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Summer Youth Intern Photography Show @ The Square Café

 

When: Thursday, August 26th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

 

Where: The Square Café

1137 South Braddock Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15218-1250
(412) 244-8002

 

Description: Every summer Grow Pittsburgh invites urban high school students to take part in an eight-week Summer Youth Internship Program where they gain hands on experience in urban agriculture and community building. This season we welcomed two groups of interns; one working on our Braddock Farms site and the other working on multiple projects for Grow Pittsburgh, GTECH Strategies, and Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest.

During their internship students spent one hour a week receiving photography lessons from local photographer Doug Michaels. The students were then able to chronicle their unique experiences throughout the program. Every year Grow Pittsburgh restaurant partner The Square Cafe is kind enough to host a photography show for the students to allow them to display their work to their friends, family, and the community. This year the show will take place this Thursday, August 26th from 6:00PM - 8:00PM.

The students' photographs will be on display at the Square Cafe through August 29th so stop by and check it out!

First Fridays at the Frick
 
When: Friday September, 3 at 7:00PM (and the first Friday of every month throughout the summer)
 
Where: The Frick Art & Historical Center on the Great Lawn in front of Clayton
 
Description: Plan to spend these evenings under the stars, enjoying friends and delicious food in one of the city’s most beautiful outdoor settings. Picnic dinners will be available from The Café. All concerts begin at 7:00 p.m. Suggested donation is $5; children free.
 
Friday Septmber, 3 - White Tie Group, Jazz ensemble comprising PSO musicians Harold Smoliar (English horn), piano; Don Evans, bass; and Andy Reamer (percussion), drums
 
More information available here.
 
*Grow Pittsburgh will be at every First Friday selling produce and providing information about our work and programs.
  
 

‘Stocking Up!’ Classes at the Millvale Community Center

Vegetable Fermentation; Making Sauerkraut

 

When: Saturday, September 11th , 11:00 AM

 

Where: Millvale Community Center

416 Lincoln Avenue
Millvale, PA 15209-2670

 

Description: Sept. 11th- Learn about vegetable fermentation and how to make sauerkraut

 

Future Classes (Times TBA):

Canning; Using a Pressure Canner

Home Cheese Making

Making Jellies, Jams, Butters, and Preserves

Gardening and Composting 101

Home Bread Making

 

Please contact amykrappa@gmail.com or efigas@millvaleboro.com for more information.


Grow Pittsburgh 5% Day at Whole Foods

 

When: Wednesday, September 15th, All Day

 

Where: Whole Foods Market in East Liberty

5880 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

 

Description: We are pleased to announce that as part of their community giving days Whole Foods Market will be holding a "5% Day" to benefit Grow Pittsburgh at their East Liberty location. On Wednesday, September 15th 5% of the store's net sales for the day will be donated to Grow Pittsburgh.

Do your weekly grocery shopping while supporting Grow Pittsburgh at the same time!

 
Slow Food Pittsburgh Presents: MeatTHINK
 
When: Throughout August & September (see below for exact dates)
 
Description: Explore our relationship to the meat we eat. See butchering, learn cuts. Beef, pork, lamb, chicken. Know why local/pastured and humane killing mean something. Hear from old school and "new wave" butchers, chefs, farmers, meat purveyors.
 
August 6 & 7:  PASA's State-wide Grass-Fed Beef Burger Taste-Off and a Beef Butchering Master Class co-sponsored by SFP, at Jamison Farm in Latrobe. Burger Picnic Saturday at the Farm.
 
Sunday Aug. 29: Chicken: The Farmer's Wife/Green Circle Farm Demo: humane killing. Plucking, cleaning, preparing for cooking. Organic picnic follows.
 
Saturday, Oct. 30: Pork: Strip District Meats' Ray Turkas Jr. will demo butchery of a Heilman half hog. Meal afterward at Ray's Cafe next door.
 
Date TBA:  Lamb: Halal and Kosher. Butchering skill and tradition. Salem's Market in the Strip. Lamb roast follows at the market.
 
 
 
Ongoing Events:
 
Grow Pittsburgh's Shiloh Peace Garden Farm Stand

When: Thursdays 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Where: The corner of N Homewood Ave. and Thomas Blvd. in Point Breeze

Grow Pittsburgh’s Braddock Farms Farm Stand
 
When: Thursdays 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 
Where: Right next to Bell’s Market on Braddock Ave.