Our Bowen Grows Community Feast on September 25 celebrates the community school tradition of hosting community events that bring us together and allow us to socialize and to have fun, as well as supporting locally grown food.
Bowen Grows was created by the Community School Association (CSA) to create opportunities to learn how to grow food, build community and to promote and celebrate locally grown food. Its community feast and variety show in the BICS gym is an all-ages, family-friendly, free community-spirit-building celebration of local food that is made possible thanks to funding from the CSA and SmoothStones.
Don’t forget to bring your appetite as well as your own plates and cutlery!
Confirmed donations on the menu so far:
• Potatoes from Primrose Farm
• Apples and tomatoes from Bowen Farm
• Zucchini from the Bowfest Country Fair youth entries
• Cucumbers, garlic, basil, tomatoes, tarragon and more from the Young Farmers of Bowen Program
• Produce from Home Farm
• Rosemary from the Farmers Market “Panda Girls”
• A gigantic community-sized loaf of bread from Artisan Eats
• Kale and herbs from the BICS student garden
Interested in contributing a portion of your home garden harvest?! Every donation will contribute to the success and fun of this event. Donation drop off: BICS kitchen, 6-8pm, Sept. 23 and 24 and 9am-1pm on Sept 25. To volunteer in the kitchen please contact [email protected].
More volunteers are needed to help map out where the donated food was grown and to meet and greet at the door. Email: [email protected]
The Bowen Grows feast opens its doors at 5pm, food will be served 5:30-7:30, with a light local entertainment variety show happening during the evening. Coffee/Tea and desserts will be served until just after 8pm and then we’ll wrap up the evening by about 8:30pm, and clean-up, etc. by 9pm.
