A Moveable Feast 2019 – Silent Auction

Jan 13, 2019 | Uncategorized

“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 Susan Levine: sagsue@aol.com

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Screening of “Deeply Rooted”

Jan 12, 2019 | Past Events

You are invited!

Join Slow Food East End for a Screening of “Deeply Rooted”

Friday, February 1st, 2019

Join Slow Food for a screening of “Deeply Rooted”: John Coykendall’s Journey to Save our Seeds and Stories.  The film screening will be preceeded by a delicious taste of Camellia Brand red beans and rice prepared by Art of Eating Catering.  Following the film there will be a panel discussion focused on the importance of maintaining biodiversity.

Why is John Coykendall’s work important? In the last century, more than 94% of the food crops we once grew have become extinct. Not only are we endangering ourselves as we lose biodiversity, but we are also at risk of losing our collective, cultural knowledge of traditional farming methods.

John Coykendall is a renowned heirloom seed saver, a classically trained artist, and Master Gardener at Blackberry Farm, one of America’s top resorts in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. For four decades, Coykendall has worked to preserve the heritage – in volumes of journals – of a small farm community in Louisiana, one that represents a dying way of life in most of America. These journals are a love letter to a time when we were all more closely connected to our food and to each other. This work reminds us that the food we eat represents our own living history – an unbroken chain of genetic diversity nourished, cultivated and handed down to us by our ancestors.

“Deeply Rooted” serves as a reminder of the importance of preserving that legacy and demonstrating ways to do it.

Proceeds benefit Slow Food East End’s Agricultural Outreach Committee and Southampton Arts Center

Event:  Slow Food East End Screening of “Deeply Rooted”   

Date: Friday February 1, 2019

Time: 6:30pm -7:00 Beans and Rice Tasting

          7:00 pm- 8:30 Film and Panel Discussion

Location: Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, NY

Cost: SAC and Slow Food members: $15 per person. Non-members: $20 per person.

Buy Tickets:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4042567

Information:

www.slowfoodeastend.org

A Moveable Feast 2019

Jan 11, 2019 | Events

The Joshua Levine Memorial Foundation and Slow Food East End
Proudly Present “A Moveable Feast”

April 7, 2019

Event:  “A Moveable Feast”
Hosts:  The Joshua Levine Memorial Foundation & Slow Food East End
Date:  Sunday, April 7, 2019
Time:  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location:  Dodds & Eder Landscape Design Showroom, 11 Bridge Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963
Tickets:  $100 per person for members of Slow Food; $150 per person for non-members.
Members will receive a one-time savings of $25 when two or more tickets are purchased.

The Joshua Levine Memorial Foundation and Slow Food East End will host “A Moveable Feast”, an evening of celebration, honoring Joshua Levine and supporting the School Garden Project on the East End. “A Moveable Feast,” which is now in its ninth year, will take place on April 7, 2019, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm at Dodds & Eder Landscape Design Showroom in Sag Harbor. As a result of this event, the East End of Long Island has grown into one of the largest, most successful school garden programs in the United States, 30 schools in all!

“A Moveable Feast” not only celebrates the legacy of Joshua Levine and supports School Gardens, but it is the kick-off of the spring season and the waking up of the earth and our community after a long winter. Everyone is ready for a great party with exceptional food and drink, along with music that will get you up on your feet. Year after year, the best chefs, food, and beverage purveyors on the East End have gladly participated in “A Moveable Feast” as supporters of Slow Food and its mission. Here’s why:

“Building a sustainable farm and food community on the East End s important and rewarding. Local food businesses need to support each other to make this movement a reality.”  – Carissa Waechter, Carissa’s Breads

“ I love the camaraderie of being with like-minded folks in the industry who are dedicated to feeding people what is good for the body, soul, and planet.”  – Cheryl Stair, Art of Eating

“School Gardens are setting the stage for a new generation of inquisitive, healthy and conscientious eaters – the Future is in the Garden”  – Megan Schmidt, The Good Farm Delivery

Want to sponsor a School Teacher, Farmer, Fisherman or Forager?  Help us show our appreciation to some of the folks who teach, grow, catch, hunt or gather our magnificent local food.

There are also Sponsorship and Silent Auction opportunities that will keep the School Garden Project flourishing and provide funds for three Master Farmers and Mini-Grants to be used for the purchase of garden tools, supplies, and materials. Our mission of Growing Healthy Kids, One Garden at a Time promotes good farming practices, education, a sustainable environment and healthy eating for children and their families.

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