Hot Bread Kitchen, a social-purpose bakery in New York City founded by Jessamyn Waldman, employs local, immigrant women who bake traditional recipes using local, organic ingredients. They’ve just moved to a new factory and they run a bike-powered grinder. They are having their first fundraiser. The evening will feature wines from leading female winemakers and live demos by HBK.

Monday, November 16
6-9 p.m.

Tickets: $50/$150

Location
Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave.

Click here for more info and to buy tix.

If your weekends are starting to slow down now that summer is officially over, check out the ArtMart this Saturday on Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Ocean.  There will be crafts to buy, Maple Street is having the annual fundraiser tag sale and if you haven’t already, you can check out the murals on Flatbush and Lincoln.  They are pretty awesome.

On Sunday, Atlantic Avenue closes down for ten blocks between Hicks and 4th Avenue.  It’s the Atlantic Antic, the annual festival features live FREE music, food and plenty of stuff for kids to do like pony rides and face painting.   It’s also one of your last chances to get summer festival street food.  Mozzarepa anyone?

It’s the perfect weekend to hang out and love living in Brooklyn.  

Happy Fall, all!

In my three years as a member, I manage to always be otherwise engaged for any farm trips.  I’m always disappointed to miss it.  I’ve gone on the website a lot to show my kids pictures of the animals and I vow that I will make it up to see them in person.  But it never works out.  Until this year.  I was so happy that the barbeque was on a day I was free.  My husband was happy that the menu included pulled pork.  It’s one of our favorite things.

So even though a 5 hour roundtrip with two kids 3 and under can be dicey, we were excited.  We got up there faster than expected.  We immediately shed our sweatshirts, it was a beautiful day.  There was chickens running around everywhere along with a couple of strutting roosters. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many food justice events going on this week and next!

Various dates, places and times:
Brooklyn Food Coalition Neighborhood Meetings

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tomatoes: The Late Blight Catastrophe, the Controversies, the Culinary Joys

Friday, October 2, 2009:
Slow Food for the Urban Kitchen: Nourishing Local Food from the Slow Cooker

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Preserving the Local Harvest with Lacto-fermentation

Sunday, October 11, 2009
Tour de Hudson Bicycle Tour

Read on for event description, location and other details.

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Tour de Farms is a unique eco-tourist event that will promote local farms in the Hudson Valley on October 11, 2009 through a unique bicycle tour.

The bike tour will consist of several routes of varying length throughout southern Ulster County’s scenic farms and farm stands.  After the tour, a gathering at Phillies Bridge Farm will feature skill-sharing workshops led by farmers and community members. Topics will include gardening, cooking, and food storage techniques. Local caterers and restaurateurs will also be offering local food creations for purchase.
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I meant to post this last week, but I forgot. All is not lost though… the Solar Powered Film Festival is continuing for a couple more weeks with four more FREE outdoor screenings of environmental documentaries at Stuyvesant Cove Park. Check it out!

Th Sep 17 – A Sea Change
Fr Sep 18 – The Garden
Sa Sep 19 – Burning in the Sun
Fr Sep 25 - What’s On Your Plate?

Several food-related events are happening in September.

Let Us Eat Local

Just Food, New York City’s food justice and advocacy organization (and coordinator of CSAs in NYC among other things) has their annual fundraiser, Let Us Eat Local, tomorrow, September 16, at Prince George Hotel Ballroom. They will celebrate our honorees and recipients of the 2009 McKinley Hightower-Beyah Awards with twenty-five of the city’s best restaurants. Each tasting will be paired with a local brew in conjunction with NY Craft Beer Week!  Proceeds from the event will go toward furthering Just Food’s mission of creating a sustainable and just food system for all New York City residents. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets. (Click the article to see more events) Read the rest of this entry »

New Amsterdam Market will inaugurate its first season of monthly, one-day markets on Sunday, September 13, 2009, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. The markets will take place on South Street, between Beekman Street and Peck Slip in Lower Manhattan, and will also convene at the same time and location on the following Sundays, October 25, November 22, and December 20, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tickets are now available for the second annual Just Food Let Us Eat Local Gala and Award Ceremony, a fundraiser that helps support their programs. More than 30 chefs from NYC’s finest restaurants will be serving up 100% local food paired with local craft beers. The McKinley Hightower-Beyah Awards will honor farmers, organizations, journalists, and gardeners who work to bring fresh, locally grown food to those who need it most.

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