North Fork Foodie Tour 2021
Announcing new features on the Foodie Tour website!
The North Fork Foodie Tour site, proudly presented by the North Fork Reform Synagogue, is now available throughout the year and will be regularly updated with new foodie content. While our previous Foodie Tours have been an in-person, one day event, our experience running the 2020 virtual Foodie Tour and our new, dedicated website allows us to add new offerings when we find partners who share our mission of showcasing sustainable, responsible food production in their local community. In addition, we will continue to showcase new ideas and information from our long term Foodie Tour partners.
Winter Seed Sowing with Sharna Nicholson
Now that the dark, cold days of winter are here, the following video should brighten your day. Master Gardener Sharna Nicholson will teach you how to start seeds OUTDOORS in January, February & March for easy planting in the springtime. Since many students are still doing remote learning, this presentation offers an excellent science project for adults and children to do together. Here are some Sharna’s TIPS.
Enjoy Mother’s Day with Chocolates Handcrafted on the North Fork!
Ursula XVII (Disset) recently opened Atelier Chocolate in Cutchogue to share her love of chocolate with the North Fork and beyond. Disset has long been passionate about chocolate and has trained and worked with top pastry chefs in Europe and the U.S., including the North Fork Table and Inn. She sells her artisanal, high quality, no artificial preservatives chocolates from her shop, online from her website, Disset Chocolate, and at select local markets and shops on the North Fork. She is featuring several items specifically designed for Mother’s Day as well as other beautifully crafted offerings such as her “Signature Winter Collection”, a S’Mores Kit and Hazelnut Chocolate Spread. Read more about Disset here.
As a reminder, our virtual tours of local farms and other locations are available for viewing HERE . Our webinars, covering topics from backyard vineyards to challah baking to quick pickling, presented live on September 13th, have now been recorded and are available HERE . Please take a look and send us your feedback so that we can incorporate your ideas into next year’s tour. Stay tuned for more new content throughout the rest of this year.
As this year’s event was free, donations are very much appreciated. Just click on one of the donate buttons throughout this website.
Partner Virtual Tours take you to behind-the-scenes tours at locations that have never been open to the public. Hear from an acclaimed North Fork chef as he talks about his quest to present the best that North Fork producers have to offer at his Long Island Sound restaurant. Visit an oyster farm in New Suffolk, New York, which supplies some of the top restaurants in New York City. Learn how snails are grown on the North Fork and delivered fresh across the country to restaurants, individual households or North Fork retail shops. We will take you to a farm that raises a carefully curated selection of organic game birds for meat, eggs and release and a farm that uses biodynamic practices that go beyond organic to maintain and sustain healthy soil and yield heathier and better tasting crops.
Click Here to learn more about our Foodie Tour Partners and view the virtual tours!
Foodie Webinars bring you Foodie Talks and demos on everything foodie from challah bread baking to community gardens, to making wine from grapes grown in your own backyard. Learn how to save a little of the summer by quick pickling produce available right now at North Fork farm stands; how to start seeds outdoors in the winter to give your garden a head start in spring – a great project for parents and kids to do together; how to taste wine like a sommelier; and how a languishing school garden has been turned into a resource that feeds the community’s body and spirit whether or not school is in session. The webinars will remain available on the North Fork Foodie Tour website so you can watch them again according to your own schedule.
Click Here to view the recorded webinars. And if you’ve already viewed the webinars, we’d appreciate your clicking on the Feedback button below to provide anonymous comments.
