Saturday, May 10th : Celebrate spring and Mother’s Day!

For Kids:

8a - 1pm (while supplies last), Make a garden gift for mom! Paint a pot and plant a pansy or sunflower for mom. Thanks to Brewery Creek  and Bennett’s Farm for the beautiful plants!

8am - 1pm Our farm friends return for a visit! Meet our flock of roosters and hens, and maybe some spring farm babies too!

Cooking Demo:

10:00am  Join chef Chef Jenny Breen to learn about treats moms and kids can make together! Sponsored by Heartland Food Network and Cynthia Froid/Keller Williams Realty.

Book Signing:

Following the cooking demo

The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook –100 recipes from 31 of Minnesota’s best restaurants using fresh, locally grown ingredients from regional farmers, markets, and organic producers.

This photography rich book is a love song for local food. Through narrating the stories of 31 Minnesota chefs and restaurants, the Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook offers 100 recipes that celebrate cooking with local, sustainably grown food. The passion of these chefs, and the farmers they work with, sings throughout the pages.

This cookbook combines rich traditions and delightful innovations. The mouth-watering fare of world-class bed-and-breakfasts is here, alongside the saucy mix of cultural cuisines from kitchens at the Twin Cities’ Café Brenda, Spoon River, Lucia’s, Heartland, and the delectable slow cooking of eateries like the New Scenic Café in Two Harbors and Minwanjige Café in Strawberry Lake. Mixing the familiar comfort food of Minnesota’s roots in the culture of Northern Europe with the fine new flavors of world cuisine, these recipes comprise a travel guide through Minnesota, with illustrated profiles of chefs and farmers, of food and farms.

“The chefs and growers featured in this book support local agriculture because its the right thing to do for both flavor and future generations, ” explains Jan Joannides, founder of Renewing the Countryside and one of the visionaries behind this book. “They’re not jumping on some hip, green marketing bandwagon. These are the principles and values by which they have always led their lives and businesses. We hope these stories, along with the delicious recipes, help inspire others to follow these Minnesota culinary leaders.”

Demo:

10:30am – 11am Beautiful and Healthful – Nontoxic makeup demonstration with Nurturing You

Live Music, sponsored by MOSAIC:

11am – 1pm The Brass

Container Gardens

8am - 1pm Purchase your favorite plants from Bennett’s Farm and Brewery Creek then have Robin Russell design a custom container garden while you wait! Robin will have containers in a variety of sizes and prices for you to choose from.