – “Small Garden Bounty in the Adirondacks” – Dana Fast

11-12 – Wild Edibles – Pat Banker

12-1 Waluba Dancers

1-2 Cirkus Luna

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Local bounty on display!

by Gail Brill on August 23, 2011

Putting the perfect ending on a Week of Local Eating the second Farm2Fork Festival will be Saturday, September 3rd in Riverside Park from 9 AM to 2 PM along with the Saranac Lake Village Farmer’s Market.

The Farm2Fork Festival will feature local “home cooks” creating dishes to taste using ingredients from the Farmer’s Market, such as tomatoes, leeks, zucchini, farm fresh eggs and kale.  Tickets are $10 for adults. Children under 12 are free. The ticket price includes a taste of what the home cooks have made (7 stations), a taste at the Artisan Beverage Bar, the hand cranked Ice Cream booth, a taste of fresh pressed apple cider and a taste at the Pickle Bar. At the Locavore Grill Harmony Hills Farmstead’s pork will be sold as Eat n’ Meet’s Pulled Pork and Italian Sausages on Lake Flour Cakery rolls. Locally made Sustain potato chips will also be featured at the Grill.

A recipe book featuring recipes used in this and last year’s festival will be available for purchase at a discounted price with a ticket purchase. Live farm animals will be on site, and there will be free 20 minute workshops on the stage in the park starting at 9am with “Grow your Own Garlic”. Other workshops that day include “Know your Beef”, and “Goats are Great!”

New York City’s Theater Group Dzieci will return to entertain during the Festival as Cirkus Luna, “the worst circus in the world”. Later that evening, they will present a “gypsy” performance of Macbeth called “Makbet” at the Union Depot in Saranac Lake at 7:30 pm.

“We are excited to be expanding on the success of last year’s Farm2Fork festival, which attracted a crowd eager to taste the area’s local bounty in mouth watering dishes created by their friends and neighbors. “I know it served as inspiration to purchase vegetables from the Farmer’s Market that you might not have known how to cook, or how good it could taste,” said Gail Brill, Green Circle Founding Director, and organizer of the event.  We need to support our local farmer’s, so they can thrive here in the Adirondacks. As gas prices rise, the price of food shipped here has gone up, making locally grown food even more attractive to buy and eat. We hope these events introduce our local farm bounty to folks who are interested in trying new things in their kitchen.”

The Farm2Fork Festival is produced by the Adirondack Green Circle and is a project of Adirondack Sustainable Communities Incorporated (www.adksc.org) and the AuSable Valley Grange, the sponsor of the Saranac Lake Village Farmer’s Market. Other sponsors include North Country Public Radio, Adirondack Scenic Railroad and Sustain Chips.

The Adirondack Green Circle began 4 years ago, inspired by Barbara Kingsolver’s book about local food “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”. With with close to 200 members the Green Circle’s mission of sustainable living resonates with many in the area. In addition to supporting local farms, they lead “Lost Arts Workshops” that teach forgotten skills, offers workshops on Ecological eating and Sustainable Living, collect recyclables from the 90 Miler Canoe Race, bring pertinent and ground breaking films to the community to raise consciousness, and work with area college and high school environmental groups.

For more information on the Adirondack Green Circle and the Week of Local Eating visit us on Facebook @ Farm 2 Fork Festival in Saranac Lake , www.adkgreencircle.org or www.farm2forkfest.com or call 518-891-0182.

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Here come the pickles!

July 5, 2011

Last year at the Farmers’ Market in Saranc Lake, someone approached me at the Green Circle booth (we have a presence at the market every Saturday from June to October) and asked “Do you have a pickle booth here?” When I responded that “no, we did not”, they told me about the lines that form [...]

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Farm 2 Fork Fest 2011

June 22, 2011

The Adirondack Green Circle announces a Week of Local Eating August 27th through September 3rd, 2011. Kicking off the week is the first Chefs and Farmers:Taste the Adirondacks event showcasing the talents of our regional chefs and the bounty of local farms. This event is scheduled for Saturday, August 27th from 5:30 to 8 PM [...]

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Lake Clear Lodge menu

September 2, 2010

Lake Clear Lodge & Retreat  Adirondack Alps Restaurant Experience a “Great Camp Style” dinner with local products prepared using healthy “Old World” preparations Choose from our 100 mile menu year-round by reservation 891-1489 Sample Offerings Appetizer:   Sunderland Farms Grass fed Beef filled Corn Husks with organic tomato salsa Soup:  Lodge garden Red & Green [...]

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Late Breaking Menu from Generations in Lake Placid

September 1, 2010

Generations Restaurant Breakfast Asgaard Maple Chevre Blintz with adirondack maple syrup Asgarrd Farm Fresh Eggs any way with conroys organic roast beef hash Flapjacks Wild blackberries in a blanket of fresh champlain mills  buttermilk pancakes Local farm fresh omelette featuring farm fresh eggs and local vegetables Lunch Soup sweet ginger & cantaloupe melon soup topped [...]

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Here’s what locavore meals area restaurants are serving up this week

August 31, 2010

F2F Week Menus Blue Moon Menus include the following foods from local farms: local cheeses fresh eggs ground beef salad greens other vegetables. More details about specific menu items should be available soon.  http://bluemooncafe-adk.com/ Mirror Lake Inn Our Prix Fix menu for next Thursday night (Sept. 2) follows. – Fledging Crow Field Greens w/ local [...]

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Free Film Screening: “FOOD, INC.” tonight at 8:30

August 27, 2010

Bring your blanket and lounge chair and come screen the Oscar nominated film on the grass next to the Union Depot in Saranac Lake. Critics say “As a piece of investigative journalism, it does a terrific job examining the real price paid for nice plump chicken breasts, disease-resistant soy beans and hamburger for all.” It [...]

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North Country Public Radio: Gail talks with Todd Moe about the festival

August 26, 2010

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