White linen tablecloths, a piano player and skirted product booths will add a touch of class to a food tasting show planned for rural Saskatchewan.
“This is not like your straw hat and boots event,” said Quinton Odnokon, restaurant owner in Vanscoy, Sask., and president of the local agricultural society.
The Rural Municipality of Vanscoy is holding A Taste of the RM at Pike Lake, Sask., March 25.
Odnokon said the show is turning out to be bigger than expected. Organizers don’t have room for all the farmers who want to get involved.
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Nine RM farmers will feature bison, elk, wild boar, emu, ostrich, lamb, vegetables, saskatoon berries and salads. Some of the food will be prepared by the farmers and some by Odnokon.
He expects that the show will become an annual affair. The purpose is to create awareness of how much diversification has occurred in the area.
“A lot of people don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “Each town does it’s own thing … and the ag society is one of the few representative of the whole community.”
Money raised by the show will support ag society events such as school bursaries, an August fair, a fire department competition in May and a farmers’ night out.
Leader, Sask., is also planning a fund-raiser.
On April 1, a live and silent auction will raise money for improvements at the community’s three-sheet curling rink and the golf course.
Organizer Watson Shircliff said 150 items will be donated for the auction, “everything from sketches to custom combining.”
A popular sales item is farm-raised chickens.
