My Good Food Friends –
The HAPPIEST Registrars EVER!!!!!
ORGANICOLOGY 2015 – It’s THE BEST Conference and Trade Show, ‘cause once you pay the freight, just like a Sandals® Resort, it’s ALL-INCLUSIVE! Organic Good Food Buffet Breakfasts (and NOT just a continental! ), Luncheons, Dinners and Snacks. ALL over-the-top with daily changing themes.
Southwest Inspired Breakfast
Polenta and Amaranth Porridge w/ Straus Maple Yogurt • Berry Compote • Toasted Walnuts & Hazelnuts • Heavy Cream & Coconut Cream • Taco/Burrito Buffet: Three Sisters Nixtamal Corn Tortillas & Flour Tortillas • Scrambled Eggs • Roasted Onions with Sweet & Poblano Peppers • Cuban Black Beans from Better Bean Company • Chorizo • Roasted Sweet Potatoes • Cilantro • Queso Fresco • Salsas • Lime Picklopolis Hot Sauce • Grand Central Bakery Croissants: Chocolate Croissants and Cheese Danish • Oranges, Apples, Pears, Bananas • Fruit Juices, Coffee & Teas!
Saturday Evening Dinner was served! And it was spectacular. It’s was as DELISH as it reads:
“ARK of TASTE & HEIRLOOMS of TOMORROW”
preserving and advancing varieties
Appetizers
Hot Root – fermented carrots (OSA) and jalapeno peppers with crispy corn tortilla
prepared by Midori Farm
Crostini with ricotta, Old Blue raw honey, pickled mild habaneros (JM) & microgreens
prepared by Chef Timothy Wastell, Portland OR
First Course
‘Abundant Bloomsdale’ spinach (OSA) salad
w/ apple, hazelnuts & mild habanero (JM) vinaigrette
prepared by Chef Timothy Wastell, Portland OR
‘Lacinato Rainbow’ kale (FM),‘Purple Karma’ barley (PH), ‘Delicata Zeppelin’ squash (FM)
‘Inchelium Red’ garlic★
prepared by Chef Arran Stark, Port Townsend WA
Cabbage (NH/OSA), fennel, celeriac and carrot slaw
prepared by Chef Arran Stark, Port Townsend WA
Cornbread with sweet corn (OSA)
prepared by Chef Bryan Siegel, Hilton
Second Course
Seared Marble Chinook Salmon★
with Alaskan Birch Syrup glaze ★
prepared by Chef Bryan Siegel, Hilton
‘Cherry Vanilla’ quinoa (FM)-encrusted chicken
with chimichurri sauce
prepared by Chef Arran Stark, Port Townsend WA
‘Oregon Homestead Sweet Meat’ squash (CD) caponata with peasant levain
prepared by Chef Timothy Wastell, Portland OR
‘Gilfeather Turnip’ rutabaga★ and ‘Ozette’ potato★ gratin with Green Kale (NH)
prepared by Chef Bryan Siegel, Hilton
Dessert
Sweet Corn (OSA) ice cream
prepared by Lovely Fifty-Fifty, Portland OR
‘Lower Salmon River’ squash★ honeyed tart
prepared by Grand Central Bakery, Portland OR
★ Ark of Taste
Wine
Coriolis Pinot Noir and Rose by Maggie Harrison
Cider
Finnriver Farm & Cidery
More Organic Wine, Sir? Why not 2-@-time! They’re FREE!
And as your hard-working Good Food Guide, I had to endure the FREE Organic Liquor, Beer and Wine that flowed like water for four days and four nights!
The Whiskey is ORGANIC!
STONE BARN BRANDY WORKS • www.stonebarnbrandyworks.com • degens@stonebarnbrandyworks.com • 503.341.2227 • Portland, OR
MONTINORE ESTATE • www.montinore.com • info@montinore.com • 503.359.5012 • Forest Grove, OR
I drink a lot of Coffee daily, so this was Heaven for me!
LAURELWOOD Brewing Co. • www.laurelwoodbrewpub.com • info@laurelwoodbrewpub.com • 503.282.0622 • Portland, OR
THEN, the next night, talk about a Pub Run! And you didn’t even have to leave The Pub! A BIG CIRCLE, all ‘round the Plaza Ballroom, of Organic Liquor, Beer, Wine and FOOD! YEAH, it was a WOW!
OAKSHIRE™ BREWING • www.oakbrew.com • 541.688.4555 • Eugene, OR
Finnriver – Farmcrafted & Fermented Hard Cider & Fruit Wines with Apple Brandy • Jana Daisy-Ensign • jana@finnriverfarm.com • 503.753.4054 • www.finnriver.com • Chimacum, WA
Logsdon Farmhouse Ales • Charles D. Porter • Farmhouse Brewer • Brewer@farmhousebeer.com • 541.399.0229 • www.farmhousebeer.com • Hood River, OR
KOVAL Organic Distillery • www.kovaldistillery.com • Eric Budzynski • Consumer Outreach NW Region • eric@kovaldistillery.com • (Portland, OR) 360.320.8208 • Distillery – Chicago, IL • info@kovaldistillery.com • 312.878.7988
Black Republican Shrub Cocktail – Shrub is a colonial-day drink, using a concentrated syrup made of fruit, vinegar and sugar.
These shrub drinks featured the Black Republican Cherry, a Slow Food Ark of Taste product, which were grown Organically at Tamiyasu Orchards in Hood River, OR, and Peak Forest Fruit in Banks, OR. Chef Timothy Wastell, from Firehouse Restaurant in Portland, OR, preserved them as a shrub since being picked in July. It was served with Organic Whiskey from KOVAL Organic Distillery.
The Lewelling Brothers brought the first Black Republican Cherry Trees to the Oregon Territory in 1847. The fruit is small, deep purple in color with an intense Black Cherry flavor. It is also the parent of the Bing Cherry. Today, Black Republican Cherry Plantings are rare, with only about 200 acres remaining in older and smaller orchards in The Dalles and Hood River growing Districts of Oregon, and even fewer in Washington, California and Eastern States.
And YES, a few were SERVED and ENJOYED!!!!!
Then Saké!
She said you could drink it as a white wine. It’s smooooth as silk! She was RIGHT, and WE DID!
MOMO KAWA – Saké One • www.SakeOne.com • Brian Lynch • VP of National Sales • brian-lynch@sakeone.com • 707.815.9674 • Forest Grove, OR
BROOKS by Morne Wine Co. • www.brookswine.com • Jess Pierce • Director of Wine Education and Communications • jess@brookswine.com • 225.328.0706 • Willamette Valley, OR
On the Trade Show Floor:
Writers’ prerogative: MY State First, WASHINGTON! Diane Dempster of Charlie’s Produce kinda started it all. She was the go-to person for Organic Produce YEARS AGO! “I thank you, Diane and CHARLIE’S PRODUCE!”
CHARLIE’S PRODUCE • www.charliesproduce.com • Diane Dempster • DianeD@CharliesProduce.com • (Seattle, WA) 206.625.1412 • Matt Neumann (Portland, OR) MattN@charliesproduce.com • 503.278.6022
Wilcox Family Farms • www.wilcoxfarms.com • Ryann Hinch • rhinch@wilcoxfarms.net • 360.458.7774 • Roy, WA
Matt McLean, THE UNCLE in UNCLE MATT’S® Organic Citrus & Juices, is our long-time Good Food Friend. UNCLE MATT’S® is even on our very select Change Your Food – Change Your Life! GOOD FOOD FRIENDS Page. But just to show my fairness to ALL, here are a couple of GOOD Organic Citrus People, too!
SOUTH TEX ORGANICS – Organic Citrus and Vegetables • www.stxorganics.com • Dennis & Lynda Holbrook • dennis@stxorganics.com • 956.585.1040 • Mission, TX
The Organic Produce Displays by COVILLI® and Lakeside Organic Gardens …
… tied as THE BEST of SHOW!! But our Good Food Friend, Mario, at COVILLE®, said, “Give our Good Food Friends at Lakeside Organic Gardens the AWARD. COVILLI® won in 2013, so NOW we’ll see who’s who in 2017! Will be GOOD FUN!.”
COVILLI® • www.covilli.com • Mario Yubeta Jr. • Sales • mario@covilli.com • 520.980.2328 • Nogales, AZ
WINNER of THE BEST Display! I thought I had walked into a State Fair!
Lakeside Organic Gardens • www.lakesideorganic.com • Lindsey Roberts • Marketing Communications • lindsey@lakesideorganic.com • 831.706.1154 • Watsonville, CA
“I’m a very urban Artist and commercial Graphic Designer and own my own Businesses: The Branding Iron www.thebrandingiron.us and Naked by design http://nakedbydesign.graphics/company/. But, after hearing Dennis’ Stories from ORGANICOLOGY, I’m thinking I might want to become a COWGIRL! Thanks, Lakeside Organic Gardens, for the COOL hat!” – Lillyan
FOXY Organics! And there’s a GUY standing there! WHAT??????
FOXY Organic® • www.foxy.com • Brendan Bartley • Organic Sales bbartley@foxyproduce.com • 831.905.2094 • Salinas, CA
We even have one of THESE!
COKE FARM • www.cokefarm.com • Christine Coke • ccattin@cokefarm.com • 831.406.0561• San Juan Bautista, CA
ORGANICOLOGY is such a BIG DEAL that Arran Stephens, MR. NATURE’S PATH™ himself, was here! AND his Son, Arjan, too. NATURE’S PATH™ www.naturespath.com is the World’s largest, and STILL Family owned, ALL Organic Breakfast Cereals, + a whole lot more, Company!
I don’t let a morning go by without a BIG bowl of one of their NATURE’S PATH™ Cereals!
And, oh yeah, there were Classes and Workshops, too!
To Your Health!
Dennis L. Weaver, MBA, GFG
Founder/President/Producer
Change Your Food – Change Your Life!™, Inc.
425.774.8971
Dennis@ChangeYourFood.com
CELEBRATING Organic Good Foods @ www.ChangeYourFoodChangeYourLife.com
Visit our Good Food Friends @ www.changeyourfood.com/goodfoodfriends.html
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