Hi All,

Wow! What a week! We had a great event Saturday night for Slow Food North Shore’s Fall Harvest Celebration! It was a sold out event with over 100 people, and we had great participation from many local vendors. The flowers were spectacular, and were arranged by Terracotta Home Florists in Great Neck, using many flowers from the iEat Green Homestead. The beer was provided by our local brewery, Oyster Bay Brewery, and the wine came from Macari Vineyards out on the North Fork of Long Island. Rising Tide Market in Glen Cove supplied us with delicious GF Crab Cakes and a Crudité Platter with Hummus, Organic Krush in Woodbury supplied us with Salads, our Chicken Wings, Corn Fritters, and GF Brownies, and Barry’s Tempeh served up some incredible BBQ Tempeh! Conscious Kitchen, a new  organic delivery service out of Glen Cove, provided us with a delicious Tofu Tikka Masala and Basmati Rice. The other courses were prepared by me, iEat Green! I made my GF Cold Sesame Noodles, a Kale and Swiss Chard Pie from the greens in my garden, a Shepherd’s Pie which was GF and Vegan (since the Kale and Chard Pie had both gluten and dairy) and a Miso Marinated Wild Cod. For dessert, I also made a GF, Vegan Apple Cobbler to go with the brownies and fruit platter. I promise you, no one went home hungry!! And did I mention we danced all night to the wonderful music of the Sparky Town Band? We did, and it was awesome!!

Then last night, I did a cooking demo at the Port Washington Library as part of a celebration for Food Day, along with a documentary screening of the film “Ingredient”, a discussion led by Patti Woods from Grassroots Environmental Education, and guest farmer, Maggie Wood from Golden Earthworm Farm in Jamesport. It was a great evening!

I’m looking forward to joining thousands of New Yorker’s this Saturday, Oct. 28th for the Sandy 5 March, which is a day of remembrance and a call to action, for our public officials to take climate change seriously, and to create legislation that can help mitigate the effects of global warming. The march is starting at Cadman Plaza, then walking together over the Brooklyn Bridge and ending in a rally in front of the Alfred E. Smith houses in lower Manhattan. There is also a Sandy 5 Rally on Long Island at Venetian Shores Park, in Lindenhurst, at 2pm on Sunday, Oct. 29th. Please show your concern and let our voices be heard! Join one of these events, or find another event near where you live.

In honor of the National Farm to School Month, I have invited Peter Allison to be my guest on the Progressive Radio Network. Peter Allison is the Network Director for Farm to Institution New England or FINE. He was hired in 2011 by the founding partners to coordinate an emergent farm to institution network in New England. Peter brings over 30 years of sustainability program leadership in a wide array of non-profit, government and business roles. He has been focused on food system change since 2007, when he started coordinating a farm to school program at his kid’s school in Hartland, VT, and was also the founding director of the Upper Valley Farm to School Network, before joining FINE. Peter lives at the Cobb Hill co-housing community and farm in Hartland Vermont. He has a BA in Philosophy from Drew University, and an MA in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University. I’m really excited to learn more about the Farm to Institution movement, and to find out ways to bring more local produce into to our public schools, universities, and hospitals. I hope you can join us!

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With love and gratitude,

Bhavani