Celebrate with us!

We’re just two weeks away from Celebrate Food & Water First! The farmers, chefs, vendors, artists and musicians are getting ready, and we’d like you to meet some of them before August 18th. Here’s the first in a series of special profiles!

Chef Adam Ryan – One99

Save room for dessert! Adam is the executive chef at One99 restaurant in Orangeville and he’ll be serving yummy ice-cream made from local milk and topped with seasonal goodies. Adam also has this scoop of wisdom about the importance of preserving farmland and respecting those who grow our food.”We need to support our local farmers because if we don’t, the land will be used for something else,” he says. “And if we don’t support our farmers, we will start seeing less of them. This isn’t good for our community, our economy or consumers.” Food for thought!

 BIG Whisky!

BIG Whisky bandmates tuning up!

The hay wagon stage at Celebrate Food & Water First will be rockin’ with performers…including the local band BIG Whisky! (Love the red shades!) The group plays a range of music from A to Z — the Allman Brothers to ZZ Top. Neil Banks Jr., Dan Paterson, Andrew McVeigh and Ian Stone of BIG Whisky also have this BIG message about preserving farmland and water. “Remember, farms feed cities and water is life.” That’s music to our ears.

Digging Deeper

You can also Celebrate Food & Water First by lending your talents to a play about the fight to stop theHighland Mega Quarry. Local artists, dancers, musicians and writers are working on a community production of “Digging Deeper.”  You can contribute your own stories, dance moves or lyrics! Drop by the”Digging Deeper” tent next to the Honeywood arena.

 The play will be performed in the fall of 2014 in Honeywood and then taken to other communities facing similar conflicts between agriculture and development. “Digging Deeper” is being produced by Everybody’s Theatre Company and the Rural Learning Association.

Meet more Celebrate Food & Water First participants next week!