Going Local Week

 

Celebrate Indiana's GOING LOCAL WEEK 2009 by eating one Indiana local food at each meal. By consciously choosing locally grown and produced foods you'll enjoy fresher and more varieties of food, get in touch with the seasonality of the Indiana food shed, protect the environment, and help support the local Indiana economy.

There's no one central event for GOING LOCAL WEEK 2009. The event supporters are asking participants to celebrate the event on a local and personal level. Here are some ideas for activities during that week:

Visit a farm, farm market, or farmers' market in your area.

When dining out, choose restaurants who support our local producers by offering local food items on their menus or in their dishes.

Host a local foods pitch-in and ask everyone to bring a dish made primarily with local foods.

Bring in fresh Indiana melons for the staff instead of doughnuts during the week.

 

Have an in-office potluck lunch where everyone brings in something they’ve made with a local ingredient.

 

Go out to an after-work “happy hour” at a local winery if there is one close by.

Get together with your friends at work and take turns that week bringing a local food dish to share at lunch.

Choose to switch one of your pantry or refrigerator staples such as dairy products or eggs to one from a local producer.

Go to a U-pick.

Preserve some fruits or vegetables for winter use.

Invite some friends over for a local food cooking activity--make a pie with apples you picked from a local orchard, make bread or muffins with Indiana flour or cornmeal, or make tomato sauce with the last of the season Indiana tomatoes.

We hope you'll take the time to tell us what you're doing and how you're planning to "discover, celebrate, and savor the abundance of Indiana's fresh, in-season, and local foods."



 

Comments

[victoria]

Nick--try the Broad Ripple Farmers' Market and check out this site for a mill in Greenfield: http://www.newrinkelflour.com/ You can also get frshly milled flours and cornmeal at the Indiana State Fair.

[Nick]

Where can I get Indiana flour in the Indianapolis area? http://www.filepasswords.com

[Peggy Roberson]

The "going Local" program at the New AblanyFloyd County Library on Tuesday, Sept.8 was a big success. About 125 attendees sampled local produce and crafts. Jewish Apple cake, sour cream apple pie, blackberry cobbler, seedless watermelon, hummus, cornbread from local cornmeal, salad, fried green tomatoes,local honey, zucchini spagetti and zucchini crust pizza were served. We also had locally produced wool, a beekeeper, jewelrymaker, the "Apron Lady" and local vegetarian authority, Jackie Vetter, of Georgetown, IN. A good time was had by all.

Recipes from the "Going Local" website plus recipes for all the dishes served were offered to the public.

[Linda McGurk]

The Covington Farmers’ Market on the Square will highlight Going Local Week with several special events on the courthouse square Friday, Sept. 11, from 4-7 p.m. Aside from the regular offerings of locally grown produce and homemade baked goods, the market will feature a free drawing for a tote bag full of farm fresh food donated by the vendors. Sunset Funeral Home will sponsor an ice cream social featuring locally made ice cream, and horse-drawn wagon rides will be available. For more information, contact Linda McGurk at 299-2747 or mcgurkmedia@sbcglobal.net.

[Mary Day]

EAT YOUR WAY TO BETTER HEALTH
Purdue Extension - Tipton County
1200 S. Main Street, Tipton IN 46072
765-675-1177

Our staff is working with the local elementary schools to teach 3rd graders how much fun you can have growing and eating fruits and vegetables. Third graders are learning to grow their own cool season vegetables so that they will hopefully learn to enjoy eating their fruits and vegetables. We are meeting once a week for 6 weeks to grow container veggies and taste testing local fruits and veggies! Our last session is a salad party where they discover eating your veggies isn't that bad after all!

[Andrea Clough]

Where can I get Indiana flour in the Indianapolis area?

[Jane Lommel]

BRAG (Binford Redevelopment & Growth, Inc.) is launching its "Shop BRAG" campaign on September 5th with the sale of bright green "Shop BRAG" bumper stickers for only $3 to brand our community of 35,000 residents and 3,000+ businesses. The goal is to educate folks about the outstanding variety of outstanding independent retail shops and restaurants throughout our area as well as our rapidly growing Binford Farmers Market.

These stickers can be purchased at the Movable Feast, the Mailing Station, and the Binford Farmers Market every Saturday morning between 8 am and noon, on the northwest corner of Binford/East 62nd. Check out www.BinfordFarmersMarket.com to find out about our weekly specials.

Check out www.Binford71.org to find out more about this revitalized community on Indy's north east side.

[Bj Davis]

Bjava Coffee and Tea will again feature our Espresso Affagato flavored with Shagbark Hickory Syrup. We will pair it with a mini biscotti of walnuts and cinnamon baked in house.

Bjava Coffee and Tea
5510 Lafayette Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46254

[Angie Stuckey]

Linton Public Library will be celebrating going local week by hosting a cooking contest on September 8th at 6pm. To be considered in the contest each dish must contain at least one item that is locally grown or raised.

For more information visit us online at:
www.lintonpl.lib.in.us or call 812-847-7802

[Jon Neufelder]

EAT YOUR WAY TO BETTER HEALTH!
PURDUE EXTENSION, POSEY COUNTY
MT. VERNON, IN 47620
(812) 838-1331

The entire Extension Staff is working with 36 students in the third grade at Farmersville Elementary School on an 8 week program (once a week) to plant a fall garden and study healthy eating and living. In addition, we have been promoting locally grown produce each week by providing them foods to sample. We've already had cherry tomatoes and plan to have nectarines, cantaloupes and apples, all grown by local producers over the next several weeks. Once their gardens are ready to harvest (hopefully mid October), the children will be able to take home the lettuce, spinach and radishes that they grew, to share with their families.

[Janeen Longfellow]

A "Going Local" free program will be presented at the Kendallville Public Library on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, from 6:30-7:30 by Janeen Longfellow and Hanson Young, Purdue Extension Educators from Noble County.

On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, the Noble County Office complex South will have a pitch-in luncheon with each attendee bringing a dish made from local ingredients.

[victoria wesseler]

The World Series of Market Chefs’ Challenges will be held at the Indianapolis Farmers Market at City Market, Wednesday, September 9th starting at 11:00 AM.

The exciting, fast paced competition, the brainchild of Chef Thom England, is in the genre of Iron Chef and TV Food Network’s Chopped. The chefs will be given $20.00 and 20 minutes to shop the market for ingredients. They'll also be given a "secret ingredient" that must be incorporated into their dishes. They will then have one hour to cook an entree and present their finished dishes to a panel of judges who will decide whose Indiana local food cuisine “reigns supreme” for 2009.

[victoria wesseler]

Take a look at the Indiana Local Food Guide on this site and also check out this link http://www.in.gov/isda/files/09AgDirectoryrevised.pdf for the 2009 Indiana Department of Ag's directory. I would also check Local Harvest and Indiana Market Maker. Hope that helps!

[Katherine]

Victoria - can you recommend some local u-picks? I would love to get together with a group of friends from church!

[Peggy Roberson]

Southern Indiana will be "Going Local" at the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library (www.nafclibrary.org) on Tuesday September 8th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Strassweg Auditorium. Producers of local food and drink will be available to talk to the public about their items. Also, locally grown produce and meats will be prepared by area chefs for sampling.

Free and open to the public. For more information call: 812 949-3527 or send an email to Peggy Roberson at proberson@nafclibrary.org

[Mass Ave Wine Shoppe]

MASS AVE WINE SHOPPE
878 Massachusetts Avenue

We offer local cheese and meats from Yegerlehner Farms Swiss-Connection.
Featured on our meat/cheese tasting platters and sandwiches.
Plus Indiana wines from Butler Winery and New Day Meadery
Stop by and enjoy
Mon-Saturday Noon to 9pm
317 972 7966