How many times can you flap your arms in a second? Hummingbirds beat their wings about 70 times each second.She will lay 2 white eggs about the size of a Jelly Belly jellybean or a Tic Tac. While nesting here in the summer, the female builds a nest about 2 inches across from plant material that she stitches together with spider webs. (Females are green and white without the red chin) Males have the spectacular red chin that gives this species its name. Our area’s tiniest bird, the ruby-throated hummingbird weighs about as much as a penny. It leaves to spend the winter in Central America in October. Yes! Anytime you’re able to eat outdoors, sharing plates of food, community-style, under the stars… and the City Farm does an amazing job of making it beautiful and nice.Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have arrived! Our only native hummer, the ruby-throated hummingbird spends its summers here in the eastern half of North America, arriving in the Raleigh area around the end of March. They were digging around, learning how things grow and inspiring kids to make healthy choices.
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When I was there for one of my planning meetings, I saw a school bus full of middle schoolers in for a field trip. Supporting community is the entire feel of the Raleigh City Farm. That’s something I can do at Hummingbird and PoshNosh, I have 35 employees now and I consider that part of supporting local, just hiring people and keeping people employed. Even morally, I’ll take anything! The more our community backs us, the more we can give back to the community, that’s money that’s being spent in town. It’s so key to support small businesses! Being a small business is brutal, we all need to support each other in any way possible. Do you always use local businesses for your meals? And last, but not least, is a collaboration with Two Roosters, we’re doing an ice cream sandwich! I’m doing a root vegetable pot pie for one course, it’s a little bit New Orleans inspired, of course, I spent many years there-and then I’m doing a shrimp course, with shrimp from Locals Seafood, and a little green salad from the farm and a pork cheek dish. Yes, we do source some of our produce from Infinity 100 Farms! We are using them for the meal, too, they’re providing all the root vegetables. Do you source any produce from the Raleigh City Farm? It’s a neighborhood farm for me, I’ve lived in Oakwood for 20 years and drive by it all the time. Then about nine months ago they reached out to see if I’d do it, and I was honored! I said yes, of course.
I have been a guest before, I bought a ticket to go a couple years ago and it was pretty spectacular, this al fresco dinner at the farm. How did you get involved in the Harvest Dinner? This annual tradition is an outdoor feast held on its land on North Blount Street, which this year will enlist Speaks’ talents, along with produce from Infinity Hundred Farms, wines from Wine Authorities, seasonal beers from Fullsteam Brewery and ice cream from Two Roosters.
But this weekend, she gets an opportunity to prepare a meal for an event dear to her heart: The Raleigh City Farm Harvest Dinner. Coleen Speaks is used to cooking for a crowd-as the chef behind Hummingbird and PoshNosh catering, it’s part of her everyday life.
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