Digital Horizons
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
PBS joins the Added Value Community in Hosting the Endless Feast: A Celebration of the power of people to improve their lives through Local Food.
On Sunday, September 24, Added Value hosted the PBS series, The Endless Feast, at Red Hook Community Farm. We turned the taping of this PBS show about local food and food producers into a celebration of our collective efforts to improve the social, economic and environmental health of our community. The Feast took place on Red Hook Community Farm and drew together community elders, educators, long time volunteers, funders and government officials came together with AV staff, our youth leaders and their families. Throughout the evening we talked together, we laughed and learned from one another.
With an opportunity to celebrate and educate at the same time, we made sure that all the food shared that evening was prepared with products sourced from within 150 miles of the Farm! The meal featured Added Value collards, dandelion and kale, salad greens, tomatoes basil, thyme, sage, oregano. Garden of Eve, our CSA farm in Long Island, provided sweet potatoes, John Amoroso, founding board member and pioneering urban farmer, provided eggplant red peppers and basil, Red Jacket Orchard provided friar plums and concord grapes, Flying Pig Farms (http://www.flyingpigsfarm.com/) and Cloonshee Farms provided chicken. Bread and fresh mozzarella was produced just blocks away by members of the Caputo Family while Cato Farms provide a variety of sheep’s milk cheese. The dessert was from Il Labrotorio De Gelato.
The show is hosted by Bryant Terry and Anna Lappe, long-time Added Value supporters and partners, and co-authors of GRUB: Ideas for An Urban Organic Kitchen, and Elizabeth Johnson of Just Food. The chef was none other than Laurent Salliard of our partner Ici Restaurant.
Thank you to all of the Added Value youth leaders, their families, and supporters who came out for the celebration!
Warm regards on this beautiful Fall Day.
Ian
PS, pick up GRUB, visit ICI, 360, and the Good Fork and TINI,
Support local economic development, sustainable agriculture and youth empowerment.
And of course please join us Saturday October 21st for our Second Annual October Harvest Festival
Pps. Thanks to Greg O’Connell and Ray Hall for their last minute support.
Photo Gallery of Endless Feast
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