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Events
Event
- Title:
- Green Pizza Fundraiser
- When:
- 09/13/2008 04.00PM - 07.00PM
- Where:
- Epworth Center - High Falls
- Venue:
- Epworth Center - Website
- Street:
- 8 Epworth Lane
- ZIP:
- 12440
- City:
- High Falls
- State:
- NY
Description
A Green Pizza Fundraiser for the Family Farm Festival will be held Saturday, September 13th, from 4 to 7pm at the Epworth Center on County Route 1 just south of High Falls. The event will raise funds for the 2009 Family Farm Festival. Festival organizers will serve up all-you-can-eat artisanal pizzas made from locally grown ingredients cooked in a hand-made wood-fired oven. Music, an heirloom tomato tasting, and tours of gardens and a strawbale house are also on offer. Admission, which includes all-you-can-eat pizza and access to all event components, is $20 for adults and $10 for children ages six to twelve. Children five and under get in free. The group will host additional fundraisers over the coming year; check out its website for details on this or other events at www.familyfarmfestival.com.
ARTICLE
Those who have attended the Family Farm Festival held at the Epworth Center in High Falls for the past six years know they were onto something pretty special. A convergence of dozens of local organic farmers and thousands of good-food lovers, the Festival was a homespun effort pulled off each year by two stalwart organizers: Dina Falconi and Jen Prosser. With Prosser’s recent move to New Mexico, Falconi has handed off the festival to a group of local organizers. The first step in the re-organization process is fundraising, and the group’s inaugural effort—an artisanal pizza and music fete—promises to fill the bellies of local supporters of sustainable, regional agriculture while filling the coffers of the fledgling group.
The Green Pizza Fundraiser for the Family Farm Festival was born when organizers sought a fundraising event to hold at approximately the same time of year the Family Farm Festival has traditionally been held. “Because of financial and organizational difficulties, we’re postponing the debut of the newly organized festival until September, 2009,” says the new organization’s President, Thea Harvey. “We’re hoping the Green Pizza Fundraiser will bring in people who’ve enjoyed the Family Farm Festival in past years. We’re looking to build a broad base of community support.”
The group hopes to bring in the throngs with the promise of pizza—not just any pizza, but all-you-can-eat, hand-crafted, artisanal pizzas made from local ingredients and baked to crispy perfection in a wood-fired cob oven. Two pies will be churned out every four minutes, and they will be topped according to diners’ requests (among the offerings will be locavore 100-mile diet pizzas, non-dairy pizzas, and dessert pizzas). Accompanying the pizza will be live music, an heirloom tomato tasting, and tours of an on-site permaculture farm and forest garden and a timber-framed strawbale house under construction. In addition, organizers will present the history of the Family Farm Festival, describe its current evolution—including details on additional workshops and its celebration of homesteading—and solicit volunteers for the organizing effort. “We envision the Festival to be the annual event celebrating the local sustainable economy,” says Harvey, “and we want it to be a chance for everyone to learn the skills they need to a live a more locally-rooted life.”
The Green Pizza Fundraiser takes place Saturday, September 13th, from 4 to 7pm at the Epworth Center on County Route 1 just south of High Falls. Admission, which includes all-you-can-eat pizza and access to all event components, is $20 for adults and $10 for children ages six to twelve. Children five and under get in free. The group will host additional fundraisers over the coming year; check out its website for details on this or other events at www.familyfarmfestival.com.
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ARTICLE
Those who have attended the Family Farm Festival held at the Epworth Center in High Falls for the past six years know they were onto something pretty special. A convergence of dozens of local organic farmers and thousands of good-food lovers, the Festival was a homespun effort pulled off each year by two stalwart organizers: Dina Falconi and Jen Prosser. With Prosser’s recent move to New Mexico, Falconi has handed off the festival to a group of local organizers. The first step in the re-organization process is fundraising, and the group’s inaugural effort—an artisanal pizza and music fete—promises to fill the bellies of local supporters of sustainable, regional agriculture while filling the coffers of the fledgling group.
The Green Pizza Fundraiser for the Family Farm Festival was born when organizers sought a fundraising event to hold at approximately the same time of year the Family Farm Festival has traditionally been held. “Because of financial and organizational difficulties, we’re postponing the debut of the newly organized festival until September, 2009,” says the new organization’s President, Thea Harvey. “We’re hoping the Green Pizza Fundraiser will bring in people who’ve enjoyed the Family Farm Festival in past years. We’re looking to build a broad base of community support.”
The group hopes to bring in the throngs with the promise of pizza—not just any pizza, but all-you-can-eat, hand-crafted, artisanal pizzas made from local ingredients and baked to crispy perfection in a wood-fired cob oven. Two pies will be churned out every four minutes, and they will be topped according to diners’ requests (among the offerings will be locavore 100-mile diet pizzas, non-dairy pizzas, and dessert pizzas). Accompanying the pizza will be live music, an heirloom tomato tasting, and tours of an on-site permaculture farm and forest garden and a timber-framed strawbale house under construction. In addition, organizers will present the history of the Family Farm Festival, describe its current evolution—including details on additional workshops and its celebration of homesteading—and solicit volunteers for the organizing effort. “We envision the Festival to be the annual event celebrating the local sustainable economy,” says Harvey, “and we want it to be a chance for everyone to learn the skills they need to a live a more locally-rooted life.”
The Green Pizza Fundraiser takes place Saturday, September 13th, from 4 to 7pm at the Epworth Center on County Route 1 just south of High Falls. Admission, which includes all-you-can-eat pizza and access to all event components, is $20 for adults and $10 for children ages six to twelve. Children five and under get in free. The group will host additional fundraisers over the coming year; check out its website for details on this or other events at www.familyfarmfestival.com.
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Venue
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