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April 15, 2010
The Emile Street Community Farm 711 N. Emile is open Saturday 9 until dark and Sunday 10 to 5.
FRIDAY
Green Mixer followed by Living Off the Land Dinner Series
Hosted by Houston Green Scene and Last Organic Outpost
Join us for one or both on Friday, April 16, 2010 5:30p - 9:30p at Last Concert Café.
Green Mixer
Where the Green-minded Meet & Mix
A casual mixer/collaboration event where green-minded, green-curious and green-friendly people meet to see what's happening in the Green Scene. We will be highlighting local, green businesses, organizations and sustainable-oriented efforts. If you are a green professional, own a green business, or are just looking to connect with the green community—don’t miss it!
Living Off the Land
A Celebration of Local, Seasonal Foods
"Living Off the Land," is a dinner series showcasing local, seasonal, fresh food from the Emile Community Farm, the largest farm of the Last Organic Outpost. These dinners feature the creatively crafted recipes of and are skillfully prepared by the Farm’s Resident Chef Marcella Murff Icet.
Local, fresh, pure goodness!
Donation $20/person
RSVP now at 713-931-6100; 50 Maximum, plates go fast!
Dinner begins at 7:00pm
Last Concert Cafe is located at 1403 Nance.
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Homemade smoked sausage/leek/apple cassoulet
Caramelized onion and leek pizza with cilantro pesto
Israeli couscous and roasted root vegetables
Citrus pound cake with strawberries and whipped cream
SATURDAY and SUNDAY
Farming Market 10 - 5
See a certified picker!
 We are planting at the farm and getting beds ready. Please come and help us.
SATURDAY
Gunter's Heirloom and Organic Bedding Plant Sale 12:00 - 5:00
If you've bought heirloom tomatoes at Wabash or Buchannan's, you know the quality of their plants! We buy many of our bedding plants for the farm from them. Prices are great! They will have tomatoes, peppers, melons and cucumbers for sale that are great varieties for our area. Come on out and meet the experts.
SATURDAY
9 - ?
Come and help Martin and his family (from the neighborhood) plant maize (corn).
MARK YOUR CALENDAR. THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY GREEN FEST
IS HAPPENING OCTOBER 16TH AT THE FARM!
NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SECURITY
Food security is being able to look out the window, walk or bike to your food source. At any given time, we are 60 days out from having a viable food source.
You can work on a food security plan in your neighborhood easily. You don't have to wait for the whole neighborhood to get started! You can plant a few vegetables in anything that will hold dirt and will drain. Doesn't take many plants to feed a single family. Use old dresser drawers, barrels, old toilets, stacked tires, rusty wheelbarrows, wire 4 pallets together for a great planter.
So , think outside the box and if you come up with a cool planter send us a picture and we put it on the website!
Joe Nelson and Marcella Murff Icet, Community Farmers
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Emile Street Community Farm
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