Acre News
As part of commitment to using local ingredients in our kitchens we grow some of our own produce. We welcome a new season at The Acre Farm located on Steve De Cosse’s (Partner, Acre Gourmet) property in Healdsburg, CA. With the help of organic compost from Petaluma's Reichardt Duck Farms, friends and family we have been growing starts from seed, preparing beds, planting and irrigating. The rich and fertile soil of Healdsburg fed by the Russian River, was just beckoning to be utilized and is now the home of a variety of organic fruits and vegetable plants. With the Sonoma sun and a lot of rewarding hard work, we anticipate a yield that could supply our cafes and schools with a large portion of the organic produce used in our cooking.
Acre Delighted to be Serving Marin Academy and to be Members of The Marin Academy Eco CouncilThe Acre team is enthusiastic about the fact we will be cooking delicious meals for the student body and faculty of Marin Academy starting this Fall. Acre is also thrilled to be actively involved in the Marin Academy Eco Council, who’s mission it is to create a more sustainable environment at The Marin Academy, while educating the student body about composting and recycling, the food system, gardening and much more. The Eco Council is composed of students, faculty and parents. Right now they are spearheading a composting program at school, which seeks to reduce waste while providing rich compost from their three-bin composting system for their school garden.
April 30, 2007 – Acre Joins Stanford University Composting Tour Acre visited Stanford University to tour their dining facilities, which are committed to composting their waste and using biodegradable take-away packaging and serving ware. Javier Canales (Partner, Acre Gourmet) met with Larry Kass of ESA: Solid Waste Group to share ideas about our respective programs. Acre Gourmet is committed to improving our composting and recycling programs at all of our locations, as well as working with other programs to influence the entire waste system in a positive and progressive way. This Fall we begin serving the Marin Academy High School Community, and we are excited about their pilot composting program. We are currently working to facilitate a municipal composting program for Marin County.
May 20, 2007 - Acre Visits Mariquita Farm in Coralitos for a Spring Lamb Roast! Adam Kesselman and Britt Galler (Partners, Acre Gourmet) took a trip down to Mariquita Farm in Coralitos to celebrate our friends at Mariquita, and a beautiful Spring. We joined Andy and Julia, and their family, the gang at Kokkari and Evvia Restaurants, and others for a grand feast of fresh vegetables, spit-roasted lamb, goat and more. We love spending time with our fellow food community members!
Adam Kesselman (Partner, Acre Gourmet) joined Mark Stefanski (Marin Academy Teacher and Eco-Council Leader) at Mills College to attend the 100 Leaders Forum to discuss the future of Student Health and School Lunch, and the future of our overall food system. This quote from the executive summary says it all: “Unless we fundamentally change the educational process by which we nurture and nourish children in school, we condemn our posterity to shortened life spans and disembodied learning.”
The forum was composed of visionary thinkers, writers, and practitioners in America including Delaine Eastin, A. G. Kawamura, Rodney Taylor, and Alice Waters, to continue a dialogue focused on fundamental changes to the learning environment of our schools and colleges, and to the policies that govern them. ('1’100 Leaders: The Mills College Forum on Student Health, Scholastic Achievement and School Lunch’In partnership with The Center for Ecoliteracy, UC Davis Center for Integrative Nutrition Environments in School Communities, Roots of Change, and Slow Food USA)
Adam Kesselman (Partner, Acre Gourmet) accompanied The Bay School FO San Francisco field trip to Harley Farms in Pescadero. There he took a tour and tasting of one of the sweetest little organic goat farms making some of the most exquisite chevre in California.
The Acre crew attended the Slow Foods San Francisco’s showing of “Jamie Oliver’s School Dinners”. Among the attendees was Anne Cooper, Head Lunch Lady of the Berkeley Public School District. It was very inspiring to see what Jamie Oliver is doing in Britain, and what Anne Cooper is doing in Berkeley.
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