Edible Island Conference

Island Culinary & Ecological Center

ICEC is committed to providing education and training which will lead to
expanded job opportunities for youth in the fields of culinary and hospitality arts,
with an emphasis on sustainability and increased public awareness of the
island's resources, culinary potential and ecological diversity.

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reservations are not needed to attend the conference, but should be made for Eddie's Underwater Theater & for lunch

Friday October 9th - Eddy's Underwater Theater will delight and amaze kids of all ages

Saturday October 10th at the Reach Performing Arts Center
A whole day of events; stimulating presentations in the morning, a delicious soup and salad farm lunch using all local produce and a variety of excursions in the afternoon

Morning Program will start at 9am
Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch
Owners of Four Season Farm, a year-round market garden on Cape Rosier. Eliot bought and cleared the wooded land in 1968 from Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life, and the farm he created has since become a model for small-scale sustainable agriculture. The author of the New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook, Eliot is known internationally as a leader of the organic movement. Barbara is the author of the best-selling guide, The Garden Primer, recently revised, as well as Theme Gardens. She writes a weekly column for the Washington Post called “A Cook’s Garden”, which runs in the Ellsworth American as “Kitchen Garden”. She has been farming with Eliot since their marriage in 1991. Both write and consult widely on farming and gardening.

	Terry-Anya Hayes
	Edible Landscape WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: How to find (and use) edible & medicinal roots, shoots, fruits and fungi Our beautiful Earth is endlessly inventive, surrounding us with foods more nutritious than those we grow and medicines as effective as many we manufacture. Want to cut grocery bills, improve your health, and establish a first-name relationship with what’s growing around you? Join wild foods educator Terry-Anya Hayes for this palate-pleasing introduction to the edible landscape of Deer Isle. You’ll take home recipes and a resource list, and absorb a wealth of information that will help you identify, gather and use this bounty confidently, responsibly, and safely.

Ingrid Bengis-Palei -"Tales of a Fishmonger - How It All Started and Continues"
Ingrid Bengis started her Stonington seafood business twenty five years ago. Although she is a legend among America's top chefs, little is known locally about how that came about. She will talk about how her passion for local seafood, working only with local fishermen and promoting the unique marine character of this area and its community, influenced chefs who were among the first to discover and support high quality, genuinely fresh American seafood in their kitchens.

Aaron Dority and Ginny Olsen
AARON DORITY is the Downeast Groundfish Initiative Project Director for Penobscot East Resource Center. The Groundfish Initiative is a major campaign to rebuild a sustainable groundfish fishery in eastern Maine as part of Penobscot East’s work to secure a future for the fishing communities in this region. GINNY OLSEN - owner with her husband Blaine Olsen of Oceanville Seafood in Stonington has been a persistent activist organizing conservation efforts for local shellfish. Aaron and Ginny will talk about their work on the regeneration of local shellfish stocks and groundfish in our area.

There will be tours of the school greenhouse and composting projects during breaks

Afternoon Excursions • Foraging Expedition with Terry-Anya Hayes •Trip to Sunset Acres Farms to watch cheesemaking and to Five Star Nursery to participate in a cider pressing.

A soup and salad farm lunch made with all local produce will be available, please make reservations by calling 367-2416, or online
The Opera House will be joining the celebration with screenings of Food Inc and Fresh

Island Culinary and Ecological Center • PO Box 609, Deer Isle, ME 04627