Slow Food Ventura County

Slow Food Ventura County Fall Harvest Dinner
2017-11-12 16:00 - 19:30 UTC | CA
Please join Slow Food Ventura County for our Fall Harvest Dinner on Sunday, November 12th, 4:00-7:30 pm in Thousand Oaks.
Chef Janet Crandall will lead this event featuring the region’s freshest, local, fall ingredients. As always we offer extensive vegetarian and vegan dishes to accompany our locally sourced meat courses.
Unique to this event is that SFVC has raised the goats and turkeys featured on the menu with the help of our Ventura County-based farming partners.
We’re raffling off three heritage breed Standard Bronze turkeys, raised by members of the Santa Rosa Valley 4H Club. These turkeys will be ready in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
Only 50 tickets are available. Ticket price $75
Tickets and details available on Eventbrite here.

Eat Less Water Book Release Party at Leashless Brewing
2017-11-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Leashless Brewing, 585 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura, CA, 93001, United States
Join in celebrating the National Book Release of Eat Less Water: The Solution to Water Shortages is in our Kitchen by local author Florencia Ramirez, at Leashless Brewing in Ventura on Wednesday, November 1.

As a dedicated researcher and activist Ramirez created a compelling and informative read regarding the water use of our most commonly consumed foods. Here are some water footprint totals to chew on:
One head of lettuce= 10 gallons of water
One bottle of beer = 28 gallons of water
One pound of butter = 3,602 gallons of fresh water
The book has garnered national and regional attention, with upcoming radio interviews to air on KCRW (November 4), Entertainment Weekly, American Public Media, among several others. Eat Less Water, published by Red Hen Press, is a timely call-to-action, an inventive cookbook and a significant piece of investigative journalism. I’ve read an advance copy of the book and highly recommend it for your library. (Charles Barth/SFVC)
The Farm and Flame food truck will offer sustainable, menu options incorporating many local ingredients the night of the event (food truck will arrive at the brewery at 4:00). In addition to their delicious menu, two special items will be offered, Taza Mexican Chocolate Cookies and Spent Grain Sliders, both recipes featured in Eat Less Water. The organic spent grain is provided by Leashless Brewing.
The event is free and open to the public.
Do you have an upcoming event you’d like us to post? Please email event details to venturacountyca@slowfoodusa.org.

Taste of Local Festival-Field to Fork Event
2017-09-24 13:00 - 17:00 | CA

Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival
2017-09-10 11:00 - 17:00 | http://goletahistory.org, 304 N Carneros Road, Goleta, 93117, United States

Ocean Friendly Gardens Tour
2017-05-07 14:00 - 18:00 | Eichler Homes Neighborhood 494 Camino Manzanas Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, 494 Camino Manzanas, Thousand Oaks, CA, 91360, United States
Slow Food Ventura County is teaming up with Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Garden’s project for an afternoon of delicious locally produced food and drink along with a walking tour of OFG certified properties located in the historic Eichler home tract in Thousand Oaks, CA. See Eventbrite link for tickets and more details.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surfriders-ocean-friendly-gardens-tour-and-fundraiser-tickets-32480336561?aff=efbeventtix
