Date: May 20th 2010

FridayMornings@SELMA invites you to pull up a chair and share your vision for the future of food.

Suzy and Nora are back, inviting us to taste their breakfast goods.  The first time the girls took part, it was to help us celebrate our first anniversary and now we get to help them celebrate their first!  Fresh off a visit from Anthony Bordain and a new menu for the spring season, they are ready to rev us up for our big hoop building weekend.  There seems to be some road trip story about a desperate breakfast stop at a certain well known fast food joint that has led them to cook up what we will call:

·        M. C. Griddle Cake breakfast sandwiches – two pancakes filled with egg, cheese and your choice of bacon or pancetta

·        A simple omelet –eggs gone fluffy with seasonal herbs, served with toast and bacon

A little hoop greens will round out the both

Don't forget our "fruit seasonal" (sometimes freeze-onal) regular breakfast choices: Waffles with gingered apples or blueberries and Lisa’s bread pudding (blueberry this week, and sweetened with honey until Michigan figures out how to grow some non-GMO sugar!)

Some News:

Our current round of hoop builds from breakfast proceeds continue –

o       May 22^nd - So, it turns out that it is simply too wet to build at this point on the site that Beverly has picked out at Needleland Farm.  Rather than cancel with so many volunteers already scheduled, we will simply change gears and jump up to SunSeed Farm to help Tomm and Trilby Becker get up their second hoop.  Another 30x96 similar to the one we built for them last August.  Saturday over-nighting is still an option with a beautiful site and a great bonfire pit.  You can sign up here for this weekend’s build.

o       June 5^th – We will hope for drier weather and less mud for Beverly Ruesink of Needlelane Farm. We will be building a 30x96 gothic also with steel/polycarb end walls (similar to the one we put up over at Tessmer Farm).  Beverly has a big camp site, so a Saturday overnight celebration party is planned.  Please go here to sign up for the 5^th.

Hard work, lots of learning, tons of fun and a feast.  We have had a huge response for volunteers here already.  Thank you!  

And if you haven't read the Repasts blog for a bit, you are in for a treat.  Lisa has been doing a stellar job documenting the exploits of this amazing community as it builds a new local food infrastructure.

Community Education:
Check out a whole weekend of Permaculture workshops and other information.  Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden is in town.  Events include:

·        Friday May 21, 7pm – “How Permaculture can save humanity and the Earth, but not civilization” - a public talk and book signing at the Ann Arbor Public Library.  Free

·        Saturday May 22, 9-4 - Workshop: Designing and Installing a Food Forest

·        Sunday May 23, 9-4 – Workshop: Permaculture Solutions for City and Suburb

For more info, visit the Southeast Michigan Permaculture Guild or call 734.644.1520

And then we have:

(this has so much potential for our food system folks.  Please consider putting some of your energy into this initiative!)

Nate Ayers would like to bring your attention to:
"HB 5837 was introduced by State Representative Pam Byrnes
(D-Chelsea). The bill would amend the Food Law of 2000 to define a
“cottage food operation” as “a person who produces or packages
non-potentially hazardous food in a kitchen of that person’s primary
domestic residence.”   Check out the facebook  page.

So what the heck is this FM@SELMA thing anyway?

FridayMornings@SELMA is your local-foods breakfast salon.  The suggested donation for breakfast is $12 - $15.  All proceeds go to the farmers and producers of your food and our small farms-small farmers initiative.  FM@SELMA is here for you every week 6:30 to 10:00 am - 722 Soule - check out: Repasts, Present and Future for more information.  Early arrival is suggested for those on the go (we get wait-listed around 8:30).  FM@SELMA is all-volunteer.  We need your help to sustain this local-foods breakfast salon.  Please reply to this email or click here to let us know what you are thinking, and how you would like to participate.