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We are currently restructuring our operations and considering various options including the lease of our building to local organizations and businesses that share Farmers Fare's vision of community, teaching, learning and, of course, the joy of food!

For lease information, please contact Mark Koshliek of Maine Business Brokers at 207-775-1957 x 101 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Thank you all for your inquiries.

 
Pig + A Blanket Weekend: Hands-On Butcher Workshop & Farm to Table Cooking Class
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Farmers Fare Butcher

Join Farmers Fare for a weekend of farm to table fun and fabulous feasting on the beautiful coast of Maine!
 
We’ll start the weekend with a Friday evening meet and greet over cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the seaside village of Camden, Maine. Guests will meet one another and be introduced to their instructors, Master Butcher Steve Campbell and Chef & Author Nancy Harmon Jenkins. We will then enjoy a gourmet meal at the renowned Hartstone Inn (www.hartstoneinn.com) prepared by Owner/Chef Michael Salmon.
 
A number of rooms have been reserved at the Hartstone Inn, an elegant B&B in downtown Camden, and are available to registrants on a first come, first-served basis, with additional accomodations available at a variety of local inns and B&B’s.
 
Following a delicious breakfast at your accommodation, we will begin the butcher class on Saturday morning with a whole pig procured from one of our local farm partners. Master Butcher Steve Campbell will then teach us how to process a whole pig, and demonstrate what we can do with the various parts of the pig and provide some hints and tips for the novice butcher. We will break for a simple lunch of hearty pork-and-local-sauerkraut soup and skewered pinchitos (a pork-based tapa from the south of Spain) before returning to the classroom to complete the day’s session. Guests will be free to enjoy the culinary tastes of midcoast Maine on Saturday evening, with an array of exciting choices for dining out.
 
Sunday morning will kick off after breakfast with the much anticipated cooking class with writer Nancy Harmon Jenkins, author of six cookbooks including her most recent, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook. Nancy’s work is regularly featured in Saveur Magazine as well as many other national and international magazines; she also lectures at Smithsonian, the Culinary Institute of America, Boston University’s Food Studies program and other venues. Together we’ll prepare a hearty winter lunch, using many of the products from yesterday’s butchering class, including a grand Tuscan pork stew, made to imitate wild boar, with a surprise ingredient in the sauce to be served over polenta; also a French country cook’s favorite terrine de campagne, along with fegatelli, greens to accompany the pork, and an old-fashioned Maine apple pie with a lardy crust.
 
To end the weekend, we’ll relax over the fruits of our labors, with a pork feast accompanied by paired wines chosen specifically to complement the various dishes. Participants will receive their very own “market basket” stocked with a variety of pork cuts, butcher supplies and select merchandise to take home with them!
 
Itinerary:
Friday 6PM: Meet & Greet in downtown Camden. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
Friday 8PM: Dinner at Hartstone Inn
Saturday 10:30AM: Butcher Class
Saturday 2PM: Lunch
Saturday 5:30PM: Class adjourns, guests dine out independently
Sunday 10:30AM: Cooking class with Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Sunday 2PM: Pork Feast
Sunday 4PM: Departures
 
Price:
$2300/pp Including Accomodations for Fri & Sat nights in Camden
$1849/pp No Accomodations
Single-day registration is offered depending upon availability.  Please contact us to inquire about attending on Saturday or Sunday only.
 
To Register:
     By Phone: Please call (207) 236-3273
     By E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
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(Rockport, ME)

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Italian Cooking Classes with Nancy Harmon Jenkins (2/18/11 & 3/4/2011)
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    The Essential Mediterranean     The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook     
 

We are pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the Penobscot School again this year to offer the popular "Cucina Italia" cooking classes with local chef and author Nancy Harmon Jenkins.

ABOUT NANCY HARMON JENKINS:

Nancy Harmon Jenkins is a food writer, journalist and historian with primary expertise in Mediterranean cultures and cuisine, and secondary strong interests in sustainable agriculture and farm-to-market connections.  In both hands-on classes, students prepare the menu under Nancy’s supervision and then enjoy the fabulous dinner with complimentary wine included.

CLASSES:

Nancy Harmon Jenkins’ Cucina Italiana-1
Friday, February 18, 2011 6-8:30pm

This class will feature the preparation of a hearty winter menu from a Tuscan farmhouse, including crostini, pasta al forno with ragu, Tuscan pork stew with chocolate (imitating wild boar) with polenta, greens steamed and braised with garlic & chilis, and panna cotta with chocolate sauce.

Nancy Harmon Jenkins’ Cucina Italiana-2
Friday, March 4, 2011 6-8:30pm

This evening we will be cooking with extra-virgin olive oil, including roasted red peppers and anchovies, Maine shrimp in deep-fried pittule, orecchiette alla barese (pasta with spicy greens), gratin of fresh fennel, Italian-American cioppino (fish stew) with aioli, and olive oil citrus cake.

LOCATION:

All classes are held at Farmers Fare, located at the corner of Cross St. and Route 90 in Rockport, ME.  www.farmersfare.com

PRICING:

$65 per person for a single class or $120 per person for both classes.  Each class size is limited to 15 students, be sure to register early!

To register for one or both of these classes, please call Penobscot School at 207-594-1084 or register online at www.languagelearning.org . Checks, made out to Penobscot School, cash or Mastercard /Visa are accepted for payment. FMI: Missy or Patti at 207-594-1084

(Rockport, ME)

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