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April 21: Join us for Slow Food East End’s Earth Day Celebration

Apr 14, 2024 | Events, In The News

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!

 

SFEE is grateful to host Earth Day at Saint Joseph Villa. For over 150 years the Sisters of Saint Joseph have served the people of Long Island. The Villa, located along the shore of the Shinnecock Bay is a place where their ministry thrives.

Focused on the empowerment of women and education rooted in ecological efforts with a focus on sustainability, and justice actions the Sisters recognize our community of life includes all of creation – air, soil, water, plants, and animals.

The Villa now is home to the Ecological Culture Initiative fostering a resilient, ecology-based coastal community through advocacy and education in sustainable food production, wellness, and environmental stewardship. Their garden is farmed by community volunteers and all produce is donated to a local Hampton Bays food pantry. The Villa is also one of SFEE’s drop-off sites for our Flour Power initiative.

The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, a multi-generation collective of Indigenous women who are enrolled members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, leveraging their 10,000+-year-old traditional relationship with the sea and with seaweed to capture carbon and nitrogen that have poisoned the waters of Shinnecock Bay and beyond. All while laying the groundwork for green jobs on the East End. The Kelp farmers also call the Villa home.

The East End is home to a passionate community of growers, fishers, winemakers, eco-activists, chefs, food processors, educators, artisans, publishers, and artists. Slow Food East End is honored to welcome such a distinguished mix of local vendors to celebrate Earth Day with us. Join us for an afternoon to meet, learn, and shop from these amazing people.

 

  • 1760 Homestead Farm
  • A Book Place
  • Aki’s Kitchen
  • Al Goldberg Custom Rods
  • Blooming Curiosity
  • By Way of the Farm Candle Company
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County
  • East End Food
  • Eastport General Store
  • Ecological Culture Initiative
  • Food Rescue US – North Fork NY
  • FoodLab at Stony Brook University
  • Golden Acres Organic Farm
  • Grace and Grit
  • Green Door Woodworks
  • Harvest & Bloom
  • Herricks Herbs & Heirlooms
  • Long Island Wine Country
  • Marshall Gardens & Design
  • Mattituck Mushrooms 
  • Milla’s Puffs
  • Niamuck Land Trust
  • NOFO Style
  • North Fork Flower Farm
  • Peconic Gold Oysters
  • Peconic Land Trust
  • Promise Land Apiaries
  • Really Good Fruit Spreads
  • Relic
  • ReWild Long Island
  • Robyn’s Kitchen
  • Share The Harvest Farm
  • Shinnecock Kelp Farmers
  • Sisters of St. Joseph
  • Soul Creations
  • Southampton Sustainability Committee
  • Squared Gluten Free Desserts
  • Surfrider Foundation Eastern Long Island Chapter
  • Sweet Woodland Farm
  • The Crop Project
  • The Granola Plant
REGISTER NOW FOR YOUR FREE TICKET!

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. 

April 21: Slow Food East End Earth Day Celebration

Mar 25, 2024 | Events, In The News

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!

 

REGISTER NOW FOR YOUR FREE TICKET!

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!
REGISTER NOW FOR YOUR FREE TICKET!

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

Feb 26, 2024 | Events, In The News

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

SFEE 2023 Auction is NOW LIVE!

Nov 6, 2023 | Blog, Events, In The News

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! 

Browse, Bid & Buy!

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

Oct 27, 2023 | Blog, Events, In The News

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.  

RSVP for Annual Public Board Meeting

November 9: Flour Power Baker’s Workshop at CAST

Oct 26, 2023 | Blog, Events

Learn all about Flour Power and how you can feed our community… and no, you do not have to be an experienced baker! Come to our bread demo at CAST… it’s educational and, it’s always fun.

Thursday, November 9, 5:00 – 7:00pm 

at CAST North Fork

53930 Main Road, Southold, NY11971

Flour Power is a Slow Food East End initiative and a way members of the community can provide home-baked loaves of bread to local food pantries. Our goal is to nourish and bring joy to people through a personal touch with hearty home-baked love. These loaves are incredibly appreciated by the recipients, so much so that the need for new bakers keeps growing and growing. The baking cycles take place every 2 weeks and each cycle provides loaves baked by the community.

Since our launch in 2021, we have provided over a 1000+ loaves to 4 food pantries our local the East End area.

Please join us for our workshop demo at CAST! Some of you may already be bakers, and some of you are still waiting for the perfect time to start baking… whichever category you fall into we invite you to come to this event!

Come meet the Slow Food team and learn more about the recipe we specifically created for this program, sample some bread and find out how you can be a volunteer to help provide freshly baked bread for families in need.

These bread demo events are our favorite type of events because we get to meet you, talk to you, and teach you about our bread recipe that we are so passionate about. We’ll go through everything, step by step, you’ll learn all of our tips and tricks, and by the end of the evening, you will completely understand why we do what we do. We will have loaf pans on hand for anyone who signs up to bake but needs pans. We will email you an instructional video that you can easily bake along with.

Some of our experienced bakers will be on hand to chat with you, answer questions, and share everything they know. It’s important to let you know, that while we do bake every two weeks, we will never ask you for a commitment. Just sign up and you’ll receive all of our info, the recipe, and the video. You bake when you can.

Hunger is such a huge problem here on the east end and our community is so happy with these home-baked loaves and we are so happy to have them whenever you can bake.

The event is FREE to attend, limited seating. Please RSVP for help with planning purposes.

This event is a Slow Food East End and CAST Collaboration.

RSVP for Flour Power Baker's Workshop

Did you know, we have a Flour Page on Facebook? It’s a great way for our FP community to stay connected. We invite you all to join, share baking tips and post pics!

SFEE Facebook Group for Bakers