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Western Pennsylvania has a thriving local agricultural community that supports a delicious food scene. Check this calendar for farm and food related events. If you would like your event added to the yum calendar, email hem12@psu.edu.
Preserving Food at Home: A Home Canning Workshop
Save Money AND Eat Healthier All Year!
Where: Buffalo Inn South Park
When: Tuesday August 25, 2009 1:00-3:30 pm
Learn to preserve food safely and correctly as a beginner or update your methods as an experienced preserver!
For a workshop brochure, call
412-473-2540
Pre-registration is required. There is a $25 fee.
- Small farm dream, ag business startup class now enrolling in Pittsburgh
- Rachel Carson's Sustainable Feast on the 9th Street Bridge
- Garden in the Parks! Saturday, August 14
- 6/25 East End Coop's Block Party: Take Back the Night!
- 6/9 Food Inc Community Screening at Homewood Library
- 6/10 Duquesne hosts Entrepreneur's Growth Conference
- 5/15-16 Waynesburg Sheep and Fiber Festival
- 5/10 - 6/7 Ever want to quit your job and be a farmer?
- 4/25 Fair trade and organic spring festival at St. Anne's
- PA-WAgN releases 2010 Field Day Schedule
- 4/22 Casbah hosts PASA benefit dinner; great menu, cause and award to Big Burrito
- 4/17 Reminder farm market manager training tomorrow
- 4/15 Building Regional Food Systems, National Good Food Network Webinar
- 5/21 “Learning with Nature: Creating and Using Outdoor Classrooms” for all types of educators
- 4/10 Sewickly Farmers Market opens this Saturday
- 5/7-8 Sheep Shearing School & Wool Science and Handling Program Set
- 4/17 Farmers Market Manager Workshop and Networking Meeting
- 5/22 -5/23 Taste of Pennsylvania Wine and Music Festival
- 5/21 - 5/22 Rhubarb Festival in Lancaster County
- Food Alliance Certification to be offered
- 4/17 - 4/18 Ramp Festival : Mason-Dixon Park Mount Morris
- 3/26 Farm To Table Conference starts tomorrow, watch for real time updates.
- 3/26 Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on ABC 8 pm
- Tonight: WYEP's Allegheny Front to Local Food Showcase and roving chef piece @ 7pm
- Local Food Showcase is tomorrow @ Chatham from 1-4, food tasting details...
- 2/20 Start Up!, a school for local living economy, info session
- 3/6 & 7"The Food is Elementary" author to conduct training in Pittsburgh
- Public Hearing for Proposed City of Pgh Ag Zoning Ordinance
- 2/25 Michael Pollan speaking at Allegheny College
- 2/19 Chatham University, Beyond 20 degrees, can chocolate be local this far from the equator?
- Bbbbzzzz - Feb 19 & 20 Western PA Bee Seminar and Feb 13 Beginner Beekeping Workshop
- March 11, ‘LOCAL FOOD SHOWCASE, A GROWER / BUYER EVENT’ update with vendor list
- “Exploring the Small Farm Dream” to be offered this March in Pittsburgh
- 1/21 Social Media and Agriculture web conference
- 2/4 PCO offers "All Organic Matters" track at PASA pre-conference
- PA farm snapshot / PSU's upcoming events to support local food
- Lidia Bastianich, Italian Cuisine maven, speaks in Pgh tonight
- 12/11 4th Annual Local Foods Holiday Happy Hour
- 1/30 Penn State to offer goat and sheep nutrition school
- 10 minutes to Pollan's Botany of Desire
- October Calendar of Local Events
- 10/21 Just Harvest 21st Annual Harvest Celebration Dinner
- 10/15 Raising Chickens in the City
- 'Fresh' movie screening tonight at EEFC, 7pm
- 10/24 Apple Festival at the Union Project
- 9/26 - 27 Soergel's Fall Festival Kickoff
- 9/13 and 9/20 Soergel's Corn Roast
- 9/24 Goat meat and Cheese tasting at Legume
- 10/31 Halloween Dinner at Soba
- 9/22 Farm fest at Soba
- 9/19 Iron Chef at McGinnis Sisters Monroeville
- 9/16 Kaya Vegetarian Dinner
- 9/16 Localfest at Bocktown
- 9/12 Mid Atlantic Mushroom Foray
- 9/12 Sewickley Farm Show
- 9/30 FRESH movie screening at EEFC
- 9/20 Art Harvest celebration at EEFC
- 9/16 Eat local challenge:Urban Hike
- 9/10 Meet the Farmers Dinner at Enrico Biscotti
- 11/17 Learn to market local food-WPA vegetable grower meeting
- Hisotric S. Side Market to carry local foods. Kick off party 9/12
- 8/25 Speaking tomorrow at Monroeville Public Library
- 8/26 PA WAgN Tractor Maintenance Workshop
- 8/25 PSU public food preservation class
- 8/21 Enrico Biscotti Big Italian Throw down
- 8/23 San Marzano Dinner at Delallo's
- 8/22- 10/24 Canning Classes
- 9/7 'Eat in' for real food in schools
- Soba's Farm Dinner
