Upcoming Events

Thursday, 20 June 2013: noon to 8pm
Miami–Dade: Midtown – Midtown 34th Street
Summer Garden Festival

Thursday, 20 June 2013: 2pm to 4pm
Palm Beach: West Palm Beach – Palm Beach Convention Center
Seven 50 Summit: “Future of Agriculture in the Region,” workshop, free

Thursday, 20 June 2013: 7:30pm
Miami–Dade: Miami – Tropical Audubon Society
Screening of the movie, “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air,” free

Friday, 21 June 2013: 6:15pm to 9:45pm
Miami–Dade: North Miami – FIU Biscayne Bay
Mini Mash Brewing (beer making class), $55

Friday, 21 June 2013: 7pm
Miami–Dade: Little Haiti – Churchill’s Pub
Screening of the movie, “David vs. Monsanto,” free

Saturday, 22 June 2013: 10am to 3pm
Miami–Dade: Redland – Fruit and Spice Park
Mango Mania (growing mangos class), $40

Thursday to Saturday, 27–29 June 2013: all day
Boulder, Colorado
Inaugural Savory Institute Conference

Friday, 29 June 2013: 6pm to 8pm
Palm Beach: Lake Worth – Gray Mockingbird Community Garden
Jazz in the Garden, $35

Saturday, 29 June 2013: 10:30am to 3:30pm
Miami–Dade: North Miami – FIU Biscayne Bay
All Grain Brewing (beer making class), $65

Saturday, 29 June 2013: 10am to 11:30m
Palm Beach: Palm City – Peter & Julie Cummings Library
Slow Food “Cooking With Fresh, Home-Grown Herbs” class, $10

Saturday, 29 June 2013: 10am to 2pm
Broward: Oakland Park – TBA
Goat Cheesemaking Class, $75

Saturday, 29 June 2013: 10am to noon
Miami–Dade: Redland – Fruit and Spice Park
Winemaking with Tropical Fruits Class, $15

Sunday, 30 June 2013: 7pm
Palm Beach: West Palm Beach – Center for Inspired Living
Screening of the movie, “Bethany’s Story” with the director, $8

Friday to Sunday, 2–4 August 2013: all day
Osceola: Kissimmee – Osceola Heritage Park
Florida Small Farms & Alternative Enterprises Conference

Friday & Saturday, 16–17 August 2013: all day
Broward: Davie – Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center
South Florida Bee College, $100–150

Ongoing Events

Every Wednesday: 5pm
Miami–Dade: Miami Beach – The Palms Hotel & Spa
Chef’s Garden tour and tasting with Chef Julie Frans, free

1st Wednesday of each month: 7:30pm
Miami–Dade: Homestead – Fruit & Spice Park
Monthly meetings of the Redland Evening Herb Society

1st Thursday of each month: 7pm
Broward: Fort Lauderdale – BM Organics
GMO Free Florida monthly meeting, free

2nd Tuesday of each month: 6pm to 8pm
Miami–Dade: Omni Area – Catalyst Miami
Monthly meeting of the South Florida Food Policy Council, free

2nd Wednesday of each month: 7pm to 10pm
Broward: Davie – Geronimo’s
Fort Lauderdale Area Brewers monthly meeting, free

2nd Thursday of each month: 7pm
Miami–Dade: Coconut Grove – Miami Museum of Science
Miami Rare Fruit International meetings, free (potluck)

2nd Thursday of each month: 6:30pm
Miami–Dade: Homestead – Fruit & Spice Park
South Dade Garden Club meetings (running for the last 70 years)

2nd Friday of each month: 7:30pm
Palm Beach: West Palm Beach – Mounts Auditorium
Rare Fruit Council-Palm Beach Chapter meetings, free

3rd Thursday of each month: 7:30pm
St. Lucie: Fort Pierce – University of Florida/IRREC
Treasure Coast Rare Fruit Club meetings, free

3rd Sunday of each month: 4pm
Palm Beach: West Palm Beach – Center for Inspired Living
Vital Longevity Raw Food Meetup Group Monthly Meetup, potluck

4th Monday of each month: 7pm
Miami–Dade: Coconut Grove – Miami Science Museum
PATH (Positive Alternative Therapies in Healthcare) on various alternative health topics

Last Wednesday of each month: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Miami–Dade: South Beach – Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Weston A. Price / South Beach chapter meetings

Last Wednesday of each month: 7:30pm
Miami–Dade: Homestead – Fruit & Spice Park
Tropical Fruit & Vegetable Society of The Redland meetings

Last Saturday of each month: 2pm
Broward: Fort Lauderdale – BM Organics
Weston A. Price Foundation / Broward chapter meetings

Last Saturday of each month: 5:30pm
Miami–Dade: Coral Gables – Congregational Church
EarthSave vegan potluck dinners with health speakers

Last Sunday of each month: 5:30pm
Broward: Tamarac – Tamarac Community Center
EarthSave vegan potluck dinners with health speakers

News

most recent listed first

Where corn is king, a new regard for grass–fed beef

Healthy soil microbes, healthy people

Study: Use of farmers markets by mothers of WIC recipients, Miami–Dade County, Florida, 2011

Miami G.R.O.W.: Urban farm aiming for big impact with its tiny greens

SMAK Attack Honey has avocado, garlic, lavender and other crazy flavors

Redland fruit festival offers sweet and juicy fun in South Dade

Erickson Farm: mangoes & more, Canal Point, Florida

Oakland Park Culinary Arts District bets on the Funky Buddha

Buying local: how it boosts the economy

Walmart to purchase produce directly from local growers

Funky Buddha opens in Oakland Park, beer flows freely

Fellsmere Community Farm Project helps low-income Florida farm workers eat better

8 natural mosquito repellents to get rid of mosquitoes

Wynwood to get locally owned micro-brewery, with help from government loan

Slow Food to host workshop on cooking with local herbs in Palm City on June 29

New weekly West Boca Green Market to open June 2

Downtown site brings strong response for Boynton Beach farmers market settling in at new site

Lutherans help urban farm take root in Fort Lauderdale

Doubling of EBT/SNAP dollars at farmers’ market boosts healthy food access and local economies

Community garden grows tomorrows for a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood

Mango, the new diabetes and cancer buster

Support Local Food With Slow Money

Michael Pollan: some of my best friends are germs

Is Florida the next foodie hot spot?

Supreme Court rules unanimously against Indiana farmer who used second hand Monsanto viralized transgenic (GMO) soybeans

Lab grown meats are getting closer. Engineering the $325,000 burger

The NYC food truck business stinks; how regulations stifle it

Direct–sale farms can now apply for USDA subsidized EBT card readers

The Village Stand: gourmet shop sells local popcorn, offee, and jams in Miami Shores

Taste Makers: Peter Schnebly of Schnebly Redland's Winery & Miami Brewing Company

Why is the produce at the farmers market so much better than the grocery store?

U of Miami food workers become unionized in attempt to raise low wages at a high tuition school

Cattle should eat grass, not garbage

It’s “Weezie Cheesey” time

Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Peter DeFazio introduce national GMO labeling law

Raw milk not necessarily an allowed “local food”, say Maine judge in ruling against town’s food soveignty ordinance

Fort Lauderdale Hen Project petitions city commission to allow backyard chickens

Miami Needs More Places Like Proper Sausages

An effort to add a key ingredient to the slow food movement: investor money

Palm Beach Gardens Green Market moving indoors May 12

How many people around you receive food stamps?

Grow Downtown raises funds for Flagler Garden, but more is needed

Food stamp push at Florida farmers markets has skeptics

How Dallas killed farmers markets

In Florida, a food-stamp recruiter deals with wrenching choices

Any beer you want, Florida trends to local brews

In Florida, a food-stamp recruiter deals with wrenching choices

Want to forage in your city? There’s a map for that

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