Oberlin Farmers Market Meatloaf Recipe May 25, 2012
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Local Honey Mustard Meatloaf
It’s late May in Oberlin, and it might feel like summer, but we are still waiting for much of the produce to—well—Produce! While we wait for tomatoes and blueberries, here is a recipe for visitors to our Market to Enjoy.
Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef (available at the J&R farms booth)
3 slices bread (we recommend fresh baked varieties from SEPA)
¼ onion (diced)
1 carrot (diced) (Check in with Bumbleberry Fields)
Dash of olive oil
Sage (Single Speed Bakery has many dried herbs available)
Fresh Honey (Available at Jorgensen’s Apiary!)
Mustard
1 egg (Murray Hills Farms)
¼ cup milk
Preheat oven to 350.
Sautee the onions and carrots in a saucepan with a few drops of olive oil. When the onions are tender and clear, add the mixture to a large mixing bowl. Into the bowl add the egg, shredded bread, ground beef, and a teaspoon of sage. Mix together with the milk, and add ¼ a cup of mustard. Place the mixture into a loaf pan, and coat the top with honey.
Bake for 1 hour and remove.
Join Oberlin’s Real Food Committee! May 19, 2012
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Interested in working with CDS, local farms, food distributors, and
the Oberlin Student Body to make creative, positive changes to
Oberlin’s food buying practices? Interested in a food related private
reading project?
A committee is forming to do research and make plans for Oberlin’s
dining halls to undertake the Real Food Challenge, which is an
excellent opportunity to change the relationship between Oberlin
Students and food. In the end we will have more food that is local,
sustainable, humane, and made under fair working conditions.
Please email me kdee@oberlin.edu for more info about the committee.
Though the Real Food movement at Oberlin is a unique one to fit
Oberlin’s campus, you can check out this website for more information
realfoodchallenge.org.
Compost Summit Recap April 29, 2012
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This past weekend, a sizable group convened for Oberlin’s first compost summit! 
The morning featured a tour of many compost-related sites (the “waste”-related pieces of Oberlin’s food cycle), including the city leaf compost, the Jones Farm, the college’s Pulper, and Kahn dormitory’s compost system.
A delicious lunch (featuring spelt cookies!) was provided by Bon Appetit. OSTEEL’s performance during lunch had all ages dancing.
The afternoon started with a compost options video by Brad Masi, highlighting different methods for managing compost at different scales and in different locations. Some of these videos can be seen here (where you can also comment on them!).
Afterwards, we started the active section by brainstorming our existing assets, and looking for opportunities for new connections and activity. We wrote these on post-it notes and put them on the windows to look over.
The larger group then broke into four smaller clusters around different compost-related issues. We had some very productive discussions, and came back together as a larger group to discuss our insights.
Some highlights:
- Everyone seemed excited about Maurice Small’s “compost burrito” idea–food scraps rolled up in newspaper and stacked in a bucket with worms to compost. You don’t even have to touch the food waste!
- Home-scale composting could be collected on a neighborhood level if there were one or two street “captains” who collected and composted it for use in any of the neighborhood’s gardens.
- A centralized biodigester would be a great addition to the Oberlin community for large-scale composting, such as that from local restaurants and from the college.
- The pulper is a good asset, not currently at capacity, but cannot be used for waste from outside of Stevenson Dining Hall because of state health code.
Much more was discussed; check back here soon for a more comprehensive update once we’ve compiled all the notes!
THIS TUESDAY, world premiere of For the Love of Food April 29, 2012
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Local Grains presentation and discussion, Monday at 4:30 April 26, 2012
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LOCAL GRAINS IN OBERLIN
Dean McIlvaine's Twin Parks Farm, with on-site mill, near Wooster
Have you ever thought about where your flour comes from? Chances are, it’s not very local.
The Oberlin Grain Train is a student group doing a private reading with Brad Masi on local grains. Grains and other staples make up a large part of the human diet (about 70 percent), so localizing our grain supply is key to our food security. We are working with local businesses, farmers, and consumers to improve the connections and networks that will bring more local grains to Oberlin. Please come hear about our project, and discuss Oberlin’s grain future and where you fit in!
There will also be snacks made with local spelt.
Mon, April 30th in AJLC 102
Presentation and Q&A at 4:30pm
Discussion at 5:30pm
Upcoming Slow Food Oberlin Events April 25, 2012
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Local Foods Events Update! April 25, 2012
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The next Peace Potluck is May 4th at Peace Community Church (44 E Lorain St). The dinner starts at 5:30, and Hector Aristizabal will speak from 6:45-7:45, and leads people in Theater of the Oppressed from 8-10.
A networking event for young people will be held next Tuesday night at Cork’s Wine Bar and Bistro in Amherst, starting at 5:30 pm, to talk about ”What Vibrant Looks Like” in this community. More event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/258014157623935/
Brad Masi’s new documentary For the Love of Food premiers next Tuesday, May 1st in Oberlin at the AJLC, with screenings at 7 and 8:30 pm about the local food system in our community.
(courtesy of Slow Food Oberlin)
Food Justice in the Rust Belt: A Conversation with Young Kim (OC ’85) – tomorrow! April 16, 2012
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Register for the Oberlin Compost Summit (on April 21st)! April 12, 2012
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Compost Summit 2012: Help Complete Oberlin’s Local Food Cycle By Planning Our Compost Future
Saturday, April 21st
9:30am – 4:00pm
Atrium of the Oberlin College Science Center (at 119 Woodland Avenue)
http://www.neofoodweb.org/form/compost-and-waste-utilization-summit
The phrase “waste equals food” demonstrates a prominent principal of sustainability. In nature, all waste becomes food for other organisms. How can we expand this notion of “waste equals food” to a community-wide composting effort in Oberlin that links food and organic waste composting to the growth of local food systems? How can we harness the wastes generated on-campus and in the community to build soil, generate energy, cycle nutrients, and provide inputs for local farms or urban gardens?
But don’t wait until April 21st! You can start the conversation now! Check out the NEOFoodWeb.org’s interactive video and resource libraryto look at a variety of approaches that Ohio communities have taken to turn waste into food! Comment on which options or approaches might make the most sense for Oberlin.
REGISTER! Click here to learn more about the event, check out our interactive resource library, or to register.
For more information, contact:
Heather Adelman, Oberlin Project, hadelman@oberlinproject.org
Abby Halperin, Student CDS Recycling Representative, ahalperi@oberlin.edu
Brad Masi, NEOFoodWeb.org, bradmasi444@gmail.com
The Harvest/La Cosecha Screening this Friday April 10, 2012
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This Friday, April 13th, help us to raise awarness about the sobering truth of child migrant workers. Join us in Wilder 101 at 7:30 pm for a screening and discussion about the plight of children who work in America’s agricultural industry.
The film “The Harvest”/”La Cosecha” profiles three young children who are taken from school to work as migrant farm workers. The film profiles these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas’ onion fields to the winter snows of Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida’s tomato fields to follow the harvest. For more information about this documentary, visit http://theharvestfilm.com/.
This event will bring together Slow Food Oberlin, the Ecolympics and Bon Apetit dining service to begin a meaningful dialogue about farmworker’s rights. There will be time to craft a collage that will be displayed in one of the dining halls. We can make ethical choices about the foods we eat.
Hope to see you all there!
