WINTER VEGGIES – VIRGINIA THIS MORNING – CBS 6

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Feb 132013
 

Here’s Suzi Lilly, Farm to Family Wife, on Virginia This Morning on CBS 6 talking winter veggies with Greg McQuade.  Chef Tammy Brawley of The Green Kitchen follows up with a cooking demo for super fresh, easy, FAST recipes for Sweet Potato Gnocchi with sage brown butter, and braised kale and creasy greens. Sweet potatoes and squash are loaded with fiber, vitamins A, C and iron, and gives you glowing skin (is especially good for babies, kids, pregnant/nursing moms and women in general), and creasy greens is good for what ails you in the winter time – has twice the vitamin C as oranges, iron, minerals and chlorophyl, which oxygenates your body.  Are you hungry yet?

TEDxMANHATTAN — Challenge Finalists! Help Mark get on stage to talk about food!

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Dec 012012
 

Mark and the FarmBus are in the top 5 TEDxMANHATTAN Challenge Finalists!  What does that mean? It means that we are super honored and humbled. It means that Mark is in the running for a chance to take the stage at TEDxMANHATTAN’s annual conference, Changing the Way We Eat, February 16, 2013 in NYC, to talk about food. It means that competition is fierce, because the other 4 finalists are AMAZING also!!! It also means that we need YOUR help to vote for us  by December 15 and to spread the word that we need everyone to vote for us. We are excited about this opportunity to talk about urban, sustainable farming where  building soil, growing crops, teaching kids and grownups to farm, cook and be healthier, creating jobs, supporting our veterans, getting food to the people via our mobile FarmBus and pop-up efforts, raising self-esteem and having fun with people of all shapes, sizes, ages, genders, incomes and colors is important. It means that this is our chance to share  and represent what is going on in the food system here in Richmond VA with the rest of the world. This means that you can do what we are doing too. This is big.

How can you change the way you eat? Here are some suggestions from TEDxManhattan.

Want to watch the event with others? Look for a viewing party in your area. Slow Food RVA will be having one, location TBA.

We hope that you will vote for Mark Lilly and the FarmBus! Thank you so much to everyone for your support.

Sincerely,

Mark + Suzi Lilly

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives.

The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to organize independent, TED-like events around the world; and the TEDFellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

TEDxRVA

Richmond is getting it’s own TEDxRVA event on March 22, 2013! And it is going to be a very cool event. Mark your calendar and get your ticket! Follow TEDxRVA on Facebook.

 

Join Us For a Day (or Three) On the Farm

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Nov 062012
 

Farm to Family Friends- We need your help! Come volunteer with us at BusFarm, our urban farm, this week. We can use you  anytime after 9am on Thursday, Friday, and/or Saturday of this week. The projects will be ongoing each day so any time you have to give would be much appreciated. We need help weeding, working on bedding, winterizing, etc. We have many cleaning projects that we need help with in the greenhouse, organizing being a major priority. Anyone with a tractor with a front loader would be helpful too, as we need to move mounds of compost.

Please shoot us an email at farmtofamilyinfo@gmail.com or call 804-767-8570 to let us know what day and time you plan on coming. If you don’t know, that’s fine- just show up and we will put you to work.

Lastly, if anyone has leftover wood we could really use it. We are able to pickup so please let us know.

Please dress appropriately – it is cold out this week. Bring gloves, hat, long pants, appropriate shoes/boots for the garden and a water bottle. Snacks will be provided.

Thank you!
Suzi + Mark Lilly and Staff

Butter Beans and Edamame Dip (vegan)/Stout Braised Goat Rib Stew

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Oct 222012
 

by Kate King

Kate King, one of our USA Farm Share members on Capitol Hill, writes the awesome blog “Lettuce Eat Together.” Over the weekend she whipped up a number of delicious meals using ingredients that she and her husband, Casey, got in their share from us.

Check out this  vegan edamame and butter bean dip recipe . We still have plenty of edamame from Epic Gardens and butter beans from Tara and William Fowler, so you can replicate it! Enjoy.

And here is Stout Braised Goat Rib Stew, featuring goat ribs from Goats R Us in Blackstone, VA. They make the most heavenly chevre, camambert and feta. We have recently gotten goat ribs in stock, and people are curious about how to cook them. Let us know how you have done your goat ribs, so we can share.

 

BusFarm Partners with inLieu Giving for New Online Donation Platform

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Sep 172012
 

This year, instead of receiving gifts for your birthday, you can give the gift of sustainable farming and food security.

BusFarm invites YOU to celebrate your own life to help us grow food and teach others to farm and become food secure. Thanks to the launch of inLieu, a new company in Richmond, it’s as easy as donating your birthday, anniversary or memorializing a loved one.

Why? We felt it was so important that people learn how to farm and grow their own food that we started our own urban farm, BusFarm, right on the outskirts of the City of Richmond, in Henrico County, VA. Now it is easy for you to help us grow our farm to help more people learn about farming and become empowered to gain the skills, confidence and knowledge to plant and harvest their own food.   When people can grow their own food, harvest, preserve and cook it, they become food secure.

How? Meet inLieu Giving! They make it easy for you to start a campaign to celebrate your birthday, favorite holiday or special event by asking your friends and family to give donations instead of gifts. This is also a great way to teachchildren about the value of giving back and to become curious about growing and eating healthy food.

When? You can start your own campaign anytime! Simply visit InLieu to get started with your donation event. Its easy and fun. And you’ll have all the tools you need to make your campaign successful.

What does your donation give BusFarm?

  • $3  purchases a package of organic, heirloom seeds
  • $5 purchases 2 bales of straw
  • $20 purchases a hand spade, hand cultivator, pair of work gloves and shovel
  • $35 purchases a wheel barrow
  • $40 – purchases a 100 foot hose or 500 feet drip irrigation tubing
  • $100- purchases supplies to make 10 vermicosting compost bins
  • $1500 – purchases supplies needed to build a hoop house to grow plants, sprouts and seedlings year round.
  • $2500 – purchases supplies to build an aquaponic system to grow fish and hydroponic plants

BusFarm’s focus is on sustainable urban agricultural initiatives, including an urban agriculture-training center that will train youth and adults how to grow healthy soil, food and communities. Striving to inspire and motivate people into action, BusFarm aims to provide the resources that help individuals take responsibility to sustain their communities. The BusFarm urban farm re-connects people back to the earth and their food through the hands-on processes of daily activities and seasonal rhythms including: planting, harvesting, cooking, preserving, construction, composting, soil building, bee keeping, vermiculture, aquaponics, retail marketing and entrepreneurship. Our goal is to create a local, regenerative, highly resilient model others can follow.

Thank you so much for considering a donation to BusFarm!

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