Common Ground Country Fair: Full Schedule

10:30am EDT

Raw Foods: Raw Corn Chowder

Speakers

Masanobu Ikemiya

Friday September 20, 2013 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

12:30pm EDT

Cooking with bean flour, and baking with cooked be

We will be making something with either bean flour or cooked beans. Samples will be offered - bean flour; crackers, pizza, quick bread, cookies. Cooked beans; cake.

Speakers

Bonnie & Galen Young

Argyle Acres

Friday September 20, 2013 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations

1:30pm EDT

Canning and Freezing Basics

Ever wonder how to preserve all those great garden vegetables? This food preservation demonstration by UMaine Cooperative Extension volunteers and staff will teach you the basic steps for canning and freezing. Participants will learn recommended methods for preserving foods, the latest and safest recipes, about equipment to insure safety and how to check for properly sealed jars.

Speakers

Kathy Savoie

University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Friday September 20, 2013 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Homestead Arts

2:30pm EDT

Mrs. Thrift Cooks w/ Herbs!

Mrs. Thrift demonstrates how she uses her herbs to make her favorite condiments and then gives suggestions on how to use the condiments in cooking all winter long. Tastings of herb butter, vinegars, pestos, herbed nuts and mustard included in presentation.

Speakers

Betsy Williams

The Proper Season

Friday September 20, 2013 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Herbs

3:30pm EDT

Veggies and Eggs

Speakers

Barbara Damrosch

Four Season Farm

Friday September 20, 2013 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Maine Food & Drink

9:30am EDT

Food processing made simple and quick

Learn tricks to make simple, easy home processed goods, like pear and apple sauce, kale chips, yoghurt, tomato sauce or paste. The techniques you learn will allow you to quickly process the food and then walk away while the finishing essentially takes care of itself. No more standing for hours stirring apple or tomato sauce on a stove top.

Speakers

Eileen Fingerman

KiwiHill Farm

I love to walk out to my garden, and gather up a variety of veggies, herbs etc and come back to the kitchen and cook up really yummy food for myself and my family. I love to share the benefits of a plant based diet with other folks. Once you eat this way and see how great you feel... Read More →

Saturday September 21, 2013 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Homestead Arts

10:30am EDT

Mrs. Thrift Cooks w/ Herbs!

Speakers

Betsy Williams

The Proper Season

Saturday September 21, 2013 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Herbs

12:30pm EDT

Crafting and Canning Jams and Preserves

A brief overview of big-picture canning concepts that explains how to make a jam or preserve using in-season fruit and Pomona's Pectin plus a step-by-step demonstration on how to can the jam or preserve using the boiling water bath method.

Speakers

Allison Duffy

CanningCraft

Saturday September 21, 2013 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Homestead Arts

2:00pm EDT

Intro. to Fermentation

Speakers

Sandor Katz

Author of The Art of Fermentation and Wild Fermentation

My name is Sandor Ellix Katz, and I am a fermentation revivalist. My interest in fermentation grew out of my overlapping interests in cooking, nutrition and gardening. It started with sauerkraut. I found an old crock buried in our barn, harvested cabbage from our garden, chopped it up, salted it, and waited. That first kraut tasted so alive and... Read More →

Saturday September 21, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Fermentation

3:00pm EDT

Seasonal Salads

Speakers

Barbara Damrosch

Four Season Farm

Saturday September 21, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Maine Food & Drink

4:00pm EDT

Nicaraguan Cabbage Trick

Speakers

Lindsay Sterling

Immigrant Kitchens

Saturday September 21, 2013 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations

9:30am EDT

Local Substitutes for Importand Ingredients

Chef David Levi demonstrates the making of some key items from his enterprise, Vinland, which serve as excellent and healthful local substitutes for imported goods. Such items include condensed yogurt whey instead of lemon, squash syrup instead of molasses, and mushroom "soy" sauce.

Speakers

David Levi

Owner and Executive Chef, Vinland

http://www.vinland.me/mission

Sunday September 22, 2013 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Maine Food & Drink

2:00pm EDT

Making Kombucha

Kombucha is a delicious, low calorie drink with many health benefits. Gail Wartell, from Sweet Mama's Kombucha (served on-tap at Local Sprouts Cafe) will demonstrate how it is prepared. If you have always wondered what a SCOBY or 'kombucha mother' looks like, this is your chance. She will also offer trouble-shooting and advice if you have had kombucha failures.

Speakers

Gail Wartell

Local Sprouts Cooperative

Gail Wartell is passionate about making kombucha. She has made Sweet Mama's Kombucha for Local Sprouts Cafe since it opened in 2010. In addition to being a worker-owner at Local Sprouts, Gail is active in the labor movement, a DJ and talk show host on WMPG and is involved Jewish... Read More →

Sunday September 22, 2013 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Country Kitchen Demos

Cooking Demonstrations, Fermentation