List of Past Events
We are a small diversified farm & fishery that harvests Atlantic Sea Scallops, Maine Lobster, pure Maine maple syrup, raw Maine honey, organically grown edible flowers, herbs, vegetables, field grown perennials & cut flowers. We use ecologically safe practices & organic methods in the management of our resources. We strive to educate the public about the importance of locally grown food and harvesting sustainable resources. Educational tours & activities included for children & adults: lobster display & buoy toss, maple displays, syrup samples & sap races, edible flower wild crafting display, weed identification, planting table, intercropping display, beekeeping & green manures demonstrations. Farm is accessible to the handicapped, capable of handling bus or group tours.
Take Rt 9 to Cross Roads in Sabattus. We are the Red farm & cape at the end of Cross Roads and junction of Sutherland Pond Road.
Marblehead Chefs Square Off in Seafood Throwdown Cooking Competition at the Farmers Market
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Chefs from two of Marblehead’s newest restaurants square off in a cooking competition at the Marblehead Farmers Market July 24, 2010 from 10-12AM. The Chefs, Barry Edelman from Five Corner’s Kitchen and Paul Riccardi (Executive Chef) and Jake Soucy (Sous Chef) from Ataraxis Tavern will each cook a dish featuring a mystery local seafood and ingredients from the Farmer’s Market. The event will be judged by Marblehead’s queen of all things culinary, Rosalie Harrington, Leigh Vincola, Director of Marketing at Edible Boston Magazine as well as judged and emceed by Rosalie’s husband and morning radio host on WRKO Todd Feinburg.
The Marblehead Farmer's Market is held at the Marblhead Veteran's School, located at 217 Pleasant Street.
Marblehead Chefs Square Off in Seafood Throwdown Cooking Competition at the Farmers Market
Marblehead , MA –
Chefs from two of Marblehead’s newest restaurants square off in a cooking competition at the Marblehead Farmers Market July 24, 2010 from 10-12AM. The Chefs, Barry Edelman from Five Corner’s Kitchen and Paul Riccardi (Executive Chef) and Jake Soucy (Sous Chef) from Ataraxis Tavern will each cook a dish featuring a mystery local seafood and ingredients from the Farmer’s Market. The event will be judged by Marblehead’s queen of all things culinary, Rosalie Harrington, Leigh Vincola, Director of Marketing at Edible Boston Magazine as well as judged and emceed by Rosalie’s husband and morning radio host on WRKO Todd Feinburg.
The Marblehead Farmer's Market is held at the Marblhead Veteran's School, located at 217 Pleasant Street.
The Local Food Committee of the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) invites you to our Sixth ALLocal Dinner at Boston's latest restaurant to source local food: Restaurant Laura
Join NAMA and SBN for a special evening featuring a traditional Cape Verdean four course dinner
for $45. Fishermen working with NAMA will be providing the local seafood for the night's menu.
Cape Verdean cuisine depends upon fresh ingredients sourced locally and enhanced with Cape Verdean wine, rum and other drink specialties. For those interested, during the bar time from 6 - 7 pm, there will be a tour of the owner's wine cellar, one of the best sources for Cape Verdean wines and spirits in Boston. Live Cape Verdean and Jazz music will enhance the ambiance during the dinner.
Arlindo and Laura Correia are co-owners of Restaurant Laura and Cape Verdean Liquors next door. Laura has combined her cooking experience from one of the world's top hotel restaurants with her understanding and love of Cape Verdean cuisine, a blend of Portugese and African flavors, herbs, sauces, vegetables, fruits, seafood and meat. Arlindo brings his knowledge of wines and spirits, his love of jazz and Cape Verdean music and his devotion to local community and friends.This promises to be a very special evening.
During the four course meal, Arlindo & Laura will share their Cape Verdean dining with us. Bar with Cape Verdean wine, other spirits and wine cellar tour. Prepared with 100% New England grown and processed food.
Seafood Throwdowns were born at the Cape Ann Farmers Market two summers ago. This year, Seafood Throwdowns are back at the Farmers Market's new location on Rogers Street.
Seafood Throwdown season returns to Gloucester this Thursday, July 15 starting at 4 p.m. at the Cape Ann Farmers' Market new location on Rogers St. The reigning queen of the Throwdowns, Missy Hart and her Team Sugar Magnolias will once again defend her Throwdown title against Ryan Cox's team from the Farm Bar and Grille in Essex. While new to the Seafood Throwdown, Ryan's team is no stranger to competition and innovation as seen in their most recent event "The Farm at Sea" which was held on a boat.
Seafood Throwdowns are an opportunity learn more about our local seafood, local fishing fleet and fisheries related issues affecting our ocean, fishing economies and coastal food systems. Chefs Hart and Cox will educate and entertain you with their skills as they show how to work with whole, fresh, and very local seafood. Chefs can bring three of their favorite ingredients and once they discover the secret seafood they will be using, they get $25 and 15 minutes to shop the Farmers’ Market for ingredients. After their shopping spree, they have one hour to cook and present their entry for the judge’s consideration. This is a free event, open
to the public. Tastings will be available for farmer’s market shoppers.
The event is a collaboration between the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, Cape Ann Farmers Market, Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association and the Cape Ann Fresh Catch Community Supported Fishery (CSF). It promises to be a fun, educational and community-driven activity designed to link the importance of locally caught seafood to the health and resilience of our ocean.
See you there!
Download the press release by clicking on this link.
Another World is Possible!
NAMA has teamed up with the National Family Farm Coalition to put together two panels discussing strategies for redirecting funds, socially responsible investments and credit to ensure that family farmers and community based fishers do not go out of business as the recession in our rural communities deepen. Two 2 hour panels to beheld at Cobo Hall: O2-40 on Wednesday, June 23rd starting at 1 p.m. The discussion are broken up with a 20-minute break to enjoy the harvests 
of our farmer and fisher leaders:
Representatives from farmer, fisher and consumer groups will discuss the strategies available for redirecting credit to ensure that farmers and fishers are not forced out of business as the recession in our rural communities deepen. In order to retain a domestic food economy, farmers, fishers and workers must receive fair prices and fair terms for borrowing necessary capital/credit. A panel discussion will be followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
1. How Does the Concentration and Control of Capital and Subsidized Loans to Corporate Agribusiness and Aquabusiness Threaten Our Food System? What are the strategies to redirect credit to ensure that farmers and fishers are not forced out of business as the recession in our rural communities deepen?
In order to retain a domestic food economy, farmers, fishers and workers must receive fair prices and fair terms for borrowing necessary capital and credit.
20-minute break to enjoy the harvests of our farmer and fisher leaders
2. A Three-Pronged Approach To Fighting Concentration in Fishing and Farming. This includes:
- debunking the myths of efficiency;
- uplifting successful locally based, grassroots models including CSAs/CSFs, cooperatives, farmers markets, local processing plants and community gardens; and,
- strengthening antitrust laws and their enforcement; emphasize the importance of ensuring fair access to credit, capital, crop insurance and disaster assistance as discussed in session 1.
Other workshops and community art and culture programs will take place across the city. The USSF will convene social movements from across the United States and globally. Organizers are reaching out to young people, people of color, unionists, laid off and unorganized workers, welfare recipients, veterans, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, freedom fighters, collectives, and many others. For more information, visit their website.
Local Food Markets is a high-visibility issue area distinguished by a number of economic and marketing questions that demand research-based answers. Descriptive and quantitative analyses of local food systems are lacking despite the explosion of popular interest among farmers, consumers, retailers, and policy makers. Local food systems are characterized by direct marketing from farmers to consumers as well as expanding derived demand in the food service and retailing sectors for foods of local or regional origin. Most sources define “local” as food grown within 100 to 300 miles of the consumption point or within state boundaries, but even this definition is based more on geography and infrastructure than economics.
For more information about the conference, visit the NAREA website.
Come and visit NAMA's booth at the Cape Cod Maritime Festival to be held on the museum grounds at the historic Hyannis, MA waterfront. Learn more about local Community Supported Fisheries and find opportunities for you and your community to get involved!
The Cape Cod Maritime Festival:
The Cape Cod Maritime Festival held on the Museum grounds and the Hyannis waterfront celebrates the rich
nautical history, and life on and near the sea.
• The Museum’s own 1886Crosby catboat replica, Sarah, is available for exhibition and harbor rides.
• Exciting ongoing exhibits, children’s programs, and special rotating exhibits take place in the museum.
• Tall ships, boat builders, nautical craft demonstrations, local artists, environmental and educational
activities, historical exhibits, children’s activities, musical performers, pirates and - of course – local
seafood, surround the museum encompassing the Hyannis waterfront.
• Events are among the most successful tools available to increase tourism. It is our goal to work with
the business community to make the Cape Cod Maritime Festival a destination which will bring visitors
and their friends and families back year after year.
• Association with a positive cause. Audiences are likely to maintain a loyalty to sponsors they see
contribute to their community or cause. In addition to the obvious visitor appeal a Maritime Museum
brings to our region we are becoming more and more an important community resource. Your
sponsorship will not only defray the cost of the festival but will directly benefit the museums expansion,
educational and outreach programs, and exhibits.
• Brand Visibility. Our promotional campaign will consist of regional print advertising and listings in
periodicals, daily and weekly publications. Promotion online, and on the radio will consist of calendar
and events listings, in collaboration with our business and cultural partners. Banners, posters, and flyers
will be well placed and direct mailed. Our Event Guide will be distributed prior to and during the event.
Join NAMA at the Commercial Marine Expo to be held in New Bedford, MA on June 9 from 3:45-5pm. We'll be on a panel to discuss Community Supported Fisheries and highlight what our region is doing to support locally harvested fish.
The venerable Fish Expo Atlantic (FEA) trade show has been renamed Commercial Marine Expo and is relocating State Pier in the heart of New Bedford's historic working waterfront. The 2010 show will be held June 9-10.
"We listened to the industry," reports Ted Hugger, show director. "In 2008, we successfully broadened the scope of the show to embrace all commercial marine businesses; our new name more accurately reflects the direction our exhibitors and attendees want us to take the show." Commercial fishing and fish processing will continue to play a major role in the show, as will tug and barge operations, fire, police and harbor security, military, ferry, freight and port operations.
"The New Bedford State Pier is an ideal location that will allow us to reduce costs to exhibitors, provide a more vibrant event, and set the stage for growth as we expand the offerings of the show," Hugger continues. New Bedford is the number one fishing port in the U.S. in terms of value of catch, with more than 500 commercial vessels based there. In 2008, 65.5 million pounds of fish were landed with a value of $280 million. In addition, the port handled $70 million of commercial cargo, more than 91,000 ferry passengers, 16 ports-of-call for cruise ships, four barge operations, plus a host of harbor, port, and security operations supporting more than 200 local businesses and 4,900 jobs.
Commercial Marine Expo, incorporating Fish Expo Atlantic, is sponsored by National Fisherman magazine. For additional information on exhibiting at CME 2010, contact Karen Kelly at 978-263-1334 or by Email.
Our first Seafood Throwdown in New York City! And, we are excited to have Chef Teresa Montano of Colors Restaurant in New York City face off against members of the artist collective Spurse, in a heart-pounding race to transform a secret locally caught seafood, combined with whatever they choose from the farmers market vendors, into culinary delights. The seafood is revealed to the competitors only moments before the competition begins, and then it’s a contest of speed and creativity. Judging this spectacular competition will be Food Network Sous Chef Miriam Garron and Food Network Magazine Recipe Developer, Claudia Sidoti, Greenmarket/GrowNYC's Executive Director, Marcel VanOoyen, and Long Island fisherman Phil Karlin with restaurant owner Jimmy Carbone of Jimmy’s No. 43 giving the play-by-play of the entire event.
This Seafood Throwdown is a little different as it kicks off a two-year tour of public events for Spurse's mobile installations, collectively called OCEA(n): Ocean Commons Entanglement Apparatus (in the absence of the concept of 'Nature'), which is on display at the Kitchen as part of Whitney Museum of Art's Independent Studies Program. OCEA(n) designed to introduce people to the complexities of gathering and at the same time protecting living resources of the sea. Inspired by NAMA’s book Sharing The Ocean, this installation is intended to enable educational events such as “Seafood Throwdowns” through its innovative design capable of staging a wide range of unexpected encounters. During its journey along the Northwest Atlantic coastline, OCEA(n) will wander across various geographic, ecological and institutional boundaries to revisit contemporary ideas about cultural-natural world relationships.
For this event, OCEA(n) will be moved from the exhibit hall and installed at the market as the provisional kitchen. Chefs will be assigned a team of young art patrons participating in Whitney’s Family Program to aid them in shopping and preparation. Each chef will be allowed to bring three of his/her favorite ingredients to the market. After they discover their secret seafood, each team will get $100 to spend at the farmers market in a 20-minute shopping frenzy. The teams will then have an hour to cook and plate their creations for the judges. Public tastings will be available.
The event is a collaboration between Spurse, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA), GrowNYC/Greenmarkets and Whitney Museum of American Art. It promises to be a fun, educational and community-driven activity designed to link the importance of locally caught seafood to the health and resilience of our ocean: Know your seafood; know your local fishermen; and know your local fishery ecosystem and how it fares!
Download the press release for more information.
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