1st Monthly Local Food Challenge Potluck

Local Food Potluck with special guests The Green Riders

Friday, June 11^th at 7 p.m.

Earth House on 237 N. East Street, Downtown Indy

Come celebrate Indy’s healthy farms, families, and locally-grown foods at our first monthly

Local Food Challenge Potluck

Admission is Free: Simply bring a potluck dish to share made with locally grown/produced foods plus a copy of your recipe for the IndyFoodFarmFamily.org blog. Dining ware may be limited, so please bring your own plate and utensils for yourself and your family, if possible.

- INDYCOG Courteous Mass arrives at Earth House 7pm

- Dinner 7:15

- Electric Bike Demo 8:15

The Indianapolis Food, Farm, and Family Coalition invites you to meet The Green Riders, a brother and sister team, Oliver and Catherine Bock will give us a taste of what it is like to journey across the country on electric bicycles. They will also demonstrate how electric bikes are a fun and easy alternative to cars.

More about the Green Riders:

Oliver and Catherine Bock are explorers traveling across America from Palo Alto, California to Washington, DC learning about sustainable solutions happening right now and sharing those stories with others. The ride is designed to focus attention on what's going on locally that is moving human behavior towards sustainability. When they arrive in Washington DC, they hope to have lunch with President Obama and ask him if he would like to take a spin on one of their electric bicycles! You can track the ride on their blog www.thegreenriders.blogspot.com and find more information about their mission on their website www.thegreenriders.org

About the Courteous Mass and IndyCOG:

IndyCOG is a bicycle advocacy group that is focused on uniting the voices of all people on bikes to push for better cycling infrastructure to make biking a safer and more viable mode of transportation in the city. As much as they are an advocacy group, they are also trying to help support and nourish the growing bicycle culture in Indianapolis.

Recent Courteous Mass/Critical Manners blog: http://www.theindycog.com/blog/?p=958

Co-hosted by the Indianapolis Food, Farm and Family Coalition and the Earth House Collective

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To read the Indianapolis Food Charter go here: http://indyfoodsecurity.org/ourprojects.html

New Website Launching!

Hello everyone!

Our new website will be launching within the next week. Check back for the web address!

Our blog will stay, but get an update. We want to hear from you!
Your stories on local food and sharing recipes!

And April Hammerand, our new Project Manager will be updating her stories as well.

Indiana Horticulture Congress and Tradeshow

January 19 - 21, 2010
Wyndham West Indianapolis

Special Events
Pesticide Applicator Training
CCH & PARP credits
Cider Contest
Hort Congress Social Hour
Trade Show - over 60 exhibits

Educational Sessions
Agritoursim
Farm Marketing
Fresh Vegetables
Fruit
High Tunnel
Organics
Processing Vegetables
Wine Grapes

New Official Logo and Website Coming Soon!

Keep on the lookout for an official logo and website for the coalition! We are hoping to launch everything in January.

New Logo and Name!

The vote is in! Our new name is Indianapolis Food & Farm Coalition.
Here is our logo:


Thanks for all the support and don't forget to come to our monthly meetings!

Community Gardens in Indianapolis

Broad Ripple
Green Broad Ripple, a non-profit organization focused on improving the neighborhood's environmental efforts, maintains a garden on 61st Street, between Winthrop and Guilford. The garden provides a space for residents to grow produce, some of which is sold to restaurants and bars in the neighborhood for the benefit of Green Broad Ripple.

Rocky Ripple
Residents of this small but active neighborhood near ButlerUniversity maintain a community garden in one of its park areas. Contact Nancy Barton (255-7628) or Vandra Lindner (259-8297) for more information.

Westside
Registration began this spring on the Mayor's Garden Plots, located at located at 2400 Tibbs Ave., and runs through October. Indy Parks provides tilling services, but gardeners must supply their own plants and water.
For more information, call 327-7418.


Plainfield
This month, CenterCommunityChurch began offering 20-by-20-foot plots just south of the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Academy. Call the parks department, 839-7665, or e-mail cchafin@town.plainfield.in.us for more info.