Harvest. Cook. Feed. Share: Soil Sisters & Culinary Ladies Collective Happy Hour

Join us for an inaugural happy hour connecting & celebrating women farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, educators and eaters planting seeds of resilience and smashing the patriarchy!

By setting the table for this informal setting to bring together women-identifying and non-binary people who share a passion for all aspects for the food system, we want to collaboratively cultivate hope, ideas, innovation and challenge each other. 

Meet, network, savor each other's company and share a lovely late summer evening.

All welcome.  You do not need to be a member or involved with Culinary Ladies Collective or Soil Sisters/Renewing the Countryside -- come learn, meet & connect!

Event details:

• Registration appreciated but not required (we will be printing nametags). Walk-ins welcome. Family friendly.
• All women-identifying and non-binary people welcome at this event wherever you are on your food or farming journey. People just starting out or looking for ideas and connections or new to the area are especially encouraged to attend.
  
• Locally-sourced food and drink will be available for purchase.
  
• Consider donating a door prize or sponsoring a Brix Charcuterie Plate (details below).
• Event will be held outside unless weather inclement and move inside.
• Introductions and door prize drawing (must be present to win) at 6:30.  Please bring your business cards and any materials you want to share.

All attendees receive a free copy of No Farms, No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture, donated by American Farmland Trust (while supplies last).

Free Door Prizes!

All attendees entered in a drawing for a buffet of fun door prizes (must be present to win), including:

Giant Jones Brewery T-Shirt from Erika & Jessica Jones

Minnesota Cooks Cookbook by Renewing the Countryside

Farmstead Chef Cookbook by Lisa Kivirist & John Ivanko

The Cider Farm treats from Deirdre Birmingham

Riemer Family Farm pork sticks (nitrate free) from Jen Riemer & Anastasia Wampfler

Baked goods from the Community Kitchen Co-Op in Monticello

Green Haven Gardens vegetables & tomato jam from Heather Lynch

Barham Gardens aronia rhubarb jam from Roberta Barham

Placke Organic Acres Soap & Salve basket from Kelly Placke-Raum

REAP Food Group T-Shirt

Parthenon Gyros gift cards and Yips Yogurt Chips from Erin Vranas

Tisha's Delicious Bakery Gluten Free Apple Cider Doughnuts from Tisha Brown

Gasaway Gardens homemade vanilla from Alicia Gasaway

Bloom Bake Shop gift certificate from Annemarie Maitri

Case of Cadence Cold Brew Coffee from Jen Roth

Ten Eyck Orchard 1/2 peck honey crisp apples from Megan Haserodt

Have a product or gift certificate to feature & contribute (something small)?   Much appreciated -- please email lisa@rtcinfo.org

Donate a Brix Charcuterie Plate!

Please consider purchasing a Brix charcuterie plate for sharing with the group. See donation link when registering. Plates would feature items like house-made Ricotta, Cates Family Farm Sausage, Potters Crackers, Atoms to Apples apple slices, pleasant ridge cheese and pork salami from Marie Raboin's farm, Landmark cheese and beet hummus with Squashington Farm and Winterfell Farm veggies and local blue corn tortilla chips.

We look forward to seeing you! Please invite your friends and colleagues.

Erika & Jessica Jones & Fran Hong, Culinary Ladies Collective

Lisa Kivirist, Soil Sisters & Renewing the Countryside

Marie Raboin, Brix Cider

Culinary Ladies Collective is a network of professional female/femme chefs, cooks, food and beverage producers, growers and artisans located throughout Wisconsin. We are committed to serving our communities through mentor-ship, volunteer outreach, education, fundraising and advocacy. We collaborate not only among ourselves, but with other community-minded organizations. Our contributions to these groups meet our goal of empowering womxn who have chosen to join the culinary community, or who are considering stepping onto the culinary path. Through regular meetings, we nourish ourselves in body and spirit. We are a group who respects food, how it’s grown, where it’s raised and who is growing it. Most of all we are united; a collective of womxn which honors and values the culinary industry to which we have chosen to contribute our talent and grit.

Soil Sisters is an award-winning project of the non-profit Renewing the Countryside, bringing together women championing local food, community building, sustainable and organic agriculture and vibrant rural communities for collaboration, networking and cooking up change. The founding Soil Sisters in southern Wisconsin organize the annual Soil Sisters event the first weekend in August, the largest women-farmer led event of its kind in the country. Since 2012, the Soil Sisters open their barn doors and farms for various workshops, culinary events and more.