Happenings @ the Freight Shed: Market Morning February 1, 2014

This Saturday at the Bath Farmers Market, visit the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s table to learn about the fun array of upcoming events. Specifically, the 4^th Annual Winter Read, a community book discussion group. 

This season’s selection is  Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter by local author, David Buchanan. 

The reader joins gardeners, preservationists, environmentalists, farmers, and cooks on a journey to rediscover the role of forgotten varieties of food in our farming fields and at our dinner tables. It’s a fascinating read that brings together the author’s love of food, farming, and discovering New England’s unique agricultural and culinary history.

Will with his Irish Bouzouki and in the foreground, Michele on the fiddle
Photo courtesy of  www.twistedstrings.net

Also, we welcome back Twisted Strings, an acoustic duo who entertain us with a wide array of tunes with Celtic roots and featuring Michele Roy on fiddle and Will West on the guitar and Irish bouzouki! 

Not sure what an Irish bouzouki is? Well come on down to check it out!

For more information regarding what's going on at the Bath Farmers Market, be sure to check out their weekly newsletter, News from the Bath Farmers Market -- you can either sign up to subscribe or catch it on their Facebook Page. 

Are you interested in learning more about the Bath Freight Shed? Thought so! Well please visit our website and if you're able to make a donation or become a Member, you can do that there as well! Not able to make a donation right now but want to help out? Well, we have lots of opportunities for volunteers either on a regular basis or just now and then. You can email Merry Chapin or call her at 207-443-5669 for more information.

Look for the Market Information Booth where you can also purchase your Market Money Tokens and if you're a SNAP customer, this is the booth to visit to take advantage of SNAP Incentive Program where fore every $4 you purchase by swiping your EBT card, you earn an extra dollar! Swipe $16 and you get an extra $4 in tokens -- extending your purchase power!

You can also purchase Bath Farmers Market Gift Certificates at the Information Booth -- a gift that gives year-round!

Freight Shed Fourth and Final Full Moon Dinner – A blend of Greece & Italy!

A full moon once again was present at the Bath Freight Shed Alliance’s fourth Full Moon Dinner fundraiser.

Chef Tim O'Brien of Trattoria Athena in Brunswick provided a gathering of some fifty guests with a very memorable meal in an welcoming setting with the Freight Shed’s open sliding riverside doors bringing in light from the full moon.



The hors d’oeuvres were delicate small savoy cabbages stuffed with Arborio rice, whiting, monkfish, dill and lemon and mushroom crostini, made with crimini mushrooms, cipollini and goat cheese – both savory and delicious.

Chef O'Brien then followed with a tri-colored bean salad, combining yellow beans with red onion, garlic chips, cheese, arugula, heirloom tomato blended with an almond dressing.

These delectable harbingers led perfectly to the main courses – a meat lasagna with layers of fresh pasta, ricotta cheese, pork and leek soubise ‘besciamella’ and a vegetarian lasagna with layers of fresh pasta, roasted butternut and delicata squash, mascarpone and ricotta cheeses and leek sourbise ‘besciamella’.

Duca corvine/cabernet wine, Gritty’s IPA beer and Now You’re Cooking's sparkling water complimented the food delights.

A tart apple crisp with ouzo and whipped crème and savory coffee completed the highly satisfying offering.

In keeping with the Freight Shed policy of supporting local and healthy food, Chef O'Brien sourced food for the meal from: 

• Six River Farm: cabbage and cipollini
• Squire Tarbox Farm: dill and arugula
• Oyster Creek Mushroom Co.: mushrooms
• Sunset Acres: goat cheese
• Goranson’s Farm: heirloom tomato, squash, onion and garlic
• Lakin's Gorges Cheese: ricotta
• Gryffon Ridge pork
• Pleasant Pond Orchards: apples
• Big Barn Coffee: coffee

Music was provided by Married with Chitlins. Co-founder of the Freight Shed, Wiebke Theodore exhibited a series of her acrylic abstract paintings, many of which are of scenes at the Wooden Boat School, which will continued through the month.

A wonderful meal, great guests, and good fun, all in support of the Bath Freight Shed and its programs.

To view the entire photo album of the final Full Moon Dinner, please visit our Facebook Page here!

The Bath Freight Shed Alliance is a non profit organization whose mission includes preservation of the Bath Freight Shed as a community facility, working closely with joint tenant Maine First Ship to promote various programs involving preservation, food, health, the arts, education, local history and environmental sustainability.