Slow Food USA’s Give What You Can week goes until April 29th 2026. Slow Food USA is a driving force for food justice at the local, national and international level. We believe in uniting the joy of food with the pursuit of justice. We are committed to transforming the world to guarantee good, clean and fair food for all. Click the link and give what you can to heal our food systems together!
Human Impacts Institute is hosting an event that I wanted to share with you all that is happening on Monday, May 4th.
Healing Land & People: Gender-Based Violence & Protecting Indigenous Women will be an Indigenous women-led discussion around protecting land, preventing MMIP, and resisting harms from extractive industries.
This gathering brings together Indigenous women leaders, community advocates, and allies for an open conversation about healing relationships with land and community safety through Indigenous-led solutions.
This event is free to the public, follow this link for more information and to register for the event.
Slow Food North Shore is joining Cinema Arts Centre in co-sponsoring the film Organic Rising on Tuesday May 5th at 7:30pm.
Please join us for a screening of this great film about organic agriculture and conventional agricultures impact on the environment.
U.S. consumers see the USDA organic label every day, yet few understand what it truly means. Director (and Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award winning journalist) Anthony Suau offers a clear, comprehensive guide to the history of organic farming, its regulations, and the practices behind the food we buy. To define organic, the film also examines what it is not, turning a critical eye toward conventional agriculture through farmers and leading scientists. Their research on the human and environmental effects of synthetic pesticides is deeply unsettling. Organic Rising demystifies the system, empowering viewers to make informed choices about the future of agriculture. The film’s Executive Producer is Deepak Chopra, and the film features such notable figures in the organic food movement such as superstar chefs Dan Barber (Blue Hill at Stone Barns) and Sean Brock (founder of Husk, South Carolina), Winona La Duke, Long Island’s own Fred Lee of Sang Lee Farms in Southold (and the Northport Farmers Market), Maria Rodale (Rodale Institute), Vandana Shiva (author and environmental activist par excellence), and the dearly departed Fred Kirschenmann (former director of the Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Board President of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture) and Ronnie Cummins (co-founder, Organic Consumers Association/OCA). (2023, 130 mins)
Here is the link for more information and to buy your tickets.
I hope to see you there.
Slow Food North Shore is organizing a Medicinal Herb Beach Walk at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Beach Park in Oyster Bay, NY. The event will be from 5:30-7:30pm on Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
We have invited Ellen Kamhi, The Natural Nurse, to join us and share with us her knowledge of local wild herbs right in our own community. Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse® has been involved in Natural Medicine since 1973, when she directed a program in Ethnobotany at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona. Dr. Kamhi attended Rutgers and Cornell Universities. She sat on the Panel of Traditional Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical School and is a Medical School Instructor, teaching Botanical Pharmacology. She was nominated for the March of Dimes, Woman of Distinction 2004 and received the J.G Gallimore award for research in science.
Please come and join us for this beautiful and informative walk.
Followed by a Slow Food Pot Luck Dinner
Please bring a dish to share.
We will walk over to the gazebo and picnic tables following the walk and share a convivial meal!
For more info and to register, email info@slowfoodnorthshore.org
Slow Food North Shore is organizing their second event of 2025 with a Medicinal Herb Beach Walk at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Beach Park in Oyster Bay. The event will be from 5:30-7pm on Monday August 4th, 2025.
We have invited Ellen Kamhi, The Natural Nurse, to join us and share with us her knowledge of local wild herbs right in our own community. Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse® has been involved in Natural Medicine since 1973, when she directed a program in Ethnobotany at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona. Dr. Kamhi attended Rutgers and Cornell Universities. She sat on the Panel of Traditional Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical School and is a Medical School Instructor, teaching Botanical Pharmacology. She was nominated for the March of Dimes, Woman of Distinction 2004 and received the J.G Gallimore award for research in science.
Please come and join us for this beautiful and informative walk.
For more info and to register, email info@slowfoodnorthshore.org
Slow Food North Shore is organizing their first event of 2025 with a Summer Soirée & Pot Luck at the iEat Green Homestead. We have invited Monique Fitzgerald, a Climate Justice Organizer from the Long Island Progressive Coalition, to join us and share with us the work they are doing and ways we can get involved. The Long Island Progressive Coalition is working to make Long Island better by fighting for structural change at the local, state, and national levels to attain racial justice, build community wealth, and realize a just transition to a 100% renewable energy future.!
Please come and join the party, and bring with you a homemade or locally sourced dish to share. For more info and to register, email info@slowfoodnorthshore.org
JUST ADDED** KNIFE SHARPENING TRUCK TO THE EVENT- Bring your dull knives or gardening tools to the pot-luck, and have them sharpened while you mingle with friends!
Hi Everyone,
We are very excited to be back at the Cinema Arts Centre with Slow Food North Shore, to screen the award winning documentary, “Common Ground.” Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the hit documentary, Kiss the Ground. This new powerful film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system, while also profiling a movement of farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, our health, and stabilize America’s economy. (2023, 105 mins)
Following the film, Slow Food North Shore and iEat Green invite you to join us in the Sky Cafe for a reception and conversation.
COMMON GROUND
Wednesday, November 20th at 7:30 PM
Reception sponsored by Slow Food North Shore and iEat Green
$16 Public | $10 Members
To Purchase tickets, click here
Join us for the 5th Annual Long Island CSA Fair! (Community Supported Agriculture)
We will have 15 farmers all under one roof promoting their CSA programs.
Meet the farmers and find the program that works best for you and your family. There will be be several food vendors with food for purchase and a mobile knife sharpening truck offering service while you check out the fair!
For more information please email info@slowfoodnorthshore.org.
The Long Island CSA Fair is sponsored by Slow Food North Shore, Deep Roots Farmers Market, NOFA-NY, I Eat Green and Sisters of St. Joseph.
5th Annual Long Island CSA Fair! (CSA= Community Supported Agriculture)
The Long Island CSA fair is back for 2024!
15+ farms from across Long Island will be under one roof to present their CSA programs. Come and meet the farmers, check out their programs and see which CSA would work best for you and your family. Food will be available for purchase, including fresh brewed organic coffees, delicious baked goods and fresh baked sourdough bread! Cooking demonstrations by Natural Food Chef Bhavani Jaroff of I Eat Green.
Saturday, March 9th – 11AM-3PM.
We will be inside Building 2 at The Sisters of Saint Joseph in Brentwood. We look forward to seeing you there !
The Long Island CSA Fair is a collaborative effort of Slow Food North Shore, I Eat Green, Deep Roots Farmers Market, Sisters of St. Joseph and NOFA-NY.
Sunday June 25th, 3 PM to 5 PM
Join Natural Nurse Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHG, and Slow Food North Shore as we walk the gardens and fields of Pinetree Lane Farm*, identifying and gathering edible and medicinal herbs. Participants should bring a bag or basket for gathering herbs. Followed by refreshments from 5-6pm.
*Address to be emailed after ticket purchase. Tickets $30pp via Eventbrite: https://fb.me/e/2APlxeO3Z
