Winter Fare Northampton Farmers' Market

Saturday, January 9th, 2010
10am-2pm
Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, Northampton

Winter Fare is a winter farmers' market, but it's also a community event and an educational opportunity. We've planned some excellent workshops that will run at the market, so bring a notebook in your shopping bag and join us!

It doesn't have to look perfect - it just needs to taste GOOD!

10:25-11:10am, in the Library
Workshop leader: Mark Lattanzi

Get over your fear of canning - it's not that scary! We'll look at equipment, discuss techniques and recipes and best of all, taste the results. This workshop covers high-acid canning, which means recipes you can make in your home kitchen with simple equipment. Bring your notebook and your curiosity and leave ready to preserve the 2010 harvest!

Simple Milk Products-Cheese, Yogurt, Buttermilk

10:45-11:30am, in the Classroom
Workshop leaders: Margaret Christie and Rachana Crowley

Have you ever wanted to learn to make chevre, yogurt, buttermilk, or paneer? This workshop will teach the basics, explain where to get cultures and more information, and talk about how to fit simple cheesemaking into your day-to-day life.

Winter Storage: Prolonging your local food season

11:20-11:50am, in the Library
Workshop leader: Annie Sullivan-Chin

Assistant manager of Stone Soup Farm, Annie is full of enthusiasm for preserving what she grows, and ready for adventure when it comes to winter storage! In this workshop she will share some of her food storage skills and adventures with you.

Nut Milk!

11:40am-12:10pm, in the Classroom
Workshop leader: Tonya Dixon and Jensey Graham

Learn to make nut milk at home in your own kitchen. It will be so empowering.

Growing and Eating Sprouts

12-12:30pm, in the Library
Workshop leader: Pat Leutchman

Learn about how to grow sprouts at home, and see seeds and canning jars full of sprouts in at least two stages. This workshop will also explore the culinary delights of cooking with and eating sprouts. Pat has been gardening for 40 years and writing about gardens and gardeners almost as long. Her weekly column, Between the Rows, has been carried in The Recorder (Greenfield, Mass) since 1981. Visit Pat's home page here: www.CommonWeeder.com

Understanding Real Food: What to Eat and Why

12:20 -1pm, in the Classroom

Workshop leader: Craig Fear, NTP

Join Craig Fear, certified Nutritional Therapist. for an in-depth discussion examining the dangers of modern foods and their connection to our escalating rates of chronic disease. We have changed our diets more in the past 50 years than the past ten thousand! Using the diets of traditional cultures as a model for what to eat and why, Craig will help you sort through the bewildering maze of conflicting modern day dietary information. Learn why the USDA food pyramid is causing unintended yet harmful health epidemics and how to make healthier, more sustainable food choices for you and your family.