Celebrate SFP's Earth Day Birthday

What: Potluck Supper, Beer Growlers, Plant Seedling Sale .....and Hear a Brain-Boosting Panel

When: Sunday, April 27, 2008

Time: 5-8 p.m.

Where: Calvary Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 315 Shady Avenue at Walnut Street

Price: $12, $6 for kids. Drinks at cash bar.

Cash Bar: East End Brewery beer and Natrona Bottling Company soft drinks Now that's terroir!

Annual Seedlings Plant Sale: Mindy Schartz's organic seedlings. Throw a cardboard box and plastic bags in your trunk.

Reservations:
Email
Then MAIL your check made out to "Slow Food Pittsburgh."
INCLUDE YOUR NAME, TELEPHONE NUMBER.
Include the names of your guests.
MAIL TO: Jack Neemes
265 Morrison Drive
Pittsburgh 15216
Tel: 412-343-7354.
Your check is your reservation.

To sign-up for your Potluck dish:
E-mail
Your choice: main dish, side dish, salad, or dessert. We will balance a bit as needed.


Time Line: 5 p.m. - Have a beer and socialize.
5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion “Tomorrow's Thinkers Today: Shaping a Community-Driven Food System.”
6:30 p.m. Let’s Eat! Potluck dishes, Mediterra bread, tasty surprises.

Panel:

Urban Farmer Mindy Schwartz of Garden Dreams in Wilkinsburg, and PASA leader/green developer/soon to be gentleman farmer, Kim Miller, describe their mind-blowing proposal to develop the Jane Holmes property in Swissvale. Partners are CMU, UPMC, Grow Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation.

Braddock’s young visionary mayor John Fetterman lassoes outside energy, art and photosynthesis to build opportunities for young people. See the mayor's website: http://www.15104.cc/mayor.html.

Susan Barclay, Slow Food Pittsburgh's co-leader, is winning ever more Pittsburghers to the Laptop Butchershop brand, building a stronger regional meat system. That means carefully raised local meat and poultry--ordered by e-mail.

Greg Boulos and Jen Montgomery will describe the hard-headed plans, graduate degrees and remarkable life experiences that led to youthful ownership of one of the oldest and largest organic farms and CSAs in Western Pennsylvania.

We’ll raise a toast to Greg and Jen because they will be Slow Food Pittsburgh's delegates to the Terra Madre world congress of sustainable food producers in Turin this October! We don't know two more capable and engaging spokespeople. They follow in the footsteps of prior delegates/food heroes known to many of us: Don and Becky Kretschmann, Ron Gargasz, Barb Kline, Randa Shannon and Mindy Schwartz.

Proceeds help send SFP's 2008 Terra Madre delegates to Italy.

Directions to Calvary Church

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Calvary Church is located in the Shadyside at the corner of Shady Avenue and Walnut Street.

If you are coming from the south or west suburbs or downtown Pittsburgh, get on I-376 East. Exit at Forbes Avenue exit and follow signs to Forbes. Continue on Forbes until you reach Shady Avenue. Turn left on Shady. The church is on your right just after the fourth traffic light (Walnut Street). Enter Calvary's parking lot from Shady Avenue.

If you are coming from the east suburbs, get on I-376 West. Exit at Wilkinsburg exit (PA Route 8). You will find yourself on Penn Avenue. Continue on Penn Avenue until you reach Shady Avenue. Turn left on Shady. The church and the parking lot are on the left before the second traffic light.

From the North, using either I-279, Rt. 8 or Rt. 28, cross the Highland Park Bridge off of Rt.28, Take the Washington Blvd. exit. Continue on Washington Blvd., which becomes Fifth Ave. Turn right on Shady Ave. The church and the parking lot are on the right immediately after the first traffic light.