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I hope you can join us. Please consider passing this information on to any and all you think might enjoy.

Repasts, Present and Future invites you to:

Please join us for a fundraiser breakfast to support Filmmaker Chris Bedford and our local food community.

With guest chefs Eve Aronoff, Jeremy Lopatin, Scott McIness and John Roos

Diner for a Day

Sunday February 15th.
8am to noon
722 Soule Boulevard

Seating is limited – Reservations strongly recommended
reservations@repastspresentandfuture.org
pick a time – on the half hour
many scrumptious choices @ $10 per person
children welcome

Featuring ALL local ingredients and suppliers, including :
TANTRE FARM – organic produce
ROOSROAST – fair-trade coffee
ARBOR TEAS – organic tea
CRESWICK Farm – organic bacon
ALMAR ORCHARD – organic apples and cider
BLUEBERRY HERITAGE FARM – organic berries;
BACKYARD CHICKENS – eggs
and more

Chris Bedford is co-founder and President of the Sweetwater Local Foods Market – Michigan’s first farmers market to exclusive sell locally grown fruits and vegetables raised in a manner that enhances biological diversity and builds soil
health AND meats, eggs, and cheese from animals raised humanely without antibiotics or hormones. His film, “What Will We Eat?” tells the story of a citizen’s movement to build a healthy, local food supply for Michigan.

Chris will be on hand to discuss his work advancing re-localization of agriculture and economics.  You can purchase advance copies of his latest project, Coming Home,
E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy.

click here to see the event poster.

We have beautiful 12″ x 18″ copies of it here at the house upon request.

Good morning selma-ites,

Zoe’s wonderful post about antics in our basement the night of the pizza party inspired me to share with the group the other purpose of our purple curtained basement. In addition to ping pong and “bloody murder”, I use our basement space to teach Kripalu Yoga classes three times a week.  Kripalu Yoga is a  lovely form of yoga practice that is appropriate for yoga beginners as well as experienced yogis and yoginis.  Kripalu Yoga focuses on breath practice and postures to build strength, flexibility and a calm mind through compassionate self awareness and an open heart.  I’m a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, and registered with the National Yoga Alliance.

My classes are Sundays at 3pm, Mondays at 6pm and Thursdays at 5:30pm, and each class lasts about an hour and fifteen minutes.  The first class is free;  after that classes are $7 each.

Feel free to email me for more information,  at yogalisagottlieb@gmail.com

or check out my yoga blog for my sometimes randon musings about yoga and life: sweetsukhayoga@blogspot

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Hi. My name is Zoe Crane, and I’m going to tell you about what the kids did at the McCabes’ neighborhood pizza party.

At the party, we (the kids) were in the basement THE WHOLE TIME!!! We had a blast! First, we played hide~and~go~seek, and there were BILLIONS of good hiding places!

Then we played a game where everyone took a ping~pong paddle, and we tried to hit two ping~pong balls in a room that only had three curtains which had some stuff behind them on shelves, and the amount of space you had to walk in when you were between the curtain and the shelves was about two feet, and the ping~pong table was in the center of the room.

Then we played a game where one person was a monster, the lights were off, and the “monster” tried to scare the others by hiding behind the curtains and then jumping out and shouting, “AARGHH!”

Then we played a game called “Bloody Murder,” where there was a pillow that was the base, and one person was the murderer. The others would count to 50 while the “murderer” hid behind the curtains. Then, once the “murderer” was hidden, the others would walk around the curtains until the murderer jumped out, shouting, “Bloody murder!” Then the non-murderers ran back to the base, while the “murderer” chased them. Whoever was tagged, or got to the base last, was the next murderer.

Then we played “Froggy Murder,” where one person sat down with their eyes closed and a ping~pong ball in front of them. The rest would hide behind the curtains until the person with his/her eyes closed was ready. Then the hiding kids would come out of their hiding places and try to get the ping~pong ball without being heard. If they WERE heard, the person with his/her eyes closed would point at them, and they would have to go back to where they started. I have no idea why this game is called “Froggy Murder.”

We didn’t talk about any neighborhood plans.

THE END

In the post about the pre-meeting idea session, sharing a car was mentioned. That got me thinking…

I have a 1994 Ford Escort wagon rusting away in my driveway. I started a brake job on it last January, when a thaw promised enough time for a quick fix — but rusted-in-place bolts put ‘nix’ to my quick fix.

Which has turned out kinda well: I’ve lived walking distance from my work for years, and always thought I ought to walk, but never made doing so a habit: as long as I had a car, I used it. It took a stalled brake job to green me.

I’m wondering now if, together, we can squeeze more green out of my Ford.

I was thinking of this. (by the way, if you haven’t explored the ‘Instructables.com’ website, do! There’s something for everyone.)

There are probably many good reasons for not doing a project like this, but if we act hastily, maybe we’ll ‘just do it’ before they occur to us.

By the way, I started to give my car to WUOM via the Car Talk Vehicle Donation program, but have yet to finalize that. So I’m ready to give away this car, one way or another.

In addition to being a fun project, if we do it, we would have to work out how to share something like a car. Perhaps sharing other items/resources would follow from this?

Of course we don’t have to convert it to biogas to share it — that would be an extra, ultra level bonus point project. Probably lots of good reasons for not doing that aspect of this as well…

Pizza party re-cap:

The first pizza party was well attended and seemed to be enjoyed by all.

The Hathaways dominated in population being Mary, Julie, Steve, Joey, Lena and Daniel.

Also in attendance were Kirsten Elling, Duncan Callaway, Inger and Bill Schultz, Johannes and Kerstin with daughter Lena and friend Elisha (sp?), Peter Smereka, Leslie Ford and Zoe Crane, Dan McConnell, Jeff, Lisa and Nevon.  Did I miss anyone?

Several people brought pizza ingredients and three pies were baked.  Cottage Inn was the unanimous choice for deliveries.  A big salad and several lovely byo-wines rounded out the menu.

Overheard discussions included who lives where, alleys, water run-off, maple tree tapping, (please add stuff here!!)

The kids were only seen now and then darting in for a slice of pizza, mostly congregating at the ping-pong table and emerging then disappearing behind the purple curtains.

Kirsten had a petition for investigation of traffic calming measures.  Some ideas were exchanged regarding the pros and cons of speed bumps, the possibility of traffic islands, etc.

We also discussed the possibility of working with the church and or school to re-create local gardens post-Project Grow.

Duncan Callaway has volunteered to carry the torch.  Date of next pizza party tba around mid Feb.