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.