Bushel & Peck's Local Market, Events

Eating. Drinking, Thinking Events

First Saturdays (March through December 2012)
Farm To Table Dinners
March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2, July 14 (Note, second Saturday) Every month, our Farm to Table dinner celebrates the local harvest with a community style dinner. This B&P tradition is a fixed price, chef's choice, family style dinner. Come alone or with a group of friends. All year round, we feature foods from local farms. Dinner is served family style at community tables. Reservations required. First Saturday of each month, unless a holiday conflicts.

May 18 & 19, 2012
ArtWalk
Presented by the Downtown Beloit Association: Businesses throughout downtown Beloit transform into fine art galleries with many venues featuring live music and hors d oeuvres. After hours hot spots offer live music on Friday night.

Sunday Yoga At Bushel & Peck's with Chris Romer 1:00 to 2:30pm. Class will start with a careful Iyengar style break down of a couple poses and flow into a vinyasa class designed to let students of all ability levels enjoy a personal practice that is just right for them. Chris will show variations and modifications of poses enabling students to practice at their own pace and ability level. Enjoy a 20% discount before or after class at Bushel & Peck's. Some props and mats will be available. (It's more healthy to have your own.)$5 per class $4 student/faculty discount.
Our teacher is Chris Romer, RYT 500, a new resident of Beloit, who has been teaching yoga for over ten years. February 12, 19 March 4, 11 April 1, 8, 15

Cafeteria Man, March 31, 5:30pm Cafeteria Man is a story of positive movement. Its about the aspiration of social activists and citizens coming together to change the way kids eat at school. Its about overhauling a dysfunctional nutritional system. And, its the story of what it takes, and who it takes, to make solutions happen. The feature documentary film chronicles an ambitious effort to "green" the public school diet serving 83,000 students in Baltimore. $5 Adult/$4 Students, reserve via phone or email. Seating limited to 60 people.

GROW! April 14, 5:30 pm An inspiring documentary that captures the energy and independence of a fresh crop of young farmers. Itʼs not just ʻOld MacDonaldʼ on the farm anymore. All across the U.S. there is a growing movement of educated young people who are leaving the cities to take up an agrarian life. Armed with college degrees, some are unable to find jobs in the current economic slump. Fed up with corporate America and its influence on a broken food system, they aim to solve some of the current systemʼs inequities by growing clean, fair food. Mostly landless, they borrow, rent or manage farmland in order to fulfill their dreams of doing something meaningful with their lives. GROW! takes a look at this new generation of sustainable farmers through the eyes, hearts and minds of 20 passionate, idealistic and fiercely independent young growers. In the film they speak of both the joys and the challenges involved in tending the land. Filmed on 12 farms throughout the state of Georgia during an entire growing season, GROW! provides an honest and inspiring look at this next generation of farmers. $5 Adult/$4 Students, reserve via phone or email. Seating limited to 60 people.

6 Million, Film April 20, 6:00pm Spirit of Hope With Producer Jody Wittnebel present 6 million. To raise the awareness of child abuse & to support local agencies working to fight child abuse Featuring a Discussion Panel on the issue & the music of Adam Hinkle (& Wayne Skattum)

Mad City Chickens, Film, 5:00pm Mad City Chickens is a sometimes serious, sometimes whimsical look at the people who keep urban chickens in their backyards. From chicken experts and authors to a rescued landfill hen or an inexperienced family that decides to take the poultry plunge—and even a mad professor and giant hen taking to the streets—it’s a humorous and heartfelt trip through the world of backyard chickendom.

Secret Life, Secret Death, April 28 at 2pm and 7pm The independent film, Secret Life, Secret Death will screen at Bushel & Peck's Local Market in Beloit, Wisconsin. Producer/Director Genevieve Davis (Beloit College, 74) will be on hand to introduce the movie and and a Talk Back after the movie. Secret Life, Secret Death is a Film Noir docudrama about a young, abandoned mother who falls into a web of crime in 1920's Gangland Chicago. In the Depression, she runs the shady Hollywood Hotel, in No-Man's Land Northern Wisconsin, until her death under suspicious circumstances. The story was buried in silence until now. The film is a product of the Wisconsin community, with over 100 people who worked on the film as actors, and provided vintage costumes, period locations, antique cars and trains, and props. The movie was funded entirely by people in Wisconsin. 2pm and 7pm. $8

Lutefisk Wars May 5, 5:00pm Yes! A repeat showing of Lutefisk Wars. The most attended film of the 2012 Beloit International Film Festival. Troubles escalate in a small North Dakota town when a frozen food delivery man is mistaken for someone else and ends up embroiled in the middle of an old feud between two Norwegian mafia families and their lutefisk recipe. $5

Celebrating Culinary Art

June 10, 2012 10 AM - 2 PM Bushel and Pecks Culinary Arts Demonstration, Eclectic Art of Cooking Exhibit , original artwork exhibit & show, sample artisan foods, including cheesecake. Participate in community art. Free.