The New Putney Farmers' Market will open for the harvest season on Sunday, September 5. The market, which was started by Transition Putney and the Putney Coop, runs from 11-2.

Post Oil Solutions will sponsor the second of its Chicken Harvest workshops this summer on Saturday, September 4, from 9:00 to 12:00, at Fair Winds Farm, Upper Dummerston Road, Brattleboro.

The fee for the workshop is a $10/$70 sliding scale with no one refused for lack of funds. Admission fees cover the expenses of the workshop, as well as allowing Post Oil to bring these workshops to a wider audience. Thus, people are asked to be as generous as their circumstances will allow them to be.

Video of Late Summer Bounty @ Brattleboro Farmers Market:

(Article by Bonnie North)

New Farmers’ Market in Putney
Grand Opening Sunday, September 5th
Carol Brown Way, (next to Putney Food Co-op) Putney, VT, 05346
11am – 2pm (Rain or Shine)

Building on its extraordinary success at motivating and uniting the local community, Transition Putney is launching a full-scale farmers’ market across from the Putney Food Co-op on Carol Brown Way. The Sunday morning market will run until October 10th this harvest season and re-open next May. Hours are 11am to 2pm –rain or shine. Local artisans, craftspeople and food vendors will join Putney area farmers in presenting some of the very best the area has to offer. There will be live music every week and there’s plenty of easy parking.

Photo of plums on his tree by Paul Gardner.

When one buys meat, one expects it to be fresh and freshly cut. But in the food industry, there are loopholes of subtle pedantics.

For instance, a sign that reads along the lines of, "Sell by dates represent the last full day of sale for products in its current packaging. Selected products may be removed prior to that date, inspected for wholesomeness, further processed and/or repackaged, and returned to the display with a different date." What does this say to you?

If you really read it, it says that anything you see may have been on the salesfloor for a week, in different guises.

Kicking off the 2010 Fall schedule of its (Re)learning to Feed Ourselves workshop series, Post Oil Solutions will sponsor a canning workshop on Sunday, August 15, 1:00-3:00 PM, at the Christ Church, Main Street, Saxtons River.

Our fee is a $10/$70 sliding scale, with no one refused for lack of funds. We request, however, that people be as generous as you can to help support Post Oil's projects. Pre-registration and payment are required: please call 877.886.7397. Payment at the door is $20, firm, and only if there is room. For this workshop, we will have no more than 15 participants.

With all the fruits and veggies from gardens and Farm shares and such what are you all doing with it?

I myself made a Blueberry Buckle last night, and I am making an eggplant Zuchinni Parmesan tonight.

I may also make chocolate zuchinni bread this weekend, and blueberry oatmeal cookies.

A great unknown place to have breakfast on Tuesday mornings is available! The Senior Center on Main Street, accessible entrance in the rear of the building, enter at Harris Place. Tuesday morning breakfasts are served from 7:45 to 8:15 and sometimes we stay longer just to talk. The cost for seniors (60 and over) is by donation, suggested donation is $3.00. If you are younger than 60, you might want to donate more.

The breakfasts vary every week; the menus are usually mentioned in the newspaper the same time the luncheon meals are posted. Maybe Friday or Saturday? Also in the Senior Center newsletter.

Come join the Breakfast Club at the Senior Center on Tuesday mornings!

Today, Sunday July 18, 10am to 8pm, C.X. Silver Gallery presents the one-Sunday-a-month Dim Sum Teahouse in West Brattleboro at 814 Western Avenue, one mile west of I-91 Exit 2 on Route 9 on the left. Reservations are recommended (802) 579-9088 or (802) 257-7898, ext. 4. Besides being the only art gallery to cater dim sum Asian cuisine, the 30+ item menu includes two-thirds vegetarian options and many wheat-free / gluten-free options.

In response to requests, Post Oil Solutions and Fair Winds Farm will sponsor two Chicken Harvest workshops this summer, to supplement their annual Backyard Chicken Raising workshops in the Spring.

The first of these will be offered Saturday, July 17, the second, Saturday, September 4. Both will run from 9:00 to 12:00, and be held at Fair Winds Farm, Upper Dummerston Road, Brattleboro.

Cai's Dim Sum will be available all day and right up the fireworks in the parking lot by the pool with the other food vendors. A portion of proceeds from today's Dim Sum will go to the Marina and their staff.

The Dim Sum Teahouse is now offering take out every week with at least a day in advance phone-in of orders and arranging the pickup time. The next one-Sunday-a-month dine-in marathon at C.X. Silver Gallery will be July 18 followed by August 15.

During this coming Gallery Walk, I invite you to stop by Microbe Brewers' Supply to enjoy a root beer float, featuring homemade root beer. We're just a few steps up High St, in the Midtown Mall.

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http://microbebrewerssupply.com

Jean Sarnie of West Halifax, with her Dante’s Blueberry Quick Bread has won the grand prize in the Strolling of the Heifers Great Vermont Pro-am Bread Baking Contest.

Judges tasted the finalist entries and announced winners on Friday evening, June 4 at Brattleboro’s River Garden, as part of the 2010 Strolling of the Heifers weekend. After the judging, samples of the finalists’ breads were offered to the public.

I will be giving away one ticket to the Brattleboro Brewers Festival (www.brattleborobrewfest.com) at 5pm on Friday the 21st.

Stop by Microbe Brewers' Supply before then to enter.