Chelsea Community Kitchen: Connecting food entrepreneurs, educators and local food enthusiasts with kitchens they can rent; providing education and counseling support for people who want to start or grow a food-based business using local ingredients; educating consumers about eating local and healthy.
Now is the time to start planning for the 2012 Farmers Market season.
Are you familiar with Michigan’s Cottage Food Law?
Do you know what it takes to run a successful food-based business?
Check out our Links page to find related resources and contact us if you’d like to be on our email notification list for the class “Starting a Food-based Business: the Cottage Food Law & Beyond.”
Just thought I’d pass along a couple of links to online articles that you might find informative and fun to read.
10 Stubborn Food Myths that Just Won’t Die
and
10 More Stubborn Food Myths that Just Won’t Die Debunked by Science
Enjoy!
Bonus – a preview of the new version of Michael Pollen’s Food Rules
Food Day is a day designed to call attention to these goals:
Among the actions we can take as individuals are:
In addition, we can let our representatives in local, state and federal government know that we expect them to advance these goals when they draft and/or vote on related legislation.
More information about Food Day is available at www.foodday.org.
There’s food for thought in this article by Nathan Bomey of Annarbor.com, “4 ways locally grown food can create more jobs for the Ann Arbor area“. An incubator kitchen in eastern Washtenaw County would be a welcome addition to our list of available resources.
October 12, 2011, Chelsea, MI. Chelsea Community Kitchen, a local non-profit devoted to creating a healthy, local, and sustainable food culture through classroom and real-world education, is offering wine, food and a chance to enjoy them with friends.
Savor: a CCK event featuring a Local Wine & Food Tour in the Waterloo State Recreation Area is scheduled for Saturday, November 19, 2011. Proceeds will support the work of Chelsea Community Kitchen.
Only 36 spaces are available on this insiders’ tour of Sandhill Crane Vineyard, Lone Oak Vineyard Estate, and Mill Pond Bread featuring their appetizers paired Cherry Creek wines.
Chelsea Community Kitchen will provide tour transportation from a central location in Chelsea in vans with a designated driver. There is also a drive your own vehicle option.
Tickets for the Basic Tour are $100 per person. The Tour Plus, $150 per person includes the choice of an autographed copy of From the Vine or The History of Michigan Wine.
To purchase tickets, visit the Chelsea Community Kitchen’s web site: www.chelseacommunitykitchen.org and click the Savor link on the home page for online and US mail options.
“These three local business are perfect examples of the local food gems we have in our community. The Savor event gives us all an opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into true artisan production,” Chelsea Community Kitchen Board member Jane Pacheco whose experience inspired the tour.
What a terrific Michigan apple harvest! Get them from local orchards, at Farmers Markets and at grocery stores, too.
Here are a couple of timely events to consider:
Saturday, October 8, between 11 AM and 2 PM, Terry Peyton will be doing an on-site canning demonstration for applesauce at Chelsea Farmers Supply. Free. No advance notice required; just stop by.
Wednesday, October 12, 7-9 PM, Chelsea Community Kitchen is hosting a just-for-fun “potluck applesauce” experience. Sign up with a couple of your friends. The fee is $20 per person. Registration by Friday, October 7 is required. Details on the CCK’s web site: http://chelseacommunitykitchen.org/events/cooking-healthyfood/.
Preserve the taste of fall.
Read about us in this article about the 5 Healthy Towns Party in the Heritage Papers online.
Are you looking for a good way to get your idea for a food-based business launched or distribute or market a current product?
Consider attending Making it in Michigan. Follow the link to learn more and to register.
The kale’s
puckered sleeve,
the pepper’s
hollow bell,
the lacquered onion.
Beets, borage, tomatoes,
Green beans.
I came in and I put everything
on the counter: chives, parsley, dill,
the squash like a pale moon,
peas in their silky shoes, the dazzling
rain-drenched corn.
by Mary Oliver, in New And Selected Poems, Volume One
Come to the 5 Healthy Towns Party, Sunday, September 25, noon – 4 PM, at Chelsea High School and sample healthy foods sourced by Chelsea Community Kitchen. We’ve found local, healthy, tasty food – 3 different items, snacks and sides – that everyone who attends is welcome to try.
The Party will also include a Healthy Chef Competition – A team representing each of the 5 communities served by the Chelsea Wellness Foundation will compete to provide a healthy meal and snack that a family would want to eat. The competition will be judged by an adult and child from each community. Some of the meals will include produce from the Farmer’s Market that will be held on the grounds of CHS that day.
Nutritionist and author, Joy Bauer of NBC’s Today Show will be speaking in the auditorium at noon about how important eating right is to one’s physical and mental health as well as how to make healthy eating affordable. She will also help coach the Healthy Chef teams to success.
At 2 PM in the Commons Room, nutritionist Lisa Lutchka will demonstrate healthy lunches
and snacks for kids, and provide samples of the items.
To find out about all the other speakers and events included in the 5 Healthy Towns Party, go to the Chelsea Wellness Foundation’s web site. We hope to see you there!