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Attend the 2012 US Worker Coop Conference
Local Sprouts Cooperative is excited to send some of our workers to the US Federation of Worker Cooperative’s conference in Boston from June 22-24. If you are interested in worker co-ops we encourage you to check it out. For more info go to: http://conference2012.usworker.coop/
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Networking Breakfast leads to Citywide Forum
By Amy Anderson, Portland Phoenix, 2/29/12
As interest in the local-food movement expands in Portland, lack of coordination can lead to duplicate or missed volunteering efforts and resources. A series of monthly public conversations began about a year ago as an attempt to solve that problem, and is now leading to a [...]
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New Year’s Eve Party with if and it, Glassfingers and Christopher Pulsoni
New Years Eve Bash w/ if and it, Glass Fingers and Christopher Pulsoni. Dress up (or don’t), bring a date (or not), and celebrate with us at Local Sprouts!
if and it – www.ifandit.com
Glass Fingers – www.glassfingers.net
(voted best local album of the year by USM The Free Press)
Christopher Pulsoni – www.christopherpulsoni.com/
Local food and drink specials and [...]
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Meet Your Farmer Filmscreening
Join Maine Farmland Trust in a Screening of their Film
“Meet Your Farmer”
Thursday, December 1
6:30-8pm
Local Sprouts Cafe
located at 649 Congress St. in Portland
no charge – donations to MFT gratefully accepted
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Pig Butchering Workshop at Local Sprouts Cafe
Come and learn how to utilize a whole pig, “Snout to Tail!”
Hosted by Farmer Nate Brimmer, this workshop will include:
* Breaking down a whole pig into primal cuts
* Processing primal cuts into various retail cuts of pork using only hand tools
* How-to on using some less-common parts of the pig (head, skin, lungs, spleen, etc.)
* [...]
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Halloween Party with the Tricky Britches, 10/29, 7pm
Blazing bluegrass tunes. Halloween food and drink specials. Wear a costume and enter a costume contest! Pumpkin carving for the kids.
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Local Sprouts shows “The Take” Friday October 28, 8pm
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.
All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act – The Take – has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.
In the wake of Argentina’s dramatic economic collapse [...]
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Find the Frebird RV with Sontiago and Bluebird 8/5 First Friday
Local Sprouts presents:
BLEUBIRD • SONTIAGO • & some of Portland’s finest young performers in this outdoor performance taking place in the green space behind Local Sprouts Cafe.
Join us during the First Friday Art Walk for live dance & music featuring an all-female step team, spoken word and live hip-hop.
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Local Sprouts Caters the Kneading Conference
Local Sprouts Cooperative Catering will be at the Kneading Conference in Skowhegan this week providing local and organic food for this annual conference that focuses on artisanal bread baking and wood fired oven building. Local Sprouts is excited to be a part of a great conference celebrating traditional foods.
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Local Sprouts Cooperative stands in Solidarity with Workers and the Earth for May Day