Local Food Potluck Thursday, June 29th

Local Food Potluck
[Picnic]
at the 38th & Meridian Farmers Market
Thursday, July 29th at 5:30 pm
38th & Meridian, North United Methodist Church parking lot

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Come celebrate Indy's healthy farms, families, and locally-grown foods at our second monthly
Local Food Challenge Potluck.

The Indianapolis Food, Farm, and Family Coalition invites you to come support the 38th & Meridian Farmers Market and share a meal with fellow market-goers. The North United Methodist Church has generously offered to host the potluck outside on the church grounds. If the weather proves uncooperative we also have access to the community room inside the church. Picnic tables and chairs are limited, so we will sit the grass.

Make sure to bring along those picnic blankets (and perhaps extra to share)!

• Wander the Farmers Market 4-6:30 pm
• Dinner 5:30
• Word from the Market Master Joel O'Neil 5:45 pm

Admission is Free:
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Simply bring a potluck/pitch-in dish to share made with locally grown/produced food.

The church is unable to provide dining ware . Please bring your own plate and utensils for yourself and your family, if possible. Think Reduce, Reuse, Recycle =)

RSVP, on Facebook:
Local Food Potluck [Picnic] at the 38th & Meridian Farmers Market

Remember to bring along the recipe:
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Bring a copy of your recipe for the dish you brought. The Indianapolis Food, Farm and Family Coalition will post these recipes on the blog [http://indyfoodsecurity.blogspot.com]

Like last month, the Earth House Collective will pick one recipe from the Local Food Potluck to serve at the Earth House Cafe for the Month of August!! Please bring your recipe cards to participate.

More about the 38th & Meridian Farmers' Market:
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United Methodists have long had a reputation for acting on behalf of social justice issues and for taking any opportunity to show hospitality by eating together. So North Church acts according to type when we blend the gathering of produce from local farms with concern for neighborhood food shortages at our Farmers' Market.

38th & Meridian Street Farmer's Market will be open for the season starting Thursday, June 3rd from 4:00 - 6:30 and every Thursday until the last market on October 28th. Our vendors bring in loads of locally grown fruit and vegetables, fresh baked bread, cakes, ethnic ingredients, pickles, jams, flowers, eggs and fresh meat. But community is more than locally grown food; we believe that a healthy community needs fun places for families and neighbors to gather together.

Keeping in this tradition North Church will play host to a family night the 3rd Thursday of August, September, and October. Clarian Health is sponsoring the event and providing produce to WIC and Senior voucher participants. Clarian dietitian experts will be on hand performing food demonstrations for the community. The event will culminate with a dinner for anyone that wants to be served, free of charge, in the church fellowship hall at 6:30. The dinner will focus on items given out in free produce bags to encourage the participants to prepare their food in creative ways for their family. Recipes will also be included.

For more information, email the Market Master Joel O'Neil
indydodad@yahoo.com