A French Kitchen Garden Weekend 2009
Fellow bloggers Ian and Kate are planning a weekend event in France, September 18-20th, 2009.
Ian is hosting the event at his home in Issigeac, southwest France (near Spain). The cost is €40 per person, but excludes lodging, local transportation, entrance fees to attractions, restaurant meals and some other things as specified on their itinerary. It includes some home cooked meals, prepared with local and home grown ingredients when available!
The emphasis of the event is to celebrate home grown, local and natural foods and foodways. The event will include visits to local markets, vineyards and gardens.
This event is part of a series of events around the world promoting kitchen gardening, being promoted and organized by Roger Doiron of Maine, USA who will attend and give a short talk at the event. Roger runs the non for profit organization Kitchen Gardening International, and it’s associated weblog. Roger first proposed the idea of a presidential food garden in the White House South Lawn in Washington DC, something that’s now become a reality.
Optionally visitors can extend their stay and visit other places. A list of suggestions is on their website. Among the possibilities is a visit to Kokopelli Seeds.
Good access to the area is provided by airports, high speed train and motorway.
Already people have signed up to come from France, Australia and USA. More people from these or other places would be welcome as long as space remains available. There will be both English and French speaking people attending, with people available to help with language difficulties.
For more information or to make reservations:
seedsavers@gmail.com (Kate)
kitchengardeninfrance@gmail.com (Ian)
http://afrenchkitchengardenweekend.blogspot.com/
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Pat – Thanks for putting this information on your blog. Sadly, we are not in a position to come to France at short notice, but from visiting Ian and Kate’s blog I see there may be a similar event in Australia at some stage. I’ll definitely keep an eye out for that.
James