Please share this information with your customers and CSA shareholders–this is an amazing opportunity for all of us to learn new skills for working wi

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Please share this information with your customers and CSA shareholders–this is an amazing opportunity for all of us to learn new skills for working with seasonal farm products (farmers included)! You can easily forward this message by scrolling to the bottom of this email and clicking 'forward'. THANK YOU for helping spread the word about these exciting workshops!

Please also note that ACORN is working on incorporating your feedback on the CSA Shareholder Survey and is planning on having this ready for distribution to your CSA members by the end of the week, so stay tuned!

SPECIAL OFFER for ACORN's Community Food Skills Workshops!

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& Don't miss out on ACORN's Local Organic Mixer event, featuring our region's organic brews and wine and catered by Local Source Market!

ACORN's annual organic conference and trade show, from November 12-14 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel in Nova Scotia is offering two special community food skills workshops for only $30!!

These two workshops will be a fantastic opportunity to learn new cooking skills that will put seasonal, farm fresh and wholesome foods on the daily menu. With a focus on easy, accessible and nutritious recipes, participants will gain skills that will contribute to a lifetime of better eating from expert chefs and nutritionists!

PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION FOR THIS SPECIAL $30 RATE IS ONLY AVAILABLE AT-THE-DOOR

ACORN's Community Food Skills Workshops:

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Learn to "cook" your CSA share RAW!

Easy Raw At Home

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 10:30 AM with Chef Lauren Marshall, enVie
The focus of this workshop will be in taking a typical seasonal CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) basket and exploring how to create simple recipes by dehydrating, spiralizing, soaking, blending, chopping, juicing and liquidizing to make healthy, vegetable-based meals, snacks and desserts! Discussion will include the science of the importance of raw foods in our daily diets and super-foods, sprouting, cleansing, raw plant proteins, phytonutrients and plant enzymes. For all of those extra veggies in your CSA basket, or that you're tempted to pick-up at the Farmers' Market, find out how to make the best recipes and get the most nutritious and delivious meals out of them––all from your own home kitchen! This workshop has been generously sponsored by Halifax's Canadian School of Natural Nutrition!

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Chef Lauren Marshall, chef de cuisine at enVie Vegan Restaurant is passionate about creating delicious, healthy meals from fresh vegetables!

CHEF LAUREN MARSHALL

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Chef Lauren Marshall has cooked all over the world with executive roles in Nantucket, Belize and Australia. Marshall recently finished competing on Food Network’s most popular television series Top Chef Canada Season 4. She earned her degree from the Culinary Institute of Canada, and finished a diploma program at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. Extremely passionate about teaching people how to cook nutritious foods and live the healthiest version of themselves, Lauren was inspired to be a nutritional chef by her grandfather who was a chief cook in the Royal Canadian Navy and her mother who suffered from Diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She now enjoys her employment as Chef de Cuisine at enVie a Vegan kitchen. Lauren cannot wait to show you how to make food tasty, healthy and fun to prepare!

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Learn to preserve the bounty of our farms local harvests w/fermentation and pickling methods!

Fall Foods for Winter Well-Being: Preserves as Medicine

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 11:30 AM with Conscious Catering duo Anke Kungl & Roberto Gueli

This workshop featuring Conscious Catering duo Roberto Gueli and Anke Kungl will focus on tips for ensuring nutritional integrity of preserved food, discussing the reasoning and logic behind preserving the harvest while getting creative about the possibilities of what can be preserved, and how! Likewise, this workshop will dive into the importance of preserved foods in our diets, including exploring beyond their tasty and nutritious qualities and into the many medicial properties they offer! Methods of preservation explored will include drying & fermenting (lacto-ferments, alcohols & vinegars, cultured foods) and more. This workshop has been generously sponsored by Halifax's Canadian School of Natural Nutrition!

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Roberto and Anke have been leading cooking workshops and cleanses based on whole and seasonal local foods for years. We're excited to host them as a part of ACORN's Conference!

ROBERTO GUELI & ANKE KUNGL

Conscious Catering

Roberto Gueli is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist passionately teaching about quality food and farming practices at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. Together with his partner Anke Kungl they run Conscious Catering, a company on a mission to serve a diversity of whole foods with a strong emphasis on local and organic ingredients. This dynamic duo also host workshops and cooking classes with an aim to make healthy meal preparation accessible, affordable and delicious. Both Anke and Roberto have a tremendous appreciation for seasonal foods as medicine and especially enjoy experimenting with ferments and wild edibles.

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And don't miss our celebratory events:

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Thursday, November 13

6:0 PM Locally-Sourced Organic Banquet!

8:00 PM Keynote address by global seed advocate, Dr Vandana Shiva!

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Thanks to our generous sponsors!

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