ESSENTIAL EVENT // This Friday: Winter Solstice Feast Benefit

You like to eat and you enjoy helping local farms, right!? Good. So why not roll those two things into one tasty evening, as in: This Friday, December 16 at the Winter Solstice Feast to benefit Bushwick Farmers' Market and EcoStation: NY.

EcoStation: NY is a nifty organization working for "environmental and food justice." Its goal is to fight the vast food desert phenomenon by growing good stuff in the inner city--and then using farmers markets and food trucks to sell fresh fruits and veggies in other inner city neighborhoods.

The feast itself--located at Brooklyn Fire Proof's Nut Roaster Studio--will have eats from Roberta's, Northeast Kingdom, and Verde Coal Oven, among others; as well as a pig roast courtesy of The Hurricane Club's Lawrence Knapp. Sixpoint will be providing some brews. Live music happening courtesy of Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and Handstand Andy & the Handsome Man Band. There'll be a silent auction in case (if you're anything like us) you still have holiday shopping to do.

Suggested donation is $20 per person, which we think sounds like a bargain for a seriously awesome event, though no one will be turned away for inability to pay. Hope to see you all there--you'll find us resembling Wile E. Coyote over by the pig roast.

--Layla Schlack