Date: July 1st 2010

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

Eric and Ines are back and have a couple of breakfast goodies for us based on Ernst Farm fresh ground cornmeal:

• Stone Ground Cornmeal Pancakes with Seasonal Fruit Compote and side of bacon or sausage – raspberries, blueberries and strawberries form our neighboring farms
• Baked Mushroom & Kale Polenta with Roasted Tomato Salsa and Zucchini with a side of fresh greens – lacinato kale and oyster and shitake mushrooms from Tantre Farm

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!)

The weekly email seems to be a bit flaky again recently.  Some of you have let me know you have not received it for the last couple weeks.  We have no plans to take time off any time soon (!), so just wander over any Friday morning if you are not sure of the plan, or you can always view the reminder email archive at tinyurl.com/fm-selma

Newsness:

Summer Hoop build applications are out!

We will again be building hoops with breakfast proceeds this August.  You can fill out an application to get a hoop at your place, and/or sign up to help us build hoops here.

Make your self a yard sign for the HomeGrown Festival

The HomeGrown Festival - celebrating our great local food and farms - is just around the corner (well, a couple of corners, on September 11^th).  You can help let your neighbors know about it, and at the same time recycle your old tool handles into a spiffy new yard sign for this year's Festival.  Bring old handles from a broken rake or hoe (or just a sturdy stake) to SELMA on Friday, and from 8am-10am we'll help you put together a gorgeous display, designed by local artists Melanie Boyle and Brad Wicklund.  Be the first on your block to get one!

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.  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.  You can also help by donating at Support Slow Food Huron Valley.

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.