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Photos from our Walk and Wine at Landcraft Garden Foundation

Sep 27, 2022 | Past Events

Thank you to everyone who came to our Walk and Wine at the Landcraft Garden Foundation! We were so glad to see you and spend an evening sipping local wines and strolling through their imaginative gardens. 

Thank you to our friends at the Landcraft Garden Foundation for hosting us in their beautiful space and gardens that are a must-visit in every season! Also, a big thank you to our wine sponsors Rose Hill and Croteaux Vineyards for the delicious wines for everyone to enjoy during their garden stroll.

We also want to say thank you to our partners, Deep Roots, Jamesport Farmstead, Jamesport Sour Dough, Sang Lee, and Wickham Fruit Farm, for providing us with all the fresh, seasonal, and local produce. A very special shout out to chef Devin Kaye Sullivan for turning all of them into a menu filled with delicious nibbles. 

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 our Walk & Wine. 

 

Sour Power – A Fermentation Celebration

Sep 20, 2022 | Uncategorized

October 22, 2022, will be the inaugural launch of Sour Power! 

Fall harvest season is upon us, the days are getting shorter, the nights are a bit cooler and while East End farmers have been busy planting and reaping fertile fields, Slow Food East End has been planning a fall festival.  

Sour Power will bring our community together to celebrate fermentation, a truly slow food process that connects soil, seeds farmers, and foodies. Fermentation traditions are ancient, rooted in the culinary traditions of many cultures.  Sour Power will be a multi-faceted initiative that will educate our community about the history of fermentation, and the farming of cabbage.  

Slow Food board member, Chef and James Beard award-winning author, Peter Berley, has long been on the forefront of chefs extolling the health benefits of fermentation.   Sour Power will be an opportunity to learn more about the traditions and techniques of fermentation.  

Our Sour Power celebration this year will be a collaboration with Jamesport Farmstead. A no-till organic farm on the North Fork that was recently awarded Slow Food East End Snail of Approval award for its farming practices. The Farmstead has planted rows of cabbage for Slow Food that will be harvested mid-October for our event.  

For about  200 years cabbage has been commercially grown on Long Island. 

The mighty cabbage is a versatile vegetable that has long been fermented into Sauerkraut. Save the date of October 22 to join SFEE, Chef Peter Berley and the Jamesport Farmstead farmers for a lively and educational hands-on experience of shredding and making Sauerkraut with traditional tools.   

Follow our blog as we share photos and stories documenting the season’s planting.  We hope to see you on October 22nd at the Jamesport Farmstead Main Road farm stand for a festive fall celebration toasting our farming community, and sharing culinary traditions and recipes for local produce that are known to enrich our diets.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLICK THROUGH THE PAGES TO SEE THE PROGRESS OF OUR CABBAGES!

We start all our vegetable seeds with soil blocks. The cabbage seed is placed right in the dibble and then we cover them lightly in peat and water them.

Here are the same soil blocks once we cover them in peat and lightly water. We then place them outside to germinate because our high temperature tunnels are getting too hot this time of year and will cause them to dry out or not germinate at all.

Here are some red cabbage (Tete Noire Cabbage) seedlings just starting to make an appearance, this is about 7-10 days after planting.

Here is the green cabbage (Cour Di Bue) seedlings just started to show their cotyledon leaves after germinating for 7-10 days.

Cour Di Bue, green cabbage about 2.5 weeks after planting, you can see their true leaves!

Tete Noire, red cabbage about 2.5 weeks.

Here’s the Coir de Bue cabbage about 3 weeks after being seeded in soil blocks, just a couple weeks away from being transplanted.

We push aside the straw just enough to get the cabbage start into soil, the goal is to always keep out soil covered and protected.

The beds that the cabbage are planted in were originally garlic. Here’s a picture of the crew clearing of the straw in April. Once the garlic was harvested in July, we weeded the beds to get them ready for more veggies which includes the 2 beds of cabbage.

We run a tape measure down the center of the beds so we can quickly place out each cabbage seedling 1.5 feet from each other and then we do the same on the other side of the bed, staggering them so the plants have plenty of room to fill out.

Here’s the crew planting each seedling, one person leads by placing the plants every 1.5 fee while the rest follow and plant them in the ground.

These seedlings get planted at about 4-5 weeks old.

Here’s the Cour de bue about 2 weeks after it was planted!

All our brassicas (kale, collards, cabbage, broccoli, etc) get covered with row cover or mesh to protect them from flea beetles! We also do this for our arugula.

Here’s the cabbage, nice and protected about 2 weeks after planting.

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Photos from the North Fork Foodie Tour

Sep 19, 2022 | Past Events

Thank you to everyone who came out to visit our Slow Food East End table at Charnews Farm in Southhold! We were so glad to see you and tell you what we’ve been up to. Also, a warm welcome to those who signed up to become a member at the table! Don’t forget you still have a few days to sign up before September ends to get a new t-shirt and be entered into a raffle for a case of local wines! 

Thank you to our friends at the North Fork Foodie Tour for hosting us in their super fun event! 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 our table and new members!

 

Photos from our Slow Hour at RGNY

Sep 19, 2022 | Past Events, Slow Hour

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate a beautiful September evening with us at RGNY Wines. Our Slow Hour events are a time to slow down and enjoy each other’s company. It’s always a great opportunity to bring a friend and come on by to meet the Slow Food community, and chat with our volunteer board to learn more about Slow Food on the East End of Long Island. Plus, you get to support local businesses and enjoy a beautiful view!

Thank you to our friends at RGNY for hosting us in their beautiful space, and for the delicious wine.

We are grateful to everyone who attends our events. 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 Slow Hour, in the meantime, enjoy these photos from the event. Cheers!

 

September Membership Drive!

Sep 10, 2022 | Past Events

Every September we work to get our current members to renew and attract new members to the cause of Slow Food: good, clean, and fair food for all. As you may have heard, we are very proud that our chapter, Slow Food East End, is the most active in the country. Continuing to grow our membership is important for bringing a full spectrum of lived experiences together so that we can truly and equitably rebuild the table.

As a chapter of Slow Food USA, we are part of a driving force for change at the local, national, and international levels. Our very active and committed membership makes this change possible and continually helps us support our community transitioning out of the pandemic. We can only rebuild this table together. We need more people to join our movement to unite the joy of food with the pursuit of justice. Please consider becoming a member today.

Here’s what we accomplished this past year with the support of our members: 

  • Developed an Agricultural Outreach program and donated over $15,000 to farms, restaurants, fishers, and producers struggling with the effects of the pandemic on their business. 
  • Initiated Flour Power to enlist members of the community to provide home-baked bread to local food pantries.
  • Worked with the Butterfly Effect Project in Riverhead to establish a Community Garden which joins the 30 school gardens on the North and South Forks.

Won’t you join us as we do bigger and better things in the next year?

As a thank you bonus to our new and renewing members if you renew or sign up during our annual membership drive in the month of September, you’ll be gifted with a Slow Food East End T-shirt (as pictured below!!) AND you’ll also be entered into a raffle with the chance to win a basket case of local wines! 

Be sure to select East End as your chapter when you sign up!

BECOME A MEMBER TODAY!