Celebrating Catskill Food & Farms
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008
Time: 10AM to 6PM
Location: Hunter Village Square, 7950 Main St./Route 23A, Village of Hunter, NY
Information: 518 263 2001
Eat Local. Buy Local and this year, Gift Local at the first annual Winter Festival on Saturday December 6th from 10am until 6pm hosted by the Catskill Mountain Foundation with support from the Watershed Agricultural Council and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. The Winter Festival will give locals and visitors to the mountaintop a special opportunity to purchase premium, handmade goods that are produced locally and not found anywhere else. Buying local from small businesses and farms protects the integrity and beauty of the region by keeping money within the community. Additionally, most small businesses and regional farms employ sustainable business and farming practices that help keep the magic of the region intact. Eat your scenery!
Food and Gift Item Vendors
Amy's Takeaway
- Uncommonly delicious prepared foods and event catering.
BiG Buy in Greene County
- Believe in Greene. Buy in Greene.
Burts Mountain Honey
- Locally made honey and honey products.
Byebrooke Farm
Farm Catskills
- Farm Catskills mission is to preserve farmland and provide tangible support to the farmers of today and tomorrow
Fresh Harvest Cafe and Market
- In addition to our own (seasonal) farm fresh produce and homemade items prepared by Executive Chef Paul Morales, we also serve as an outlet for other farms in the region as well as locally made products.
Harpersfield Cheese
- Naturally aged and crafted from local dairy cows. Samples available in the Fresh Harvest Market.
Heirloom Botanicals
- Effective natural skin care products free of synthetic ingredients and harsh chemicals and using organic healing herbs, cold pressed vegetable/nut oils and pure essential oils.
Hudson Valley Seed Library
- Heirloom Seeds with Local Roots
JJF Blank Angus Farm
- Specializes in grass-fed and grain-finished Black Angus. No hormones or antibiotics.
Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery
- We feature the finest work by some of the best crafts artists in and around the Catskills.
Lucky Chocolates
- Handmade, luxurious, small batch chocolates made from organic and fair trade chocolate.
Middlefield Orchard
- Heirloom & Popular Apple varieties.
Organic Nectars
- Some of the finest quality raw, organic culinary components, artisanal snacks and desserts, fusing premium organic ingredients, gourment taste and optimal nutritional value.
Painted Goat Cheese
- Artisan Goat's milk cheeses. Samples will be featured in the Fresh Harvest Café & Market.
Promised Land Farm
- Swedish style handmade woolen mittens from sheep raised on the farm.
RSK Farms
- A family-owned farm featuring fingerlings and hard to find heirloom potato varieties.
Rick's Picks
- Artisinal pickles with a twist.
Shandaken Bake
- Specializing in pastries, pies, tea cakes, tarts and cakes.
Slickepott Fudge
- Chocoholics and non-chocolate lovers alike fall in love with this buttery smooth, slightly salty, chocolate fudge sauce made from natural ingredients (no corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, preservatives or thickening agents.)
Slow Food Catskills
- Slow Food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life. Slow Food educates communities about their local and traditional foods, encourages local agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction.
Stone & Thistle Farm
- A family farm specializing in pasture-raised goat, lamb, beef, pork and poultry as well as Kortright Creek goat milk, goat milk yoghurt and goat milk fudge.
Sugar Moon Maple Farm
- Featuring Grade A Fancy (yielded from the first sap flow), Grade A Medium, Grade A Dark and Grade B maple syrup as well as maple sugar and maple sugar candy.
Summers End Orchards
- Wonderfully authentic marmalades, jams and jellies, made without additives or preservatives.
Tay Tea/Tay Home
- Specializing in exclusive hand-blended artisianal teas—all ingredients are 100% natural and wild-crafted—as well as showcasing a growing number of local artisan's offerings.
Village Square Bookstore & Literary Arts Center
- In addition to our fine selection of cards, gifts and books we are dedicated to promoting local writers, poets and artists.
Demonstrations and Lectures
11AM: Sally Fairbairn author of "A Catskill Kitchen Seasonal: Recipes from the Dry Brook Valley"
12PM: Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld author of "Jamlady Cookbook" and "Pickles to Relish"
1PM: Denise Warren of Stone & Thistle Farm and one of the two founders of Slow Foods Catskill will also give a talk about the importance of local food customs and heritage foods
3PM: Sylvia Jorrin, author of "Sylvia's Farm the Journal of an Improbable Shepherd"
4PM: John Verhoeven of Jff Black Angus, will discuss the benefits of grass based livestock
Music
Enjoy caroling by The Greene Room Players at noon. And live seasonal music throughout the day.
Activities
Holiday Recipe Show and Tell
- Share your favorite recipe and become eligible to win a gift certificate to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Hyde Park for a one-day cooking class.
Jewelry Trunk Show
- Hands-on demo and make-your-own bracelet (small materials fee) at 12 noon
- Wire wrap demo at 3 pm
This event is conducted with the support of the Watershed Agricultural Council and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
