Red Hook Farm survives Sandy and presents 2014 Festival, by Diehl Edwards

The youth empowerment organization Added Value is preparing for the Red Hook Community Farm’s 11th annual Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 25th from 10:00am until 4:00pm.

The pumpkin patch from the 2012 fair.
The pumpkin patch from the 2012 fair.

The event, which will be held at the farm itself, located on the corner of Beard St and Ostego St, will feature the musical styling of the Brooklyn band City Billies, catering by the local restaurants Kevin’s and Baked, sushi made on site from the farm’s vegetables, pumpkin carving and decorating, and a few Alpine goats prime for the petting.

This year’s Festival is a way for Added Value to showcase the progress the Red Hook Community Farm has made in the two years since being completely devastated by hurricane Sandy. Along with major structural overhauls thanks to private and public donations and a committed youth involvement, the Farm has been able to reinstate its weekly Farmer’s Market, where people can purchase the Farm’s produce. It began early this fall and has happened each subsequent Saturday and will be held during the Harvest Festival. The Farm’s overall production has risen so much that they no longer have to supplement their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) with vegetables from other farms, packing nearly every box with Red Hook-sourced food.
The weekly Farmer’s Market will continue to be held each Saturday until the weekend before Thanksgiving. Thecomposting portion of the Farm (the largest community compost program run on renewable resources in the city) is operational all year round, with donation times of 9:00 am-12:00 pm Fridays and 10:00 am-1:00 pm Saturdays. They will begin next year’s crops in their greenhouse around February/March of next year.

The Harvest Festival is open to the public and families are encouraged to come spend the day.
For more information about the Farm, check out their website www.added-value.org

Share:

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn

Comments are closed.

READ OUR FULL PRINT EDITION

Our Sister Publication

a word from our sponsors!

Latest Media Guide!

Where to find the Star-Revue

Instagram

How many have visited our site?

wordpress hit counter

Social Media

Most Popular

On Key

Related Posts

Film: “Union” documents SI union organizers vs. Amazon, by Dante A. Ciampaglia

Our tech-dominated society is generous with its glimpses of dystopia. But there’s something especially chilling about the captive audience meetings in the documentary Union, which screened at the New York Film Festival and is currently playing at IFC Center. Chronicling the fight of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), led by Chris Smalls, to organize the Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Staten

An ode to the bar at the edge of the world, review by Oscar Fock

It smells like harbor, I thought as I walked out to the end of the pier to which the barge now known as the Waterfront Museum was docked. Unmistakable were they, even for someone like me — maybe particularly for someone like me, who’s always lived far enough from the ocean to never get used to its sensory impressions, but

Quinn on Books: In Search of Lost Time

Review of “Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance,” by Kevin Brown Review by Michael Quinn   “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: / To make a poet black, and bid him sing!” – Countée Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” Come Thanksgiving, thoughts naturally turn to family and the communities that shape us. Kevin Brown’s “Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance” is a

MUSIC: Wiggly Air, by Kurt Gottschalk

Mothers of reinvention. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been,” according to writer George Eliot, who spoke from experience. Born in the UK in 1819, Mary Ann Evans found her audience using the masculine pen name in order to avoid the scrutiny of the patriarchal literati. Reinvention, of style if not self, is in the air