August 21, 2008

Our seasonal crew is busily harvesting the fruits of summer to prepare for two upcoming events at Commonweal Garden: a Slow Food Nation luncheon on August 29 and our first Apple Fest on October 4

About 50 delegates from the San Francisco Slow Food Nation event this month will be coming to experience Commmonweal Garden through sights, smells, and of course, taste buds. We are preparing for wood fired pizzas with garden fresh pesto, an array of sweet and savory goat cheeses made right here on site with milk from our goat herd, and fermented beverages with our sweet plums and fragrant lavendar blossoms. With delight, we are planning a full meal with most ingredients from our maturing garden. Yum!!

Coordinators from the Native Foods Pavillion at Slow Food Nation were also here last weekend, preparing traditional tule shelters that will be set on display at the pavillion next weekend. What a blessing to have the group here, sharing their traditional weaving techniques.

We are also busily harvesting apples for our Apple Fest celebration. We dusted off the apple press yesterday and made our first batch of fresh juice of the season. That precious juice will be made into cider to enjoy at our celebration in October. Hope you can join us!