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SAVE THE DATE for Slow Food East End’s Earth Day Celebration 2024

Sunday, April 21, 2024

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

St. Joseph Villa – 81 Lynn Ave, Hampton Bays, NY 11946

Join us for an afternoon of fun education for the whole family, it’s free to attend!

 

Gather with Slow Food East End to meet educators, farmers, growers, vendors, artists, and eco-activists and celebrate Mother Nature and all who work to keep her healthy and growing! Enjoy a family-friendly, interactive day with demos, information, and seed sharing. Merchandise will be for sale and there will be great local flavors and wine tastings too!
 

The Villa is located on the shoreline of Shinnecock Bay at 81 Lynn Avenue in Hampton Bays. The Sisters of St. Joseph have made the Villa home to the Ecological Culture Initiative, a Snail of Approval 2023 winner. ECI is the organization that manages the site’s Good Ground Heritage Garden, Community Compost Program, and the Good Ground Seed Library. The Villa is also home to the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, a women-led kelp hatchery and farm.

SFEE is proud to recognize the accomplishments of our local growers and environmentally aware activists. Slow Food East End is the local chapter of an international organization involving millions of people in over 160 countries. Come meet their board members and hear more about what SFEE is doing locally and how you can be involved!

Do you have time to volunteer on the day of our event? We could use some extra hands! Our email is slowfoodeastend@gmail.com

SFEE 2023 Auction is NOW LIVE!

Slow Food East End 2023 Auction is LIVE – BID NOW! 

Happy November! Our annual virtual auction to raise money to support Feed the Forks initiatives is now live!

If you believe in the work we do all year long, we appreciate your help. You’ll find an array of amazing experiences, gifts, and more to bid upon. Every dollar we raise goes to support our programming. We are an all-volunteer organization and count on the support of our community to help us continue supporting programs like Edible School Gardens, Flour Power and so much more.

We are so grateful to our generous donors on the East End and to all the bidders who engage with the auction this week. To register and view the auction just use the link below or get started with a simple text from your phone. Text “sfee2023auction” to 76278.

 

The Auction will END Sunday, November 12 at 9PM! 

November 5: Slow Food East End’s Annual Public Board Meeting

Join us for Slow Food East End’s Annual Public Board Meeting

(It’s free and it’s fun!) 

Sunday, November 5, 3:00 – 5:00pm 

at Veteran’s Park Community Center

11280 Peconic Bay Blvd in Mattituck

Slow Food East End’s Annual Public Board Meeting is next on our community agenda. We hope you’ll join for us to for a casual afternoon potluck — Slow Food style!

Everyone is welcome to slow the forks down with us as we share news about our year and elect new members to our board.

Come to taste & share: We will provide Long Island Wine County Wines to pour. Our Board members are already planning the tastings we will bring from our kitchens for nibbling. Our hope is that you’ll also bring a homemade taste to share, ideally made from your favorite locally sourced provisions. But this is not a deal-breaker; even if you don’t cook, please come!

At our open house, we will be showcasing the ways in which we are nourishing our community through our various SFEE programs. This is a great opportunity to learn/share more about our ongoing Feed the Forks initiatives, including…

Flour Power – our home-based community baking program, where YOU can provide freshly baked bread to local food pantries.

Edible School Gardens – for more than 10 years, SFEE has supported one of the most successful school garden programs in the U.S. reconnecting children and their families with real food, and inspiring their local communities to eat well.

Snail of Approval – This award is given to businesses that incorporate the Slow Food ideals of championing virtues of local sources that are good, clean & fair for all. It brings recognition to amazing food businesses that are excelling in sourcing, environmental impact, cultural connection, community involvement, staff support, and/or business values.

We’ve had a busy year and are looking forward to a productive, informative and social 2024.

All welcome; bring a friend.  

November 9: Flour Power Baker’s Workshop at CAST

Learn all about Flour Power and how you can feed our community… and no, you do not have to be an experienced baker! Come to our bread demo at CAST… it’s educational and, it’s always fun.

Thursday, November 9, 5:00 – 7:00pm 

at CAST North Fork

53930 Main Road, Southold, NY11971

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 provided over a 1000+ loaves to 4 food pantries our local the East End area.

Please join us for our workshop demo at CAST! Some of you may already be bakers, and some of you are still waiting for the perfect time to start baking… whichever category you fall into we invite you to come to this event!

Come meet the Slow Food team and learn more about the recipe we specifically created for this program, sample some bread and find out how you can be a volunteer to help provide freshly baked bread for families in need.

These bread demo events are our favorite type of events because we get to meet you, talk to you, and teach you about our bread recipe that we are so passionate about. We’ll go through everything, step by step, you’ll learn all of our tips and tricks, and by the end of the evening, you will completely understand why we do what we do. We will have loaf pans on hand for anyone who signs up to bake but needs pans. We will email you an instructional video that you can easily bake along with.

Some of our experienced bakers will be on hand to chat with you, answer questions, and share everything they know. It’s important to let you know, that while we do bake every two weeks, we will never ask you for a commitment. Just sign up and you’ll receive all of our info, the recipe, and the video. You bake when you can.

Hunger is such a huge problem here on the east end and our community is so happy with these home-baked loaves and we are so happy to have them whenever you can bake.

The event is FREE to attend, limited seating. Please RSVP for help with planning purposes.

This event is a Slow Food East End and CAST Collaboration.

Did you know, we have a Flour Page on Facebook? It’s a great way for our FP community to stay connected. We invite you all to join, share baking tips and post pics!

Ongoing: Bake Along with Flour Power

Whether you’re a seasoned baker or new to bread, we invite you to join our effort to help feed our community delicious and nutritious food through our Flower Power initiative.

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. Each cycle of Flour Power provides loaves baked by the community to pantries like the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead and CAST North Fork in Southold. Baking cycles take place every 2 weeks.

Anyone can register to bake. Simply sign up and we will send you the recipe that is for 4 loaves; each baker keeps one loaf and donates three. 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.