Geneva Green Market, NFP offers Pickling Class: Pickling Basics


Learn how to use the pickle cucumbers you buy at the market. Pickling is a life long skill that can keep you eating locally through the winter. This class will teach you how to do so safely, while teaching you a recipe for pickles that tastes better than anything you can buy at a store.

Tuesday, July 21st  –  A Peck of Pickles

Be prepared for pickle production after attending this basic instruction class.  Tammy will review the basics of pickling, while focusing on everyone’s favorite bread and butter pickle. Each class participant will leave with a jar of pickles.

Who: Tammy Caltagirone
Where:  Inglenook Pantry, 11 North Fifth Street, Geneva, Illinois
When:  Tuesday, July 21st
Time:  6:30pm-8:30pm
Cost:   $40 per person/member
$50 per person/non-member

Sign up by emailing genevagreenmarket [at] gmail [dot] com – give your name, email and phone number

Membership information can be found at www.genevagreenmarket.org/about

Education Event: Gardener’s Gold – Making and Using Compost


Join a Kane County Master Gardener to learn the secrets of the compost pile. After this one-hour presentation you’ll be ready start your own compost bin.

Brought to you by the Geneva Green Market, NFP membership

  • Who:    Phil Woolley of the Kane County Extension
  • Where:    Inglenook Pantry, 11 North Fifth Street, Geneva IL
  • When:    Thursday, May 28, 2009
  • Time:    6:45 pm to 8:15 pm
  • Cost:    Free to Member, Non-Member $10 per person

Sign up by emailing genevagreenmarket [at] gmail [dot] com – class title/date, give your name, email and phone number. Membership information can be found at www.genevagreenmarket.org/about-us

Tuesday, April 28th – A Spring Meal Primer


Look what’s local for Dinner! Think seasonal grown food!
Come and get prepared for spring bounty with Jennifer Downing, of nourish.
In this inspiring class we’ll focus on seasonal produce for use in recipes from the fabulous book, Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes by Jeanne Kelley.

Brought to you by the Geneva Green Market, NFP membership

Who: Jennifer Downing of Nourish, Expert Cook

Where: Inglenook Panty, 11 North Fifth Street, Geneva IL

When: Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30pm

Cost: Member $45 per person, Non-Member -  $55 per person (includes food and instruction material, come hungry)
A drawing for a $10 gift certificate courtesy Townhouse Books in St. Charles will have you cooking from this book all summer long!
Sign up by emailing genevagreenmarket [at] gmail [dot] com – give your name, email and phone number.
Membership information can be found on the web site:
http://www.genevagreenmarket.org/about-us/