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There will be a Gordon Square Farmers Market Vendors Meeting this Wednesday at the Detroit Shoreway Arcade Atrium at 6:30 pm. The Arcade Atrium is at W.65th and Detroit Ave. This meeting is for existing and potential vendors. The agenda includes Dates for the GSFM, as well as discussion of applications and fees for vendors. See you there!

The Stone Soup Initiative is dedicated to teaching Clevelanders how to prepare and preserve local food. In these cold, slow harvest months, terrific instructors are teaching members of our community a variety of food preservation techniques that can be used year-round.The theme for our fifth class is dehydrating. The class will be taught by Mark DiDonato, high school science teacher, chicken keeper and vegetable gardener extraordinaire. Mark will bring his own dehydrator and teach methods of…See More

Caitlin Bergman and Dan McLeod, co-founders of Sweet Soil, a Petaluma, CA-based consultancy (http://www.sweet-soil.com), will give a talk on key soil foodweb concepts, as well as succession, urban applications, what weeds mean, and compost tea. Between the two of them, Dan and Caitlin have studied extensively with the world's leading permaculturists.A free-will offering will raise money for a biogas digester for the Daraja Academy, and all-girls high…See More