ESSENTIAL EVENT // This Friday: Winter Solstice Feast Benefit
Dec 15, 2011
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
