Funky Friday Farmers Market at BADSEED - A MUST ON FRIDAYS IN THE CROSSROADS - Dec 10, 2010

Precious Eaters -

I hope you are bundled up!.....cuz man it is cold out there!! There is something about this bone-chilling weather that makes me absolutely voracious!!! I'm starving! I cannot get enough delicious, hearty, creamy, yummy, bone-coating, local foods. I gotta put on my "winter weight" to stay warm. That's what we farmers do best......get fat in the off-season! You can look forward to "fat farmers" and heart-warming SOUL FOODS this Friday at the BADSEED *Winter* Farmers Market from 4-8 PM.

1909 McGee St, KCMO (east end of the Crossroads)

Alright folks, lets get into the holiday cheer, shall we??

As you know, Eating Local For the Holidays is a big deal for us BADSEED's. Our Pre-Thanksgiving Farmers Market was a freakin' blow-out!! It was bangin'. I hope you will join us again for the season's last holiday market extravaganza:

BADSEED "Happy Holiday" Farmers Market

Local Organic Delights for your Winter Feast!!

Friday, December 17th, 4-8 PM

**Featuring Grass-Finished Beef & Lamb, All-Natural Pork, Free-Range

Eggs, Artisan Sheep's Milk Cheese, Gourmet Mushrooms, Rustic Breads,

Wholesome Baked Goods, Hearty Root Vegetables, Mean Greens, Heirloom

Winter Squash, Sweet Potatoes, Jams & Jellies, Canned Goods, Fresh

Chestnuts, Local Pecans, Black Walnuts, Freshly-Milled Flour, & More.....

*Funky Farm Basket Raffle at 6 PM!! Come ahead of time and get your name in the running.

This is absolutely my favorite market of the year because it is so darn festive and yummy and I am usually "two sheets to the wind" on Irish Puddin' Head coffee. Don't worry, I bring enough whiskey to share with y'all too!! Do us "festive farmers" a favor and spread the word far and wide. We thank you in advance.

More holiday cheer:

Christmas Trees from Laura at Blue Door Farm

*They are Eastern Red Cedars and will make the whole place smell undoubtedly "festive".

*For those concerned about the chopping down of live trees: They are a (beautiful & aromatic) invasive species that takes over native prairie and serves as a disease vector to fruit trees! They need to go!!!

Buy a Tree, Save a Prairie!!!

Laura can take special orders.

Trees range from 4-10 feet.

Contact Laura at christensen.lh@gmail.com or buy one from the selection available this Friday.

Holiday Farm Baskets!! -

Available from Alice at Western Hills Produce.

I am sure you have had the pleasure of gobbling down an assortment of Alice's moist and delicious breads and sweet treats. Alice uses her own homegrown, freshly ground wheat to create these tasty morsels. Alice will custom make up Holiday Baskets featuring baked goods, pies, jams and jellies, relishes, and beautiful hand-carved wood items by her husband, Marvin. You can pick out your goodies and go from $25 and up. Call Alice at #816-934-2549 for more details or come see her at the market this Friday.

Available from Green Dirt Farm.

Foodies everywhere rejoice!! Check out these gourmet gifts baskets featuring Green Dirt's award-winning farmstead sheep's milk cheese as well as other locally-produced, gourmet products. For details visit www.greendirtfarm.com or place an order at 816-386-2156.

New Vendor Alert:

Kim Tuccillo from Roaring River Bread Co. in Brookside, MO will be at BADSEED this week and next! Many of you have experienced Kim's delicious Rustic Breads at the BADSEED Market before (in fact she showed up last Friday at the last minute!!). Kim uses 100% organic ingredients to lovingly create hand-made, hand-formed, hearth baked, individual and small batch breads, cookies, granolas and other yummy snacks! Favorites include French Sourdough, Cracked Wheat with Honey, and Harvest 7 Grain. Kim is a busy lady and cannot make it to the market until 5 PM. Come after that to catch her hot loaves!!

This Week's Organic Offerings:

BADSEED Farm, Brooke Salvaggio & Daniel Heryer (South KC) www.badseedfarm.com

**Our farm production is officially over for the season but I will be offering:

*Gorgeous NAPA CABBAGE organically grown by JJ Farms in Raytown, MO

Bigg Blue Farm, Stan & Carmen Biggs (Mosby, MO)

*ACORN SQUASH

*BUTTERNUT SQUASH

*SPAGHETTI SQUASH

*Red & Green Baby Kale

*Tatsoi

*SWEET POTATOES!!!!!

KC Community Farm (at the Kansas City Center For Urban Agriculture), Alicia Ellingsworth and Crew, (KCK)

www.kccua.org

*Hakurei Turnips

*Baby Beets

*Carrots

*Swiss Chard

*Spinach

*Salad Mix

*Kale

*Sunchokes

Blue Door Farm, Laura Christensen, (KCK)

*Frozen Turnips for Turnip Smoothies!!! (Just Kidding....gross!!)

No, but really, Laura will bring whatever green goodness she can salvage from her frozen field, and most importantly:

CHRISTMAS TREES!!! (see info above)

PJ's Mushroom Farm, Paul & Judy Miller (Warrensburg, MO)

*Shitake Mushrooms!!

*Oyster Mushrooms!! (limited quantities this week....come early)

*Farm-Fresh Brown Eggs

*Hand-made rugs, Stained Glass Items, Antique Ceiling Tin Pieces, and Christmas Decorations (from 100% recycled materials)

**Growing Mushroom Blocks are available for purchase and pick-up! Ask for more details....

Western Hills Produce, Alice & Marvin Huenefeld (Wellington, MO)

*Farm-Fresh Brown EGGS

*Jams and Jellies from homegrown fruit

*Baked goods from homegrown, hand-milled wheat including:

-moist breads

-pumpkin pies!!

-chocolate zucchini and pumpkin loaves

-banana bread

-cookies & a whole lot more

**hand turned wood carved items by Marvin!!

***Holiday Baskets available ranging from $25 and up.

Contact Alice at #816-934-2549

Parker Farms, Tom and Paula Parker (Richmond, MO) www.parkerfarmsmeats.com

*A variety of 100% grass-fed beef and all natural pork including:

*Pork Brats

*Pre-cooked Chipotle Brats (with cheese and cranberries)

*Pre-cooked Franks (both hot and mild)

*Spare Ribs

*T-Bones

*Roasts

*Rib Steaks & Ribeyes

*Ground Beef and patties for the grill!!

***Delicious LAMB CUTS!!!!

**Homemade soy based candles and gourd birdhouses (compliments of their lovely girls who grew the gourds on the farm!!) as well as embroidered Tea Towels and homegrown Teas in orange, chocolate, lemon balm, spearmint, and peppermint!!!! Samples available.

Wells Family Farms, Kim & Steve Wells (King City, MO) www.wellsfamilyfarms.com

*Certified Organic Grass-fed Beef in steaks, roasts, ground, and special cuts

*Natural Bug Repellant

*Diatomaceous Earth

*Teas

Green Dirt Farm, Jacqueline Smith & Sarah Hoffman (Weston, MO) www.GreenDirtFarm.com

*ARTISAN SHEEP'S MILK CHEESE in Aged Varieties including Wooly Rind, Bossa, Dirt Lover, & Prairie Tomme as well as fresh spreadable varieties in Rosemary,Nettle, Lovage, Confetti, and Firecracker!!!!

*Grass-finished Lamb Cuts

Bread Of Life Bakery, The Crowther Family (Stewartsville, MO) www.breadoflifebakery.net

*sandwich breads

*savory breads

*sweet breads

*specialty treats (vegan as well)

**ALL MADE FROM 100% Locally Grown, Organic Wheat!!!!

***Gluten-Free Breads and treats from a new family bakery offering the "Sweet Sisters" line of baked goods!!!

Puddin' Head Coffee, Harry Lee, (Raytown, MO) www.puddinheadcoffee.com

*Only the BEST fair-trade/organic/micro-roasted coffee in town!!

Get yourself some beans or grab yourself a mug.

COFFEE BY THE MUG IS ONLY $1.00!!!!

Other goodies include:

Certified Organic Flour from Heartland Mill

Freshly ground & locally grown whole wheat flour, whole wheat pastry flour, unbleached all purpose white flour, malted all purpose flour for bread baking, & blue corn meal !!! A bakers dream.....

RAW HONEY!!!....YES!! Les Miller (our wicked honey man) will be a buzzin' this Friday with that godly golden nectar and bees wax to boot!

and, of course, Kombucha Mushroom Tea (Brooke's home brew)

Sip while you shop!

Remember:

LIVE NUDE VEGETABLES!! and other organic delights...

EVERY FRIDAY AT BADSEED

Yours Truly,

Brooke

- farmer and mistress of the BADSEED

BADSEED

An Urban-Organic Farm & Market
Celebrating Local Food, Culture, and Community

Fridays, 4-8pm*

1909 McGee*KCMO*64108

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SAN - 2010-12-07 - Sustainability Action Network - Announcements - Greater KC via Kaw River Valley (Lawrence, KS)

WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS

7 December 2010

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DONATIONS TO SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK ARE NOW TAX DEDUCTIBLE
Please remember S.A.N. in your year-end giving - (contact info at bottom of page)
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ECO RADIO KC ¤ WEEKLY ECOLOGICAL ISSUES RADIO SHOW
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 12:00noon-1:00pm ¤ on Kansas City Community Radio
Listen at KKFI-FM 90.1, or on web-streaming at http://www.kkfi.org/

This week, December’s first ECO-RADIO KC show finds Host Steve Mann and City Hens organizers Sheri McNeil and Teresa Kelly discussing their fight to allow backyard chickens in Roeland Park. Then Steve welcomes Katie McMahon of Friends of the Earth to explore the battle in Congress over Ethanol Subsidies.

Also of ecological interest on KKFI this week:

• On Friday at 9:30am, the Bioneers Radio Series presents another in their award winning series on eco-justice.
  

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BICYCLE SIDE LANE ON IOWA STREET IN DOUBT AT LAWRENCE CITY COMMISSION
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 6:30pm
Lawrence City Hall, 6th & Massachusetts St., Lawrence KS 66044

Following months of deliberation, a final decision is due whether or not to include a 10-foot wide bicycle side lane along a major reconstruction of Iowa Street. The project to tear out all paving and rebuild the street to include a center auto turn lane will be done from Harvard Ave. south to the Irving Hill Rd. overpass. As a Federal Highway receiving Federal funding, Federal policy states that “Every transportation agency has the responsibility to incorporate safe and convenient walking and bicycle facilities into transportation systems". And although the bicycle facility has been proposed by S.A.N., City staff has recommended that the City Commission not fund anything for bicycles. A mere 7.1% of the total $6 million budget is all it would take to add the bicycle side lane.

If people want to read further and possibly speak their opinion at the City Commission meeting, more info can be found at the City Commission Iowa St meeting agenda_7Dec10 - when there, go to agenda item #2 and click on the various attachments.
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BUY FAIR TRADE AND LOCAL
There is one more holiday opportunity to boycott the big box consumer mills that are undermining our local economy, and instead buy from local producers and craftspersons, artists, and fair trade providers.

HOLIDAY FARMERS' MARKET
Saturday, 11 December 2020, 9:00am-5:00pm
Lawrence Holidome, McDonald Drive at 2nd Street, Lawrence KS 66044

The Lawrence Farmers Market Annual Holiday Market moves this year to the Holiday Inn Holidome. It will have the same kinds of artisan foods, seasonal produce, holiday crafts, etc. as in previous years, but in a livelier setting. More info at Lawrence Farmers' Market.
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UN CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS ¤ AKA, CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES (COP16)
Monday-Friday, 29 November-10 December 2010
Cancun, Mexico - UN Climate Change Conference - Cancun 2010.

Under a cloud of disenfranchisement and disappointment, representatives from La Via Campesina are claiming that COP 16 is doomed to failure. "The proposals of the Cochabamba Accord on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth have been left aside. The trend is to favour carbon market and REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), this mechanism supports global privatisation of forests, jungles and territories". Organizers are calling for the rejection of REDD+, offsets, carbon markets and other false solutions to climate change that commodify forests, land, life, and water.

Meanwhile, several caravans are arriving in Cancun from San Luis Potosi, Guadalajara, Acapulco, Chiapas and Oaxaca - The international Caravan advances on Cancun to publicize the devastation of natural resources and the use of fossil fuels that the planet can no longer bear. It could be a critical confrontation however, because Cancun will be much easier than Copenhagen for the purpose of crowd control and marginalizing protests. The policia can block off the two causeways leading to the Hotel Zone, much in the way Cortez took, and then defended, Mexico City. The 50,000 credentialed delegates can fill up the posh hotels in the Hotel Zone and leave the NGOs across the lagoon, talking to themselves.
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MY PARADISE GARDEN ¤ COMMUNIVERSITY CLASS #2306 A
Wednesdays, 8 & 15 December 2010, 7:00pm - $$
UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre C, 2411 Charlotte St., Kansas City MO 64108

Grow food not lawns! Past “Food Not Lawns” class participants will share photos and stories of their own paradise garden experience. As supporters of the Food Not Lawns national movement, we aim to increase local food security, improve our diet, beautify our surroundings, build community, and reduce pollution and energy use. Presenters include master and highly-qualified gardeners. Class fee is $14. Register at Communiversity online registration. Bring a picture ID. Limit 30. More info at Food Not Lawns KC, or <steve@prairietrading.com>.
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LAWRENCE SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD
Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 5:30pm
Recycling and Resource Recovery Annex, 320 N.E. Industrial Lane, Lawrence KS

The December agenda is unavailable to date. The S.A.B. meets monthly to discuss any and all aspects of furthering sustainability policies and practices by the City of Lawrence government and private persons. The public is welcome. Minutes are finalized in about a month after each meeting http://www.lawrenceks.org/wrr/envadvisoryboard
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KANSAS CITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION
Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 4:00-6:00pm
Mid America Regional Council, Rivergate Center 2nd floor, 600 Broadway, KC MO

The Environmental Management Commission promotes environmental awareness and resource efficiency to the City's leader and staff, to assist the progress of Kansas City toward sustainability. The general public is encouraged to attend and observe meetings and to join and participate in its efforts. More information and the EMC April 2009 minutes are available at http://www.kcmo.org/manager.nsf/web/emc
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SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK - MONTHLY MEETING
Sunday, 12 December 2010, 6:00pm
Plymouth Church, 2nd floor, 925 Vermont St., Lawrence KS 66044

Local Solutions for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
S.A.N. organizes societal scale action for ecological sustainability both in our personal lives, and through public policy changes. "Be the change you want to see". The S.A.N. meeting agenda will include:

• Grant application report
• Land Consortium report
  
• Transition Kaw Valley power point trial run
• Clean energy: carbon tax, low-income weatherization
  
• Ducks in a row: what it means to focalize S.A.N. actions
• S.A.N. Annual Capital Campaign planning
• S.A.N. Annual Meeting planning
  
• community workshops: super adobe, solar food dehydrator, cold frames, rain barrels, etc.
  
• S.A.N.web site: list-serve, user-name access, content, site e-mail, $$ donations on site, etc.
  
• cultivating multi-organizational co-operation
  

Please join us
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DOUGLAS COUNTY FOOD POLICY COUNCIL
Monday, 13 December 2010, 7:00pm - last minute CHANGE OF DATE
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, 734 Vermont, Lawrence, KS 66044

In existence for one full year now, the Food Policy Council seeks to identify the benefits, challenges and opportunities for a successful, sustainable local food system. By advising the Douglas County Commission on public policies that will support local producers, preserve local agricultural resources and land, and create more local jobs, the F.P.C. hopes to improve the community’s access to a local food supply and distribution networks. For more info go to Dg County Food Policy Council.
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N.E. SECTOR PLAN FOR LAWRENCE AT CITY COMMISSION
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 6:30pm
Lawrence City Hall, 6th & Massachusetts St., Lawrence KS 66044

This planning document evolved from the 2008 battle over preserving the Class I & II prime farm land in the north-east Kansas River valley. The primary issues have been proposals for warehouse and industrial uses on the farm land that would threaten our local and regional future food security, exacerbation of flooding for North Lawrence proper from more severe and frequent storms, the estimated $8 million cost to taxpayers for bringing City infrastructure to the area to subsidize private profits, and the existence of more appropriate industrial sites and zoning elsewhere in our community.

The N.E. Sector plan was supposed to regulate and limit industrialization of farm land, but over several edits, it has been weakened to the point of being ineffectual. The Citizens for Responsible Development has requested that the Industrial Section 3.2.1.4 of the Plan be the version from the third draft of the plan - to read more of the plan, go to N.E. Sector Planning Process, where you can click on the Third Draft and other materials. The City commission will be taking public comment at their meeting.

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Our current projects include:
1) Transition Kaw Valley - initiating transition to a relocalized post-carbon economy, and municipal level Peak Oil response planning.
2) Kaw Permaculture Collaborative, and Kansas Permaculture Institute - developing skills and resources for poly-cropping sustainable food production.
3) Energy Conservation & Renewables - advancing a green economy through decentralized technologies and regulations, for conservation and renewable energy.
4) Land Consortium - organizing interested stakeholders to acquire prime farmland in the urban fringe for land-based economic development and regional food security.
5) Water Rights and Watersheds - protecting the water commons, the source of all life, from privatization and contamination, and restoring our watersheds.
6) Electric & Human Powered Vehicles - promoting neighborhood electric vehicles and utility tricycles, including infrastructure and pro-active regulations.
7) Weekly Sustainability Announcements - informing and encouraging others to become active in the Sustainability Action Network, or other action driven groups.
8) Collaboration with sister organizations - such as: The Light Center eco-village; Kaw Valley Food System farm-based economic development; Citizens for Responsible Planning; Films for Action; Kansas River Valley Growers fighting for local water rights; national efforts by the Sustainable Energy Network; KC Metro groups like the Kansas City Food Circle and the All Species Project, etc.

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