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About the Winter Solstice Feast
Previewed in the current issue of Edible Brooklyn magazine, Winter Solstice Feast 2011is a party and benefit for Bushwick Farmers’ Market and “the other neat projects of EcoStation:NY” will take place on Friday, December 16 at Brooklyn Fire Proof's massive Nut Roaster Studio.
Local restaurants, some of whom regularly serve produce grown by students at Bushwick Campus Farm (another EcoStation project), are preparing food for the event, as is the extended “Bushwick Farmers’ Market family.”
The growing list of restaurants participating includes Roberta’s, Northeast Kingdom, Café Ghia, Arancini Bros, Wyckoff Starr, Brooklyn Fire Proof East, and Verde Coal Oven. Sixpoint Craft Ales is also supporting the event with a donation of their locally-brewed beer.
The banquet table's centerpiece will be a whole roasted pig, courtesy of Lawrence Knapp, Executive Chef of The Hurricane Club in Manhattan.
Winter Solstice Feast 2011 will feature performances by Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, as well as Handstand Andy and The Handsome Man Band, fronted by Bushwick Farmers’ Market “manager and lead guitarist,” Travis Tench.
The fundraiser will also feature a silent auction, featuring goods and services donated by area businesses, artists, and craftspeople.
Admission is a suggested donation of $20, however, in the spirit of community, no one will be turned away.
EcoStation:NY’s projects include Bushwick Farmers’ Market, Bushwick Campus Farm & Greenhouse, Farm-in-the-Sky at Brooklyn Fire Proof, and the upcoming vegetable oil- and solar-powered Bushwick Farmers' Market Green Machine, a mobile market unit which will allow EcoStation to reach further into “food deserts” in need of better access to nutritious, locally- and sustainably-grown food. The Green Machine project is a recent winner of a national USDA grant.
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Please join us for Winter Solstice Feast 2011
and join Friends of EcoStation:NY today!
Note: The Winter Solstice Feast is free and open to the entire community-
no one will be turned away. Donations of volunteer hours gratefully accepted!
Friends of EcoStation:NY
Winter Solstice Feast 2011
– Note: RSVP not required for entry –
After making a donation/reservation, your name
will be added to the guest list and kept at the event door
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Pantheon of Heroes
Donation of $5000
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Hall of Fame
Donation of $1000
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Green Crusader
Donation of $500
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Market Maven
Donation of $100
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Locavore
Donation of $50
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Winter Solstice Feast
Suggested Donation: $20
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Winter Solstice Feast
RSVP only
(or Will donate at door) |
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| Note: Our aplogies about the former "RSVP only" link - we thought it would be possible to make a $0 PayPal payment and make a reservation, so we could keep count. Not to worry: an RSVP is not required, and there will be room for all! We do encourage you to RSVP on Facebook! Thanks! |
More information (and pictures!) about EcoStation
and Bushwick Farmers' Market on our websites:
www.EcoStationNY.org & www.BushwickFarmersMarket.org
Join the Facebook event for updates
Composting services for the Feast provided by
Vokashi Kitchen Waste Solution
* Please note: Donations to EcoStation are not yet tax dedctible:
EcoStation:NY is a nonprofit organization, but does not yet have 501c3 designation
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EcoStation:NY in 2011
EcoStation has had a year of great growth, with three busy weekly farmers' markets, the founding of Bushwick Campus Farm and Greenhouse (an organic teaching farm at Bushwick Campus high school), the beginnings of a rooftop farm (Farm-in-the-Sky at Brooklyn Fire Proof), and several cross-cultural community events (including Earth Week and ¡CALABAZAFEST!, which had the unfortunate fate of being held on October 29 - the day of the freak October blizzard!).
In October, we were thrilled to receive a highly competitive USDA grant, which will fund the launch of Bushwick Farmers' Market Green Machine, a vehicle that will allow us to store and transport equipment and food to our markets, and allow us to do smaller satellite markets in neighborhoods in need of access to fresh, locally-grown food that could not support a full market, financially.
In keeping with our dedication to environmental issues and education, EcoStation will be working with Brooklyn Automotive High School on the Green Machine project, converting a diesel-powered step van to run on vegetable oil and solar energy.
We are extremely pleased to be working with area high school students - our communities' next decision-makers - to open their eyes to the connections between environmental and human health: the future is in their hands!
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
EcoStation is seeking friendly & energetic volunteers to help set up, run,
and break down this fabulous monster of a party - fun guaranteed!
To volunteer, contact Mia.
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For press inquiries, or to make a donation of food, spirits, or silent auction items, please call 646-393-9305
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