March Flower Power Hour

A WILD FOODS AND MEDICINAL HERBS FUND RAISING and NETWORKING EVENT

WEEDS ARE IMPORTANT – THEY MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND – COME FIND OUT WHY
while at the same time help us raise funds for those in our community to attend wild foods foraging
walks but have been unable to so … until now. We believe in what Eliot Cowen of Plant Spirit
Medicine says: “The fortune of one is the fortune of all.”

5:10 – 5:30:
Intro: over all purpose of evenings event; sponsoring businesses; monies raised;
choosing two local community organizations to be 2015 weed walk recipients; dates
of already planned walks and hands on activities.

5:30 to 6:30:
Power Point Presentation of over 50 edible & medicinal weeds in Otsego Co. and Delaware Co.
– biodiverse, nutrient dense & edible
– get a few recipes
– food security
– what is plant medicine sustainability
– value-added plant products
– wild foods and drink tastings
– Roots Brewing Co. beer
– xenohormesis & self-organization

6:30 – 7:15
Wild food tastings, wild wine tastings, Roots Brewing Co. Beer sampling.

7:15 TO 8:00
Networking time.
Meet the sponsors. Foragers & farmers meet the restaurants & health
food store grocers interested in wild weeds.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW – LIMITED
Cost: $25 / person $35 / couple

30% OFF IF REGISTERED BY MARCH 4TH
$17.50 / person or $24.50 / couple

CALL: MARGUERITE 607-278-9635
Participants 18 and under free

SPONSORS TO DATE:
Roots Brewing Company, Oneonta, NY
Green Earth, Oneonta, NY
Stony Creek Farm, Walton, NY
Ellen White Weir of Gold Petals – Cooperstown, NY
Catskill Food Company – Jonah Shaw – Delhi, NY
L-Naturals – Lauren Raba – Delhi, NY
New Day Kitchen – Katherine Herr – Delhi, NY
Heather Pikul Pastry's – Oneonta, NY
Nicole E. Day Gray – All Things Local and Agri Foraging,
Roxbury, NY
Turquoise Barn – Michelle Premura, Bloomville, NY
Weeds, Leaves, Seeds, & Shoots, East Meredith, NY