2011 Local Food Week Schedule of Events
Created by Sustainable Green Country's Buy Fresh Buy Local initiative, Local Foods Week festivities highlighted local family farms and farmers' markets hosting a variety of events, a farm table dinner, cooking demonstrations and acanning class encouraging their fellow Oklahomans to join them in celebrating Local Foods Week during the week of June 11-18, 2011. Local food is a valuable economic asset for the state of Oklahoma. Gov. Brad Henry has made the event official by means of a proclamation. 2010 Local Food Guide now available for download Buy Fresh Buy Local Oklahoma Food Guide 2010. Photos can be viewed on Local Food Weeks Facebook page as well. Download the 2011 Local Food Week poster. or the 2011 Local Food Week postcard/table tent for distribution. See events from Local Food Week 2010.
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2011 events
Friday, June 10
Kat Conrad's Raw Food 101 at Whole Foods-Tulsa
Learn how adding more nutrient-dense raw foods and the power of enzymes into your diet can help you look and feel younger and lose weight effortlessly. Please join Kat for an informative and fun class. FREE! Please RSVP.
Sat./Sun., June 11-12
Urban Edible Garden Tour
Ticekts $5 per adult. Tickets may be purchased at the Tulsa Garden Center before the tour or at any of the gardens on the tour days. Just pick a garden - get your tickets - and go from there! This tour is geared for beginners, as well as gardeners that want to grow their own food, in the city. Square foot gardening, raised beds, chickens, rabbits, quail, herbs, vegetables, berries and fruit trees are some of what you will see on this tour. Home owners will be available to answer your questions, as well as other growers. Food producing plants will be available for purchase, and yard art. In partnership with Sustainable Green Country, Tulsa Garden Center and Ellaberry Gardens. The Gardens: 9641 E 26th Pl (Ellaberry Gardens), 1708 W Easton Ct (Yardistry), 1430 E 55th Pl (The Barbour Family), 5547 S Owasso Ave (The Smith Family) and 2015 S Darlington Ave (The Seekins Family).
2435 S. Peoria
Tulsa, OK
918.746.5125
www.tulsagardencenter.com
Tulsa Garden Center
Master Garden Showcase Tours and OSU Extension Garden Tour "Real Gardens for Real People"
Garden #1 - A mid-town mature garden demonstrating unique solutions to a challenging slope. Garden #2 - A south Tulsa garden designed for children and the young-at-heart. Vegetable gardening and composting are featured. Garden #3 - Mid-town Tulsa is home to this garden re-designed by the 2007 ice storm. It features a Koi Pond used as a screening and no lawn mowing. Garden #4 - White picket fences frame this south Tulsa cottage. A certified backyard wildlife habitat site. Garden #5 - This Broken Arrow garden includes perennials and shrubs offering tranquility with special emphasis on attracting birds.
OSU Extension Demonstration Garden - This garden constantly evolves and changes with interesting new plants and garden feature. Lectures on popular subjects daily.
4116 East 15th
Tulsa, OK
918.746.3701
www.tulsamastergardeners.org
www.oces.tulsacounty.org
1401 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK
918.712.7555
wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/tulsa/store-calendar/
Kat Conrad
Saturday, June 11
Live music at the Bartlesville Farmers Market
Don Pearson and Jasmyn Gilger followed by the Corky Davis Band. Some vendors will offer grilled food as well as children activities.
Frank Phillips Park, Frank Phillips Blvd at Keeler
Bartlesville, OK 74100
918.519.0505
bartlesvillefarmersmarket@yahoo.com
www.bartlesvillefarmersmarket.org
Saturday, June 11, 18
Cherry St. Farmers Market
Buy Fresh, Buy Local representatives will be on hand during Local Food Week for more information.
15th St, just east of Peoria
Tulsa, OK
918.789.3881
info@cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com
www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com
Pryor-Mayes County Farmers Market
Also see below for Mayes County farm tours!
Mayes County Court House, Pryor, OK
918.519.0505
Pryor Chamber
mayescountyfm@gmail.com
Pryor-Mayes County Farmer Tours
Seven of our farmers will offer farm/backyard garden tours. Folks will have a chance to see where their food comes from, get to know their farmers. June 11 and 18: Creekside Sales - and take a short wagon ride to the garden. Wagon rides will run every half hr. Courtney Family Farm - Featuring strawberries, all natural beef, pork, and lamb. Raw whole Jersey milk. Sparling Farm - All types of produce. Summer and winter squash, tomatoes, corn, cilantro, green beans, potatoes and okra. June 11 only: GraysLland Acres - Come by the farm and sample some of the following: Goats milk ice cream, goat milk fudge, a cup of fresh goat milk and goat milk yogurt. You will also be able to feed and pet a llama or goat or milk a goat. Koehn’s Grassfed - Visit us to see where your meat comes from. Come see our small herd of sheep, broilers in their “chicken tractors”, laying hens in their movable pens, some finishing cattle, and goats. Outback Farm - Blueberries! Come see our plants. We are a U-pick farm. June 18 only: King Gardens - This year Gary has expanded the garden. We grow a variety of produce for the Mayes County Farmers Market.
See directions and map here or view map only below.
Mayes County Court House, Pryor, OK
918.519.0505
Pryor Chamber
mayescountyfm@gmail.com
Sat., June 11, 18, 25
Lavender Feast at the Living Kitchen Farm and Dairy
SOLD OUT. Living Kitchen Farm and Dairy, organically grown fresh meals from farm to plate located in Depew, Oklahoma. Enjoy a tour of the farm and then treat yourself to an amazing fresh farm table dinner. $60 per person. A culinary delight, by partnering local food with local Clear Creek Farm's lavender. This dinner is the pride and joy of the entire year. Lavender has always been prized for its aromatic uses in oils and soaps but there is another side to lavender you must discover. Lavender possesses delicate and amazing culinary uses; so, prepare yourself for a treat of the senses. This dinner always sells out fast, so please don't wait to make your reservation.
Depew, OK 74100
918.851.5662
Livingkitchen@gmail.com
www.livingkitchen.homestead.com
www.clearcreeklavender.com
Monday, June 13
Fisher Family Farm Tour
Organic farm tour and enjoy fresh grilled corn on the cob – first of the season. Our family has been farming this land for over 100 years! Visitor's blog about the tour:
2 miles southwest of Slick, off of Hwy 16
Bristow, OK
918.639.0244
fishersproduce@gmail.com
www.fishersproduce.com
Tuesday, June 12
CANCELED. Live music by Coco and Lafe Get Fresh Tour 2011 at Downtown Tulsa Farmers Market
Also Wednesday morning at the Muskogee Farmers Market, Wednesday afternoon at the NNC Farmer Market and Thursday evening at the Pearl Farmers Market! Back porch musicians Coco (Carolyn) Kallis and Lafe (rhymes with “waif”) Dutton get fresh with farmers nationally by following the harvest. They write and perform blues-based acoustic music at over 100 farmers markets coast to coast each year. With bluesy guitar, tight harmonies and original songs, the duo’s latest CD is being played on 172 acoustic radio programs in five countries, including the nationally syndicated “Midnight Special” and XM Satellite’s “The Village.” They have released 5 CDs and have been touring full time for three years. They have played as many as 5 markets a week plus house concerts, promoting eating fresh and buying locally.
Williams Green, 3rd St and Boston
Tulsa, OK 74100
918.224.5337
okiedragon@yahoo.com
www.CocoLafe.com
Real Time Farms Blog
Wednesday, June 15
Cherry St. Farmers Market at Brookside with Pork n' Greens Grillin'
Celebrate Local Food Week with having Pork n' Greens at the grill. Stephen Green will grill his homemade hot dogs from 9–11 am. First come, first serve; so bring your appetite for a taste of local food at its best. FREE to the first 200. Buy Fresh, Buy Local representatives will be on hand for more information.
39th and Peoria
Tulsa, OK
918.789.3881
info@cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com
www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com
Live music by Coco and Lafe Get Fresh Tour 2011 at the Muskogee Farmers Market
Also later today at the NNC Farmer Market and Thursday evening at the Pearl Farmers Market! Back porch musicians Coco (Carolyn) Kallis and Lafe (rhymes with “waif”) Dutton get fresh with farmers nationally by following the harvest. They write and perform blues-based acoustic music at over 100 farmers markets coast to coast each year. With bluesy guitar, tight harmonies and original songs, the duo’s latest CD is being played on 172 acoustic radio programs in five countries, including the nationally syndicated “Midnight Special” and XM Satellite’s “The Village.” They have released 5 CDs and have been touring full time for three years. They have played as many as 5 markets a week plus house concerts, promoting eating fresh and buying locally. At the Market Square in front of Civic Center.
Live music by Coco and Lafe Get Fresh Tour 2011 at TCC North Tulsa Farmers' Market
Back porch musicians Coco (Carolyn) Kallis and Lafe (rhymes with “waif”) Dutton get fresh with farmers nationally by following the harvest. They write and perform blues-based acoustic music at over 100 farmers markets coast to coast each year. With bluesy guitar, tight harmonies and original songs, the duo’s latest CD is being played on 172 acoustic radio programs in five countries, including the nationally syndicated “Midnight Special” and XM Satellite’s “The Village.” They have released 5 CDs and have been touring full time for three years. They have played as many as 5 markets a week plus house concerts, promoting eating fresh and buying locally. At the Market Square in front of Civic Center.
Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus
3727 E Apache St
Tulsa, OK
www.CocoLafe.com
Real Time Farms Blog
Thursday, June 16
Pearl Farmers Market Chillin’ and Grillin’ by Steve Eberle and live music by Coco and Lafe Get Fresh Tour 2011
Back porch musicians Coco (Carolyn) Kallis and Lafe (rhymes with “waif”) Dutton get fresh with farmers nationally by following the harvest. They write and perform blues-based acoustic music at over 100 farmers markets coast to coast each year. With bluesy guitar, tight harmonies and original songs, the duo’s latest CD is being played on 172 acoustic radio programs in five countries, including the nationally syndicated “Midnight Special” and XM Satellite’s “The Village.” They have released 5 CDs and have been touring full time for three years. They have played as many as 5 markets a week plus house concerts, promoting eating fresh and buying locally. Grillin' demonstration by Steve Eberle of Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa See photos from Wednesday at the TCC North Tulsa Farmers' Market at the bottom of this page.
Centennial Park, SW corner of 6th St and Peoria
918.527.6548
President@pearlfarmersmarket.org
www.pearlfarmersmarket.org
www.CocoLafe.com
Real Time Farms Blog
Denise Madeja's Raw Food Class at Whole Foods-Tulsa
Start making better choices for your health and well being by learning how to add more nutrient rich foods into your diet through raw and living foods. Come see how easy it can be to improve your health, lose weight and look younger while eating amazing food! FREE! Please RSVP.
1401 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK
918.712.7555
wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/tulsa/store-calendar/
Saturday, June 18
Cherry St. Farmers Market
Buy Fresh, Buy Local representatives will be on hand during Local Food Week for more information.
15th St, just east of Peoria
Tulsa, OK
918.789.3881
info@cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com
www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com
Pryor-Mayes County Farmers Market
Also see below for Mayes County farm tours!
Mayes County Court House, Pryor, OK
918.519.0505
Pryor Chamber
mayescountyfm@gmail.com
Pryor-Mayes County Farmer Tours
Seven of our farmers will offer farm/backyard garden tours. Folks will have a chance to see where their food comes from, get to know their farmers. June 11 and 18: Creekside Sales - and take a short wagon ride to the garden. Wagon rides will run every half hr. Courtney Family Farm - Featuring strawberries, all natural beef, pork, and lamb. Raw whole Jersey milk. Sparling Farm - All types of produce. Summer and winter squash, tomatoes, corn, cilantro, green beans, potatoes and okra. June 11 only: GraysLland Acres - Come by the farm and sample some of the following: Goats milk ice cream, goat milk fudge, a cup of fresh goat milk and goat milk yogurt. You will also be able to feed and pet a llama or goat or milk a goat. Koehn’s Grassfed - Visit us to see where your meat comes from. Come see our small herd of sheep, broilers in their “chicken tractors”, laying hens in their movable pens, some finishing cattle, and goats. Outback Farm - Blueberries! Come see our plants. We are a U-pick farm. June 18 only: King Gardens - This year Gary has expanded the garden. We grow a variety of produce for the Mayes County Farmers Market.
See directions and map here or view map only below.
Mayes County Court House, Pryor, OK
918.519.0505
Pryor Chamber
mayescountyfm@gmail.com
Little Green Thumbs Childrens Workshop
Little Green Thumbs Childrens Workshop - ‘Wiggly Worms and Compost’. $10 per member/$15 non-member.
Commnity Garden Tours
Hope Community Garden at 26 and Yale; Kendall Whittier Community Garden will be available for tours.
Canning is Cool Workshop
Charlotte Richert, OSU Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences is conducting the workshop. Participants will learn hot water bath and pressure canning methods. Class size is limited. $25.00. Make payable to Tulsa County OSU Extension Services, Attn: Canning Classes mail to address listed.
Garden Tour at the Tulsa Dream Center
Grand Opening Celebration for the Dream Center Community Education Garden. Activities for children such as a coupon book to make for Dad of planting seeds of kind deeds. There will be tomato plants given away from the Indian Health Care Resource Center thanks to Steve Eberle for the first 100 families.
200 W. 46th St. N
Tulsa, OK
918.430.9984
kathychenoweth2002@yahoo
www.tulsadreamcenter.org
Sat., June 18, 25
Lavender Feast at the Living Kitchen Farm and Dairy
JUNE 18 SOLD OUT. Living Kitchen Farm and Dairy, organically grown fresh meals from farm to plate located in Depew, Oklahoma. Enjoy a tour of the farm and then treat yourself to an amazing fresh farm table dinner. $60 per person. A culinary delight, by partnering local food with local Clear Creek Farm's lavender. This dinner is the pride and joy of the entire year. Lavender has always been prized for its aromatic uses in oils and soaps but there is another side to lavender you must discover. Lavender possesses delicate and amazing culinary uses; so, prepare yourself for a treat of the senses. This dinner always sells out fast, so please don't wait to make your reservation.
Depew, OK 74100
918.851.5662
Livingkitchen@gmail.com
www.livingkitchen.homestead.com
www.clearcreeklavender.com