Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

Since we picked so much produce to sell at Dundee Day, we won't be harvesting at the garden tonight. Our community plots don't have a lot in them right now!

Please put these dates on your calendar:

Tues. Sept. 15, 7 p.m. Board Meeting, Board Meeting at Dundee Presbyterian (open to all garden members)

Sat. Sept. 19, 3-5 p.m. Harvest Party and Pot-Luck

Bring a dish to share, using something from your garden plot if possible!

Thanks to everyone who helped pick and donated produce for Dundee Day! Our booth looked great, and we'll have photos on the web site soon, at http://www.dundeegarden.org/

Between selling Chico bags and taking donations for vegetables, herbs, and flowers, we made over $200 on Saturday! That will help cover our insurance cost for next year, so it's great to end the season with some funds.

FYI, we donated all the surplus veggies and flowers to the Dundee Towers apartment building across the street. The people who live there have been very interested in our garden, and seemed very appreciative!

Mary

Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

As a reminder, we are not holding our usual harvest night tonight (Monday). Instead we will be harvesting Thursday at 7 p.m. for Dundee Day. We will be selling Dundee Community Garden produce at our stand at Dundee Day on Saturday.

If you have vegetables, herbs, or flowers you would like to donate to our stand, please join us for harvesting Thurs. evening. Or you can drop your items off at our stand on Saturday morning. We are going to be in the middle of the block between 50 and 51st Streets, on the north side of the street (between KFAB and Grandpa's.) All proceeds will go to support the garden.

Please stop by our stand on Saturday. We'll be selling Chico bags for $5, and we may have a surprise raffle item as well! Also, the Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer your gardening questions.

Mary

Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

Join us for our harvest night this Monday, Aug. 17, at 7 p.m. This is a great time for you to harvest from your own plot, and also to help us harvest from the Food Bank plots that we're donating to Together, Inc.'s food pantry. If you have any extra produce from your own plot that you would like to donate, that would be great! Let us know Monday night, or shoot me an e-mail and let me know that you have extras that we can pick from your plot.

Last week we donated 65#s of fresh garden vegetables to Together!!! Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Be sure to stop by our table at Dundee Day on Sat. Aug. 22! We'll be selling fresh produce and Chico bags. The $$ we raise will go back to the garden, so if you have extra produce you would like to sell, please feel free to donate. You could drop it off at our table on Saturday, or join us to pick produce on Thurs. Aug. 27 for the Dundee Day table.

See you at the garden,
Mary

Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello Dundee Gardeners,

We'll be harvesting from the garden Monday night at 7 p.m. Join us if you can!

If you have more produce than you can use, or if you'll be out of town and your produce will be ripening, let us know and we'll pick your plot for you and donate produce to the food pantry at Together, Inc. They have loved getting our fresh garden vegetables, and the items go fast!

Also, our next board meeting is this Tuesday August. 11, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian, basement dining room. Send any agenda items to Sharon at sharonconlon@msn.com

Mary

Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners,

We've donated almost 50 pounds of produce to Together, Inc.'s food pantry this past month! Join us Monday evening at 7 for our next harvest night. It's a great time to harvest from your own plot as well as help us with the community plots.

Mary

Other items of interest:

*City Sprouts 7th Annual Gala
Sunday Aug 23rd, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft St
$25, or $200 for a table of 10

Eric Williams is looking for Dundee Community Garden members who would like to attend. If we have a group of 10, the cost would be $20 each. If you are interested, please contact Eric at MrErlo@gmail.com

*Food, Inc. now showing at Film Streams
Food, Inc. - This film features interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with social entrepreneurs such as Stonyfield's Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat and how it's produced.
When: July 31 -Aug. 13
Where: Film Streams (1340 Webster Street) Special Showing: Tues. Aug. 4, 7 p.m., with post-show panel discussion featuring William Powers, Executive Director of the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society and representative of Slow Food Nebraska, Elle Lien, creator of Clean Plate, and Dr. Darrell R. Mark, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics and Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist at UNL.
Additional details can be found at http://www.filmstreams.org/

*Slow Food

An effort's afoot to launch an Omaha chapter of Slow Food International. Organizers from the Lincoln chapter invite those interested to meet at Blue Line Coffee, near 14th and Cuming Streets, at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday August 4 to discuss establishing an Omaha Slow Food group and events.

The meeting precedes a 7 p.m. screening of "Food Inc." at Film Streams and an 8:30 p.m. panel discussion with the executive director of the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society.

*Clean Plate, a farm-to-table raw-foods restaurant and market, is beginning its four-week occupation of the Empty Room (behind Slowdown and Film Streams at 13th and Webster Streets). Those attending the 7 p.m. "Food Inc." premiere at Film Streams tonight (Friday July 31) are invited to stop by for a move-in day open house after the film.

Creator Elle Lien said she'll kick off her stay on Aug. 8 with live music, raw food and live-fermented beer from Upstream Brewing Co., starting at 8 p.m.

Thereafter, the temporary restaurant will be open for select weekday lunches (11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from Aug. 12 to Aug. 29), a Sunday brunch (10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 23) and late-night nibbles (midnight to 2 a.m.) on nights when there's a show at Slowdown.

Lien said Clean Plate will also sell canned and fresh foods from area farmers.

She plans a reservations-only farm-to-table dinner with La Buvette chef Julie Berry at 7 p.m. Aug. 15 and other special events through Aug. 29, when her rent-free stay in the space draws to a close.

For more information or reservations, visit clean-plate.com or e-mail cleanplateomaha@yahoo.com.