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Margaret Hochla
El Reno, Oklahoma
I have been married for 27 years to Victor and have 4 children. The two girls and two boys range in age from 25-10 years. We are pleased to still have one grandparent from each side of the family ... More about Margaret
Sareen Dunleavy-Keenan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
I live in Minneapolis, in 1.5 story craftsman bungalow with beautiful woodwork, but a tiny lot. Sharing this space is my husband Brendan, 'baby' (5/07) and 'new baby' who is expected to join the fold in August. More about Sareen
Gina Keenan-Klages
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
My name is Gina, and my husband's name is Patrick. We have three children, ranging in ages from 1 to 5 years. Our household also includes my mother, who is living with us from September to May. More about Gina
Donna McClurkan
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Early January may seem an inauspicious time to begin an "eat local" project in Southwest Michigan. As if to underscore that point, nearly a foot of snow fell in Kalamazoo on January 3. More about Donna
Cher Stuewe-Portnoff
St Louis, Missouri
My first father-in-law taught me to garden in the mid-1960s. Over the next few years, with a family of five to feed, I read everything I could find about nutrition ... More about Cher
Vera Schabicki
Ashland, Mississippi
Four years ago my five children, one husband, two dogs, one cat and I moved to the rural South from a large northern California city. We went from .12 acres to a rambling 57 acres. More about Vera
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The 100 Member Meal
Posted at 4:35 PM on March 5, 2008 by Donna McClurkan (3 Comments)
Internet + Food = Community. This equation best describes what happened last weekend when many members of our Southwest Michigan listserv got together for a potluck.
By way of explanation, the event name reflects both the spirit of the 100 Mile Diet (made famous by the authors of Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally), and our confidence we'd reach 100 members on our listserv by the time the event was to take place. The 100th member joined Friday – two days before our potluck.
What a feast we had! Here’s a sampling of the local dishes: Chris brought rutabaga fritters, Lori made two pumpkin pies, Dave brought ham, and we contributed elk chili. Anne, Bill, Steve and Teresa brought whole wheat bread made with Archie’s flour and an amazing gratin that included their farm grown potatoes and sunchokes. We had chocolate cake topped with mulberries, goat cheese dips, venison enchiladas, flat bread and so much more.
Dishes were labeled with signs, some decorated by the kids. Ron and Soo, founders of Dancing Turtle Farm & Dairy, created this post-card sized note ...
... so we’d know their Khaki Campbell ducks and LaMancha goats provided ingredients for the Chevre Pesto Quiche. Even the paper was local (grasses from their garden and field).
Here is the youngest locavore in attendance, baby Cho, with her mom, Katie.
Our potluck was the 4th get-together since the listserv started just over two months ago. This speaks volumes about the community building capacity of the internet.
Comments (3)
Your get together seems to have combined all the necessary elements of the good life; really wonderful food, convivial get togethers, meeting new people, stimulating your local economy,earth friendly, all very cool. May be we could start some kind of group like that here....hmmm.
Thanks for sharing, Vera
Posted by vera schabicki | March 9, 2008 10:53 PM
Hi Vera - thanks for the feedback. The time involved to start and manage the listserv is minimal - it does take a dedicated moderator but the payoff is huge and event logistics are really easy to manage this way.
Posted by Donna McClurkan | March 10, 2008 8:09 AM
Wow, Donna, that looks like a great get together. Thanks for posting photos!
-Julia
Julia Schrenkler, Interactive Producer, APM | MPR
Posted by Julia Schrenkler | March 10, 2008 10:58 AM