EcoFest NY is looks like a great eco festival in Central Park! Pete Seeger will be singing and NY Times Earth writer Andrew Revkin will speak, among lots of other cool enviro-tech displays and fun things to do. Let's go down there as a group and get some inspired and have fun!
Click here to get all the details and join the meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/Katonah-Green-and-Beyond/calendar/11412071/
Monday, September 28, 2009
“Bountiful Backyard” Celebration, Saturday, Oct 10
The First “Bountiful Backyard” Celebration
Saturday, October 10, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Bylane Farm, 35 Todd Road, Katonah
The inaugural season at Bylane Farm’s newly established pesticide-free, bird-friendly vegetable garden has been a smashing success. A ground-breaking Intergeneration Summer Program was held for children and seniors, and a whopping crop of 177 pounds of produce have been harvested and donated to the Mount Kisco Community Center.
Saturday, October 10, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Bylane Farm, 35 Todd Road, Katonah
The inaugural season at Bylane Farm’s newly established pesticide-free, bird-friendly vegetable garden has been a smashing success. A ground-breaking Intergeneration Summer Program was held for children and seniors, and a whopping crop of 177 pounds of produce have been harvested and donated to the Mount Kisco Community Center.
As a fitting conclusion to this program and in celebration and appreciation of the many volunteers from Master Gardeners and others who have worked tirelessly through the summer to keep up the garden, we invite the community to a festive day at Bylane Farm.
The day’s program will include:
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Workshops in harvesting/storing of vegetables (root cellaring and drying)
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Demonstrations on how to attract birds to your garden and make bird houses from gourds
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Book Sale - over 500 bird books will be offered for sale starting at $2.00 each
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Nature walks with Naturalist Tait Johansson
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Handouts, displays
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Refreshments
Rain or shine. Admission is free. Please follow signs to parking area across the street from Bylane. Please do not park on Todd Road.
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Please think of the environment before printing this e-mail!
Bedford Audubon
Celebrating 96 Years of Conservation
www.bedfordaudubon.org
October 10th: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market, 11-1.
October 10th: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market, 11-1.
Join Chef Lesley Sutter from the Flying Pig as she shows you her secrets for preparing fresh-from-the-market foods from regional farms.
Gossett's Farm Market is located at 1202 Rte 35, South Salem, NY
Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series: Watch, learn and ask your questions to the best chef's in the area as they take the challenge to prepare a dish from local ingredients, coming up with something based on what is fresh and available at the market!
Upcoming:
October 17: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market, 11-1. Holistic Health Counselor Lisa Miller shares her passion for preparing homemade food that your entire family will love!
October 24th: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, chef demo, samples, music and pumpkins!
October 31st: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, samples, music and Jared Silbersher will demonstrate a variety of antique apple peeling, coring and slicing machines.
Check out the videos from past chef's at the market on my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/katonahgreen
Join Chef Lesley Sutter from the Flying Pig as she shows you her secrets for preparing fresh-from-the-market foods from regional farms.
Gossett's Farm Market is located at 1202 Rte 35, South Salem, NY
Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series: Watch, learn and ask your questions to the best chef's in the area as they take the challenge to prepare a dish from local ingredients, coming up with something based on what is fresh and available at the market!
Upcoming:
October 17: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market, 11-1. Holistic Health Counselor Lisa Miller shares her passion for preparing homemade food that your entire family will love!
October 24th: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, chef demo, samples, music and pumpkins!
October 31st: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, samples, music and Jared Silbersher will demonstrate a variety of antique apple peeling, coring and slicing machines.
Check out the videos from past chef's at the market on my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/katonahgreen
Botany of Desire DVD Contest Deadline, October 18th
From LocalHarvest.org
Once Upon a Time, I Was Obsessed with a Plant: a Contest
Here's what's up: a new movie based on Michael Pollan's best selling "The Botany of Desire" will be airing on PBS next month. For those who like to mark their calendars, it's Wednesday, October 28, from 8-10 p.m. Called an "eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world - seen from the plant's point of view," and narrated by Frances McDormand, this is sure to be good. For those who haven't read the book, the idea is that we think that we control the plant world. But what if, in fact, they have been shaping us?
We have a director-signed copy of the movie, so we are introducing a new contest giveaway playing with the theme of the book. To enter, send us your story of a time you were obsessed (or at least taken up with) with something in the plant kingdom – like, going to great lengths to protect your tomatoes from frost, watching and waiting for your seedlings to come up, praying for rain for your crops, or spending a summer growing flowers for your wedding. Anything. Submit your story by October 18, and we'll announce the winner of The Botany of Desire DVD in our next newsletter. Stories will be published on the LocalHarvest website.
To view the trailer and learn more about the film, visit PBS.org.
To submit your tips, click the title link above, or go here: http://www.localharvest.org/newsletter/20090924/botany-of-desire.jsp?r=nl
Once Upon a Time, I Was Obsessed with a Plant: a Contest
Here's what's up: a new movie based on Michael Pollan's best selling "The Botany of Desire" will be airing on PBS next month. For those who like to mark their calendars, it's Wednesday, October 28, from 8-10 p.m. Called an "eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world - seen from the plant's point of view," and narrated by Frances McDormand, this is sure to be good. For those who haven't read the book, the idea is that we think that we control the plant world. But what if, in fact, they have been shaping us?
We have a director-signed copy of the movie, so we are introducing a new contest giveaway playing with the theme of the book. To enter, send us your story of a time you were obsessed (or at least taken up with) with something in the plant kingdom – like, going to great lengths to protect your tomatoes from frost, watching and waiting for your seedlings to come up, praying for rain for your crops, or spending a summer growing flowers for your wedding. Anything. Submit your story by October 18, and we'll announce the winner of The Botany of Desire DVD in our next newsletter. Stories will be published on the LocalHarvest website.
To view the trailer and learn more about the film, visit PBS.org.
To submit your tips, click the title link above, or go here: http://www.localharvest.org/newsletter/20090924/botany-of-desire.jsp?r=nl
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Hike at the Hunt-Parker Sanctuary, Friday, Oct 2nd
Our next walk will be on Friday, October 2nd at 1 p.m. at the Hunt-Parker Sanctuary owned by the Bedford Audubon Society at 35 Todd Road. (By the way, the Bedford Audubon Society, in spite of its name, is the local chapter of the Audubon Society which includes Lewisboro).
This walk begins with a long climb and then continues on lovely trails in the woods, ending at North Salem Road which we will cross and then continue east in the Mount Holly Sanctuary, which ends on Mt. Holly Road. Total distance will be about 3 miles of hills and valleys in the forest. This should take us a couple of hours, depending on how often we stop to look at things! Please wear boots as there are some steep places. We will meet at the Bedford Audubon Society's Bylane Farm at 35 Todd Road.
Directions: from the intersection of Route 35 and Route 22, go north on Route 22. Turn right onto Todd Road (there is a big white town shield-shaped sign) and when the dirt road turns into pavement, keep an eye out for #35. We will be there to help you park. At the end of the walk we will use one of our cars to ferry drivers back to Bylane for their cars.
PLEASE EMAIL ME BY 9 A.M. FRIDAY IF YOU WILL ATTEND THIS WALK SO WE CAN PLAN THE CARS.
Vi Patek 914-763-8078 PO Box 104, S. Salem, NY 10590
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Local Chefs--Local Food Series, Sat, Oct 3
October 3: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market, 11-1.
Chef Hymie, BBQ Star, will show us how to prepare the perfectly marinated ribs and give out free samples! Ribs from New England Farms.
Gossett's Farm Market is located at 1202 Rte 35, South Salem, NY
Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series: Watch, learn and ask your questions to the best chef's in the area as they take the challenge to prepare a dish from local ingredients, coming up with something based on what is fresh and available at the market!
Upcoming:
October 10th: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series Free Samples. Join Chef Lesley Sutter from the Flying Pig as she shows you her secrets for preparing fresh-from-the-market foods from regional farms.
October 17: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market, 11-1. Holistic Health Counselor Lisa Miller shares her passion for preparing homemade food that your entire family will love!
October 24th: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, chef demo, samples, music and pumpkins!
October 31st: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, samples, music and Jared Silbersher will demonstrate a variety of antique apple peeling, coring and slicing machines.
Check out the videos from past chef's at the market on my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/katonahgreen
Chef Hymie, BBQ Star, will show us how to prepare the perfectly marinated ribs and give out free samples! Ribs from New England Farms.
Gossett's Farm Market is located at 1202 Rte 35, South Salem, NY
Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series: Watch, learn and ask your questions to the best chef's in the area as they take the challenge to prepare a dish from local ingredients, coming up with something based on what is fresh and available at the market!
Upcoming:
October 10th: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series Free Samples. Join Chef Lesley Sutter from the Flying Pig as she shows you her secrets for preparing fresh-from-the-market foods from regional farms.
October 17: Katonah Green's Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market, 11-1. Holistic Health Counselor Lisa Miller shares her passion for preparing homemade food that your entire family will love!
October 24th: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, chef demo, samples, music and pumpkins!
October 31st: Harvest Fest at the Market! Cider, samples, music and Jared Silbersher will demonstrate a variety of antique apple peeling, coring and slicing machines.
Check out the videos from past chef's at the market on my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/katonahgreen
Monday, September 21, 2009
Hunt for Black Walnuts, Croton Aqueduct, Mon, October 12th
Hunt for Black Walnuts on the Croton Aqueduct
with naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill
On Columbus Day, Monday, October 12, naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill will lead one of his world-famous Wild Food and Ecology Tours of the Croton Aqueduct in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
This long trail used to be where water was brought to Manhattan from Westchester. Now it's a beautiful walking and biking path lined with all manner of edible weeds. Here are some of the autumn plants we can expect on this tour:
We'll certainly find plenty of field garlic, a member of the onion/garlic family that comes up in the spring and re-emerges in the fall. Delicate chickweed, with a flavor like corn on the cob, is a likely find in sunny areas. Spicy poor man's pepper, spinach-flavored lamb's-quarters, and sour-flavored sheep sorrel and wood sorrel should be around too. Garlic mustard is another strong-flavored plant that will add zing to any salad or cooked grain or vegetable dish. The horseradish-flavored roots are in season at this time of the year.
Burdock, with a hearty, potato-flavored taproot, grows everywhere, and we're certain to find one location with soft soil where we'll be able to be able to dig it out easily. Other roots we're likely to find in overgrown areas include peppery-flavored common evening primrose, and white, chewy wild carrots, the same plant that produces the familiar Queen Anne's Lace flower in the summer. We'll also get to compare it with deadly poison hemlock, the plant that killed Socrates.
Black walnuts are among the tastiest and most nutritious of nuts, and they should be littering the ground under the huge trees. Everyone will learn how to remove the green husks, and crack the nuts open with rocks.
"Wildman" cracks open black walnuts on the pavement with a rock.
Spectacular mushrooms also abound at this time, especially if there have been recent heavy rains. Huge hen-of-the woods (sold in health food stores as maitake), gigantic chicken mushrooms (which really taste like chicken), golden-brown honey mushrooms, the prized aborted entoloma, various species of puffballs including the huge giant puffball, and savory meadow mushrooms may pop up anywhere along the trails.
The 2-hour tour begins at 1 PM, Monday, Columbus Day, October 12, at the intersection of Main St. and Cedar St. in Dobbs Ferry. To attend, call (914) 835-2153 at least 24 hours beforehand and reserve a place.
The suggested donation is $15 for adults, $10 for children under 12. (Please bring exact change.) Nobody is ever turned away due to lack of funds. For "Wildman's" 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
with naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill
On Columbus Day, Monday, October 12, naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill will lead one of his world-famous Wild Food and Ecology Tours of the Croton Aqueduct in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
This long trail used to be where water was brought to Manhattan from Westchester. Now it's a beautiful walking and biking path lined with all manner of edible weeds. Here are some of the autumn plants we can expect on this tour:
We'll certainly find plenty of field garlic, a member of the onion/garlic family that comes up in the spring and re-emerges in the fall. Delicate chickweed, with a flavor like corn on the cob, is a likely find in sunny areas. Spicy poor man's pepper, spinach-flavored lamb's-quarters, and sour-flavored sheep sorrel and wood sorrel should be around too. Garlic mustard is another strong-flavored plant that will add zing to any salad or cooked grain or vegetable dish. The horseradish-flavored roots are in season at this time of the year.
Burdock, with a hearty, potato-flavored taproot, grows everywhere, and we're certain to find one location with soft soil where we'll be able to be able to dig it out easily. Other roots we're likely to find in overgrown areas include peppery-flavored common evening primrose, and white, chewy wild carrots, the same plant that produces the familiar Queen Anne's Lace flower in the summer. We'll also get to compare it with deadly poison hemlock, the plant that killed Socrates.
Black walnuts are among the tastiest and most nutritious of nuts, and they should be littering the ground under the huge trees. Everyone will learn how to remove the green husks, and crack the nuts open with rocks.
"Wildman" cracks open black walnuts on the pavement with a rock.
Spectacular mushrooms also abound at this time, especially if there have been recent heavy rains. Huge hen-of-the woods (sold in health food stores as maitake), gigantic chicken mushrooms (which really taste like chicken), golden-brown honey mushrooms, the prized aborted entoloma, various species of puffballs including the huge giant puffball, and savory meadow mushrooms may pop up anywhere along the trails.
The 2-hour tour begins at 1 PM, Monday, Columbus Day, October 12, at the intersection of Main St. and Cedar St. in Dobbs Ferry. To attend, call (914) 835-2153 at least 24 hours beforehand and reserve a place.
The suggested donation is $15 for adults, $10 for children under 12. (Please bring exact change.) Nobody is ever turned away due to lack of funds. For "Wildman's" 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
Foraging at Green Chimneys, Sun, October 11th
Hunt Common Evening Primrose Root at Green Chimneys with naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill
On Sunday, October 11, naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill will lead one of his world-famous foraging tours at Green Chimneys, in Brewster, NY. Green Chimneys is the nationally renowned, non-profit organization with a mission of restoring possibilities and creating futures for children with emotional, behavioral and learning challenges through educational, therapeutic and outreach services, while providing care for animals and nature, thereby promoting a philosophy of dignity and worth for all living things.
These 3 foraging tours are part of the Annual Fall Harvest Festival. We'll be exploring a farm with plenty of open, sunny areas as well as woodlands, ideal for fall foraging.
Common edible "weeds" such as Asiatic dayflower, chickweed, wood sorrel, lamb's-quarters, and sheep sorrel grow in sunny areas throughout.
The trail sides are full of sassafras and black birch trees, while the ground may be littered with black walnuts, white oak acorns, and hickory nuts.
Roots are also in season in autumn. We'll be looking for common evening primrose, field garlic, and wild carrots.
This is an excellent place for wild mushrooms, especially if it's rained beforehand. We'll be on the lookout for honey mushrooms, aborted entoloma mushrooms, gigantic chicken mushrooms and hen-of-the-woods, oyster mushrooms, giant puffballs, and the enoki or velvet foot mushroom, which is prized in Japan.
The 3 walking tours run on Sunday, October 11, from 1 to 1:50 PM, 2 to 2:50 PM, and 3 to 4 PM, at Green Chimneys, 400 Doansburg Rd., in Brewster, NY. The tours are free with admission to the Fall Harvest Festival, $10/adult, $5/child.
Call (845) 279-2995, ext. 286 for further information. No reservations are necessary.
For "Wildman's" 2009 tour calendar and additional info, visit http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
REAL FOOD LUNCH ART CONTEST, Monday, Sept 7
Calling all kids and kids-at-heart!
"REAL FOOD LUNCH" ART CONTEST
Come Make Some Art Showing Your Favorite Lunch (or bring your art).
We want your art at the Katonah Time-for-Lunch Eat-In on Monday, September 7th.
All mediums accepted. Juried by Eat-In Cooks. Attendance required. Prizes include gift certificates from Gossett's Farm Market, Community Farmer's Markets, Mrs. Green's Katonah, Nature's Temptations, TABLE Local Market , Charles Department Store (cooking supplies!) and more! Plus your artwork will be featured on KatonahGreen.com!
Posters, Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, and other Art should feature your favorite real food ingredients.
RSVP to the Eat In on the Katonah Green and Beyond Meetup site, www.meetup.com/katonahgreenandbeyond/ OR by calling coordinator Heather Flournoy at 763-0474
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