Delightful Winter Dishes with Chef Contos
Thursday, November 10th 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Essex Junction Senior Center
Space is limited, sign up by emailing: 5CornersFarmersMarket@gmail today!
Chef Courtney Contos will share recipes, tips and delicious tastes as she demonstrates cooking Autumn favorites. Apple Strudel and this year best Thanksgiving side dish!
Winter Indoor Gardening with Peter Burke
Saturday, January 21st 3 – 4:30 p.m
Essex Junction Senior Center
This workshop will focus on growing a steady supply of fresh greens with only a cupboard and a windowsill. Ready to harvest in just 7 to 10 days, these greens are good in fresh salads and stir fries. Peter will demonstrate how to grow sunflower, radish, buckwheat, pea and broccoli shoots. Everyone will take a planted tray home from class.
Movie - Forks Over Knives (about)
Thursday, February 16, 6:30 - 8:30
Brownell Library
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline traces the personal journeys of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional scientist from Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former top surgeon at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic. Inspired by remarkable discoveries in their young careers, these men conducted several groundbreaking studies. Their separate research led them to the same startling conclusion: degenerative diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even several forms of cancer, could almost always be prevented—and in many cases reversed—by adopting a whole foods, plant-based diet. In addition, cameras follow “reality patients” who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes, and are taught by their doctors to adopt a whole foods plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments. Save some time for discussion after the movie!
Book Discussion -The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball
Thursday, March 15, 6:30
Brownell Library
Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and cattle and driving horses. But on an impulse, smitten, if not yet in love, she shed her city self and moved to five hundred acres near Lake Champlain to start a new farm with him. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of Kristin's discovery of the pleasures of physical work, that good food is at the center of a good life, and ultimately of love. Books will be available to borrow beginning Feb. 13 at the Brownell Library.
Panel Presentation and Discussion -
April- time and location TBA – Fresh, healthy local food in our schools! Join school food service providers, Abbie Nelson from Vermont FEEDS, and community folks who’ll discuss strategies for including good, wholsome food in our local schools. Stay tuned for date, time and location. This is an interesting topic! We’re planning for a great discussion.