This morning I set up the display of homemade items donated by homesteaders to the PASA benefit auction over at the Penn Stater, including a jar of honey, a wooden honey dipper, six bottles of beer, two pottery bowls, a knitted hat, two woven placemats, two bars of soap, one pound of charcuterie, a cold frame, a jar of herbal body cream, two jars of preserves and a native bee nesting block.
If you’re going to the conference, please check it out, and also stop by the Good Food Neighborhood table, where you can pick up a Taproot Kitchen fundraiser form. There’s also a copy of the Homesteader’s Handbook at the GFN table if you want to take a look-see. For the duration of the fundraiser (Feb. 6 – April 6), handbooks will be a gift to donors who contribute $50 or more.
This is just a photo of the handbook and some flower-pots of fundraising fliers.
Handbook Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Central Pennsylvania Homesteader’s Year
3. Central Pennsylvania Harvest Calendar
4. Idea Bank from November 15, 2011
5. Community Resilience Inventory
- People-with-Skills
- Natural and Built Physical Infrastructure
- Civic and Business Organizations
6. Eating Local Food – Restaurants and Cafes
7. Cooking Local Food
- Community Kitchens
- Caterers
- Meal Preparation Businesses
- Cooking Schools
8. Processing Local Food
- Bakeries
- Butchers
- Breweries
- Canneries
- Dairies & Cheese-makers
- Mills
- Wineries
9. Buying Local Food
- Farmers Markets
- CSA Farms
- On-Farm Markets
- Grocery Stores
10. Growing Local Food – Farms
11. Growing Local Food – Gardens
- Community Gardens
- Church Gardens
- School Gardens
- Demonstration Gardens
- Garden Clubs
- Garden Consultants
12. Growing Local Food – Suppliers
- Tools, Hardware, Lumber, Seeds, Plants, Feed
13. Growing Local Food – Homesteading Education & Advocacy
14. Food Security
- Food Banks
- Soup Kitchens
- Meals-on-Wheels
- Food Advocacy Clubs
- Gleaning Programs
15. Other Resources
- Beekeeping
- Home Beer Brewing
- Hunting & Fishing
- Mushrooming
- Conservation
16. Local Food System Case Studies
17. Key Local Food System Gaps
18. Farmers Market Maps
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