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Events for day: Saturday 10 July 2010  | << Previous day Next day >> |
1:30pm - 3:30pm Tresch Dairy - Straus Partner Family Tour Category : North Bay Location : Tresch Dairy, 1170 Walker Rd., Petaluma. From Petalum take Washington Street to Bodega Ave. Travel e This year MALT is very excited to partner with the Straus family to offer tours to several organic dairies that supply milk to the Straus Dairy. These tours will be offered each season and are open to the whole family. Activities include feeding a calf, butter-making, and observing a milking parlor in action. See details for the Tresch Dairy tour below. Watch this website for additional tours. With almost 2,100 acres, 900 milking cows, and two milking parlors, Tresch Dairy is the largest of the Straus Dairy partners. Join Kathy Tresch for a tour, bottle-feed a calf, see cows being milked, and churn and taste butter. Take a hay ... Read more 4:00pm - 5:00pm Stone Fruit Food Contest Category : San Francisco Location : Omnivore Books on Food · 3885a Cesar Chavez Street · San Francisco Yes, it's another great food contest here at Omnivore. This time, create the best dish you can using the season's stone fruit. Please cut it into many pieces so as many judges as possible can sample. Free to enter a dish; $5 for anyone who wants to taste and judge; winner splits the door money. As always, the more, the merrier! ... Read more 5:00pm - 10:00pm Capay Organic Farm Tour Category : North Bay Location : Capay Organic, 23800 State Highway 16, Capay, CA 95607 Enjoy a tomato tasting of heirloom and cherry varieties. Music groups Mumbo Gumbo and The West Nile Ramblers will play into the night, so bring your dancing shoes. This event is a fundraiser for The Kathleen Barsotti Non-Profit for Sustainable Agriculture. Call 800-796-6009 for ticket information. Directions: From I-80, take Hwy 505 North in Vacaville; Exit Hwy 16 towards Esparto; Continue ¼ mile past the town of Capay; Farm entrance will be on right, marked with a Capay Organic sign. ... Read more 5:00pm - 11:00pm Capay Tomato Tasting and Music Festival Category : East Bay Location : Capay Organic Farm, 23800 State Highway 16, Capay Valley, Yolo County Presented by Farm Fresh To You, Capay Tomato is an heirloom tomato tasting and music festival that takes place on our farm in Capay, 30 minutes Northwest of Davis and 1 hour North of the Bay Area. The casual farm setting with old growth oak trees providing shade and hay bail seating is ideal for enjoying the live bluegrass music and ripe, mid-summer tomatoes. This year's Capay Tomato will take place on Saturday, July 10th. The event starts at 5pm, but camping guests can check in at 4pm. Activities, such as farm tours, trailer rides and art activities will be going from 5pm-6pm. At 6pm, the tomato tasting will take place. Live bluegrass & honk ... Read more 7:00pm - 10:00pm Film Night In the Park - DIRTY DANCING (1987) Category : San Francisco Location : Union Square We're excited to announce the full 2010 Film Night in the Park schedule presented by Pop Secret! The rest of the schedule also promises a ton of fun and we can't wait to see you this summer. Read more 7:00pm - 8:30pm Raj Patel Category : North Bay Location : Toby's Feed Barn, Point Reyes Station Raj Patel author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing,” writes Raj Patel. Author, activist and academic, Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger, and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Read more |
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