Foodtober18: Rooftop Farm Tour + Fall Festival
Join Yale.NYC for an exclusive early-access farm tour at the beautiful Brooklyn Grange Fall Farm Festival (in Long Island City). Learn about what's happening on the farm in October – from the farmers, to the chickens and honeybees, and the plants themselves. Sip a cappuccino while strolling through fall crops, saving seeds from our organic heirloom vegetables, and learning about the farm's many uses, including as a learning laboratory for City Growers. After a special Q & A session with City Growers education staff, guests will be able to enjoy the Fall Fam Festival, shop at the farm stand - even play a round of corn hole among the peppers!
Our hosts for the morning are:
Cara Chard, Director of City Growers
Katie Cuthbert, Educator, City Growers
Emma Taliaferro, Educator, City Growers
Georgia Maloney, Board Chair of City Growers
Ellice Lee, Board Member, City Growers
Frank Raffaele, Owner, Coffeed
Our Itinerary:
10:00 - 10:30: Meet in Coffeed for coffee, bagels and pastry (compliments of Coffeed)
10:30 - Renel and Cara bring the group up to the farm. Tour begins.
10:40 - Visit the market and "ask the farmer" q & a session with Renel
11:30 - The Fall Farm Festival opens to the public from 11am-4pm. Feel free to enjoy the farm festival as long as you like, or head down to Coffeed for lunch.
Your ticket includes a welcome breakfast of coffee and bagels courtesy of COFFEED, and 100% of the ticket price will be donated to our Foodtober beneficiary, City Growers, providing environmental and food education programs for students in grades K-12.
KALE T-shirts will be available at this event. You can order and pay with your tickets.
Foodtober is a month of activities and events celebrating and examining our connection to food. Foodtober is organized by the Yale Alumni Association of New York, connecting Yalies with each other and our communities. Net proceeds from this Foodtober event benefit The Yale Sustainable Food Project, City Growers and Just Food.
This event has a limited number of tickets. Please purchase yours now to assure your spot.
Photos might be taken at YAANY events for use on YAANY's website, newsletter, and social media. YAANY event tickets are nonrefundable. If you are unable to use the tickets you have purchased, please let us know so that we can make your space available to our waitlist or scholarship attendees. Proceeds from unused tickets may be donated to the event beneficiaries or used to fund event expenses.
Date: October 27, 2018 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Location: Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm + COFFEED | 37-18 Northern Boulevard, Queens, NY 11101
Event website: eventbrite.com
