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May 2012
In This Issue
Flavor Highlight
Featured News
Upcoming Events
Iowa Lakes Rountable
Garden Goodness
Loess Hills Prairie Seminar

Flavor Highlight

KWIT KOJI
Featured News
exploring the small farm dream
Upcoming Events
Spencer 
 
 
May 26 Farm-to-Fork Planning Meeting Granville/Orange City
 
Onawa
 
Castana
 
 
June 22 Statewide RFSWG Meeting
Ames 
Greetings!

My favorite time of year is when farmers markets celebrate their opening days! When does your local farmers market start up? 

Sioux City - May 9
Onawa - May 23
Orange City - May 29
Sheldon - June 1
Spirit Lake - June 2
South Sioux City - June 3
Cherokee - June 7 
Storm Lake - June 9
Mapleton - June 18
Holstein - June 20
Ida Grove - June 22
Quimby - June 26
Akron - July 11

Also look for Hawarden, Marcus, Spencer, Rock Rapids, and Sioux Center markets opening soon! Check the Local Food & Flavor Guide online for times and locations.

Laura Kuennen
Regional Food Coordinator
ISU Extension and Outreach
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Iowa Lakes Local Food Roundtable May 18

The Iowa Lakes Resource Conversation and Development (RC&D) and Flavors of Northwest Iowa are working together to support robust local and regional food systems. To kickoff our goal to map local foods and markets in the Iowa Lakes region, we're hosting a Local Food Roundtable May 18, 3:30-5:00 PM at the Iowa Lakes RC&D office in Spencer, IA.

 

Come to share information about current projects and hear what others are doing to grow food and expand local food production. Learn more.

Master Gardener Webinar Series 
The Iowa Master Gardener program is offering a series of summer webinars. The 2012 series titled "Garden Goodness" will be hosted by Iowa State University Extension county offices on the fourth Tuesday of the month, May through August.Each session will provide information about vegetable gardening, but from a variety of perspectives.
View the schedule and details here!
Loess Hills Prairie Seminar

Loess Hills Prairie Seminar Prairie is the foundation of flavors, and we enthusiastically support the 36th annual Loess Hills Prairie Seminar! Visit the website to learn more about the seminar, download the program, and get registered!

 

Family Farms Produce LLC is featured on one of the Saturday, June 2, breakout sessions. Family Farms is a 10-acre vegetable farm nestled in the Loess Hills, providing produce to the Sioux City and Onawa farmers' markets. Tour the farm and get hands-on with vermiculture composting demonstrations by Worm Works Organic Fertilizer! 

 

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