Community Winter Market: Holiday Festival

The Community Winter Market, sponsored by the Geneva Green Market, NFP will be hosting a winter Holiday Market Saturday, December 19th from 9-2pm. At the CWM you’ll find local ingredients for your holiday meal needs. Apples, beets, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, onions, potatoes, radishes, stew mix and much more will be available including holiday free range meats from beef, chicken, lamb, poultry and turkeys along with artisan cheeses and stone ground flour pancake and muffin mixes. Fresh baked breads, cookies, pastries, and pies will be available also. From appetizers to desserts you can eat locally all year long with the Community Winter Market. For more information about the happening at the Community Winter Market visit genevagreenmarket.org.

Speaking of local veggies and farming and all things local, Terra Brockman -speaker, food and farm advocate and author will be on hand signing copies of her latest book “The Season’s on Henry’s Farm”. Terra was raised in central Illinois, where four generations of her family have farmed. Terra’s younger brother, Henry, grows 650 varieties of vegetables on about 12 acres (between Peoria and Bloomington). There, he and his family with apprentices have bucked the traditional agribusiness conventional wisdom by farming in a way that’s sensible, sustainable and focused on producing healthy and nutritious food that doesn’t damage the land. The Season’s on Henry’s Farm tells the story of Terra’s family and their life on the farm in the form of a year-long memoir that takes the reader through each season of life on the farm. For more information about Terra Brockman or her book, please visit her website at www.terrabrockman.com