Katonah Green Eat-In, Monday, September 7, 2-4

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION!

On Monday, September 7th, from 2-4pm, Katonah Green, with Slow Food Westchester, will host an EAT-IN in support of the NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION to get better lunches in schools. RSVP HERE

This is free and open to the public! Bring friends, family, neighbors and a dish to share. The idea is to gather enough attention nationally that congress and our legislators will take notice that people care about what our kids eat at school. There are over 250 Eat-Ins happening nationally, the same day!

Details:

We'll be meeting and eating from 2-4 on Monday, September 7th at the First Presbyterian Church lawn.

What to Bring:
For last names from A-F, bring a a veggie salad.
Veggie salads can be a green leafy salad, or a cucumber-dill salad, or shredded carrots and cabbage--be creative!

For last names from G-S, please bring a seasonal entree reflecting the abundance of our local farms and gardens, for example:

• your favorite chili,
  
• simple pasta with fresh tomato sauce,
  
• corn on the cob,
  
• steamed local potatoes,
  
• potato salad with fresh dill and chives,
  
• grilled local sausage from a farmer's market,
  
• grass-fed beef burgers,
  
• grilled portabella mushrooms and red peppers,
  
• local cheeses and fresh bread
  
• your own favorite entree made with fresh local ingredients!
  

For last names from T-W, please bring a dessert reflecting the abundance of our local farms and gardens, for example:

• fresh berries from Amawalk farm, or foraged on the BRLA
  
• fresh melon from the local markets
  
• fresh whipped cream (yum!)
  
• zucchini bread (ask people, they are likely to have loads of zucchini right now!)
  

This is a carry-in, carry out event, and we will need to bring plates, cutlery, and serving utensils. My mission is to have only compostable waste, so my suggestion is to bring real plates, or biodegradable plates (available at TABLE Local Market in Bedford Hills, or at CVS in Ridgefield)

CHECK BACK HERE FOR UPDATES. IF YOU HAVE A GROUP OR BUSINESS THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPONSOR THIS EVENT, OR AN EMAIL LIST THAT YOU COULD PROMOTE THIS TOO, PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP at 914-763-0474!

WE NEED YOU!! Call 914-763-0474 to participate, or email me editor [@] katonahgreen.com (remove the brackets, this helps me control spam)

Ecofest 2009, October 4, NYC

Ecofest 2009

Event Date: 10/04/2009
11:00am - 6:00pm

Ecofest is New York's largest environmental festival and is celebrating its 21st anniversary. Ecofest is dedicated to promoting awareness of environmental issues and in doing so features exhibits and eco-booths run by environmental, information, alternative medicine and fitness, animal care, products, healthy food and solar and renewable energy technology organizations. There will also be music, dance and entertainment. Ecofest is free and open to the public.

Ecofest will be held in Central Park this year.

For information, visit: http://www.ecofest.com/

Catskill Eco-Heritage Festival, September 4, Olivebridge, NY

Catskill Eco-Heritage Festival
09/04/2009
7:00pm - 5:00pm

The Ashokan Center, near NYC's Ashokan Reservoir is hosting a fun-filled arts and heritage fair this Labor Day weekend. Just two hours from New York City, a weekend of music, dance, ecological appreciation and history will attract people of all crafty persuasions.

Colonial arts and crafts will be offered for all ages; a nature photography workshop will take place, and guided hikes will be led during the main two days of the event. A dinner/concert/dance will kick-off the weekend on Friday September 4th.

Information will also be provided about alternative energy and sustainable practices in the Catskill region.

More can be found at:

http://www.ashokancenter.org/ecofest/index.shtml

The Food Justice Revival, Friday, August 28th, 6pm

The Food Security Roundtable Presents
THE FOOD JUSTICE REVIVAL!

A celebration of local food and farmers and a step toward a just, stable, and healthy food system!

6PM AUGUST 28th
Wassaic, NY @ the Wassaic Community Farm & Maxon Mills Grain Tower, 35 Furnace Bank Road
Last stop on the Harlem Valley Metro North Line
Hosted By: The Food Security Roundtable

Featuring...
J.P. Harris and The Tough Choices! Wicked Sweet Honky-Tonk Country from Southern Vt. Have a listen?
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra! Incredible 30+Piece Marching Brass Band & Dance Troupe from Brooklyn Listen Up!!
The Readnex Poetry Squad! Awesome Underground HipHop and Spoken Word Word.
Broadcast Live! Everything You Ever Wanted! HipHop, IndieRock, & Soul to make you jump! Check it out

ALSO Guest Appearances and Speakers, Silent Auction, Great local food, Locally crafted beer and wines, and Information about Food Security Projects in the Hudson Valley and the Northeast.

Why: To raise money for urban and rural farmers and food justice organizers to go to the Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative gathering, Hosted by Growing Power, October 30th. www.growingfoodandjustice.org

Admission:$20-$30 (sliding scale). Includes camping at the Wassaic Community Farm next door. Discounts for farmers, Wassaic locals, and for those who bought a train ticket to get there. This will be a great summer event for everyone, and an opportunity to get to know each other and meet the folks from the Food Security Roundtable, convening our next northeast regional farming and food justice conference the next day at Wassaic Community Farm.


In keeping with our desire to promote urban/rural collaboration to establish local food sovereignty throughout the Northeast we are raising money for some farmers and activists to go to Milwaukee, WI for the annual Growing Food and Justice For All Initiative. The funding will be earmarked for at least half people of color and an even spread between urban and rural folks. They will have a chance to spend time together, to meet people doing food justice work around the country, and to learn some skills to help us build the world we all want to live in.

We need your help to raise at least $10,000 to send 20 farmers and their friends to Milwaukee. Come have a good time and bring your friends!

See you there.
The Food Security Roundtable
www.foodpower.org
info@foodpower.org

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3rd Regional Food Recurity Roundtable
Wassaic Community Farm
19 Furnace Bank Rd Wassaic, NY
August 29th 1PM

GreenDrinks Westchester, Wednesday, Aug 26th

Click here to check out
The Katonah Green and Beyond!

Meetup with GreenDrinks Westchester, 6pm, Flying Pig on Lexington, Mt. Kisco. See you there!

Chef Demo at Gossett's Farm Market, Saturday, Aug. 22, 11am

Join Chef Liz Gagnon of Nature's Temptations Catering and Deli at this weekend's Chef Demo Series at Gossett's Farm Market.

Liz will be showing us how to select the foods that are at the height of their flavor to use for that day's menus. Liz is a fun and inspiring teacher. After selecting her foods, she'll show us how to prepare a few recipes that are delicious, healthy and easy.

Gossett's Farm Market is located at Gossett Brother's Nursery, 1202 Rte 35, South Salem, NY Check out their blog at www.GossettsFarmMarket.com

Fresh Foods Chef Demo at Gossett's Farm Market, Saturday, Aug. 15, 11am

Fresh Foods Chef Demo at Gossett's Farm Market, Saturday, Aug. 15, 11am

Deborah Nelson will show us how to make Grilled Chili-Lime Corn on the Cob, and a market-fresh veggie-fruit salad.

Gossett's Farm Market is located at Gossett's Brother's Nursery: 1202 Rte 35, South Salem, NY.

Find out more about Deborah on http://www.Deborah-Nelson.com

Check out www.GossettsFarmMarket.com for videos of the chef demos, market and farmer news and more!

KatonahGreen will be there every weekend from 10:30-1. Check back for events!

Cooking Demo with Heather Flournoy! Saturday, Aug 8, 11am at Gossetts Farm Market

Come out this Saturday at 11 and I'll show you how to make a fresh raw green soup that will convert you into a raw soup lover! (trust me, it took some convincing to convince myself!)

Saturday from 11-1 at Gossett's Farm Market, 1202 Rte 35, South Salem, NY

Hunt for Wild Water Mint on the Appalachian Trail, Sunday, Aug 23rd

Hunt for Wild Water Mint on the Appalachian Trail

with naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill

On Sunday, August 23, naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill will give a free talk and presentation at Native Landscaping in Pawling, and lead one of his world-famous Wild Food and Ecology Tours of the adjacent Appalachian Trail in Pawling, NY. The subject matter: foraging—the ecological harvesting and uses of common edible wild plants and mushrooms.

The free 60-minute presentation, followed by a 4-hour walking tour begins at 10:30 AM, Sunday, August 23, at Native Landscapes, 991 Route 22, in Pawling, NY. The suggested donation for the tour is $15 for adults, $10 for children under 12. (Bring exact change). Nobody is ever turned away due to lack of funds.

To attend, call (914) 835-2153 at least 24 hours beforehand and reserve a place. For the 2008 tour calendar and additional info, visit http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com,

The Appalachian Trail is America's most famous hiking trail, running for hundreds of miles from Maine to Georgia. Our stretch is loaded with wild foods.

As soon as we depart from the railroad station where we meet, we'll find the huge leaves of burdock, with an edible root that tastes like potatoes. Nearby, we'll find loads of wild parsnips, garden escapees that taste even better than their commercial forerunners, plus lots of wild carrots, a.k.a. Queen Anne's Lace.

Other common herbs and greens we can expect include water mint and wild mint, lamb's-quarters, yarrow, purslane, sheep sorrel, wood sorrel, poor man's pepper, sassafras, water mint, various wild mustards, and black birch.

Water Mint

This common wetland species imparts a remarkably complex and satisfying flavor to any dish where mint is normally used.

We'll also find lots of jewelweed, a major medicinal herb with juice that relieves a variety of skin irritations, from insect bites to preventing poison ivy rash. In addition to the common species, spotted jewelweed, which has an orange flower, this is the only tour where we'll also find pale jewelweed, with its yellow flower.

If it has rained beforehand, the mushrooming should be as great as it was in past years. We may find large quantities of delectable parasol mushrooms, gourmet boletes, brittle russulas, smoky-flavored black trumpets, luscious meadow mushrooms, mild-flavored coral mushrooms, meaty hygrophorus milky mushrooms, and gigantic chicken mushrooms. Other unexpected species could easily surprise us.

The free 60-minute presentation, followed by a 4-hour walking tour begins at 10:30 AM, Sunday, August 23, at Native Landscapes, 991 Route 22, in Pawling, NY. The suggested donation for the tour is $15 for adults, $10 for children under 12. (Bring exact change). Nobody is ever turned away due to lack of funds.

To attend, call (914) 835-2153 at least 24 hours beforehand and reserve a place. For the 2008 tour calendar and additional info, visit http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com,

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Contact: "Wildman" Steve Brill, (914) 835-2153, wildman@wildmanstevebrill.com, http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com

Native Landscapes, (845) 855-7050,

http://www.nativelandscaping.net,

pete@nativelandscaping.net