April 22: THIS SATURDAY SFEE Earth Day Celebration 2023

Although every day is Earth Day for a farmer, grower, fisher, and vintner, we invite all to join us this weekend to celebrate our local aqua and agriculture leaders who insure we have healthy options for our diest as well as local organizations and businesses who strive to inform and tackle challenges of ecologic conservation by example all year long.

 

Slow Food East End supports healthy farming and business practices. If you do too, you’ll enjoy sharing Earth Day with us: Come to learn, taste, sip, and shop. Meet farmers, winemakers, food producers, environmental experts, eco-activists, artists, and artisans. Food, beverages, and wine will be available for sale.

 

1:45pm: Welcome by Pennie Schwartz, President of Slow Food East End

 

2:00pm: Snail of Approval 2023 Awards by Robin Tyson-Stoehr, SFEE board

 

2:15pm: Ecological Culture Initiative, An all-volunteer community garden at St. Joseph Villa harvests all their produce for a Hampton Bays food pantry and has established a robust compost program. Learn from Joe Lamport, Zero Waste Director, how you too can create great compost for your home or community.

 

2:30pm: Slow Food presents Flour Power It’s the yeast we can do! Home bakers are supporting local food pantries on the East End, learn how easy it is!.

 

2:45pm: Shinnecock Kelp Farmers – A group of indigenous women operate the kelp farm on the shores of St. Joseph Villa, learn about the kelp farming history of Shinnecock Nation and the importance of kelp for healthy waterways and aquaculture.

 

3:00pm: Peconic Land Trust — 2023 marks 40 years of this organization doing great work protecting thousands of agricultural acres on the east end for farming and naturalized lands from development. Learn key points of history and local accomplishments of this visionary program which has helped revitalize and preserve our farming culture on the East End.

 

3:15pm: Cornell Cooperative Extension -Fisheries Dept. Discover why a local F.I.S.H. (Fresh, Indigenous, Sustainable, Healthy) diet is the way to best way to support local fishing and about the many options available when choosing local fish for your menus.

 

3:30pm: Relic, Meet the brothers behind a local clothing design company that works to support cleaner beaches and waterways by using proceeds to reseed oysters to our bays. Hear about their Coastal Collaborative Program, a fabulous beach clean-up project imagined and built by Relic Design.

 

Long Island boasts over 60 distinct wine producers and 3500 acres of cultivated grape vines between the maritime regions of North Fork, South Fork, and western Suffolk County, which produce about 500,000 cases of wine annually.

 

Long Island is leading the charge in sustainability, defining the future of wine regions. With cutting-edge vineyard practices and innovative winemaking techniques, Long Island is at the forefront of environmentally responsible winemaking. Almost 50 years after commercially grown grapes were planted in the East End, Long Island is proud to be the first wine region on the East Coast to have a certified sustainable viticulture program in place.