A Celebration of Farmers & Food!
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Strolling of the Heifers A CELEBRATION OF FARMERS & FOOD! JUNE 7-9, 2019 • BRATTLEBORO, VT FRIDAY, JUNE 7 SATURDAY, JUNE 8 SUNDAY, JUNE 9 Friday Festival on the Strolling of the Heifers Parade Famous Farmer’s Breakfast KEY SPONSORS Common Slow Living Expo Tour de Heifer Bike Tours River Garden Specialty Foods Area Farm Tours and Vermont Beverages Coffee Cakes & Sweet Breads Competition Finals www.StrollingoftheHeifers.com 2 www.StrollingoftheHeifers.com Farmers Are Our Heroes! A welcome from Orly Munzing, founder of the Stroll Farmers Are Our Heroes! Locavore Index Farmers are at the center of How committed is your state to healthy local food? Our annual our mission year-round, and Locavore Index rates all 50 states and stimulates discussion at the heart of all our across the country on increasing local food consumption. programs here at Strolling of Slow Living Summit the Heifers. A two-day annual Summit that aims to give current and aspiring Every day we work to entrepreneurs the tools needed to evolve businesses, create connect people with healthy positive change in the community, and revolutionize the future local food, facilitate of food. innovation and entrepreneurship in the farm/food sector, and River Garden support the development of stronger local food systems. Our downtown headquarters is a welcoming public space, and We started in 2002 with a small parade and festival that home to the daily Brown Bag Lunch Series, Art Gallery and celebrated farmers and connected consumers with local food ongoing food & agricultural events! producers in the region. Today, our world famous parade, expo By supporting the Strolling of the Heifers Weekend, you are and street festival is the primary funding source fueling our vital helping to build a stronger local food system! economic development programs. Windham Grows Orly Munzing, Our six-month farm and food business accelerator provides the Founder, Strolling of the Heifers mentorship, resources and support entrepreneurs need to take their business to the next level. Please, NO Dogs Farm-To-Table Apprenticeship Our on-going training program teaches culinary skills to at the Parade & Expo! unemployed and underemployed community members, placing Because some of the animals in the parade them in full-time, permanent positions at local restaurants and may not react well to dogs, please leave them institutional kitchens. at home on the day of the parade. Thanks! Enid Wonnacott Strolling of the Heifers is dedicating our 2019 comes from while increasing the market for Parade and Festival to our friend, Enid farmers. She was also instrumental in developing Wonnacott. A true visionary, Enid led the NOFA’s Farm Share Program to help make Northeast Organic Farming Association of organic foods through the Community Supported Vermont for over 30 years. The programs she Agriculture (CSA) model more accessible to low- pioneered at NOFA-VT helped set the stage for income families. the organic food movement to grow across the U.S. and ensured Vermont was at its forefront. A memorial fund has been established in Enid’s name. Find out more at nofavt.org/enid-fund. We are grateful for the trails Enid helped blaze in developing NOFA-VT’s farm-to-school program, Thank you Enid, for all the work you did to which gives children the opportunity to eat support our farmers! We will miss you greatly. healthy local food, and learn about where it www.StrollingoftheHeifers.com 3 Proud to support Strolling of the Heifers and their mission to support local family farms. C&S Wholesale Grocers 47 Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro | 7 Corporate Drive, Keene www.cswg.com 4 www.StrollingoftheHeifers.com Stroll Staff & Volunteers FOUNDER Rep. Peter Welch Kevin Parry, Sound Integrative Permaculture Bobby Groves Orly Munzing Anson Tebbetts VT Secretary Helen Robb, Support and Venetian Beverages Jordan Hughes/West Hill of Agriculture Inspiration Border Town Farm Shop EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Amelia Struthers, Dairy Nanrellas Fruite Pate Madison Johnson Erin O'Connor PARADE ANNOUNCERS Godmother Sugar Bobs Finest Kind Anna LaPorte Lt. Governor David Zuckerman Joy Wallens-Penford, Gallery Food Connects Dan Ridgway GENERAL MANAGER Tim Johnson Arsenault Walk Superfresh Helen and Charlie Robb and Anne Latchis Gary Streete The Porch Cafe and Catering family/Robb Family Farm STAFF & VOLUNTEERS Michael Fitzgerald, Brattleboro Green Up Kids and Sugarhouse RIVER GARDEN & Christie Turner, Logistics & Police Chief New Ground Creative Paul Rodrigue VOLUNTEER Production Director Adam Petlock, Brattleboro Sweet Basil Food Company Steve Shriner COORDINATOR Beth Kiendl, Entertainment Police Liaison True North Granola Don Skekael Vicki Friedman Chair & More Kyle LaPointe, Rescue Inc. Good Body Products George Weir* Joan Buttrick, Bookkeeper Liaison Tavernier Chocolates Christopher Wocell* WINDHAM GROWS Donna Simons, Expo Len Howard, Brattleboro Fire Whetstone Station Associates Bob "Woody" Woodworth Jim Verzino, Director Consultant Dept. Liaison Frabjous Fibers Amelia Carin Cross, Entrepreneur in Monroe Whitaker, Master Brattleboro Cub Scout Pack Bob Underhill Residence Mapper 447, Chartered by the West RIVER GARDEN Tom Franks , Parade Chair Brattleboro Congregational AMBASSADORS PARADE MARSHALS FARM TO TABLE Peter Stickney, Parade Church Eileen Deutsch Linda Aiken APPRENTICESHIP Animals Chair Jay and Matt Nadeau, JP Sharon Hodge David Brown PROGRAM Martin Langeveld, Locavore Electric Ben Williams ThomasDrummey Orly Munzing, Director Index Doug Cleveland, Cleveland Bobbie Groves Steve Dutton Tristan Toleno, Culinary Erika Elder, Marketing Director Electric Sam Groves RossGibson Teacher Dan Munzing, Graphic Pete Gaskill, Triple T Trucking Donna Holliday Val Harlow Vicki Friedman, Job Coach Designer & Poster Master Athena Bradley, WSWMD Ellen Dudley FredLee Jen Brandt, Social Marketing , Albert Diemand, Elm City Maggie Schiller Rob Szpila BOARD MEMBERS Slow Living Summit, Compost Shan Marie Meissner TimSanborn John R. Davidson, President, Coordinator David Manning Joseph Runge Don Skekel Treasurer Phyllis Trier and Bobbie John Brunelle Vincent Sellew Michael Silberman Charlie Merinoff, Vice Groves, Sweet Breads & Todd Webb Ahren Ahrenholz President Coffee Cakes Competition WINDHAM GROWS Ethan Meckle Johnny Lee Conroy Greg Worden, Secretary CIcely Eastman, Tour de BUSINESSES Abby Sutton Dayna Lovell Roger Allbee Heifer Coordinator Genuine Local Stephen Charbonneau Mike Szostak Donna Simons Judy Fink, Farm Tour Agricola Farm and many more! Suki Rauh Andrew Richardson Coordinator Corina's Drinking Vinegars, Monroe Whitaker Robert Dunbar, Bookkeeping Inc TOUR DE HEIFER COWPIE CREW Dean Stadel & much more Still Thyme VOLUNTEERS Adrianna Howard Alexis Page Robb Family Farm- Tour de Vermont Tortilla Company Phil Brubaker Annaleeza Nuznam Joshua Traeger Heifer Host Jack's Crackers, LLC Andrew Cavanagh Alexander Meima Of Counsel: Fletcher Proctor Sam Groves, Float Designer Backyard Bread Claudia DiPeri and many more! and Builder Friskey Cow Farm Products Nora Dissinger HONORARY CHAIRS D& E Tree Service Jeff Parker, Vermont Chevon Bob Dunbar Governor Phil Scott Road Signage Gutsey Bars Cicely Eastman Senator Patrick Leahy John Keppler, Kim Fine ZWraps Mark Frasco Senator Bernard Sanders Steve Major, Veterinarian Putney Mountain Winery Sam Groves Taste of Thai on the go food and catering Food Truck: Exit 3 Mobil Off I91 marymeyer.com 1114 Putney Road, Brattleboro 802-490-4482 tasteofthaivt.com www.StrollingoftheHeifers.com 5 Pick your favorite at the Stroll’s Coffee Cakes & Sweet Breads Competition on Friday evening PRIZES TO BE AWARDED: FIRST PRIZE — $150 King Arthur Flour Gift Certificate, and a King Arthur Flour Gift Basket, 24 – 3 pk. strips of Red Star® Platinum Superior Baking Yeast and an “I Knead to be Loaved” apron from Red Star® Yeast SECOND PRIZE — $100 King Arthur Flour Gift Certificate, a Grafton Village Cheese Company Gift Basket, 12 – 3 pk. strips of Red Star® Platinum Superior Baking Yeast and an “I Knead to be Loaved” apron from Red Star® Yeast THIRD PRIZE — $75 King Arthur Flour Gift Certificate, a Cabot Creamery Gift Basket, 12 – 3 pk strips of Red Star® Platinum Superior Baking Yeast Our annual culinary competition for 2019 aims to find the tastiest and and an “I Knead to be Loaved” apron from Red Star® Yeast best-looking Coffee Cakes & Sweet Breads in New England! People’s Choice — $50 Marina Restaurant Gift Certificate Local celebrity “foodie” judges will announce the winners on Friday Come to the River Garden on during the Stroll's Friday Fest to sample evening, June 7, 2019 at Brattleboro’s River Garden as part of the 2019 the finalists' creations, and help choose the People's Choice winner! Winning recipes will be posted at StrollingOfTheHeifers.com Strolling of the Heifers Weekend. 6 www.StrollingoftheHeifers.com Weekend Schedule • Healthy Living Exhibitors — get answers to TOUR DE HEIFER 15-30-60 MILE Friday Evening your health and wellness questions from profes- CYCLING TOURS STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS FRIDAY sionals. Sunday, June 9, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. — in and around FESTIVAL • Woodlands — learn about forest management, Brattleboro, Vermont, starting and ending at Friday, June 7, 5:00-9:00 p.m. wildlife, invasive species and much more! Robb Family Farm, 822 Ames Hill Road, West Brattleboro. Brattleboro Common - Park Place, Brattleboro • Crafts — browse wonderful creations from a wide variety of crafters! The Tour offers Vermont’s most challenging dirt- The River Garden - 157 Main Street, Brattleboro road cycling tours! Fifteen, thirty