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Great Big Edible Street Fair
The Rachel Carson Centennial Birthday Party

When: Sunday, May 27, 2007

Where: The Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale
Directions

Time: 12:30 - 5 pm

Cost: $5 lets you stuff yourself with chef samples. (Free for children under 6.)

Great chefs, great F@F farmers, artisan cheese!
Planet-friendly food.
Goodies not found in grocery stores!

THE PROGRAM: Come, eat, dance to bluegrass. Discover the legacy of one of the world's heroes of environmental science.

RACHEL CARSON: Time Magazine: "One of the most influential people of the twentieth century." Britain's environmental agency: "Ranks first among 100 people in all time who have done the most to save the planet."

EATING IS AN AGRICULTURAL ACT

Participating Chefs:
Bill Fuller; big Burrito Restaurant Group; Kevin Sousa, Bigelow Grille; Jeff Iovino, Iovino's Café; Dave DeCollo, Parkhurst Dining Services@PNC Bank; Adam Manculich, Point Brugge; Chris Jackson, Six Penn Kitchen; April Gruver, Vanilla Pastry Studio; Kitty Latham, Green Chef Deli

Suppliers :
Creekside Mushrooms; Freebird Chicken; Harvest Valley Farms; Joe Jurgielewicz & Sons; Keswick Creamery; Kretschmann Farms; Marburger Farm Dairy; Mildred's Daughters; Natural Acres; Starbucks; Three Sisters Farm; Wil-Den Family Farms; Whole Foods

Exhibitors, Vendors:
Farmers@Firehouse (Slow Food Pittsburgh); Animal Friends; Animal Rescue League Wildlife Center; Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania; Carnegie Mellon Museum of Natural History; CHE-Penn; Clean Water Action; EnviOx, Equita, Group Against Smog and Pollution, G-Diapers, Girls Scouts Trillium Council, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, Kiski-Conemaugh River Alliance, Mooi Organics, NaturesWorx, Phipps Conservatory, Query Quest, RiverQuest, Roaring Run Watershed Association, Springdale High School Biology Club, Venture Outdoors (at time of press)

Sustainable Feast Organizing Partners:
Bill Fuller, Executive Chef, big Burrito Restaurant Group Jamie Moore, Director of Food and Beverage, Eat'nPark Hospitality Group Virginia Phillips, Slow Food Pittsburgh David Eson, Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture Kim Wynnyckyj, Whole Foods Market Media Sponsors: WDUQ 90.5 FM, WYEP, Allegheny Front Radio

The Rachel Carson Homestead Association was formed in 1975 to preserve and restore this National Register historic site and to offer education programs and resources that advance Rachel Carson's environmental ethic. The Rachel Carson Homestead is the only site in the world that is dedicated to interpreting Rachel Carson's legacy to the public. For more information, please visit Web site at www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org. Rachel Carson Homestead Association 613 Marion Avenue, Box 46 Springdale, PA 15144-0046 (724) 274-5459

HIGHLIGHTS:

SEMILOCAL
artisan cheeses to taste and buy:
Raw Milk Minerva (Minerva,Ohio) aged raw milk goat cheddar, nutty, earthy.
Raw Milk Clover Creek Bruschedda (Williamsburg, Pa.) with sun dried tomatoes and basil.
Middlefield Coop (Middlefield, Ohio) Extra sharp white cheddar. A little crumbly, aged two years.

VERY LOCAL
Jack Duff's Demo: "Greens and Beans for Dummies."Harvest Valley Simply Sweet Onion Relish, Miller's Mustard, Frankferd Farms' "Betty's Basic Organic Scone Mix." Polish Hill honey, authentic Lebanese goodies and Mediterra baked goods. Hanging baskets, herbs and potted plants. Free-range brown eggs and more.


ACTIVITIES: Learn while you play

Pine Creek Bluegrass Band

Carson Homestead tours

Eco-friendly vendors and advocates

Kids' activities

Walks by the Allegheny River

12:30 talks by conservation leaders

1:30 book-signing by Mark Lytle, author of the new Rachel Carson biography, "The Gentle Subversive."

1:45 Jaime Moore, visonary EatnPark exec: "Why Buying Local is Important"

2pm Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," informal presentation, not the movie

3 pm One- woman play: "A Sense of Wonder," starring the author, Kaiulani Lee. $10 tickets.