September 3, 2013 – Edible Monterey Bay is pleased to announce that we’ll be joining forces with Santa Cruz Weekly to sponsor a magical farm supper benefiting the Homeless Garden Project on Saturday, October 5 at 3pm at HPG’s beautiful farm in Santa Cruz.
The elegant, outdoor meal will be prepared by an all-star roster of local chefs including La Balena’s Brad Briske, Passionfish’s Ted Walter, The Penny Ice Creamery/Picnic Basket’s Kendra Baker and Sierra Mar/Post Ranch Inn’s John Cox.
The dinner marks EMB’s second anniversary and will honor our 2013 Local Heroes Award winners—all of them founders of businesses or nonprofits that recognize the importance of engaging our local food system to promote a healthy, thriving community.
Some of the evenings’ special treats will include a farm tour, live music from Casey Frazier, wines from local vineyards, ingredients from local organic farms and an exciting panel discussion on the topic of “Food, Community and the Health of the Central Coast.”
The discussion is sure to be entertaining and inspirational as well as informative, as it will be moderated by the dynamic Jason Scorse, Program Chair of the International Environmental Policy program at Monterey Institute of International Studies and Director of the Center for Blue Economy.
Participants in the discussion will be our equally dynamic Local Heroes: Friend in Cheeses Jam Co.’s Tabitha Stroup, Homeless Garden Project’s Darrie Ganzhorn, Live Earth Farm’s Tom Broz, New Leaf Community Markets’ Scott Roseman, The Penny’s Kendra Baker, Sante Adairius’s Tim Clifford,a representative of Second Harvest Food Bank’s Willy Elliot-McCrea and Serendipity Farms’ Jamie Collins.
Tickets are $75 and all proceeds will go to the important, exciting work of the Homeless Garden Project. We expect the event to sell out, so we recommend purchasing your tickets soon at https://fallfarmsupper-localheroes.eventbrite.com or https://ediblemontereybay.com/edibleevents/edible-monterey-bay-events/. For more information, nataliea@homelessgardenproject.org or info@ediblemontereybay.com
About the author
SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.
She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.
Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.
While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.
Wood now lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she is a freelance writer and manages communications for Samaritan Ministry, an antipoverty and antiracist nonprofit that provides struggling Greater Washington residents with highly personalized and compassionate life counseling and coaching.
