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Feed the Forks Silent Auction 2022

Nov 6, 2022 | Past Events

We were so excited to kick off our Feed the Forks Silent Auction at the annual meeting! Our virtual auction is now live and runs through Sunday, November 13th at 9:00 pm EST. The proceeds from the auction will fund our Feed the Forks initiatives, including Flour Power, School Gardens, Snail of Approvals, and Resilience Grants.

The auction is filled with amazing local items including a Quail Hill Farm CSA, Custom Treasure Map by Greenie Supply, America’s Test Kitchen Goodie Bag, Private Cooking Lesson with Chef Peter Berley at his Jamesport Kitchen and Garden, Family Portrait Session with Caroline Rochetta, Custom House Drawing by Katelyn Beebe, a Custom Fishing Rod and so much more!

 

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November 6: SFEE Annual Meeting & Open House

Oct 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Our annual meeting & open house is coming up and everyone is invited! Each year we at Slow Food East End hold an open meeting to welcome new faces and introduce new board members to our community.

If you have been wanting to get involved and learn more about what our chapter does, this is the perfect opportunity to gather with the SFEE community and share what we’ve been up to this past year and our plans for the future.

In addition, it is also when we host our annual board member elections – come meet our nominees and cast your vote! Our ALL VOLUNTEER board members – new and returning – come with a passion for supporting local food on the East End and we can’t wait for you to meet them!

This event is also an open house and we will be showcasing the ways in which we are nourishing our community through our various SFEE programs. It’ll be a great opportunity to learn/share more about our ongoing Feed the Forks initiatives, including:

  • Flour Power – Our home-based community baking program. This is an amazing way to lend your hands and love to the community by baking loaves and providing them for others in need. 
  • School Gardens – for the past 10 years, SFEE has supported one of the most successful Slow Food 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 – an SoA is awarded to businesses that incorporate the Slow Food ideals of Good, Clean & Fair food. This award brings recognition to amazing food businesses that are excelling in sourcing, environmental impact, cultural connection, community involvement, staff support, and/or business values.
  • Resilience Grants – SFEE efforts to support the long-term success of the food growers and makers on the East End of Long Island during extremely challenging times.

This event is FREE to attend, bring your family and friends. RSVP below to help with planning purposes

Sunday, November 6th, from 1:00-4:00 PM at the beautiful Brick Cove Marina – 1760 Sage Blvd, Southhold, NY 11971.

RSVP HERE!

Photos from our Sour Power Fermentation Festival at Jamesport Farmstead

Oct 23, 2022 | Blog, Past Events

Thank you to everyone who came to our inaugural Sour Power Harvest Festival at Jamesport Farmstead! We were so glad to see you and spend a beautiful fall day making sauerkraut, listening to music, eating BBQ, and soaking up the new harvest.

Thank you to our friends at the Jamesport Farmstead for hosting us and for an informative farm tour! A big thank you to Maple Tree BBQ for catering the event with a hearty lunch, Macari Vineyards for pouring a selection of their wines, North Fork Brewing Company for serving their homegrown hops beer, Gluten Free Groove filling our sweet tooth with baked goods, Sweet Woodland Farm with farm herb goodies! Also, to our wonderful musicians Maria Fairchild and Adam Becherer for playing live music from bygone times.

A very special shout out to Chef Peter Burley, for teaching us his DELICIOUS sauerkraut recipe with traditional tools, truly a fermentation expert!

We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! 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 our next event, in the meantime, enjoy these photos from Sour Power!

October 22: Sour Power A Fermentation Celebration at Jamesport Farmstead

Oct 12, 2022 | Past Events

Come celebrate October and the harvest season with Slow Food East End at Jamesport Farmstead for an afternoon of BBQ, live music, a farm tour, sauerkraut making, and much more!

Meet the farmers, enjoy a farm tour and hear more about their no-till, no-pesticide, no-herbicide practices and learn how you too can honor your home gardens with their techniques. 

Enjoy a hearty lunch catered by Maple Tree BBQ, the East End’s go-to favorite for authentic wood-fired smoked BBQ. The menu includes Smoked Bratwursts on Buns, Sauer Krat, Corn on the Cob, Potato Salad, Carrot Ginger Soup, Lemonade, and Apple Cider. 

Macari Vineyard will be pouring a selection of their wines farmed on family-owned land that has been farming without herbicides using homemade compost and biodynamic principles which give their terroir a delicious edge. Or opt for North Fork Brewing Company, a farm-based brewery that grows its own hops and uses local produce to flavor its beers which will also be available for purchase. 

In the barn will be local Chef Peter Berley, a James Beard award-winning author and fermentation expert who will show us how to enjoy the fall harvest by making his DELICIOUS sauerkraut recipe using old fashion tools. Bring your fermentation and culinary questions for Chef Peter to answer and take a turn helping us process the kraut which will be fermented in a Macari wine barrel.

Live Music: Popular Long Island musicians, Maria Fairchild and Adam Becherer play music from bygone times when life moved at a slower pace and entertainment was homegrown. Enjoy traditional tunes from rural America and Ireland with fiddle, banjo, guitar, and mandolin. 

In addition, Sweet Woodland Farms will be on site offering some of their local harvest for sale!

Saturday, October 22, 2:00 – 5:00pm (Rain date Sunday, October 23) at Jamesport Farmstead, 1146 Main Road, Jamesport (corner of Tuthills Lane)

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Jamesport Farmstead Awarded Snail of Approval

Sep 30, 2022 | Blog, Snail of Approval

Slow Food East End is pleased to announce that Jamesport Farmstead has been awarded the chapter’s prestigious Snail of Approval. Last month members of our SFEE team visited the farm in Jamesport, NY to present and raise a celebratory glass to mark the achievement.
 
Snail of Approval (SoA) is awarded to businesses that incorporate the Slow Food ideals of Good, Clean & Fair food. This powerful award helps bring attention to amazing food businesses that are excelling in two or more of these areas: sourcing, environmental impact, cultural connection, community involvement, staff support, and/or business values.
 
The mission cited on the website of Jamesport Farmstead speaks eloquently for the passion and vision which drives their business and operations. Taken from Carl Sagan “There are no useless threads in the fabric of the ecosystem and if we cut any one of them it will unravel many others”. Started in 2019, they are a NOFA-certified organic farm located in Jamesport made up of 50 acres with 10 acres under cultivation. They are a no-till farm intensively managed without the use of any “cides” or fertilizers. 100% of everything they sell (produce, flowers, berries, and herbs) is grown by them.
 
They operate a farm stand on Saturdays and 2 CSAs. One is traditional, the other is a choice CSA which operates like a bank account where people deposit the CSA fee in an account and use it to pay for items they select. A novel approach that now is chosen by half of their CSA participants.
 
Visit our Snail of Approval page for more information on local restaurants, farms, and food producers who meet these standards and have previously been awarded our coveted Snail of Approval.