Farm to Table Dinner & Fundraiser at Sugar Hill Farm, Bedford Hills, Saturday

Farm to Table Dinner at Sugar Hill Farm, Bedford Hills, NY

Spend an evening at Sugar Hill Farm, with a guided tour from farmer Doug DeCandia and dinner with him inside the historic home which houses the Westchester Land Trust. A portion of proceeds from this dinner will benefit Westchester Land Trust’s Farmland Match program, ensuring more success stories such as Sugar Hill Farm in the coming year.

Time: 6:00pm
When: October 13
Where: Sugar Hill Farm, 403 Harris Rd, Bedford Hills, NY
Tickets: $145 per person
Receive a 10% discount with the purchase of 6 or more tickets

Flying Pig Chef Lesley Sutter will be creating her farm-fresh cuisine for all to enjoy, with many of the ingredients coming from Sugar Hill and other nearby farms. Chef Sutter prides herself on serving local ingredients of the freshest and highest quality.

ConsciousWine’s Vinny Liscio will be pairing each course with a unique bottle of wine from Oregon’s Brooks winery. We will be showcasing the 2009 ARA Riesling, the 2011 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir and the 2010 Janus Pinot Noir. Guest will have the opportunity to purchase these wines directly from Brooks during the evening.

Our events invite you to participate in the experience with all your senses. The sights – bucolic farmland; the sounds of nature all around them; touring the crop rows, touching the fruits and vegetables as they grow; the scents of the soil and grass of the fields…all leading to the grand finale, the wine tasting and dinner all made from all natural ingredients and without pesticides or hormones.

http://consciouswine.com/sugarhillwinedinner/
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Urban Agriculture Summit, Aug 15, Toronto

2012 Urban Agriculture Summit

August 15 to 18, 2012, Toronto, Canada

Building Capacity for Action

Around the world people are growing food in cities! From August 15 to 18, the 2012 Urban Agriculture Summit will bring together a diversity of people that are making it happen - design professionals, community groups, social housing advocates, tenants and developers, educators, planners, homeowners, urban growers and others - to share what is working, and to discover what is possible.

From bee-keeping to community and school gardens; from aquaculture to rooftop farming, urban agriculture is becoming an essential element of food security, improving access to healthy, affordable food in a rapidly urbanizing world. Urban agriculture can also generate much-needed skills development and local employment while improving local environmental and community health.

The first Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto will be action-oriented: attendees will learn new tools to advance urban agriculture in their own communities. Together participants will explore urban agriculture's current role and future potential in 21st century city-building.

Major Summit themes include:

• Food Security, food sovereignty and city-building
• Planning and design of innovative infrastructure for small & large-scale urban agriculture
• New technologies and innovative practices associated with production
• Scaling up urban agriculture: Supportive programs, policies and governance models
• Best management practices in for-profit and not-for-profit food production
• Building the business case: the economics, financing and marketing of urban agriculture
• Embedding urban agriculture in community development and housing

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Annie Novack "Urban Farms, Upstate Lands & Local Food", Thursday, Jan 20th

WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST'S “Food, Land, Sustainability” Lecture

Farmer-activist Annie Novak, the founder and executive director of Growing Chefs and co-founder of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn, will give the “Food, Land, Sustainability” lecture at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, on Thursday, January 20, 2011.

Annie’s talk will start at 7 p.m. in the Sarah Lawrence’s Heimbold Visual Arts Center.

The co-sponsor of the event is Sarah Lawrence College.

The public is welcome (there's a suggested donation of $15), but space is limited so please RSVP to grace@westchesterlandtrust.org, to make sure we save a seat for you.

Annie's talk is called “Urban Farms, Upstate Lands & Local Food,” and will focus on the connection between growing food in the city and the preservation of farmland in the Hudson Valley; the growth of our local food system; and issues of access to farmland for young farmers.

Her work has been featured on CNN, in New York magazine ("A Guide to the City's Urban Farmers"), on Salon.com and many other news outlets.

A Sarah Lawrence graduate, she founded Growing Chefs in 2005 as a way to connect people to food, from the soil to the kitchen. Growing Chefs offers educational programming in farming, gardening and cooking with simple recipes using seasonal ingredients.
 

Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a 6,000 square foot green roof organic vegetable farm located atop a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The farmers at Eagle Street supply a community supported agriculture program (CSA) and an onsite farm market, and bicycle fresh produce to area restaurants.
 

Last year’s “Food, Land, Sustainability” talk at Sarah Lawrence was given by Josh Viertel, executive director of Slow Food USA.

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Cooking Seasonal and Delicious, Local Foods-Local Chef Demo with Chef Liz at Gossett's Farmer's Market, Sat, August 14

Chef Liz of Nature's Temptations Organic Food Store and Deli in Ridgefield will be at Gossett's Farmer's Market Saturday, August 14 from 9:30-12:30

Liz's exuberance and expertise bubble out when she's talking about real food in the midst of the abundant choices at our market. Here's a clip of her cooking last year at the market:


Chef Demo Series at the Market: Chef Liz Gagnon Cooks up Moroccan from Heather Flournoy on Vimeo.

Local Chefs--Local Food Series at Gossett's Farm Market
The Local Foods-Local Chefs series was created by Gossett's Farmer's Market and KatonahGreen in order to inspire home cooking, show people how to use foods they may be unfamiliar with and raise awareness of the complexity of flavors and nutrient density of sustainably raised produce and meats.

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Food, Land, Sustainability in Westchester, Sunday, March 28, Bedford Village

Food, Land, Sustainability: 
Part of a series of 5 cutting edge lectures about the environment, the way we live today, 
and the way we'll need to live in the future


Sunday, March 28, 2010, 3 p.m. 

No Farms, No Food/No Farmers, No Food
A panel discussion featuring local farmers

Lisa Schwartz, Bob Stuart, Mimi Edelman and Betsy Ryder

St. Matthew's Church, Bedford Village
The suggested donation is $15 per lecture, or $50 for all five. All proceeds will go to support our land preservation work throughout the county.

Visit the WLT website here, follow them on Twitter, join their conversation on Facebook.

Email Grace Buck to reserve a spot at any of the lectures: Grace@westchesterlandtrust.org.

Or call for more information: 914 241-6346 x24.

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