Westside (Shawnee, KS) Expo 2006
- Saturday, April 1st
KCFC Westside (Shawnee, KS) Expo 2006 - Full Details:
KC Food Circle's 8th Annual Farmers Exhibition
9am-3pm on Saturday, April 1, 2006
* Get to know natural food producers and their methods - buy
high-quality heirloom varieties and other organic produce direct from
local, family farmers onsite or thru CSA memberships.
* Free-range, natural and humanely-produced meats
* Veggie seedlings and plants for spring gardens
* Free information on sustainable agriculture and gardening
* Free Directory of Local Producers including stores that carry their products
* Original music by eco-troubadour, Stan Slaughter
Admission: Free
WHERE:
Shawnee Civic Centre (on April 1st)
13817 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, KS
(2 miles east of I-435, just west of Pflumm Rd, 3 miles west of I-35)
Workshops and demos to be held on April 1st event, only:
(*this year's theme is Heritage Foods in the Heartland - click here for schedules and workshop details*)
Shawnee (1 April) Expo Exhibitors
(Food Producers / Distributors / Organizations)
Bear Creek Farms
Bossie's Best
Bread of Life Organic Bakery
Breezy Hill
Camp Creek Farms
Campo Lindo Farms
Community Market at Brookside
Coyote Creek Farm
Goatsbeard Farm
Golden Ridge Farms
Good Natured Family Farms
Homespun Hill Farm
JJ Farms
KC Center for Urban Agriculture
La Ferme du Bonheur
Marlene Eads Honey
The Organic Way
Parker Farms Natural Meats
Peacock Farms
Pearly Gates Organic Soapery & Farm
Pickings and Pumpkins
Pisciotta Farms
Rains Natural Meats
Rolling Prairie Alliance
Shroomheads
Soaring Eagle Farms
Tranquility Garden
>>Qualifications and Costs (2006) are listed here<<
Workshops :
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Kansas City Food Circle presented:
Heritage Foods in the Heartland
- Eat them before they disappear
9:30-10:30am
Todd Wickstrom co-founder, Heritage Foods USA
speaking on heritage foods
10:35-11:20am
Dan May - Farmer -
The Organic Way Farm
and
Cody Hogan
- chef de cuisine - Lidia's Kansas City
speaking on heirloom vegetable varieties
www.theorganicwayfarm
kansas.lidiasitaly.com
11:25-11:55am
Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch - Farmer - Bossie's Best
speaking on organic family farming
After "Heritage Foods in the Heartland"...
12:00pm
A chefs demo by Cody Hogan of
Lidia's Kansas City
Admission: FREE!
WHEN: Saturday, April 1 st, 2006
WHERE: Shawnee Civic Centre
13817 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, KS
Same place as the Kansas City Food Circle's
8th Annual Farmers' Exhibition
** Free heirloom tomato seedling for the first 75 workshop attendees **
Todd Wickstrom elected to buy a Chinese restaurant instead of becoming a doctor. He has been in the food business ever since. He has also owned a Jazz Club, a BBQ business and was an owner of two bread bakery franchises in Chicago. It was his desire to improve his operations at those bakeries that led him to a Zingerman's Experience Seminar in September of 2000. He was so changed by the experience that he eventually sold the two bakeries and moved to become the Managing Partner of Zingerman's Deli.
As Todd enthusiastically embraced the Zingerman's Guiding Principle to be "an active part of the community", he began discussions with Gary Court, Principal of the Tappan Middle School to share a vision he had to bring an "Edible Schoolyard" to Ann Arbor. Those initial discussions have led to not only strong school and community support of the project, but to a grant from the Kellogg Foundation for the strategic planning phase of the project. The goal of the The Agrarian Adventure is NOT to create a school garden, but rather to change the world, at least one small portion of it. Also to create a fully integrated program that teaches the students to protect, promote and celebrate life and ultimately to take over the school lunch program by having the students preparing lunch for each other with food that they have grown and raised and subsequently to get credit for school lunch, in the same manner that they do for math, science or foreign language.
Todd founded Heritage Foods USA with Patrick Martins in 2001, a business dedicated to helping farmers market their artisan foods, providing an alternative to industrial agriculture. Todd has also helped merge the Slow Food USA Ark and Presidia Committees into the newly formed APC and is currently in the process of helping the Slow Food USA Education Committee make similar organizational changes. He is also one of only three members of the Slow Food International Board of Guarantors.
www.heritagefoodsusa.com
Slow Food USA Ark - www.slowfoodusa.org/ark/
Dan May is co-owner of The Organic Way farm, located in Milo, Missouri. The Organic Way farm is a beautiful 51 acre farm established in 1995, and is a premier producer of heirloom fruits and vegetables, notably heirloom tomatoes and greens. The farm's produce is available at the Overland Park Farmers' Market, via CSA and at many of Kansas City's finest restaurants. Dan is a member of the Kansas City Food Circle, the Slow Food Kansas City convivium and Generations.
www.theorganicwayfarm.com
www.slowfoodkansascity.com (old link)
Slow Food - Kansas City Convivium -
www.slowfoodkc.org
Cody Hogan holds the post of Chef de Cuisine at Lidia's Kansas City, the very popular restaurant opened by noted restaurateur, Lidia Bastianich. Cody trained at Bastianich's Felidia Restaurant in New York in the position of pastry chef. Hogan received his Master of Arts in Music from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and while studying piano as a Rotary Scholar in Europe, he became interested in the culinary arts. Cody's resume includes La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles with Nancy Silverton, the Acme Bakery in Berkeley, California, pastry chef at Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley and the landmark Andre's Confisserie Suisse in Kansas City.
Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch comes from a farm family who has been farming organically in Kansas since 1878. Today their crops, cattle and locker plant are certified organic by the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) International, compliant with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic Standards. She markets her organic beef under the label "Bossie's Best" (Bossie was the family milk cow). Nancy's family has kept cows with Bossie's nurturing disposition and added Hereford/Angus vigor for a healthy herd of gentle strength to give you the best beef. Please join Nancy as she shares samples of her beef and tells stories to those who value tender and flavorful beef and appreciate a farming style that nourishes the soil and the soul.
Expo Photos - Saturday, April 1st, 2006
