2012 Local Food Fair
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"That Potato Dinner at the High School": Farmshed's Local Food Fair 2012
The locals like to call it "that potato dinner at the high school." Farmshed's local food advocates like to call it the Local Food Fair and use it as their premier outreach event.
Either way, we want you to come join us for a free local potato dinner at Stevens Point Area High School (SPASH) on Thursday, February 16, 2012 from 5:30pm to 9pm.
As always, the Local Food Fair also features deluxe toppings for $1, an information fair comprised of local farmers, authors, and businesses and an educational entertainment piece. We currently accepting exhibitor sign-ups here: https://donationpay.org/farmshed/foodfair.php
Special this year is a live cooking demonstration with award-winning chef, author, and restaurateur Michel Nischan of the Wholesome Wave Foundation. Sponsors of the Local Food Fair will be treated to a gourmet, locally sourced meal that showcases how local food can be affordable. The proceeds of their sponsorship will go to support Farmshed’s Double Value Program for EBT/FoodShare (food stamp) recipients at the Wisconsin Rapids and Stevens Point farmers’ markets, which helps to make local food affordable to those of low income. This sponsorship dinner will begin at 6:30pm and shown on a live feed in the auditorium for the Food Fair’s general audience. Nischan’s keynote speech will take place in the auditorium at approximately 7pm. Please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
If you are looking to volunteer for the Food Fair on the day of the event, please bear with us. Our volunteer sign up will be live shortly. Please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Central Rivers FarmshedA farmshed is the network of people, businesses, organizations, and productive lands that create a local food economy.
Central Rivers Farmshed is a growing movement in Central Wisconsin to build and strengthen relationships between local farms, restaurants, retailers, and consumers. To get involved, join the Farmshed Google Group.
Current News:
The Greenhouse Project Update!
Over the past 6 months we have made tremendous progress on The Greenhouse Project. Throughout the fall, dedicated volunteers cleaned the place out; removing old grow tables, organizing abandoned inventory, tearing out ceilings and walls. Most recently, we took advantage of the mild start to winter by replaced the worn-out roof on the front building. All of this being done in preparation for our new space.
We realize it won't happen overnight, but we are working hard; getting organized, building partnerships, watching for funding opportunities, planning, and strategizing how best to accomplish what we set out to do. For this place is destine to become somewhere Central Wisconsin is proud of; a place people come together to learn about, understand, and embrace food - from soil prep to growing, preserving to cooking and all that happens in between.
The downtown garden center will be transformed into a model education and demonstration site that creates rich compost from local organic waste streams, maintains indoor and outdoor space and resources for growing plants, and manages a community kitchen for demonstrating seasonal food preparation and preservation processes.
For more information about the Greenhouse Project check out The Greenhouse Project Brochure. (pdf)
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