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Wednesday, November 13, 2013• The Islands’ Sounder
Farm to Cafeteria November events Kids study rain in Eastsound
Madden Surbaugh is celebrity chef Farm to Cafeteria is presenting Madden Surbaugh of New Leaf Cafe as the next celebrity chef at the
public school cafeteria on Thursday, Nov. 14. On the menu will be gnocchi (a type of Italian potato pasta or “dumpling”) with meat or veggie sauce, Caesar salad, Italian roasted cauliflowers, garlic bread
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and olive oil cake plus a beverage. All this for just $5 for adults. Surbaugh, pictured at left, will also be visiting Mandy Randolph’s Farm to Classroom to teach her kids how to make gnocchi from scratch on Thursday and Friday this week. Moving to the San Juans in 2003, he worked as a Sous Chef at Duck Soup and later owned and operated Steps Wine Bar & Cafe in Friday Harbor. Madden is a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute in Vermont.
Cob oven pizza The public school garden cob oven has been repaired and a new shed has been built to protect it. It’s ready to fire up so freshly made
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Our Orcas Island Middle School marine science class with support from Russel Barsh, director of Kwiaht, a science laboratory based out of Lopez Island, has been reading and studying about rain gardens and constructed wetlands for some time, and we have been having some big rains. Our marine science project was from Sept. 26 to Oct. 17. The goal was to determine how efficient Island Market’s rain garden and the constructed wetland in Eastsound worked at filtering out light oils before allowing the water to continue its journey to the sea The results were amazing. Island Market’s water entering the rain garden contained 1.64 percent oil and exited the system containing only .42 percent oil. The garden had removed 74 percent of the oil that was on the streets before the rains had come. The constructed wetland’s water entering the system contained .46 percent oil and only contained .18 percent oil upon exiting to the sea. The wetland had removed 61 percent of the oil present. The rain gardens and constructed wetlands have been helping our sound, and, if we keep this up, we are going to have great success on helping our marine life and helping ourselves. Tori Sturk is an eighth grader at Orcas Middle School.
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pizzas may be prepared and baked. Farm to Cafeteria is hosting a party on Sunday, Nov. 17 from noon to 2 p.m. to celebrate! Admission is by donating to the “Edible Eats and Education” online fundraiser. If you have already donated, you’re already on the guest list. Home-made pizzas with fresh ingredients will be provided by Learner Limbach from the new garden cob oven and the mobile oven of Jaymz Ferraris of Soul Flour Bakery. Also on the fare will be corn on the cob, a fresh salad and beverages. Here’s how you donate: visit http://igg. me/at/edible-eats-andeducation/x/4414053. Pick a perk and donate. That way you’ll get a perk and a pizza – the most bang for your buck. Organizers will have your name at the party and all you have to do is check in. You can also come to the party and donate there.
TrueNorth Star Ministries is presenting a session for parents, mentors and adult survivors of trauma and abuse entitled “Getting past your past.” It will be held on Nov. 15 through 17 at the Orcas Island Adventist Fellowship and School. The workshop is free; call Christy at 541784-5071 or email tnsboysranch@yahoo.com to register.
With the holiday gift-giving season approaching it’s a perfect time for talented young artisans on Orcas to show and sell their wares. Any island child, from the ages 5 to 18, is encouraged to sign up for a $5 table at the first-ever Children’s Christmas Market on Orcas on Nov. 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Children’s Christmas Market will be hosted at Salmonberry School on the same morning as the Orcas Senior Center’s annual Christmas Bazaar, so it’s just a short walk across the road for shoppers to either event. “What fun it will be to see all the creativity that Orcas Island is nurturing,” say organizers. “We are looking for original, handmade, and, where possible, naturally crafted items priced from 25 cents to $5. Greeting cards, drawings and pictures, hand carved wooden toys, felted soaps, beaded accessories, painted rocks, seashell and beach glass art, paper moustaches – let’s see them!” There is space for 25 tables; contact Rachel Bishop at rachelbishop@yahoo.com or 376-5003 to reserve a table.
Forest business directory is out Over the last year, Northwest Natural Resource Group and local partners led a series of workshops, tours and discussions exploring ways to strengthen the San Juan County forest and wood products industries. As part of this effort, they created a Forest Products Business Directory with the goal being to expand markets and facilitate bet-
ter connections between consumers and the small-scale forestry and wood products industry. If other businesses would like to be included in a subsequent edition, visit http s : / / w w w. s u r v e y m on k e y. c om / s / VHVQSF7. To download a copy of the directory, go to: http://goo.gl/wUwrGJ