April 24th, 2012 by linda
Just a reminder that Artisan Food and Arts Festival at the Irvine Great Park is this coming Saturday from 11am-5pm. Slow Food OC is a sponsor of this free event for the whole family. For more information about the days activities, restaurants and demonstration use the following link. http://www.ocgp.org/2012/03/artisan-food-arts-festival/
March 23rd, 2012 by Heather Westenhofer
The Cottage Food Law will be voted on by the California state legislature next week. This bill will allow entrepreneurs to use their home kitchens to prepare “non-potentially hazardous goods” such as bread, granola, candy and jam for retail sale. This is a HUGE step already taken by numerous other states in allowing small food businesses to start up without the exorbitant costs of building or renting commercial kitchen space. Please consider contacting your state assembly member and senator and letting him or her know how important this bill is.
More about the Cottage Food Law: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/02/cottage-food-bill-introduced-in-california/
How to take action: http://www.theselc.org/cottagefood/takeaction/
March 14th, 2012 by Heather Westenhofer
Many of you are familiar with Joel Salatin’s work at Polyface Farms, and if you have never seen him speak in person, I highly recommend it. This event is not necessarily in our backyard (he is speaking in Chico), but even if you can’t make it up to see him, please read the info about this event: they will be using the income to pay for a private lunch for Salatin and members of the California Departments of Public Health and Food and Agriculture, the USDA, and more. So consider sending a donation, to allow our state and national agencies to hear a voice of reason!
http://salatinchico.eventbrite.com/
February 21st, 2012 by Heather Westenhofer
I thought this might be of interest to our group.
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012
Time: 5:00 P.M. — Social Hour & Silent
Auction Browsing
6:00 P.M.– Dinner
7:00 P.M. — Program
Where: UFCW Union Hall, 8530 Stanton Ave.,
Buena Park, CA 90620
From 91 Fwy West toward Los Angeles:
Take the Beach Blvd. Exit toward Buena Park
Turn LEFT onto Beach Blvd.
Turn LEFT onto Crescent
After crossing Stanton, turn RIGHT into the
parking lot. We?ll have signs up.
Christine Chavez is our speaker! She’s a
granddaughter of Cesar Chavez and has been
active in farm worker issues her whole life. She
now works for the US Dept of Agriculture on farm
worker outreach.
Silent Auction has some fabulous items:
tickets to Catalina, Third World Handarts items,
Gift Baskets, and more!
Dinner: $20 contribution per person with a
prepaid reservation, or $25 at the door.
Reservations for dinner are requested
by Tuesday, March 6.
All proceeds will be given to the United
Farm Workers. We must have a firm
count so that the correct amount of food
will be provided. Please indicate with the
check the names of the people who plan
to attend.
For reservations, call Nadene Ivens at
714-526-7422 and for a pre-paid reservation,
make your check payable to UFW (not tax
deductible) and mail it to
Nadene Ivens
1229 Crestview
Fuller ton, 92833
If you can’t be at the dinner, a donation would
be very much appreciated. If you have auction
items to donate, please call Tina Laine at
714-565-7855 to let her know.
