The Food Collaborative is sponsoring a a public forum on October 7th from 4-6pm. Panelists include: Marian Burros, a writer with the New York Times; Tom Philpott a food editor from Grist.org and James McWilliams, author of Just Food. The forum will be moderated by Benjamin Cohen a UVa Food Collaborative coordinator. The event will be held in [...]
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Friday night marked the First Annual Corn Shuck Fest at the UVA Community Garden. Congratulations to all of the volunteers who worked to put on such a fantastic event! The evening was marked by beautiful fall weather, acoustic bluegrass, and of course, the bounty of the harvest (supplemented by some delicious pot luck items!). Aside [...]
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A group of us went to Monticello this past weekend to check out the annual Heritage Harvest Festival. The weather was perfect and we had a great group of students head up to Thomas Jefferson’s little mountain. The festival is intended to educate and celebrate this region’s local food heritage. We attended a cheese-making demonstration, toured [...]
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Welcome back for what we hope will be a very memorable 100-mile Thanksgiving! We are in the process of developing a schedule of events leading up to our locally-sourced feast on November 18, including harvest festivals, food tastings, farm tours, and learning valuable skills like canning. Our goal is to learn as much about our [...]
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