Sunday, July 20 - Evening
Sunday, July 20
Milk-n-Honey at 8pm, After Show Café from 9:30-10:30pm
An Evening with Farmer Daniel Botkin
Daniel Botkin is a lifelong teacher, counselor and athlete who, eight years ago, turned to farming full time. Laughing Dog Farm, located on the hilltop site of an historic commune in Western Massachusetts is today a three-acre, organic market garden and teaching site promoting micro-intensive, permaculture style growing methods to steward the land and produce gourmet quality, heirloom fruits, vegetables and flowers around the calendar.
Sunday, July 20 - Matinee
Sunday, July 20
Milk-n-Honey at 2pm, After Show Café from 3:30-4:30pm
Join Nancy Hanson of the Hampshire College Farm Center to learn everything you ever wanted to know about Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs).
Saturday, July 19 - Evening
Saturday, July 19
Milk-n-Honey at 8pm, After Show Café from 9:30-10:30pm
Join Robin Clairmont of the Food Bank of Western Mass to learn about your local food bank - one of the few in the country to operate its own farm.
Saturday, July 19 - Matinee
Saturday, July 19
Milk-n-Honey at 2pm, After Show Café from 3:30-4:30pm
Sharon Gensler of NOFA/Mass shares the great work being conducted every day by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Massachusetts. NOFA is a community of farmers, gardeners, homesteaders, consumers, environmentalists, and other activists who care about the quality, flavor, and nutrition of great food. Find out how you can be a more farmer-friendly consumer and healthy eater!
Friday, July 18 - Evening
Friday, July 18
Milk-n-Honey at 8:00pm, After Show Café from 9:30-10:30
Philip Korman and Devon Whitney-Deal of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) will share how we all can help our farms to be vibrant and successful so our families and communities benefit. CISA will present how buying local food and other farm products keeps money in the local economy, reduces oil-dependent transportation costs, and ensures a healthy food supply.
CISA will be joined by Local Hero participant Charlie Thompson, Director of Dining Services for Amherst College, who will be sharing his creative strategies for going green, buying local, and reducing the school’s carbon footprint.
Sunday, November 18
Sunday, November 18
Milk-n-Honey at 3:00, After Show Café from 4:30-5:30
Join the students of Oxfam America @ NYU in a discussion about hunger prevention worldwide.
Saturday, November 17
Saturday, November 17
Milk-n-Honey at 7:30, After Show Café from 9:00-10:00
Just Food cooking demo with locally grown food – come have a taste!
Friday, November 16
Friday, November 16
Milk-n-Honey at 7:30, After Show Café from 9:00-10:00
If you’ve ever eaten Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, you’ve tasted brownies made by the Greyston Bakery – and you have participated in a powerful project that’s helping to transform lives and renew the economy in Yonkers, New York.
Come enjoy a free dessert that you won’t soon forget and learn more about how these partners are turning extraordinary foods into beneficial social outcomes. And join us in a conversation about how businesses can do more to build a healthy economy that better serves human needs.
Thursday, November 15
Thursday, November 15
Milk-n-Honey at 7:30, After Show Café from 9:00-10:00
Fresh and Local
Michael Hurwitz from Greenmarkets will lead a discussion and answer all of your questions about how to eat green in NYC, and Leah Savin of ArtsEngine will screen a short film about food systems!
Wednesday, November 14
Wednesday,November 14
Milk-n-Honey at 7:30, After Show Café from 9:00-10:00
Authors Anna Lappé and Marion Nestle
Anna Lappé, author of GRUB: Ideas for and Urban Organic Kitchen, will lead a discussion with Marion Nestle acclaimed author of What to Eat, Food Politics, and Safe Food. Read more about Marion Nestle’s amazing work on her website http://www.foodpolitics.com.
Also at the Café tonight, we’ll have a special booksale by our friends at Bluestockings, a radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through words, art, food, activism, education, and community, Bluestockings strives to create a space that welcomes and empowers all people.
Both Anna’s and Marion’s books will be available for purchase and signing by the authors.
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