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April 21: Slow Food East End Earth Day Celebration

Join us on the shores of the Shinnecock Bay!

Sunday, April 21, 2024

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

St. Joseph Villa – 81 Lynn Ave, Hampton Bays, NY 11946

All are welcome to celebrate spring and Earth Day with us! Meet farmers, food producers, artists, and activists; enjoy local bounty and a day filled with family fun. It’s free to attend!

 

It’s our 3rd annual Earth Day event, we are eager to meet you and share news about how we are working locally to nourish our planet.

SHOP | LEARN | TASTE | ENJOY

  • Meet local experts and enjoy educational demos about composting, seed sowing, establishing pollinator gardens, and kelp farming – you’ll even learn how to properly shuck an oyster and cook sustainably sourced local fish.
  • Art projects for kids and kids at heart.
  • Enjoy live music by POINTS EAST.
  • Food by Grace & Grit and Peconic Gold Oysters.
  • Shop farm and artisan stands.
  • Sip local wines by Long Island Wine Country.
  • Meet local eco-activists and educators.
  • Learn more about Slow Food East End and our programs!

SFEE is grateful to our generous sponsors – Farm Credit East, Elite/PBS Tents & Events, and Sisters of St. Joseph and the Long Island Wine Country for helping make our event possible. 

SAVE THE DATE for Slow Food East End’s Earth Day Celebration 2024

Sunday, April 21, 2024

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

St. Joseph Villa – 81 Lynn Ave, Hampton Bays, NY 11946

Join us for an afternoon of fun education for the whole family, it’s free to attend!

 

Gather with Slow Food East End to meet educators, farmers, growers, vendors, artists, and eco-activists and celebrate Mother Nature and all who work to keep her healthy and growing! Enjoy a family-friendly, interactive day with demos, information, and seed sharing. Merchandise will be for sale and there will be great local flavors and wine tastings too!
 

The Villa is located on the shoreline of Shinnecock Bay at 81 Lynn Avenue in Hampton Bays. The Sisters of St. Joseph have made the Villa home to the Ecological Culture Initiative, a Snail of Approval 2023 winner. ECI is the organization that manages the site’s Good Ground Heritage Garden, Community Compost Program, and the Good Ground Seed Library. The Villa is also home to the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, a women-led kelp hatchery and farm.

SFEE is proud to recognize the accomplishments of our local growers and environmentally aware activists. Slow Food East End is the local chapter of an international organization involving millions of people in over 160 countries. Come meet their board members and hear more about what SFEE is doing locally and how you can be involved!

Do you have time to volunteer on the day of our event? We could use some extra hands! Our email is slowfoodeastend@gmail.com

You Made It Happen!

WE DID IT!

Well… you did it! Together, we raised enough money to keep funding our Feed the Forks programs that help nurture our East End communities.We are so grateful to you!

Thank you to everyone who placed a bid, helped spread the word, and all the ways in which you all gave your support. We are grateful for the amazing community response and together we raised over $15,000 via our online auction, and all of that is going directly to supporting our Feed the Forks initiatives. The money raised through this auction is instrumental in helping carry our work forward into the coming year.

Congrats to all the winning bidders, we are busy reaching out to you!

You will receive a confirmation email this week from us with details about your winnings and how to collect your items.

And a HUGE thank you to all of our donors!

We are grateful for the support of local businesses who believe in the work we do #ShopLocal

8 Hands Farm

Al Goldberg

Almond Bridgehampton

Amber Waves Farm

America’s Test Kitchen

American Beech Restaurant

Arni Paperie

Art of Eating

Bell and Anchor

Body By Carrozza

Carissa’s the Bakery

Cornell Cooperative Extension-Spat Program

Cornell Cooperative Extension- Choose Local F.I.S.H.

Channing Daughters Winery

Chris Hamilton

Chronicle Wines

Corey Creek Winery

Croteaux Vineyards

Disset Chocolate

East End Mixology

Eastern Front Brewing

Fini Pizza

Food Cycler

Fortunato Photography

Founders Tavern

Gluten Free Groove

Golden Earthworm

Graceful Space

Greenie Supply & Tackle

Greenport Harbor Brewing Co

Hampton Oyster Company

Happy Camper Candle

Harbor Pet

Isola

J & S Reeve Cottages

Jill Schroeder Personal Training

Joto Sake

Julia Stambules

Kelly Franke

Kitchen Of Youth

Laura Luciano

Little Fish

Lombardi’s Love Lane Market

Love Lane Kitchen

Macari Vineyards

Main Road Biscuit Co.

Main Roots Hair Salon/Salty Threads

Maria Plitt

Maroni Southold

Matchbook Distilling

McCall Wines

Meadowlark North Fork

Mint

Nassau Point Honey

Nicolette’s For the Home

Noah Schwartz & Noah’s

NOFO LIVE show

North Fork Flower Farm

North Fork Table & Inn

Old Field Vineyards

On the Road Food Truck

One Woman Wines & Vineyards

Palmer Vineyards

Parrish Art Museum

Peconic Bay Vineyards

Pelligrini Vineyards

Peconic Escargot

Peter Berley

Promise Land Apiaries

Relic Design

Rose Hill Vineyard

Sag Harbor Cinema

Sang Lee Farms

Sara & Brad Phillips

Silver Per Se

Sound View Greenport

Southold Fish Market

Sparkling Pointe

Stacey Isaacs

Sunita Narma

Tango Hot Sauce

That’s What She Fed

The Church Sag Harbor

The Harvest Inn

Tony Holman

Viking Fleet

Whalebone

William Ris Gallery

Wolffer Estate Vineyard

Yard Crop

 

Annual Meeting 2023 Recap

Board members not pictured above: Claudine Nayan & Becky Chidester

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Annual Public Board Meeting on November 5th. This is always one of our favorite events each year because we get to share our accomplishments and hear more directly from you about our work and initiatives.

We had the perfect day! The weather was beautiful, and the location, Veterans Park Community Center, was ideal with a gorgeous view of the Peconic Bay and the company even better. We know we are lucky to have so many friendly, talented, and caring people in our Slow Food community.

This year we celebrated with lots of delicious food, guests and board members brought potluck offerings from goat cheese toasts with local honey brought by Gabriella Macari, Al Goldberg brought his famous fish cakes from fish he recently caught near Montauk, Main Road Biscuit biscuits – were so delicious you know why the restaurant is named Biscuit! We also poured an amazing assortment of wines donated by members of the Long Island Wine Country wineries, LIWC celebrated 50 years of viniculture on Long Island this year and has been a sponsor of our events this year, a special thank you to: As If Wines, Chronicle Wines, Saltbird, Brooklyn Oenology, Lieb Cellars, Macari Vineyards, Pellegrini Vineyards, Rose Hill Winery, SuhRu Wines, Sparkling Pointe Vineyards & Wolffer Estate Vineyard.

The day was wonderful, but also bittersweet as we said goodbye to two of our amazing Board members who are at the end of their term limits: Pennie Schwartz, president, and Robin Tyson-Stoehr, secretary and so long to Peter Berley, an amazing chef who is off to new adventures, you will all be missed. But we know you will continue to be part of our community because we have become friends, we know that we will all see each other over wine and food on the forks.

Our annual meeting is also the day we vote new Board members into office, all have already participated in previous events we’ve hosted this past year, are members of our organization, and support our mission. We are thrilled to have them aboard and excited for the coming new year.  We’ll share more information about our new board in an upcoming newsletter.

Congratulations to all our 2024- Slow Food East End Board Members 

Maria McBride – Chair

Sunita Narma – Vice Chair

Becky Chidester

Alyson D’Anna

Marissa Drago

Stacey Isaacs

Gabriella Macari 

Claudine Nayan

Ralph Reinertsen

Nicole Sinning

Susan Wachter, guest leader, nonvoting board member

Our annual meeting is also the night we kick off our Feed the Forks Virtual Auction it is now live and ends November 12th at 9 pm EST. Start bidding now! There are 85 great items to bid on from cooking lessons to great East End activities on both the North and South forks. Auction items make great holiday gifts, feel free to share the link with friends! The proceeds from the auction will fund SFEE  initiatives including Flour Power, School Gardens, Snail of Approvals, and Resilience Grants. 

We are grateful to everyone who comes out to learn more about Slow Food East End. Your support allows us to help local farmers & food producers who support a healthy environment, good soils, and clean waters for all. 

We hope you’ll join us for many events we’re planning in the new year, meanwhile, enjoy these photos from our 2023 Annual Meeting.

SFEE 2023 Auction is NOW LIVE!

Slow Food East End 2023 Auction is LIVE – BID NOW! 

Happy November! Our annual virtual auction to raise money to support Feed the Forks initiatives is now live!

If you believe in the work we do all year long, we appreciate your help. You’ll find an array of amazing experiences, gifts, and more to bid upon. Every dollar we raise goes to support our programming. We are an all-volunteer organization and count on the support of our community to help us continue supporting programs like Edible School Gardens, Flour Power and so much more.

We are so grateful to our generous donors on the East End and to all the bidders who engage with the auction this week. To register and view the auction just use the link below or get started with a simple text from your phone. Text “sfee2023auction” to 76278.

 

The Auction will END Sunday, November 12 at 9PM! 

November 5: Slow Food East End’s Annual Public Board Meeting

Join us for Slow Food East End’s Annual Public Board Meeting

(It’s free and it’s fun!) 

Sunday, November 5, 3:00 – 5:00pm 

at Veteran’s Park Community Center

11280 Peconic Bay Blvd in Mattituck

Slow Food East End’s Annual Public Board Meeting is next on our community agenda. We hope you’ll join for us to for a casual afternoon potluck — Slow Food style!

Everyone is welcome to slow the forks down with us as we share news about our year and elect new members to our board.

Come to taste & share: We will provide Long Island Wine County Wines to pour. Our Board members are already planning the tastings we will bring from our kitchens for nibbling. Our hope is that you’ll also bring a homemade taste to share, ideally made from your favorite locally sourced provisions. But this is not a deal-breaker; even if you don’t cook, please come!

At our open house, we will be showcasing the ways in which we are nourishing our community through our various SFEE programs. This is a great opportunity to learn/share more about our ongoing Feed the Forks initiatives, including…

Flour Power – our home-based community baking program, where YOU can provide freshly baked bread to local food pantries.

Edible School Gardens – for more than 10 years, SFEE has supported one of the most successful school garden programs in the U.S. reconnecting children and their families with real food, and inspiring their local communities to eat well.

Snail of Approval – This award is given to businesses that incorporate the Slow Food ideals of championing virtues of local sources that are good, clean & fair for all. It brings recognition to amazing food businesses that are excelling in sourcing, environmental impact, cultural connection, community involvement, staff support, and/or business values.

We’ve had a busy year and are looking forward to a productive, informative and social 2024.

All welcome; bring a friend.