Date: June 24th 2010

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

Nick Roumel is back with daughter Olivia to feed the local-food beast, and my mouth is already watering.

• Greek eggs over pita with lamb gyros, tzadziki – of house-made yogurt and garlic scapes, tomatoes and hoop house greens
• Vegan blueberry corn muffins with tempeh “bacon”

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

SFHV is raising money to send local farmers, chefs and educators to represent our region at Terra Madre, the biennial worldwide Slow Food conference in Turin, Italy. We do major fundraising events only once every 2 years to send our representatives to the Terra Madre event. You can help by donating at Support Slow Food Huron Valley. And, you can participate by attending or volunteering at a fabulous fundraising dinner OR by creating a slow food experience for your friends and family by hosting a “Slow Days of Summer” fundraising house party.

·        SFHV will be organizing a community-wide weekend of “Slow Days of Summer” house parties. The idea is that on a single weekend (July 9-11), hosts will organize slow food meals for friends and family in exchange for a small, tax-deductible donation ($5-$20).  The house party can have any food theme you like. Some on the list so far include: pancake breakfast, Scrabble Scramble Sunday Breakfast, wine and cheese picnic, backyard BBQ and pie extravaganza.  We’ll help with ideas, invitations, and receipts. You invite your friends, enjoy a wonderful meal, and support your local farmers, chefs and educators! For more information, email: marnreid@umich.edu.

Check out the Repasts blog to read about all of our recent hoop-house builds as well as other event news.

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.