Just in time for Valentine's Day, a new chocolate food truck is rolling into town to offer locally made truffles, chocolate bars and more. Petru Chocolate will officially open on Saturday. The business is owned by Stacy Peters of Athens - the former owner of O'Chocolate.

Petru will begin with a limited menu of truffles and chocolate bars for the first few weeks. For Valentine's Day, Petru will be offering truffles (including in gift boxes) and chocolate bars on Feb. 12 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on East Union Street; Feb. 13 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Premiere Video and Feb. 14 on East Union from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Preorders will not be accepted.

You can check out Petru's website and interact with Petru on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Would you like to know more? You can read the full article HERE!

There's a new winery in town! Dutch Creek Winery  specializes in mead, cider and fruit wines. They are a husband and wife team who manage both the farm side  of the operation, beekeeping and growing an apple-peach-pear orchard, as well as the production side of their winery by creating some of the best artisanal, small-batch meads, ciders and fruit wines that Athens, OH has to offer.

They currently have 4 flavors of honey wine available: Royal Affair Earl Grey Honey Tea Wine, Commonwealth's Revenge Bourbon Barrel Honey Wine, American Mead Honey Wine and Autumn Harvest Honey Wine.

In the Athens area, you can currently purchase these wines at Coonskin Crossing in Amesville, Bella Vino on Stimson Avenue, and the West End Cider House on Washington Street. You can also pick these up in various Columbus locations.

Join Southeast Ohio food system partners for the 2016 Southeast Ohio Farm-to-School Conference! Gather for a two-day, extensive conference that will cover all things Farm-to-School! Ohio Continuing Education Units Available.

Keynote Speaker: Chef Katie McGushin, Program Director for the School of Hospitality at  Hocking College.  Chef McGushin works with the Rural Action Farm-to-School program, and coordinates a partnership between Rural Action and Hocking College that encourages local schools to purchase local produce and assists in the local economic development of the area. She has been instrumental in helping Appalachian schools utilize fresh, local produce in their cafeterias.

When: Thursday March 3 & Friday March 4, 2016

Where: Eclipse Company Store | 11309 Jackson Drive, The Plains, OH 45780

 

Cost for the conference is $30/day with limited scholarships available. For scholarship &

 discounted lodging information, please see HERE! 

Topics Covered will include:

This farm to school conference is brought to you in partnership with  Rural Action,   Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet),   Community Food Initiatives (CFI),   Live Healthy Appalachia (LHA), with support from  USDA Rural Development,  The Osteopathic Heritage Foundation,  Sisters Health Foundation,  The Stinner Summit, and the  Central Appalachian Network.

 

These Southeast Ohio food partners have worked together on local food initiatives for decades, bringing economic viability and healthy home consumerism to Southeast Ohio families. Their work with farm to school lunches, school gardens, healthy cooking classes, farmer education, and regulation technical assistance has made them experts in Farm to School programming. At this Farm to School Conference, these four organizations will welcome regional partners and other experts in the field to come share their experiences, and speak about the struggles and successes of farm to school work.