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Timothy Vollmer is one My 2008 CC Heroes

Tim Vollmer was one of the founding partners at Underground Food Collective, a few years ago he left to attend Grad School at the University of Michigan to get a degree in Information Sciences. I came across this link to a post at Creative Commons where they talk about all the good work that Tim did while he interned their last summer. We are proud of Tim and miss him dearly as he continues to do good work in DC for the ALA.

http://www.macsac.org/bikethebarns/
Underground Food Collective is happy to announce that registration for Bike the Barns is now open. We had an extremely successful ride last year and are looking forward to the ride again this year. Here is information from the website.

Bike the Barns: MACSAC's Second Annual Tour de CSA will be held Saturday, September 27, 2008. This exciting bike tour will take riders to community supported agriculture (CSA) farms around south-central Wisconsin while raising money to support the Partner Shares Program.

Our weekend dinners were quite the success. Thank you all for coming out to Lightyears Farm to celebrate with us. We had quite a good time with all the preparation and service. We have six more pigs to be butchered and served so we will continue with our dinners through the winter. Plus thanks to the amazing work of one Stephan White we have a smoker, which will add a great amount of versatility to the dinners. The next dinner is going to be on the weekend of Nov. 9th, 10th and 11th. Lightyears Farm will be hosting a dinner at Lightyears (Dodgeville area). The Friday and Saturday dinners will be at 7pm and the Sunday dinner with be at 3pm. Please contact us if you would like a reservation.

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Please contact us and let us know what night you would like to participate in the dinner.

The current dates are October 19th, 20th and 21st.

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On the weekend of the Nineteenth Twentieth and Twenty first in october. Ben Hunter and Henry Moren in cooperation with Underground Food Collective and Lightyears Farm will be hosting a dinner at Lightyears (Dodgeville area)

We have raised a few varieties of pigs this year, red wattle, berkshire, hampshire and others all on dirt under hickory, oak, and summac, finished on the nuts of those trees as well as apples

over the next few months we will be hosting a series of dinners all in celebration of these fine pigs

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Bikes and machinery at Vermont Valley.

Originally uploaded by Mauricio Babilonia

So I can't say enough about what a good time we had at bike the barns, the annual tour de CSA. I was involved from the beginning coming up with the idea with our quality control technician Kevin Walsh and we were able to see it be something that neither of us could have imagined. The initial response was huge and the number of people we turned away was more then i thought would ride in the first. Place, over all we had 322 riders show up and ride and another 50 people show up for lunch. I had a blast even though i wasn't able to ride the first 30 miles or so, i was busy working on lunch with the rest of the crew. But once i got on a bike around 2pm, i got to hang out with the riders and talk to the farmers on a beautiful fall day. I can say we will have a presence at this event as long as MACSAC is hosting this event. Thanks so much to everyone who was involved.

So Underground Catering is helping organize this ride and the idea was hatched by UFC's quality control operator Kevin Walsh and myself. We are really excited about this ride as it brings together two of our favorite things, great bike riding and beautiful countryside and farms. Underground Catering is doing the lunch meal and we are pulling out all the stops, teaming up with our friend Andy from Kindly Kraut and Lee Davenport from Pamplemouse.

You can register at www.macsac.org/bikethebarns