Environmental Food Team

Our Environmental Food Team is a program that brings older adults together for fun seminars on the history of food, cooking lessons and demonstrations, and field trips to local sustainable farms and gardens. There are occasional intergenerational events with youth from the area. All events are free and open to the public.

Schedule:

All start at 3:00 p.m. and are held in various locations in Yonkers. Call (914) 375-2151 for the meeting location for this week.

FEBRUARY
16 – Food and Love: From Gifts of Chocolate to Deadly Fish
23 – Beyond Wood: The Edible Tree – a survey of trees and what they’re used for

MARCH
2 – The Spices of Life: The ingredients that mobilized a world
9 – How Food Influenced Art: A slide show on food art from still life to soup cans
16 – FILM SHOWING: The Garden (Award winning documentary on community gardens)
23 – VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY (at Riverside H.S.). Rethinking Food With Youth (10:22 – 11:09 a.m.)
30 – Marketing and Food: How Park Avenue and Wall Street shaped what we eat.

APRIL
6 – Tea: From Religion to Revolution
13 – The Diet Wars: How conversations about what we should eat have changed our culinary habits
20 – TOUR: Organic Farming Techniques (12:00 – 4:00) – Sister Hill Farm. 2:00 p.m.
24 – SATURDAY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: – Kick off Festivities at the Science Barge (12-2 p.m.)
27 – The Invention of Sauce:  The Four Mother Sauces, and a few others.

MAY
4 – Canceled (Green Jobs Conference in Washington)
11 – What Mother Made: Home Inventions, Julia Child, and TV Dinners
18 – Seafood and the History of the Fishmongers
25 – FILM SHOWING: “The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”

JUNE
1 – Pesto Making Class: Learn traditional and adapted recipes (including sage) – Free Basil!
8 – TOUR: Plant and Human Nutrition Aboard the Science Barge (free lettuce!)
12 – VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: Booth at the Science Barge Floating Sculpture Event 12 – 2 p.m.
15 – Sugar at Any Price?: Why we crave sugar, and how it ends up in all of our food

All these activities are free. To insure a seat on the bus, please sign up for the trips in advance. NOTE: IF THE DAY’S FORECAST PREDICTS MORE THAN A DUSTING OF SNOW THE TRIP IS CANCELED. All events and activities are free and open to all adults 55+ years. For more information contact Curt Collier at (914) 375-2151, or curt@groundworkhv.org.