Real Food Gulf Coast

Growing a local, sustainable food economy along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Post Office Box 689, Long Beach, MS 39560. Phone: 228.234.8732 ax: 228.452.6255
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Press Release
For immediate release
MPB's Felder Rushing to headline annual Real Food Radish Festival on Sat., Nov. 3, in Long Beach,
Mississippi, on the Harper McCaughan Town Green at 301 Jeff Davis Ave.
Celebrating our roots on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Long Beach, MS, October 10, 2012Come taste a bounty of local and heirloom vegetables, fruits, honey, artisan
cheeses and more at the Real Food Radish Festival on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. in downtown Long
Beach. Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Gestalt Gardener Felder Rushing will headline the event.
Sponsored by Real Food Gulf Coast, the Long Beach Farmers Market and the City of Long Beach, Miss., the
Real Food Radish Festival features offerings from small farmers and ranchers from throughout South Mississippi,
cottage-industry food producers, chefs and hand-craft artisans. Local restaurants and small food producers who
use locally produced products and fresh Gulf seafood will offer delicious prepared dishes, presenting the best of
the boat-to-table as well as farm-to-table dining experiences. Local writers will be on hand to offer food for
thought and sign copies of their books. Come celebrate our local roots on the Misissippi Gulf Coast.
In addition to great local food, the day-long free Farmers Market extravaganza will include plenty of fun, family-
friendly activities, including demonstrations on composting and recycling, organic and container gardening, pine-
needle basket weaving and other gardening and farm activities. Enjoy live music, bocce ball lessons and yoga, as
well as a free drawing for door prizes, including a composting bucket from MDEQ, dinner for two at Salute
Italian Restaurant and a Yeti cooler (Wildly stronger. Keeps ice longer.).
Lumberton's Country Girls Creamery will bring a cow and her calf, and other small farm animals, including
chickens and ducks, will be there. Other vendors include G and M Goat Farm in Wiggins, Theresa's Italian
Cookies and Biscotti, Lucedale's Old Smokey's Smoked Meats and Sausage and Mighty Grow Organics . Lazy
Magnolia Brewery from Kiln will be on hand to talk about local brewing.
About the speakers, chefs and writers
Author, radio host and gardening maverick Felder Rushing will speak at 11:30 am. He is the host of the National
Public Radio-affiliate program The Gestalt Gardener and author of numerous award-winning gardening books
and hundreds of articles and photographs published in magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Organic
Gardening and National Geographic. Felder was featured in Southern Living magazine's 25th anniversary issue
as one of "twenty five people most likely to change the South" and has been singled out three times in full-length
New York Times articles.
Chef and restaurateur Rob Stinson will give cooking demonstrations at 2 pm. Stinson is executive chef and
owner of three award-winning restaurants on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Back Bay Seafood, Lookout 49 and
Salute Italian Restaurant. His spectrum of work has spanned from 5-star dining at the Windsor Court Hotel Grill
Room to managing the highest volume restaurant in the world, Orlando Planet Hollywood. In 2007 and 2009, he
was chosen by Governor Barbour to represent the State of Mississippi as official chef in the Great American
Seafood Cook-off in New Orleans. He is the official chef of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources
Seafood Marketing Program. He also hosts the MPB show Fit to Eat.
Chef Diane Claughton will also give cooking demonstrations at 2 pm. She is the founder and operator of the
Ocean Springs Fresh Market and former owner/operator of L'Escargot in Covington, La.
Three Mississippi writers will be on hand to sign copies of their books and talk with festival-goers. Julian
Brunt has something to say about how we like our seafood on the Mississippi Gulf coast and will sign copies of
his Biloxi Seafood Cookbook. Sun Herald cartoonist Tim Lockley will make you laugh with two collections of
his best comics: On Facebook, Everybody Knows You're a Dog and the soon-to-be released Somewhere There's a
Cartoonist Making Fun of Us. Daisy Karam-Read is ready with the nonlocal's observations on the Deep South
in her book From Manhattan to Mississippi.
Real Food Radish Festival schedule of events
9 am
Yoga on the Green (request donation to Long Beach Community Food Pantry)
10 am
Gospel in the amphitheater by Mo&nt Pi#g$i( Ba,tist -h&$ch of Long Beach, Miss., an% .e% /i## Missiona$0
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11:30 am
Felder Rushing, Gestalt Gardener
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Pine needle basket-weaving demonstration on the Green
Bocce ball demonstrations and games with the Gulf Coast Italian American Cultural Society, on the Green
1:30 4:30
Wink and Masino and friends in the Amphitheater
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Chef's Theater: cooking demonstrations with Chefs Rob Stinson, Diane Claughton and Friends, at the Shoofly
under the Oaks
4:30 pm
Homeade Jamz Blue Band, featuring Ryan, Kyle and Taya Perry.Tthe youngest Blues Band in America! From
Tupelo, Miss.
All-day book nook: Julian Brunt, Biloxi Seafood; Tim Lockley, On Facebook, Everybody Knows You're a Dog
and the soon-to-be released Somewhere There's a Cartoonist Making Fun of Us, and Daisy Karam-Read, From
Manhattan to Mississippi
About the festival
The Real Food Radish Festival is an annual farmers market extravaganza that celebrates the local food of our
region as well Long Beachs history as a truck farming town and the former Radish Capital of the World. See
www.radishfestival.org for more details and the schedule of events or find us on Facebook
at https://www.facebook.com/RealFoodRadishFestival.
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The Gulf -view Holiday Inn Express in Long Beach, located less than a half mile from the festival, is offering a
10% discount to festival goers. Call 1 877-859-5095.
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Come taste a bounty of local and heirloom vegetables, fruits, honey, artisan cheeses and more at the Real Food
Radish Festival on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. in downtown Long Beach. The Real Food Radish
Festival is an annual farmers market extravaganza that celebrates the local food of our region as well Long
Beachs history as a truck farming town and the former Radish Capital of the World.