Welcome to FT@SELMA (FridayTamales@SELMA) Things are popping at Tracklements these days, now open Sunday to feature Margaro’s traditional tamales. For Friday, we have hooked up his skills with some local meat, veg and masa from Farmboy Flapjacks (Simmons Family Farms), and my mouth is watering already! Margaro will be joined by TR, Samu and friends to amp up your Friday Morning taste buds. Your choice of 2 tamales:
· Berkshire Pork in red mole
... Continue readingThough it started out overcast, cool and rainy this morning, a small group of dedicated volunteers showed up on Crest St. near Huron, to make a garden for Edible Avalon. Selma Cafe's own Jeff McCabe, Kris Kaul from Avalon Housing, Sara Schlotterbeck, a regular Friday Mornings@SELMA volunteer, Ji Wu and a few young men from Clonlara School led by Vikram Babu joined together to dig some dirt, lay some bricks, and set the stage to grow some groceries. Sam Hughes, ... Continue reading
What a perfect day for pulling plastic on our new Tessmer Farm hoop house. Warm sunshine and a barely there breeze set the stage for a small gathering of volunteers who carved out an hour or two on a busy Thursday afternoon to help complete the project. It's amazing what a few people can do with intention and action. Thank you Dan Carrol, Dan Bair, Michelle Fortin, Anna Williams , Riva Jewell-Vitale, Milagros Paredes, Mary Wessel Walker and Kate Long. We are ... Continue reading
We are pulling plastic on our new Tessmer Farm hoop! Thursday, April 22 at 4pm and we can really use your help. There is just nothing quite like a group of people all holding the edges and together pulling a massive sheet of gently billowing plastic over the skeleton of a hoop house. It's beautiful, exciting, surreal, gratifying, helpful, fun, community building, local food supporting, outside in the sunshine peace-and-love action. Join us! 2707 Tessmer Rd., South off Scio Church Rd., ... Continue reading
What an amazing weekend of community, hard work, good food, bonfire relaxing, and, by the end of the day Sunday, a nearly complete hoop house. Want to see how it all comes together?? At the end of the first day, the hoop was all ready for the next day end wall construction. The end walls are made using a sturdy plastic that is a bit fussy to work with. It takes nearly as long to build and install the two end ... Continue reading
Another wonderful breakfast was had by all 130 guests, thanks to Mary and Michelle from Harvest Kitchen. Blueberry Crisp, served with whipped cream and bacon was a huge hit, and everyone loved the Breakfast Bake, served with sunchokes and hoop house greens. Breakfasts have been pretty busy these last weeks, but our reliable crew of hard working volunteers keeps stepping up to the weekly challenge of so many hungry supporters of Selma Cafe. Thanks to every single person who showed up ... Continue reading
Mary Wessel Walker returns with her Harvest Kitchen gang to bring us a yummy take on what is at hand:
· “Breakfast Plate” combines egg, cheese, veg and sausage over a crescent roll crust
· “Taste-O-Summer” blueberry crisp with bacon if you like
Both served with sun-choke braise and hoop-greens
Don't forget our "fruit seasonal" (sometimes freeze-onal) regular breakfast choices: Waffles with gingered apples or blueberries and Lisa’s
... Continue readingOur first hoop build of the year is going up this weekend out at Tessmer Farm, the home of all our wonderful greens at Selma Cafe. We love to feed the volunteers, so Friday evening we'll be making lunches--muffaletta sandwiches and other good stuff. We could use your help! Wanna come by and put some food together? I'll have snacks and drinks for you, and all the ingredients we need to prep. Let me know okay? yogalisagottlieb@gmail.com
There is something about having Helen and Blake from EAT in the kitchen that sets a certain tone. A tone of calm, easy-going efficiency, with a vibe of lovin' good food. Add two exceptional specials, and it's happiness in the kitchen, and on the plate. Thanks you two, for bringing us shrimp and grits, and, onion and potato quiche. It's been pretty exciting to find a source for local shrimp, and EAT featured it with their warm, delicious grits. Stirred to ... Continue reading
RP&F, with huge volunteer support, built this hoop for Greg Willerer of Brother Nature Produce in Detroit last year. Here it is, full of the most beautiful greens! The magic of a hoop house continues to thrill me. Outside it's cold. Inside it's luscious. Join the adventure by volunteering to build two more hoops in May!