Date: June 17th 2010

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

Linda Diane Feldt is back with a couple healthy, happy and hearty specials for y’all.  In case you have not seen it yet, Linda Diane tweats about wild things that grow around us (wildcrafting) and will be bringing a few of those goodies to go with what our farmers have for us these days:

• Huevos Rancheros – beans, tortillas a couple eggs, topped with salsa from some of the early season tomatoes and front-yard cilantro.  With chorizo if you do so.
• Spiral egg soup – a miso broth with lots of seasonal vegi’s, swirled with whipped egg.  A breakfast mandala, served with toast or corn bread

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

Big News:

The food cottage industry bill has passed the house!  Now it is time to get this thing through the senate. The final push we can make is to contact/email our state senator(s) - Liz Brater for many of us, and Senator Van Woerkom, who chairs the
committee.  

We need to urge them to support HB 5837 - The Michigan Cottage Food Operation bill.  We want our senators to know that local food means business!

… and check out the facebook page to stay up to date with all this

The FSEP conference is coming up Thursday, June 24th, 2010 - The Food System Economic Partnership is building a better food system in Southeastern Michigan!  With 17 breakout sessions to choose from, there is a topic of interest to everyone. Participants will gain an understanding of the local food system and explore opportunities for growth in production, processing, distribution, sales and consumption of local foods. Learn how to launch your own specialty product, how to integrate farm to school into your school, about delicious local food and wine in Jackson, and much more.

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

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 her e to let us know what you are thinking, and how you would like to participate.