May 12, 2012
Brooklyn Food Conference
The 2012 Brooklyn Food Conference aims to make real changes in the food system. We will bring people together to build a local food system that provides healthy, affordable food for all our people, supports sustainable practices and justice for food workers across the food chain.
April 14, 2012
Long Island 2012 Small Farm Summit
Save the date for the next LI Small Farm Summit which will take place on Saturday, April 14th, at Hofstra University in Hempstead. It is an all day event, beginning at 8am, and continuing into the evening. We have two keynote speakers lined up, Will Allen from Growing Power in Milwaukee, and Chef Ann Cooper, the Renegade Lunch Lady, who is a pioneer in changing the school lunch program. There will be workshops going on all day, bringing together farmers, homesteaders, parents, teachers, food service personnel, backyard gardeners, bee keepers, fisherman, activists, and all those who care about our food system. Please plan on joining us. For more information, go to the website, longislandsmallfarmcentral.com/
April 3, 2012
Let’s Eat! Films on Food: Farmageddon
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent ac-tion, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.
Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small family-operated farms selling fresh foods to their communities. Instead of focusing on the source of food safety problems — most often the industrial food chain — policymakers and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government regulations and excessive enforcement actions.
Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom, encouraging farmers and consumers alike to take action to preserve individuals’ rights to access food of their choice and farmers’ rights to produce these foods safely and free from unreasona-bly burdensome regulations. The film serves to put policymakers and regulators on notice that there is a growing movement of people aware that their freedom to choose the foods they want is in danger, a movement that is taking action with its dollars and its voting power to protect and preserve the dwindling number of family farms that are struggling to survive.
$9 Members / $13 Public
Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org at the box office during theatre hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006
March 24, 2012
The Home Grown Institute Spring Conference
Registration for The Home Grown Institute, March 24-25, is Open!
View the program details online or
Download (patience, it’s a big file!) the program brochure from the website at
http://thehomegrowninstitute.
* Free gifts – rain barrels or composters – for ALL registrants*
* 50+ workshops and activities for adults
* Fun, Engaging and Educational Kids and Teen program
* Storytelling, Seed and Tool Exchanges
* Films, Silent Auction and Awards Reception
* Neighborhood “Community Kitchen” Incubator
Register soon. Late fee applies after February 24. Registration closes March
19.
*One free gift per family/residence.
March 6, 2012
Let’s Eat! Films on Food: All in this Tea
Follow American tea expert David Lee Hoffman into the fascinating and very tasty world of tea as he journeys to China in search of the world’s finest teas at a screening of ALL IN THIS TEA on Tuesday, March 6 at 7:30pm followed by tea-tasting at Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington 631-423-7611 www.CinemaArtsCentre.org
The latest film from distinguished documentarian Les Blank, in collaboration with co-director Gina Leibrecht, follows American tea importer David Lee Hoffman to some of the most remote regions of China in search of the world’s finest teas. Hoffman is obsessed; during his youth he spent four years with Tibetan monks in Nepal, which included a friendship with the Dalai Lama, and was introduced to some of the finest of teas. Unable to find anything but insipid tea bags in the U.S., Hoffman began traveling to China, the homeland of tea. There, he struggles against language barriers and Byzantine business codes to convince the Chinese that the farmers make better tea than the factories and that their craft should be honored and preserved. This craft cannot be learned from a book, but has been handed down through generations of tea makers for thousands of years. He drags the reluctant tea factory aficionados up a lush, terraced mountainside and brings them face to face with those “dirty” farmers. In an ironic twist, Hoffman reintroduces them to one of their country’s oldest traditions. But Hoffman is even a step ahead of his own country in that he is advocating “fair trade” and organics. Images of the farmers standing on urban street corners selling a week’s harvest for three dollars, in the shadow of China’s increasing number of high rises, illustrate the paradox that stepping into the modern world imposes. Tea experts James Norwood Pratt, Gaetano Kazuo Maida, and Winnie W. Yu provide the fundamentals of tea, lending weight to Hoffman’s endeavor.
$9 Members / $13 Public / includes reception and Tea-Tasting by The Tea Plant www.theteaplant.com and Sacred Rose www.sacredrosetea.com
Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org at the box office during theatre hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006
February 24, 2012
Just Food Conference 2012
Just Food Conference 2012
When: Friday, February 24th, 9AM- 7PM
Saturday, February 25th, 8AM – 6PM
Where: Food and Finance High School
525 West 50th Street,
New York, NY
Join Just Food, local food lovers and advocates, CSA members, community gardeners, urban and rural farmers, food professionals and entrepreneurs for two days of hands-on workshops, discussions, skills-building sessions, and good food. Learn about cooking and food preservation techniques, CSA trends, and the food justice movement in New York City and beyond, as well as ways you can mobilize to create good food projects in your own community.
Click here for more information
February 15, 2012
2012 No Farms No Food Rally
2012 No Farms No Food Rally
in Albany
When: February 15th, 2012
Where: State Capitol in Albany
Join American Farmland Trust, along with farmers, food advocates, local officials, environmentalists and other New Yorkers at the State Capitol to urge state leaders to support funding and legislation that protects farmland and the environment, increases the availability of nutritious food grown in New York and strengthens the farm and food economy. Free busing available from NYC!
Click here for more information
January 30, 2012
Slow Food NYC Wine Tasting!
Slow Food NYC Wine Tasting!
When: January 30th, 2012 6:30-9:00 pm
Where: Metropolitan Pavillion
125 W 18th St # 804, Array, New York, 10011
Attend a walk-around wine tasting, featuring over 140 wines from 60+ Slow Wine producers to celebrate the launch of the Slow Wine guide. $35 for Slow Food members and $40 for general admission. Admission includes a complimentary copy of the Slow Wine guide and a commemorative wine glass. Light food pairings will be provided.
Click here to register
January 20, 2012
2012 NOFA-NY Winter Conference
More than 80 workshops, 3 keynote speeches, organic trade show, entertainment and local organic meals! This is a great event!
http://www.nofany.org/events/winter-conference
December 14, 2011
Let’s Eat! Films on Food: “DIVE!”
Let’s Eat! Films on Food
DIVE!
December 14, 7:30 at the Cinema Arts Centre
Guest Speaker Jon Stepanian of Long Island Food Not Bombs
http://www.divethefilm.com/