Three Sisters Garden to Plate Dinner

You are invited to celebrate the harvest from the Three Sisters Garden Project at a Garden to Plate Dinner on Saturday Oct. 26th, 2013, at 6pm.

Piner High School students, teachers Robert Lopez, Michael Doucette, and members of Slow Food Russian River, led by Slow Food Leader Sueki Woodward, worked in the Piner High School Garden to plant heirloom beans (20 varieties), Blue & Multi-color corn, and several varieties of squash.

We will celebrate their work with a delicious dinner, cooked by the award winning Piner High School Culinary Students supervised by Rob Dilillo.

The formal sit-down dinner will be held in Piner High School’s activity room with a Three Sisters theme.

The Menu will include Smoked Roast Pig, 2 Three Sisters stews, dessert, and beverages.

Special guests John Ash, Mei Ibach, and Jennifer Una will discuss ” The importance of bio-diversity foods and careers in the food industry.”

Sponsored by Slow Food Russian River, teachers Robert Lopez, Michael Doucette and Rob Dilillo, the Piner High School PTSA, the Piner High School Faculty, the Piner High School Environmental Club and the Piner High School Garden club.

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What is Slow Food?

 Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is part of a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members in over 150 countries, which links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.

A Sustainable Way of Eating…

 The Native Americans planted corn, pole beans, and squash in such a way that they all benefited greatly from each other.  The beans used the corn to grow tall, the beans provided the nitrogen from the squash, and the squash crept along the ground, preventing weeds from taking over.  This sustainable planting method is becoming forgotten.

 What is the Three Sisters Project?

 Slow Food Russian River developed the Three Sisters Project to revive this sustainable planting method in our communities.  Our goal is to educate the youth by giving them hands-on experience with the three sisters crops that our country survived on for thousands of years.

 Slow Food finds that maintaining successful school gardens are a necessary step towards regaining our grasp on the food system in the world.  School gardens teach children the importance of respecting food and those that provide it.  Our initiative is to educate the youth about the fundamentals of growing, gathering, cooking, and enjoying the food with the community in which they live, so that the new coming generations hold a piece of this attitude towards food in their heart for them to pass down to their children and so forth.