Author Archives: Diane Ferraro

HARVEST East End: A Hampton’s Classic

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What: HARVEST East End: Third Annual Wine & Food Classic

When: August 25, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Where: Hampton Classic, 240 Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, NY

How Much: Tickets are $150

If you haven’t had a chance to hightail it to Long Island’s East End this summer, it may be time to giddy-up over to the third annual benefit hosted by Harvest East End, a non-profit working to highlight Long Island’s food purveyors and wine region, and raise awareness about health, environmentalism and sustainability. Continue reading →

Sweet Roots NYC Does the Prep for Home Cooks — and Delivers

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Sometimes it’s hard for New Yorkers to bring the farm all the way to their table. After a long day of work and commuting home, it’s likely many mini refrigerators open to reveal outdated ketchup and a half-tub of yogurt. It’s no wonder so many reach for the take out menu instead of a cutting board. The next logical step is to pick up the phone. Right?

Perhaps not. Sweet Roots NYC, an innovative farm-to-kitchen counter service, offers menu planning, ingredient prep and delivery (which neatly takes the hardest steps out of the process). Continue reading →

SHARE: A Field-to-Plate Dinner

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What: SHARE: A Field to Plate Dinner to support the North Fork Education Initiative

When: August 12, cocktails and silent auction from 4:00pm to 6:00pm; until 7:00pm with dinner

Where: Golden Earthworm Organic Farm, 652 Peconic Bay Boulevard, Jamesport, NY

How Much: Tickets are $50 for the cocktail party, or $175 with dinner

Off to the East End this weekend? Board members and Co-Executive Directors of the North Fork Education Initiative (NFEI), sisters Elizabeth Casey Searl and Kathryn Casey Quigley, have been revving up for this Sunday’s event by alternating turns at playing the title character of Mrs. Dalloway — though for this fundraiser, envision a real-time picturesque farm atmosphere over highfalutin’ London circa 1920.   Continue reading →

Digging in the Dirt: Satur Farms

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Long Island is historically known for stretches of farms and vast sky that seems to dip down and touch the island’s surrounding waters. With farmland under threat of decline, Satur Farms in Cutchogue, New York, remains a beacon of sustainable hope. Paulette Satur and her husband, Eberhard Müller, co-founder and opening chef of Clean Plates-rated Le Bernardin, are committed to sustainable farming with a three-pronged approach benefiting laborer, purveyor, and plot. Continue reading →

Long Island Vintners: Gamechangers in Sustainability

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Looking for local wines that are as sustainable as can be? Have a sip of this: Several Long Island-based winegrowers have forged together to launch an ecologically mindful collective around the careful cultivation of one juicy little fruit: The grape. Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing (LISW), a not-for-profit organization and the first sustainable vineyard certification program east of the Mississippi, officially went public with their message on Earth Day of this year. Continue reading →