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FLOUR POWER is expanding to include CAST North Fork in Southold

We are so excited to announce that FLOUR POWER is expanding to include CAST North Fork in Southold

Become A Member of This Amazing Baking Community
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 been providing to the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead. We are so excited to be growing and adding CAST North Fork as a second food pantry for our bread program. 
 
How It All Started
Our chair, Pennie Schwartz, wanted to include more of the community in our work: the result was our Feed the Forks initiative, Flour Power – It’s the yeast we can do (yes we like our puns here at SFEE)
 
 
“Nothing smells and tastes like love quite like a home-baked bread,” says Pennie, “and it’s a great way to actively involve our members to create the smell, feel, and taste of bread, which nourishes the body and soul.”
 
How Does Flour Power Work?
Anyone can register to bake. Simply sign up and Slow Food East End will send you the recipe designed for 4 loaves; each baker keeps one loaf and donates three. Baking dates and all of the necessary details are listed on the Slow Food East End website and you will receive reminders for each baking cycle via email. There will be a designated drop-off point at the CAST building in Southold (when you register you will receive detailed instructions for the drop-off procedure). 
 
We hope you’ll sign up and participate in as many baking cycles as you can. We understand how busy everyone is and all we ask is to bake when you can, so please don’t let that stop you from signing up. 
 
Sign up here… we need you!
We are coming together to bake delicious and nutritious loaves for those who are in need. We invite you to join us and bake bread with us.
 
This program can only continue with the helping hands of our community. Why not give it a try? Also, if you have friends or contacts that might be interested please forward this information to them. Imagine a network of people showing care and connection through food. That is truly Slow Food!!

Giving Tuesday 2022

We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving the “slow” way. Celebrating the holidays with a thoughtfully prepared meal made with products from your local farmers/food producers and enjoying it around a table filled with loved ones over laughter and lively conversation.

During this giving season, our goal is to raise critical funds to continue and expand our Feed the Forks initiatives around “Good, Clean, and Fair Food” for all on the East End. This Giving Tuesday we invite you to make a tax-deductible contribution to Slow Food East End to help support our active programs including Flour Power, School Gardens, Snail of Approval, and Resilience Grants.

Thanks to the help of generous donors and sponsors like YOU, Slow Food East End is able to help local food farmers, producers, and food pantries struggling due to the pandemic.

SFEE is an entirely volunteer-run nonprofit organization and all contributions are tax-deductible through our affiliation with Slow Food USA, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, tax-exempt organization.

We are grateful for your continued support to keep growing our impact!

 

Thank You to Our Donors for Feed the Forks Silent Auction 2022

Thank you to everyone who placed a big, helped spread the word, and all the ways in which everyone gave their support. We are grateful for the amazing community response and together we raised almost $17,000 via our online auction! The money raised through this auction is instrumental in helping carry our work forward into the coming years.

We are Slow Food and we are so grateful to all the generous donors, listed below, who made our annual Feed the Forks auction possible! Slow Food East End is also grateful to have the support of a highly motivated community. With your help, we raised funds to do more good work on the East End in 2023. Slow Food East End works to develop programming partnerships with like-minded organizations to create a more robust food web that is environmentally sustainable, preserves cultural traditions, and celebrates the joys and justice around food that is produced to be good, clean, and fair for all.

Al Goldberg
Cookie & Mike Slade
Randi D Schneider, physcotherapy

Photos from our Annual Meeting at Brick Cove Marina

Thank you to everyone who came to Annual Meeting and Open House at Brick Cove Marina! We were so glad to see you and spend a beautiful day chatting, meeting new faces, and eating all the goodies with the SFEE community

Thank you to our friends at the Brick Cove Marina for hosting us at their beautiful location! A big thank you to Balo’s Food Truck and Peeko Oysters for providing us with delicious seafood, and Gluten Free Groove Bakery for giving us their sweet treats! We would also like to thank Long Island Wines and North Fork Brewing Co for keeping us refreshed throughout the event, and DJ Henry for keeping us moving and grooving!

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 the Annual Meeting. 

Don’t forget our Feed the Forks Silent Auction is now live and runs through November 13th at 9 pm EST. Start bidding now! The proceeds from the auction will fund our initiatives including Flour Power, School Gardens, Snail of Approvals, and Resilience Grants. 

Feed the Forks Silent Auction 2022

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!

 

Photos from our Sour Power Fermentation Festival at Jamesport Farmstead

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!