Thanks to all our donors, participants, chefs, volunteers, and organizers, the Free Harvest Supper raised $4000 this year which will go to support the Greenfield Farmers Market Coupon Project and also provides matching funds to double SNAP benefits at the Market.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
See you in 2012!
Nature blessed us with a dinner-time weather window on Sunday, and the Free Harvest Supper was a great success. Over 800 dinners were served, there was fabulous entertainment and a friendly crowd.
Thanks to everyone who volunteered, cooked, ate, bought raffle tickets, and made the Supper such a great community event.
Check out the front page article in The Recorder today.
Mary Nelen of Valleylocavore took many photos available on Flickr
In the grand tradition of having a rotating cast of fun local(ish) music at the Free Harvest Supper, we are happy to announce the line-up for 2011:
4 to 4:45 p.m.: Shag: All the songs you forgot you knew or are possibly too embarrassed to admit you like, including songs by artist such as Carly Simon, The Bee Gees, Wham, Captain & Tenille, Elton John, and more!
5 to 5:45 p.m.: West County Jazz: An ensemble that plays classics from the modern jazz repertoire, with a little bossa nova.
6 to 6:45 p.m.: The Family Folk Chorale: An intergenerational chorus, was founded in 1999 with the belief that everyone can sing and that people of all ages singing together is powerful music
Nice little write up in the local paper insert this week.
The Free Harvest Supper raised over $4000 in 2010 and gave Farmers’ Market coupons to 550 families in Franklin County. We are gearing up for a great 2011 event, but we can’t do it without your help. We need volunteers to help with appetizer prep, setup, recycling, serving foods, line managers, and of course clean up!
email Jennifer [jennifer AT buylocalfood.org or info@freeharvestsupper.org]
We’re just in the being of the planning process, but we’re planning for Sunday August 21th from 4:30-6:30 on the Greenfield Town Common.
Great food, music, fun, and community!
Watch this space for updates.
We’ll be starting the planning process for 2011 (tentative Sunday August 21st) on Monday March 28th 6-7:30pm at Green Fields Market. Please come by (or email) if you can help out! Thanks.
Thanks to everyone who made the 6TH Annual Free Harvest Supper a success! Despite the sometimes heavy rain, over 550 people showed up to enjoy the fine food, music, & community!
The Really-Really Free Market was buzzing with produce from our wonderful farms and local gardeners.
Combined with the generous donations from the July Free Soup & Games Night at Hope & Olive, over $4000 was raised for the Center for Self-Reliance Farmers’ Market Coupon Project!!
A special thanks to Courtney Goodrum at Valley Tees for the volunteer t-shirts.
We are blessed to live in an area where we really CAN eat local year-round. Try to eat local whenever you can!
See you next year!
We are setup on the Town Common. Dinner starts in 1 hour.
Bring take-out containers and extra bags for great veggies from the Really Really Free Market: eggplant, tomatoes, lots of corn!!, turnips, and more arriving all the time!
NEXRAD shows the rain moving through… Keep Moving, Rain…keep Moving!!
Mary is setting up some tarps on the Common now.
The crew at Hope & Olive has plenty of great food ready.
bring your rain-gear and your plate (and perhaps some take-out containers too).
