FLOUR POWER

We Invite You to Join Slow Food East End’s
Community Powered Baking Co-Operative

Flour Power Needs You!

Flour Power is a way members of the community can provide home-baked loaves of bread to local food pantries. The goal is to nourish and bring joy to people through a personal touch. Since our launch in 2021, we have been providing to the North Fork Apostolate in Riverhead, CAST North Fork, in Southold, Heart of the Hamptons in Southampton, and Springs Food Pantry in East Hampton.

How it all Started

Slow Food East End started 2021 with an ambitious agenda. Confident that our school gardens project was up and running — there are now more than 30 (!) on the East End — we contemplated what to accomplish next in the new world of a pandemic.

Last year we were able to give grants to food producers affected by the pandemic. Read about our partners in that effort. We also donated to food pantries from Riverhead to Greenport and Montauk.

In 2021 our former 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. Baking cycles take place every 2 weeks.
Simply sign up and we will send you the recipe that we have created for this program that is for 4 loaves; each baker keeps 1 loaf and donates 3. There are designated drop-off points on the North and South Forks (when you register you will receive dates and locations for drop-off.) Please keep in mind that our locations are expanding as we grow.

I’d Like to Help But I’m Not a Baker

David Chaffin, ex-board member and an experienced baker most recently from Amy’s Bread, a renowned bakery in NYC has worked hard to develop a simple, healthy recipe that everyone can bake, regardless of experience, and his short video below demonstrates each phase of the bread-making process — And it’s fun!!

As part of the Flour Power community, you’re not alone, we would love to connect you with a baking buddy, who you can call and ask questions. We invite you to also join our Facebook Page where you can connect with other bakers in the community.

WATCH BAKING DEMO HERE