PLANET GARDEN: Eco-Friendly Resource Guide

Planet Garden Kitchen Show Auditions

Posted in Sustainable Column by planetgarden on October 21, 2009

Does your family say you have a talent for cooking delicious and nutritious foods?  If you like to share how home-prepared foods are nutritious for families and how homegrown veggies make delicious soups and dinners, you might like to be on the new local cooking series– Bluebird Market Kitchen Show.  We are scheduling auditions for weekly guest cooks. 

 

If you have ever watched The Victory Garden on PBS, you might have seen Victory Garden South which was filmed at Callaway Gardens. If you have seen this show you probably have seen the cooking segment and garden recipes.  This is the part of the show where veggies are prepared in healthy meals to show how to use garden vegetables and fruits.  The Bluebird Market aim is similar to this show as a best practices model– with a focus on healthy cooking with Farmers’ Market fruits, vegetables, herbs and farm fresh eggs. 

 

Bluebird Market has community weekly cooking demonstrations that are fun and informative lessons such as “How to Can” by Alice Versemann and “How to Use Veggies for Focaccia” by Cathy Kreismanis.  Last week Bob James, from James Family Farm, gave a fun lesson on how to use Farmers’ Market Peppers in Homemade “Kicked Up” Pimento Cheese.  This Saturday, local Girl Scouts will attend this community cooking class to earn their cooking school badge.  They will learn how to prepare a warm breakfast of Apple Muesli and Granola using Farmers’ Market apples.

 

The Bluebird Market Kitchen Show is recorded with a live audience who is invited to participate and enjoys tastings after the show.  It is simple and fun and we are lining up auditions now for anyone who would like to be a guest cook on the show.  Email:  bluebirdmarket@gmail.com

 

All ages are welcome to attend the show Saturdays, 11:00 am at 215 Barnesville Street in Thomaston.  We are excited to offer residents a fun opportunity in our community to be a part of a Farmers’ Market Kitchen Show.  We invite you to audition.

 

Enrich your life on Saturdays at the Bluebird Market. Explore with us each week to discover simple ways we can affordably contribute to sustainable and renewable eco-friendly living. Find resources online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/victorygarden/ and http://www.bluebirdmarket.com.

Planet Garden Invites Moms to MOMS Club Open House

Posted in Sustainable Column by planetgarden on October 21, 2009

“Welcome Home” to MOMS Club, MOMS offering Moms Support is the greeting for this international non-profit group that is coming to Thomaston. Open to local mothers of all ages, this club is a fun group of moms in Spalding, Lamar, Upson and Pike counties getting together once a month and for special events that support Middle Georgia mothers.  There is a fun online forum called MomsLikeMe.com for Middle Georgia MOMS Club members to talk online about events, needs, and any type of support they are seeking.

 

Phyllis Bryan is the Founder/Organizer of the local chapter of the nationwide MOMS Club.  We are so fortunate to have this new group for our local mothers and I am very impressed with the opportunities it is bringing for moms to get involved with others who value and support their meaningful contribution to our community.

 

If you are a mother or know a mother in our local area, I encourage you to visit the Bluebird Market on Tuesday, October 27th between 10 am and 2 pm. for the MOMS Club Open House.  The location is 215 Barnesville Street in Thomaston and there will be lots of fun.  Phyllis has a lovely lemongrass hand treatment expert that will give all mothers a  soothing spa treatment for their hands. 

 

Children are welcome at all MOMS events and there will be story time and roll in the hay games at the Open House.  Also there will be a Tree-for-the-Birds activity with raisin bagels, peanut butter and bird seeds.  Make a scarecrow fun and an opportunity to better feed your family with MOMS Club by Adopting a row in the community garden –open to all in attendance at no charge.

 

This Harvest Fun Day will offer hot cider, gingersnaps and pumpkin pie as refreshments and, because it is an open house, all moms, dads, kids, grandkids and local business owners are all welcome!

 

We went for a walk today in the Bluebird community garden to show Phyllis and her MOMS friends the pepper plants in container gardens for door prizes at the open house.  We enjoyed the fresh lemongrass from the herb garden and saw the rich soil where the row had already been prepared for MOMS to plant fall garden seeds.  You are invited to join the fun of MOMS Club –now open to our Thomaston mothers of all ages.

 

Enrich your life on Saturday at the Bluebird Market. Explore with us each week to discover simple ways we can affordably contribute to sustainable and renewable eco-friendly living. Find resources online at www.momsclubofgtarea.com and http://www.bluebirdmarket.com.