Shoutout at the HomeGrown Festival
Posted in Farmers Markets, Miracles, Press, Watch & Listen on March 2, 2011
I am so grateful and wiggly for this!!
Third Annual Homegrown Festival: a smashing success
Posted in AnnArbor.com on September 13, 2010
Angie Beach her daughter Shelly, 5, husband Sunny and 5-month-old son River check out a booth during the Homegrown Festival held at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market in Kerrytown on Saturday night. Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com The first HomeGrown Festival took place at the Community High School in the rain. Few braved the puddles – [...]
Mark you calendars for the third annual HomeGrown Festival: a celebration of Michigan bounty
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Health on August 18, 2010
In 2008, over 1000 people flocked in the pouring rain to the first HomeGrown Festival in the Community High parking lot. Last year, the HomeGrown Festival moved across the street to the protection of Kerrytown and hosted over 5000 people. The weather was perfect. The smorgasbord of sounds, flavors, food, music, and NGOs was breathtaking. [...]
Michael Pollan discusses the politics of food during fundraiser for Edible Avalon, HomeGrown Festival & Summit
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Genetically Modified Food, Miracles on April 12, 2010
Michael Pollan taught me a new word on Sunday evening. Deracinated. As in meat has “gradually become a deracinated product. First there were butchers and you could actually see carcasses being cut up occasionally, and then [the meat was] always prepackaged, and then the bones disappeared. We are looking to take this protein and return [...]
A full day at HomeGrown Local Food Summit
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Oh Say Can You CSA!, Vision, Watch & Listen on March 3, 2010
Over 200 people attended the HomeGrown Local Food Summit at U of M’s School of Natural Resources & the Environment. Photo by Dave Brenner, School of Natural Resources & the Environment I started out my day at the HomeGrown Local Food Summit talking about turkeys (with John Harnois of Harnois Farm in Webster Township) [...]
