“A Moveable Feast”
Silent Auction

GROWING HEALTHY KIDS, ONE GARDEN AT A TIME

It began back in 2011, when Slow Food East End joined with the Joshua Levine Memorial Foundation to host a fundraiser to honor the legacy of young farmer Josh Levine. Since then we have hosted an annual Spring event to raise money to help support Edible School Gardens. These gardens have brought joy and learning opportunities to thousands of children across the East End. But school gardens don’t just grow vegetables. School gardens grow healthy kids, one garden at a time! Now garden-grown vegetables are beginning to be served in school cafeterias, wellness and healthy eating are being taught in our schools, and chefs are coming into the classroom to teach cooking – all because of the support of the wonderful food community here on the East End and supporters like you.

Now is your opportunity to help us sustain and grow more than 25 local school gardens across the East End. We are seeking donors for the Silent Auction at our annual spring fundraiser, A Moveable Feast.

How Will You Help? Make a donation to our Silent Auction.

We’re looking for items or experiences such as restaurant gift certificates, wine club memberships, B&B or hotel lodging, CSA or other types of memberships, tours, unique experiences, private dinners, gift baskets, and cooking classes. All proceeds will go to support school gardens.

Your support of A Moveable Feast will help fund

• Stipends for 3 Master Farmers who provide technical expertise, advice and inspiration to school gardens.
• Cash mini-grants to individual school gardens for such items as raised beds, garden tools, rain barrels, seeds, bird feeders, pollinator plants, wheel barrows, or deer fencing.
• Slow Food’s Chefs to School program that brings local chefs into the classroom to demonstrate how nutritious meals, cooked with fresh ingredients, can be tasty and fun!
• Learning experiences about healthy eating, hard work, working together and helping others (some of the vegetables grown are donated to local food pantries).
• Awareness of the importance of wellness, health and good nutrition.
• Partnership with Head Start in areas where food insecurity is faced by many children and their families.
• Efforts to incorporate fresh garden-grown produce into cafeteria school lunches.

For more information contact: silentauction@slowfoodeastend.org