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February 28: Flour Power Baker’s Workshop at CAST

We invite you to join Slow Food East End and CAST for an in-person Flour Power gathering.

WHAT: Slow Food East End Flour Power Baker’s Workshop

WHEN: Wednesday, February 28, 5:30 – 7:00pm

WHERE: CAST – 53930 Main Road, Southold, NY11971

WHO: Everyone who has baked or has ever been interested in learning about becoming a Flour Power baker.

WHY: Food insecurity is a huge issue in our community and our community needs loaves.

We need more bakers! We want you to share this event info with your friends and neighbors. Come chat and break bread with us (pun intended). The bread we bake is delicious and you will get to hear and sample for yourself why we created this recipe to help feed the forks.

Flour Power has been SFEE’s community initiative of inspiring home bakers to join us as we continue our work to fight food insecurity on the East End. Since our launch during the pandemic, we have grown to provide loaves to 4 local pantries, including CAST in Southold.

We are excited to share that we have made several important program updates for 2024 and are ready to Re-Launch the program after a brief winter pause.

  • We have upgraded our bread drop bins to be sturdier Igloo coolers that are more weatherproof, and secure and added enhanced drop-off procedures.
  • We will be distributing complimentary bread baking starter kits (4 metal loaf pans, some ingredients, recipe cards, bread bags…) in a canvas tote designed to make bread carrying to the drop-off locations easier.
  • Who gets a kit? Oprah said it best – you get a kit and you get a kit and yes even you get a kit. All new and existing bakers, we want to make this easy for you. If you are signed up to be a baker, whether you’ve baked before or are new to the program, you are eligible for a starter kit.
  • Speaking of easy – we are also adding group dough-making workshops where we can all “prep the recipe together” to bake, so you are more confident in your technique when you take that solo plunge. Please note the “together” in quotes. To make it even easier, you won’t leave YOUR kitchen while you are baking. More details at the workshop.
  • Not a baker yet? Join us at CAST and hear from the inspiration behind Flour Power – our very own Bread Ambassador, Pennie Schwartz, as she discusses the program’s finer points. You’ll have an opportunity to sign up at the event, take home your starter kit, and join in the baking fun! From there, you’ll choose one of 4 food pantries to donate to based on your preference or ease of drop-off. We simply want you to bake, you choose which pantry to bake for and which baking session works for you.

Come prepared to learn, to laugh, and to connect with fellow like-minded community members.

#Slowtheforksdown — #FeedtheForks

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!

You Made It Happen!

WE DID IT!

Well… you did it! Together, we raised enough money to keep funding our Feed the Forks programs that help nurture our East End communities.We are so grateful to you!

Thank you to everyone who placed a bid, helped spread the word, and all the ways in which you all gave your support. We are grateful for the amazing community response and together we raised over $15,000 via our online auction, and all of that is going directly to supporting our Feed the Forks initiatives. The money raised through this auction is instrumental in helping carry our work forward into the coming year.

Congrats to all the winning bidders, we are busy reaching out to you!

You will receive a confirmation email this week from us with details about your winnings and how to collect your items.

And a HUGE thank you to all of our donors!

We are grateful for the support of local businesses who believe in the work we do #ShopLocal

8 Hands Farm

Al Goldberg

Almond Bridgehampton

Amber Waves Farm

America’s Test Kitchen

American Beech Restaurant

Arni Paperie

Art of Eating

Bell and Anchor

Body By Carrozza

Carissa’s the Bakery

Cornell Cooperative Extension-Spat Program

Cornell Cooperative Extension- Choose Local F.I.S.H.

Channing Daughters Winery

Chris Hamilton

Chronicle Wines

Corey Creek Winery

Croteaux Vineyards

Disset Chocolate

East End Mixology

Eastern Front Brewing

Fini Pizza

Food Cycler

Fortunato Photography

Founders Tavern

Gluten Free Groove

Golden Earthworm

Graceful Space

Greenie Supply & Tackle

Greenport Harbor Brewing Co

Hampton Oyster Company

Happy Camper Candle

Harbor Pet

Isola

J & S Reeve Cottages

Jill Schroeder Personal Training

Joto Sake

Julia Stambules

Kelly Franke

Kitchen Of Youth

Laura Luciano

Little Fish

Lombardi’s Love Lane Market

Love Lane Kitchen

Macari Vineyards

Main Road Biscuit Co.

Main Roots Hair Salon/Salty Threads

Maria Plitt

Maroni Southold

Matchbook Distilling

McCall Wines

Meadowlark North Fork

Mint

Nassau Point Honey

Nicolette’s For the Home

Noah Schwartz & Noah’s

NOFO LIVE show

North Fork Flower Farm

North Fork Table & Inn

Old Field Vineyards

On the Road Food Truck

One Woman Wines & Vineyards

Palmer Vineyards

Parrish Art Museum

Peconic Bay Vineyards

Pelligrini Vineyards

Peconic Escargot

Peter Berley

Promise Land Apiaries

Relic Design

Rose Hill Vineyard

Sag Harbor Cinema

Sang Lee Farms

Sara & Brad Phillips

Silver Per Se

Sound View Greenport

Southold Fish Market

Sparkling Pointe

Stacey Isaacs

Sunita Narma

Tango Hot Sauce

That’s What She Fed

The Church Sag Harbor

The Harvest Inn

Tony Holman

Viking Fleet

Whalebone

William Ris Gallery

Wolffer Estate Vineyard

Yard Crop

 

Annual Meeting 2023 Recap

Board members not pictured above: Claudine Nayan & Becky Chidester

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Annual Public Board Meeting on November 5th. This is always one of our favorite events each year because we get to share our accomplishments and hear more directly from you about our work and initiatives.

We had the perfect day! The weather was beautiful, and the location, Veterans Park Community Center, was ideal with a gorgeous view of the Peconic Bay and the company even better. We know we are lucky to have so many friendly, talented, and caring people in our Slow Food community.

This year we celebrated with lots of delicious food, guests and board members brought potluck offerings from goat cheese toasts with local honey brought by Gabriella Macari, Al Goldberg brought his famous fish cakes from fish he recently caught near Montauk, Main Road Biscuit biscuits – were so delicious you know why the restaurant is named Biscuit! We also poured an amazing assortment of wines donated by members of the Long Island Wine Country wineries, LIWC celebrated 50 years of viniculture on Long Island this year and has been a sponsor of our events this year, a special thank you to: As If Wines, Chronicle Wines, Saltbird, Brooklyn Oenology, Lieb Cellars, Macari Vineyards, Pellegrini Vineyards, Rose Hill Winery, SuhRu Wines, Sparkling Pointe Vineyards & Wolffer Estate Vineyard.

The day was wonderful, but also bittersweet as we said goodbye to two of our amazing Board members who are at the end of their term limits: Pennie Schwartz, president, and Robin Tyson-Stoehr, secretary and so long to Peter Berley, an amazing chef who is off to new adventures, you will all be missed. But we know you will continue to be part of our community because we have become friends, we know that we will all see each other over wine and food on the forks.

Our annual meeting is also the day we vote new Board members into office, all have already participated in previous events we’ve hosted this past year, are members of our organization, and support our mission. We are thrilled to have them aboard and excited for the coming new year.  We’ll share more information about our new board in an upcoming newsletter.

Congratulations to all our 2024- Slow Food East End Board Members 

Maria McBride – Chair

Sunita Narma – Vice Chair

Becky Chidester

Alyson D’Anna

Marissa Drago

Stacey Isaacs

Gabriella Macari 

Claudine Nayan

Ralph Reinertsen

Nicole Sinning

Susan Wachter, guest leader, nonvoting board member

Our annual meeting is also the night we kick off our Feed the Forks Virtual Auction it is now live and ends November 12th at 9 pm EST. Start bidding now! There are 85 great items to bid on from cooking lessons to great East End activities on both the North and South forks. Auction items make great holiday gifts, feel free to share the link with friends! The proceeds from the auction will fund SFEE  initiatives including Flour Power, School Gardens, Snail of Approvals, and Resilience Grants. 

We are grateful to everyone who comes out to learn more about Slow Food East End. Your support allows us to help local farmers & food producers who support a healthy environment, good soils, and clean waters for all. 

We hope you’ll join us for many events we’re planning in the new year, meanwhile, enjoy these photos from our 2023 Annual Meeting.

Negroni Week Recap

The week of  September 18-24, people across our East End community enjoyed the iconic Negroni while supporting the Slow Food movement. With shared Italian roots and interest in a fair food and beverage system, Slow Food, Campari, and the Negroni are the perfect pairing.

For the past 10 years, Slow Food, Imbibe Magazine, and Campari have joined forces to increase their collective impact by using donations raised during Negroni Week to provide incubator grants for activities that support and promote good, clean, and fair food and beverage. 

Here on the East End, we were fortunate to receive a grant earlier this year to expand our Flour Power program.  This is a program that provides healthy and nutritious bread to people in need.  The additional funds from the Negroni Week grant will be a significant boost to our efforts.

Thanks to all the restaurants, bars, art museums, liquor stores, and chocolate shops across the Forks that participated.  We had fourteen venues on the East End register, and several of our participants sponsored some specials and fun events during the week.  Pictured here are a few highlights:

  • An evening with our guest leader, Nichole Sinning, enjoying the Negroni variation “Your Momma Don’t Dance” at Townline BBQ
  • Tropical Negroni and snack pairing at Love Lane Kitchen in Mattituck, cocktails crafted by Joe Coleman at Doublespeak Cocktails
  • Dinner at Noah’s with a round of classic Negroni’s enjoyed by guest leader, Becky Chidester and her East Marion friends. 

October 4: Slow Hour at Amber Waves

Join us as we celebrate Fall on the Farm with a Slow Hour gathering!

Wednesday, October 4, 4 – 6 pm

at Amber Waves

367 Main St, Amagansett, NY 11930

Slow Hours are designed to be easy! No tickets are needed and it’s free to attend. We just request that you RSVP to help our hosts plan properly.

We enjoy finding noteworthy locations to slow down with our community on the East End. We love bringing our members together to support local businesses and organizations where food and wine are also available to purchase. Best of all, Slow Hour is a chance to meet new friends and local experts who share

passions and knowledge with us.

All welcome, bring a friend.

If you are not yet aware of Amber Waves accomplishments and especially if you already are, October 4 is the perfect time to see and learn more about why Slow Food East End chose to award Amber Waves with our internationally recognized and coveted Snail of Approval Award this year.

We’ll be on site at 4pm but you are welcome to come even earlier, shop the farm stand for delicious homemade provisions and wonderful selection of wines. A bountiful array of goods is available at Amber Waves farm stand which is open until 5pm.

Settle in with a view of the sunset for introductions and a discussion about farming on the East End.

At 5pm our guests are welcome to enjoy a private tour of the farm and ask all the questions you want about Amber Wave farming practices and farming on the East End.

An added treat: Amber Waves is extending on opportunity to enjoy the benefits of one of their most popular membership benefit programs, the Pick-Your-Own Flower program.

Amber Waves created Pick-Your-Own Flower program to open up flower fields to the public for a hands-on farm experience. It is a great way to become more connected to the farm, the land and the community. The flower fields are open from July – October.

Slow Hour guests will be able to choose to become a member for a day for $45 to received a one day pick a flower voucher, or join at one of our other three membership levels for more benefits and more flower vouchers.

Slow Food East End and Amber Waves look forward to celebrating the joys of fall with you! 

Amber Waves is a female-founded and run 30 acre farm and non-profit organization celebrating their 15th season this year! They rely on donations and purchases in their market, kitchen, and from education programs to help support their mission-driven work in the community.

As an educational farm their goal is to provide rich educational opportunities in agriculture to aspiring growers, thoughtful cooks, and eaters of all ages. They do this through their robust children’s education program offering farmer and cooking classes to children on the East End, hosting weekly food and farming skills-based workshops for adults, and offering an 8 month long farming apprenticeship program where they train new and beginning farmers each year. 

They are also committed to serving their community through their food security program where they donate freshly harvested produce each week to 7 different local food pantries across the South Fork, reaching almost 800 families. They also offer an open access space for all to enjoy seven days a week. 

Membership Drive 2023

LOCAL, SUSTAINABLE, DELICIOUS

Are you passionate about good, clean, and fair food? Do you want to support small-scale farmers and preserve traditional food cultures?

Become a member of the Slow Food Movement! Our global network of food lovers works to promote local, sustainable, and delicious food, and we need your help to make a difference. As a member, you’ll have access to exclusive events, discounts, and educational resources. You’ll be part of a community that’s making a positive impact on the world. Join us today and start celebrating the joys of good, clean, and fair food!

September is Membership Month at Slow Food and as such we look forward to welcoming new members and celebrating our returning members. 

Thank you for continuing to be part of the Slow Food East End community! We love seeing you at our events and having you involved in everything we do. One way you can help us move closer to transforming our world and guaranteeing good, clean and fair food for all is by becoming a member. For $60 per year, you can help fuel our efforts here on the East End and strengthen a number of programs, campaigns and initiatives that are changing our world’s oppressive and unsustainable food systems.

We urge you to make the pledge to support our work year-round. This year, we are excited to announce our new Evergreen membership. Instead of a one-time membership payment, you can now pledge to pay $5, $10, $15 or $20 per month to make it easier and more convenient for you to support our work. 

Slow Food USA’s membership rates are going to increase in January 2024 to better support organizational efforts in the current economic environment. Join now to preserve the current membership rate!

What does my membership pay for?
The Slow Food USA network of more than 80 local chapters cannot exist without support from our members! Here’s where your dollars go:

  • Engagement with our earth and heritage plants through our Plant a Seed program, which gives hundreds of free growing kits to schools across the US
  • Robust learning and growth with our national network around racial equity and justice through trainings, office hours, national book discussions and more
  • Annual programs like the School Gardens initiative, which sustains gardening programs in dozens of local schools
  • Support for the USA’s Ark of Taste, which identifies and preserves the stories and legacies of Indigenous and other important foods 
  • News and storytelling content that amplifies a diverse array of voices and ideas from across the Slow Food movement
  • Administrative support for the complex needs of 80 volunteer-led chapters in the US, so that their initiatives and partnerships can thrive
  • Maintaining a small but mighty team of Slow Food USA employees, who lead and support these local, national and international efforts

A small portion of your membership dues to Slow Food USA are shared directly with our East End chapter to benefit the programs that we offer locally on the East End like Flour Power and Edible School Gardens.

Let’s nourish our connections and connect our foodways together. 

Become a Member Today!