Green Door Gourmet http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog Green Door Gourmet brings fresh produce to the Nashville area! Tue, 21 May 2013 16:43:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 One Full Weekend! http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/05/16/one-full-weekend/ http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/05/16/one-full-weekend/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 17:02:29 +0000 admin http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/?p=1251
It’s going to be a busy weekend at the farm! In addition to Food Revolution Day, Sandor Katz’s fermentation lecture, the Health Fair, and Tennessee Rep Theater’s River Reprise, it is our first CSA pickup! The email for this week has already been sent out, but if you would like to join our CSA, sign up here and you can reserve a box next week!
 
Whether you’re coming out to the farm to pick up your CSA or to participate in one of our awesome events, make sure and introduce yourself to our new farm stand manager Lindsay, she has some awesome specials just for you! Our Southern Exposure Seeds are on sale, and when you buy a bag of coffee, you can get $2 off a locally made artisan mug! Check with Lindsay for our other specials! We also now have more than 80 vendors selling in the farm stand. From old favorites like Benton’s Bacon, Jolly Barnyard, and Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese to new faces like Dan’s Gourmet Mac & Cheese, Bobby John Henry’s Breads, and Olive and Sinclair chocolates, we are getting quite the selection of locally made artisan foods and goods!
 

One of our featured new items in the farm stand is the Tennessee Repertory Theater Jam! Made with a delicious blend of raspberries, elderberries, and peach, all proceeds benefit TN Rep.
 
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Green Door Gourmet is a small farm with a co-op store, event space, and CSA, located 15 minutes west of Nashville. Follow us online:

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With Mother’s Day at hand (it’s Sunday in case that snuck up on you!), I was thinking a lot about my momma! My mother did not grow up on a farm; her folks were not farming people. She was a city girl. She worked and lived “in town.” She really must have fallen hard for my dad. When they got married, she moved out the the farm house in the outskirts of the smallest incorporated town in the USA at that time, Dellview, NC population 10 people. Country wasn’t even the word…rural, that’s the word!
 
Momma loved plants and especially flowers. She had the greenest thumb! For as good as a grower she was, momma got married not knowing how to cook. When she moved into the farmhouse, my grandmother taught her, and my dad helped! By the time the fifth child came along, she had gotten rather good at cooking and everyone in the community loved her food…especially the cakes.
 
Mom never stopped loving the things that city girls. She adored getting a new dress, and going out to dinner which was a true rarity. She didn’t wear makeup everyday, but knew how to get the best out of a Mary Kay compact and red lipstick. She adored a pretty table and had a penchant for cool, interesting costume jewelry. She knew how to be a country wife, but also a lady. Oh, and also a GREAT momma.
 
Happy Mother’s Day from Green Door Gourmet! Check out our Mother’s Day specials below!
 
Mother’s Day Breakfast Basket
 

Serve your momma breakfast in bed with this delicious breakfast basket! Pork sausage and farm fresh eggs from the Jolly Barnyard, Cheese Biscuits from Jim N’ Nick’s, and a Green Door Gourmet jam, jelly, or preserve of your choice!
 
These baskets are $25, and to purchase one, you must reserve it ahead of time by emailing us here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Also, make sure to ask about our flower selection and check out our great local jewelry!
 

 
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Green Door Gourmet is a small farm with a co-op store, event space, and CSA, located 15 minutes west of Nashville. Follow us online:

]]> http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/05/09/momma-was-a-city-girl/feed/ 0 Rain Rain Go Away http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/05/02/rain-rain-go-away/ http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/05/02/rain-rain-go-away/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 18:19:58 +0000 admin http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/?p=1184 If there has been a theme to this year so far, it has been wet and cold. Last year, we had ripe strawberries in March, but this year it is May and we have none. All of our farmer friends have been having the same issues, every time we plant a crop, more rain comes and washes it out. Luckily, farmers are eternal optimists and it’s looking like our crops will be in good shape to launch our CSA on May 18 (Mother Nature willing).
 
Just because the CSA hasn’t kicked off yet doesn’t mean you can’t come out to the farm! We are stocked up on all your favorite local goods and foods…farm fresh eggs, Benton’s bacon, local honey, and more! One of our favorite items in the store right now is Cruze Dairy Farms‘ Chocolate Milk. For those of you not familiar with Cruze, they were featured in a New York Times article last fall talking about their buttermilk!
 
Coming Up On the Farm…
Our CSA isn’t the only thing happening the weekend of the 18th! Check out our upcoming events, and email info@greendoorgourmet.com with any questions!
 

Sylvia Ganier on Sing For Your Supper with Bob Waggoner
Saturday, May 4, at the Ryman Auditorium
This weekend Sylvia will be a guest on Sing For Your Supper with Bob Waggoner! She will be showing how to cook greens the Green Door Gourmet way. The show will be taped in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, and will air later this year in the fall on PBS! This episode’s musical guests will be the Mavericks. For more info, visit the Facebook page here.
 

Food Revolution Day at Green Door Gourmet
Friday, May 17, 11:30am-1:30pm
We will be celebrating Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day here at Green Door Gourmet! We are excited to be representing the city of Nashville through this event! The event will feature a lunch prepared with food from our farm, followed by a tour. Tickets are $30, and 40 of our 100 seats are already gone, so head to the event page to sign up and find out more details!
 

The Art of Fermentation with Sandor Katz
Saturday, May 18, 11:00am-1:00pm
We will be hosting a fermentation class led by Sandor Katz. You will gain a ’101′ overview of the art and benefits of fermentation and walk away with basic how-to knowledge of creating your own fermented foods. Tickets for this 2-hour class are $35 and can be reserved by emailing us at info@greendoorgourmet.com. We are almost at capacity, so reserve your tickets today!
 
 

Green Door Gourmet Health Fair
Saturday, May 18, 1:00pm-5:00pm
We will be hosting a FREE health fair! Come on out to the farm and talk to health professionals of various types, anyone from massage therapists, to personal trainers, to health coaches! If you’re interested in having a booth at the event, contact us at info@greendoorgourmet.com. We are passionate about creating a healthy community and would love for you to share this around with your friends and family! Our farm stand will be open during this, so you can shop local goods too!
 

River REPrise
Sunday, May 19, 5:30pm
We are excited to be hosting the Tennessee Repertory Theater’s River REPrise (formerly Tennessee Rep on the River). Details and pricing for this event can be found here.
 
 
 
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Green Door Gourmet is a small farm with a co-op store, event space, and CSA, located 15 minutes west of Nashville. Follow us online:

]]> http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/05/02/rain-rain-go-away/feed/ 0 Turning Over a New Leaf http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/04/25/turning-over-a-new-leaf/ http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/04/25/turning-over-a-new-leaf/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:31:40 +0000 admin http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/?p=1130 I’m sure you don’t need us to tell you, but this has been a wet and cold spring, so our seeds have been taking their time making an appearance above-ground. We can’t wait to see their leaves! In the meantime, we’ve been seeing a whole different kind of Leaf…
 

We had the privelege of hosting the 2013 Nissan Leaf Media Preview event! The fine folks at Nissan brought a bunch of people out to learn about the Leaf and how it is helping the world become more sustainable. They even had a Leaf inside the Grange, so keep that in mind next time you wonder if we can make our space work for your event! A fun time was had by all and we are happy to be a part of such a meaningful movement.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the Leaf, visit the website here!
 
 
Coming up at Green Door Gourmet…
 

2013 Health Fair (DATE CHANGED TO MAY 18!)
On May 18, from 1pm-5pm we will be hosting a FREE health fair! Come on out to the farm and talk to health professionals of various types, anyone from massage therapists, to personal trainers, to health coaches! If you’re interested in having a booth at the event, contact us at info@greendoorgourmet.com. We are passionate about creating a healthy community and would love for you to share this around with your friends and family! Our farm stand will be open during this, so you can shop local goods too!

 
 

Food Revolution Day
On Friday, May 17 we will be celebrating Food Revolution Day at the farm! There will be lunch from 12pm-1pm followed by time to tour the farm and shop in the farm stand! Check out the video below to see who else is supporting Food Revolution Day across the country!
 

 

The Art of Fermentation with Sandor Katz
Finally, on May 18 at 11am, we will be hosting a fermentation class led by Sandor Katz. You will gain a ’101′ overview of the art and benefits of fermentation and walk away with basic how-to knowledge of creating your own fermented foods. Tickets for this 2-hour class are $35 and can be reserved by emailing us at info@greendoorgourmet.com. We are almost at capacity, so reserve your tickets today!
 
 
 
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Green Door Gourmet is a small farm with a co-op store, event space, and CSA, located 15 minutes west of Nashville. Follow us online:

]]> http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/04/25/turning-over-a-new-leaf/feed/ 0 Going “Barefoot” at Green Door Gourmet! http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/04/18/going-barefoot-at-green-door-gourmet/ http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/2013/04/18/going-barefoot-at-green-door-gourmet/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:06:27 +0000 admin http://greendoorgourmet.com/blog/?p=1107 Alright alright, please keep your shoes on when you’re hanging out at the farm. What we meant to say was this weekend our friend Jeff Poppen, aka “The Barefoot Farmer,” will be teaching here at Green Door Gourmet! Jeff is practically a living legend, but if you need a refresher we recommend taking a look around his website here, or just doing a quick Google search and checking out any of the many articles he’s been mentioned in.
 
Jeff’s workshop is a part of The Skillery’s “Grow Down” this weekend and will be from 1pm-4pm on this Sunday, April 21. Here’s a brief synopsis:
 
“At this workshop, The Barefoot Farmer will share time-tested methods of growing healthy food, with topics spanning from compost, tillage and minerals to vegetable varieties, biodynamics, creating a planting calendar and much more. A Q&A will follow. You’ll leave with an understanding of how to grow the highest quality produce possible, whether you’re working in small beds or big gardens.”
 
Tickets to this awesome workshop can be purchased through the Skillery here!
 
At the Farm Stand…
To top it all off, we will be selling Jeff’s produce in the farm stand on Sunday! We are open from noon until 4pm so come out and stock up on some veggies and stick around for Jeff’s workshop so you can learn to grow your own! Jeff will be bringing: watercress, parsnips, kale, spinach, and green garlic.
 
Also, we still have herbs available from last weekend, as well as our own flowers and Clarksville hydroponic tomatoes! And, as always, we have the delicious goods and foods provided by our local vendors. Don’t miss out on this weekend at the farm!
 
ONE LAST THING!
Green Door Gourmet’s owner, Sylvia Ganier, will be speaking at the Southern Women’s Show today (Thursday, April 18) at 4:30pm, so make plans to head down to the convention center and hear her speak about culinary herbs! More info about the show here!.

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Green Door Gourmet is a small farm with a co-op store, event space, and CSA, located 15 minutes west of Nashville. Follow us online:

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