Local Sprouts Cooperative

New Year’s Eve Party with if and it, Glassfingers and Christopher Pulsoni

jonah — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:42:20 +0000

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 Champagne Toast at Midnight!

Meet Your Farmer Filmscreening

jonah — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:48:29 +0000

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

Pig Butchering Workshop at Local Sprouts Cafe

jonah — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:30:40 +0000

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.)

* Basic intro to making bacon, hams, & salami via brining, dry-curing, fermenting and drying

* Opinionated commentary about:

* Happy Animals

* Food Sovereignty & Security

* Rare & Unusual Gastronomic Delights

* Rural Economies

* Marauding Geese

* Etc.

December 4th, 5-7pm $35. Limit 10 participants!

To reserve your slot contact Meara Smith @ 207 899 3529 or
meara@localsproutscooperative.com

Look for future workshops covering the creation of cured pork products in more detail!

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Nate Brimmer raises 100% organic fed & pasture raised pork, chicken, eggs and goose at the Giant’s Belly Farm/JED Collective, in Greene Maine.

Goose, Pork and Eggs are currently available for purchase. Your support is appreciated!

For more information about our products and farm practices, or to place an order, please call 207.415.4458 or email meat@riseup.net

Halloween Party with the Tricky Britches, 10/29, 7pm

jonah — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:48:13 +0000

Blazing bluegrass tunes. Halloween food and drink specials. Wear a costume and enter a costume contest! Pumpkin carving for the kids.

Local Sprouts shows “The Take” Friday October 28, 8pm

jonah — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:42:46 +0000

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 in 2001, Latin America’s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former employees take action. They’re part of a daring new movement of workers who are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating jobs in the ruins of the failed system.

Find the Frebird RV with Sontiago and Bluebird 8/5 First Friday

jonah — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:24:53 +0000

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.

Local Sprouts Caters the Kneading Conference

jonah — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:19:10 +0000

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.

Bellas Bartok at Local Sprouts

jonah — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:23:39 +0000

Bellas Bartok Freak Folk Dance Party Saturday July 23rd at 8pm

Here’s what some people are saying about Bellas Bartok, come out on Saturday night to dance, eat great food, and see for yourself!
For music check out www.bellasbartok.com
“Bella’s Bartok started out as a party and became a band—albeit, one that comes with an automatic party pre-installed.”
- Jeremy D. Goodwin, Metroland cover article

“Their goal is to spread the electrifyingly good time they’re having on stage out into the audience, until every last person is out of breath…in a good way.”
- Abby Wood, Berkshire Living

“a raucous, frenzied 10-piece pile of joyous musical fun”
- Max Hartshorne, Daily Hampshire Gazette

Folk-punk lets loose – Berkshire Eagle
Bella’s Bartok Sweeten up Sweet Baby Lou Radio
Interview with Rock On!

Sprout Weekly Farm Trips

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:24:54 +0000

Every other week Local Sprout workers have been going to turkey Hill
Farm to volunteer their time and hard work on the farm. Turkey Hill
Farm plays a large role in the local Sprouts Café. Since we’ve opened
the cafe, turkey hill has been picking up our compost, storing and
using it on their farm. Volunteering on the farm is Local Sprouts way
of trading our time and work for theirs! Not to mention how much fun
we have doing it!
Here is some photographs of us on the farm, hard at work!

Thank you turkey hill!

[photos by Pierce]

WORKER Cooperatives Support WORKER UNIONS

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:31:59 +0000

[photos by Pierce]

This past week, on June 2nd, a team from Local Sprouts
Cooperative Cafe took a trip up to Augusta to rally against LD 309.
LD 309 is a bill that attacks state workers and their union rights.
After having stepped away from the bill LePage put the bill back on
the table in the last few weeks of the session.
Luckily we belong to a great state with a strong community of people
committed to protecting worker’s rights, an estimated 600 people
rallied together at the Hall of Flags at noon in the Augusta state
capitol building. The rally was a huge success and filled with
inspiring and energized people from around the state.

Yesterday the lawmakers voted to postpone LD 309 until next year. The
Legislature’s Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development
Committee voted to carry over L.D. 309, after hearing the voices at
the public hearing and the State House rally by hundreds of union
members.

Matt Schlobohm, executive director of the Maine AFL-CIO, said
lawmakers don’t want to be part of LePage’s “anti-worker agenda.” He
said unions have an even better chance of killing the bill next year,
because lawmakers will face re-election.

“I think it’s a victory for Maine workers,” he said. “It’s very clear
the votes won’t be there to pass this in an election year.”

As a worker owned cooperative, Local Sprouts supports workers and their rights.
We will continue to rally against the anti worker agenda and encourage
others to stand up for workers.

Quotes taken from Portland Press Herald article:

http://www.pressherald.com/news/fair-share-union-dues-bill-put-off-until-2012_2011-06-07.html