Velina Brown is the host of "Kiss the Cook & The Farmer Too." Check out the info on the show and their event Saturday June 4th

invites you to a farm-to-table evening to benefit...

Kiss the Cook & The Farmer Too
A Public Television Series About Great Food & Sustainable Agriculture

Saturday, June 4, 2011
7:00 - 10:00 pm

Hillside Gardens, Mill Valley, California

• Local & Seasonal Food and Drink
• Live Music by The Creole Belles
• Sneak Preview of the Series Pilot Organic Roots
• Prizes of goods and services from local farms and sustainable businesses



Kiss the Cook & The Farmer Too, from veteran filmmaker Tom Weidlinger, is a 13-part series on cooking and farming that combines the art and sensuousness of good food with eating as a conscious agricultural act. We are what we eat. The way we produce, prepare, and consume food affects both our personal health and the health of our environment and communities. Each program is a window on the blossoming landscape of organic, local, and sustainable food production.

Topics range from the new generation of urban farmers to a history of cheese, from the wild farm movement to sustainable fisheries. Standing behind the project is our National Board of Advisors: prominent sustainability writers, activists, organic farmers, ranchers, vintners, policy makers, educators, and restaurateurs.

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THE EVENING
Our sumptuous dinner is followed by a screening of Organic Roots, the half-hour pilot episode of Kiss The Cook & The Farmer Too. The pilot features Chef Malcolm Jessop preparing a meal from ingredients provided by Bay Area organic farms.

Pasture raised pork from Riverdog, fresh produce from Full Belly, and free-range eggs from Soul Food are included in the evening’s meal. Organic and bio-dynamic wines are generously contributed by Mendocinos’ Frey Vineyards, California’s pioneer organic wine producer since 1980.

The farmers co-starring include: Dennis Dierks, Paradise Valley Produce, Jesse Kuhn, Marin Roots Farm, Dru Rivers, Full Belly Farm, Tim Meuller, Riverdog Farm, and Alexis Koefoed, Soul Food Farm. The supporting cast of Organic Roots includes Riverdog’s Tamworth pigs, Soul Food Farm’s free range heritage chickens, and Arnica the cow. Many of the farmers featured in the film will be guests of honor at this benefit.

THE MUSIC
Enjoy the raw sounding violin, furious accordion and rhythms that make your feet move from the band, The Creole Belles, whose music comes straight from the dance halls of southwest Louisiana.

ABOUT OUR HOST
We are extremely grateful to Savory Thymes for hosting this benefit evening.

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS
Many thanks to the Ecological Farming Association for their endorsement of Kiss The Cook & The Farmer Too and sharing this announcement with their membership. Thanks also to Riverdog and Soul Food Farm for contributing pork and eggs and to Frey and Bonterra Vineyards for contributing wine for the evening's meal, and to the contributing sponsors who have generously donated gifts of goods and services for our silent auction and raffle. For more information on each sponsors click on the sponsor’s name or logo to go to their website. Learn about the prizes they have donated on our website prizes page.

DIRECTIONS, PARKING and SHUTTLE
From 6:45 - 7:45 pm, a shuttle will run from the parking lot of the Mill Valley Middle School to Hillside Gardens. Savory Thymes kindly requests that ALL guests take the shuttle. Parking at the event location is prohibited. Shuttle is located at:

Mill Valley Middle School
425 Sycamore Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941

OUR FUNDING GOAL
All proceeds from tickets and donations go directly to support the television series. Our goal is to raise $35,000 in seed money for series development. Ticket price and all donations are fully tax deductible though our fiscal sponsor, Community Works West. If you are unable to attend but would like to make a donation to support this project, please click on the PayPal Donate button below. or send a check to: Community Works West, 1535 Juanita Way, Berkeley, CA 94702

If you attend, please consider making an additional contribution at the end of the evening. As a “thank you” for an additional donation of over $200 you will receive Agrarian Landscapes. The 144-page book is full of great photographs and historical insight from the Dutch peat lowlands to the Montana prairie, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Hawaiian Islands, including interviews with local farmers, politicians and conservationists.
—a gift from Renewing the Countryside.