Slow Food St. Louis

Please join Slow Food St. Louis and Cinema St. Louis for “Homegrown,” a documentary on urban, organic farming, playing as part of the 17th annual St. Louis International Film Festival at The Tivoli this Sunday, November 16th, at 5:15 p.m (6350 Delmar Boulevard).

“Homegrown” (http://www.homegrown-film.com/about.html) documents the remarkable Dervaes family, a father, son, and two daughters who run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California (http://www.dervaesgardens.com/).

Living off the grid, they harvest more than 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter-acre of land, make their own biodiesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a Web site that gets 4,000 hits a day. The film offers an intimate portrait of urban pioneers living a “Little House on the Prairie” existence in the 21st century.

The filmmaker, Robert McFalls, will be attending and hosting a Q&A panel after the film. The panel will also include Brett Palmier (of Biver Farms), Joy Stinger (who raises chickens and tends bees in Clayton), and Kimberly Henricks (Slow Food St. Louis co-leader).

Advance tickets for this program are on sale at the Tivoli box. Box-office hours are 5-10 pm Monday-Friday and 2-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. No phone sales. For tickets online, visit tickets.landmarktheatres.com. There is a a $1 per-ticket service charge for advance tickets, which may be picked up at the box-office window.

Individual tickets are $10 each or $8 for Cinema St. Louis members and students with current and valid ID.

Miss the summer farmers’ markets already? Never fear, the winter markets are here!

Both the Maplewood Farmers’ Market and the St. Louis Community Farmer’s Market (Tower Grove) are back with winter markets. Each winter market will be open one Saturday per month from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Here are the details for each market:

What: St. Louis Community Farmer’s Market

http://groups.google.com/group/stlcfm/web/stlcfm

When: The 2nd Saturday of each month from November to April, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM:

November 8, 2008
December 13, 2008
January 10, 2009
February 14, 2009
March 14, 2009
April 11, 2009

Where: Indoors at St. John’s Episcopal Church (3664 Arsenal, St. Louis, MO 63116; just west of Grand Avenue, near Mokabe’s)

What: Maplewood Winter Pantry

http://www.schlafly.com/market.shtml

When: Varies, see schedule below, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM:

November 22, 2008
December 20, 2008
January 31, 2009
February 28, 2009
March 28, 2009
April 2009 TBD

Where: The Crown Room at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood, MO 63143; Southwest at Manchester)

See you there!
Slow Food St. Louis

Many of us were lucky enough to meet Alan McClure and do a tasting of his amazing chocolate at the February 2008 Slow Food St. Louis meeting.  

If you loved his chocolate and were thinking of getting some more for yourself or for holiday gifts, now is a great time.

Alan is offering an amazing coupon to readers of Food Interviews, a blog by local St. Louis blogger Stefani Pollack (check out her interview with Alan), and she’d like to pass that on to you.

Alan is offering Food Interviews readers a chance to win up to $100 worth of fine chocolate! Every 10th person who places an order on the Patric Chocolate online store using coupon code 3FLMDE will get their entire order for free! That’s 1 in 10 odds of getting free chocolate!

In addition to the chance to win, your code also gets you 10% off of any purchase (including any already reduced items) and two additional complimentary chocolate bars on any purchases over $50.

The fine print: The contest and coupon code is good only through midnight (CST) on Wednesday, November 12, 2008. The “1 in 10″ free chocolate prize applies only up to the first $100 of any order. You’ll be asked to pay at the time of purchase. However, on Thursday, Nov. 13, Stef will announce who the winners are and if you win, up to $100 will be refunded to you.