Seymour store to serve farm feasts on summer Saturdays

Seymour resident Kim Dulka is seen in her store in this 2012 file photo. Patricia Villers/Register

 
SEYMOUR - Join “Farmer Kim” Dulka and the gang on Saturday evenings this summer at The All-American Valley General Store – for their five-course “Farm to Table” Farmer’s Feast.  

The fixed menu fete – served for $25 a person - is dished up from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and features courses using fresh produce and dairy products from local farms and growers. The store is at 16 Bank St., Suite 140.

Live entertainment sets the meal to music as the Farmer’s Feast – like Wednesday’s “Open Mic” – are attracting country, bluegrass, and classic acoustic folk and rock musicians from all over Connecticut.  

The dining room is both quaint and cozy. Reservations are strongly recommended.  The outdoor porch and patio are open, so enjoy a summer evening breeze from an antique rocker or pull up a bench or Adirondack chair around the herb garden and set for awhile.

All Connecticut-made items

If the Farm Feast dessert doesn’t satisfy your sweet tooth, choose from a selection of local ice cream, or indulge in Waterbury’s famous Fascia’s Chocolates, or maple sugar candy from Lamothe’s Sugar House in Burlington. 
Between courses, browse wares from local artisans: from antique glassware to goat's milk soaps to organic lotions to yarns spun from local Alpaca. 
It’s all grown, churned, milled, made or discovered in Connecticut.

Kim Dulka opened The All-American Valley General Store in December 2011. She is a fourth-generation farmer in Seymour. Vegetables, flowers and Christmas trees are grown and harvested at Red Clover Farms, which has been in Dulka's family since 1915. 

The store also offers a knitting night and workshops on everything from farming healing herbs to hosting rustic bridal showers.

Dulka says of her endeavor it is “everything Connecticut.”


The information in this post is taken from a press release.

Shelton farm offers Friday markets

 

Jones' Farmers show off the Red, White & Blue Market crops at last year’s Friday Farmer’s Markets. / Contributed photo


By Keith Padin
Marketing & Hospitality Manager
Jones Family Farms

SHELTON - Jones Family Farms, in the White Hills section, is once again hosting its Summer Friday Farmers’ Markets. Spotlighting local foods and products from around Shelton and the area, the Friday markets are focused on promoting what the area has to offer and as Christiana Jones, Market Manager, puts it: “plain ole good food.”

Now in its third year, the Friday Farmers’ Market will feature produce and products from various Shelton Farms. Connecticut artisan cheeses, soups, and local honey will also be offered.

“We are so pleased to have local farmers and business owners joining us again this summer to help share the bounty we all spend so much time growing and creating,” Jones said. “It really has become a great community event that people look forward to every week.”

Weekly themes will range from the annual Red, White & Blue Farmers’ Market Kickoff this Friday to potatoes to corn to tomatoes and more. Add in that the markets are kid-friendly with products from the Harvest Kitchen Cooking Studio, wine tastings at Jones Winery, and other entertainment and you have a complete afternoon of local fun.

Visitors to the market are always asked to bring canned foods or other donations for Spooner House and the Valley Food Bank.

The markets run every Friday in July and August from 3:30– 6:30 p.m. at Jones Family Farms’ Homestead Farm, 606 Walnut Tree Hill Road. 

For information call 203-929-8425 or visit JonesFamilyFarms.com.