Slow Down on the South Fork for Summer Solstice at Share the Harvest Farm!
Date: Friday, June 20
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
Place: Share the Harvest Farm – 55 Long Lane, East Hampton
Join us at sweet and mighty Share the Harvest Farm at 55 Long Lane, East Hampton on June 20 (rain date June 21) 5:30pm- 7:30pm, to meet our friends whose mission is to fight hunger with fresh, local produce. Come for a farm tour, get to know the farm team to learn more about their mission and growing practices and stay for fun, a beautiful sun set and great eats – enjoy the farm’s fresh produce with tastings by Boards by Jess and Aki’s Kitchen, freshly shucked oysters from Oysterponds Shellfish Company, wines by Channing Daughters and live music with Amber Roe. Your ticket purchase will support Share the Harvest’s efforts at a time when federal funding cuts are impacting social services and farms that support them.
Share the Harvest Farm earned a Snail of Approval for their amazing work. This non-profit farming organization grows and donates thousands of pounds of fresh, highly nutritious vegetables and herbs, serving numerous local organizations that feed hundreds of children, seniors, disabled people, and low-income working families in our community.
Share the Harvest started on a half acre in 2010, and now farms six acres at EECO Farm in East Hampton. Founded on the belief that everyone should have access to fresh, nutritious food, their mission is to grow highly nutritious and organic produce for donation to local food pantries and other charitable organizations, to increase food access for all in need, and to raise awareness about food insecurity on the East End. Fundamentally, the farm’s viewpoint is to give not what is left over or inferior in quality, but that which all would want to put on their own tables.
Organizations Share the Harvest’s services include:
– South Fork food pantries
– Affordable housing complexes
– The Retreat, women’s domestic violence shelter
– East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Nutrition Center
– Heart of the Hamptons
– Children’s Museum of the East End (CMEE)
Share the Harvest employs organic methods to encourage a diverse and thriving soil ecosystem that provides a healthy environment for the crops. A focus on nutrient-rich vegetables and cold-tolerant staple crops provides much-needed produce in early spring and late fall, when many families in our community are struggling to make ends meet. Past generous donations allowed STH to build greenhouses that extend their growing season to allow the farm to continue delivering produce all year-round.
