New Year for Animals Farm-to-Table Fundraiser
Tue, Sep 03
|Yesod (address will be sent to guests)
The Jewish calendar has a New Year for Animals called Rosh Hashanah La’Behemot. To celebrate the goats and chickens at Yesod Farm+Kitchen, join us for a Farm-to-Table dinner. Funds raised will support our animal care fund.
Time & Location
Sep 03, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Yesod (address will be sent to guests), Fairview, NC 28730, USA
Guests
About the Event
About the Event
The Jewish calendar has a New Year for Animals called Rosh Hashanah La’Behemot. In honor of this day, Yesod Farm+Kitchen is celebrating our chickens and goats! Join us for a Farm-to-Table dinner on the farm's lawn. This fundraiser will support our animal care fund.
Come as early as 6:00pm to meet the goats and chickens. We will sit down for dinner at 6:30pm.
Each meal ticket includes salad, roasted vegetables and iced tea from Yesod and neighboring farms, mead, and dairy-free ice cream. You can choose from one of 4 main course options.
Tickets
Tickets have a $36 minimum to cover dinner expenses for one guest. Tickets for higher on the sliding scale contribute to our animal fund. Food for our goats and chickens costs $4,300 per year. We'd love to raise a good portion of that at this event! Please give generously within your means.
Tickets sales end on Sunday, September 1 at 10:00am
What You're Supporting
Chicken Soup: We have been cooking & sharing chicken soup with community members who are sick and mourning for years. In the first 6 months of this Jewish calendar year alone, we delivered 42 chicken soups. This upcoming year, we will make soup out of the current flock of chickens at Yesod, and bring new chickens in to replace them.
Eggs: In addition to feeding Yesod residents, guests, and event atendees, we share our eggs with others in Fairview. Spring 2023-Spring 2024 we brought 207 dozen eggs to Food for Fairview, and now bring an average of 6 dozen eggs every other week to Bounty & Soul's Share Market at Root Cause Farm.
Land & Soil: We strategically rotationally graze our chickens and goats to support the land. Chickens eat plants and fertilize our gardens in the winter, and help us clear new growing areas and fertilize fruit trees in the summer. Goats add nutrients and increase biodiversity by eating back fast-growing plants such as multiflora rose, bittersweet, and privet. They trim our wild berry plants for increased production.
Jewish Farming: We have learned so much about Jewish practices by caring for our animals. We have learned about the holidays of Shabbat, Shavuot, Passover, Rosh Chodesh, and the New Year for Animals. Community members have felt connected to Judaism by being at pasture, milking goats, and witnessing kosher-style chicken slaughter.
Community Connection: Animals bring community together. Animals connect people with the land, farming, and their Judaism. We have been actively building networks of mutual aid and community support for goat and chicken care, and supporting neighbors through farmsitting, advice, and skill and resource sharing.
If you are not able to come to dinner, but would like to support this work, you can do so at www.yesodfarm.org/donate.
Main Course (choose 1)
We are excited to offer 4 different options of the main course, to accommodate varying dietary needs:
- Lamb Ribs: Slow-cooked ribs from a neighbor's sheep.
- Chicken Soup: Chicken from Hickory Nut Gap farm with vegetables from Yesod and neighboring farms. This is the same recipe we use when making soup for people who are sick or mourning.
- Quiche (Dairy-Free): Seasonal vegetables, herbs, and eggs from Yesod. Please indicate if you need your quiche to be gluten-free. There is a place on the ticket form to indicate this.
- Pasta (Vegan): Please indicate if you need your pasta to be gluten-free. There is a place on the ticket form to indicate this.
Dietary Restrictions
Dinner will be prepared in a home kitchen and plated by Yesod staff. Questions about cross-contamination and kashrut can be sent to info@yesodfarm.org. Dinner will be dairy-free. None of the meat was slaughtered kosher-style. Please share any other dietary restrictions that you have. Please specify if you cannot be seated at a table with these foods present.
Dress Code - be comfortable!
Please dress for the weather, and bring a mask (mask required for getting food from the buffet line). While there are far fewer mosquitos at Yesod than there are in the city of Asheville, we still recommend wearing long sleeves and pants or wearing bug spray.
In Case of Rain we may cancel this event. Please check your email the day of the event – we will send a message by 2pm if we are canceling. Since this is a fundraising event, we are not able to provide refunds in case of cancelation, but will have packaged dinners available for pick up and will follow up about other opportunities to tour the space.
Accessibility
For dinner you will be seated on a folding chair, with no arms, at a table.
Handwashing and compost toilets are available, and are a 1-2 minute walk from the dinner venue.
When we finalize where at Yesod dinner will be, we will update this event with information about slope, distance from parking and bathrooms, and shade.
We will update this event with information on walking distance and terrain to visit the goats and chickens once we know where they will be grazing at the time of the event.
Please email info@yesodfarm.org with accessibility requests and questions.
COVID: Everyone is required to wear a mask when getting food. Food will be served by the farm crew, who will be wearing masks and ensuring there is no cross-contamination. You will have a chance to provide us with your preference for seating on your registration form. Please email us if you have additional needs.
You will receive our address upon registration.
Tickets
Ticket (sliding scale)
Please give what you can. The minimum on the sliding scale is $36, to cover dinner expenses for one guest. A ticket for higher on the sliding scale contributes to our animal fund.
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