The Eat Well Guided Tour of America's Summer Harvest Barbeque + live Webcast

Friday Sept 7, 2007, 6:30-9:30pm Red Hook, NY

Farm Aid is joining Sustainable Table for the Eat Well Guided Tour of America’s grand finale event at Greig Farm in the Hudson Valley. Join us for an unforgettable night under the stars: a gathering of upstate New York’s local farmers, artisans, and musicians. Celebrate the harvest and enjoy a gourmet BBQ with homegrown ingredients and local brews, art installations, and live music.

Highlights include:

• Berkshire pork, heirloom vegetables, and local cheese
• Wilfredo Morel’s Steel Imaginations exhibit
• Chef4Life Laura Pensiero, a restaurateur, author, nutritionist, and food and health expert.
• Video clips from the Eat Well Guide Tour of America

Everyone is invited and it’s only a 90 minute ride from New York City! Can’t make it out?  Take part in the action via our LIVE WEBCAST, featuring on-the-ground interviews and words from chef Laura Pensiero, Farm Aid representatives, Food & Water Watch’s Patty Lovera, and Sustainable Table’s Diane Hatz.

Tickets are $20 but local farmers also enter for free. A homemade pie made from sustainable, local ingredients will also grant you free admission. All pies will be entered into a tasting contest to win two tickets to the Farm Aid concert on September 9th!

To RSVP, purchase tickets in advance, or for more information, please contact Gigi Market at (845) 758-1999 or info@gigitrattoria.com. Read more about the Eat Well Guided Tour of America at www.sustainabletable.org/roadtrip.
 
The event will be located at Gigi Market at Greig Farm, 227 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, New York 12571.

Directions: Gigi Market at Greig Farm, 227 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY 12571, map it. Drive or take the train, Amtrak to Rhinecliff or the Metro-North Hudson Line to Poughkeepsie. Free shuttle from train to event, must reserve seats by calling (212) 991-1859 or emailing  info@eatwellguide.org.

Sponsors: Special thanks to The Valley Table, Fleisher's Grass-fed and Organic Meats, Farm Aid, and Gigi Market.

This summer barbeque marks the grand culmination of Sustainable Table's Eat Well Guided Tour of America, a 38 day, coast-to-coast, tour of farms, farmers’ markets, and other sustainable outlets en route to Farm Aid 2007.

For members of the media who wish to join the daytime bus tour highlighting sustainable farmers and vineyards in the Hudson Valley, please contact Denise Hughes at (917) 549-2621 or denise@creative-connectors.com, or tune in to view the live event from your computer on the eve of 9/7 at www.sustainabletable.org/roadtrip.

Driving Directions

FROM SOUTH: Taconic State Parkway North to Red Hook exit; Turn left onto 199 (West); At Red Hook Village light turn right onto US-9; Continue approximately 3 miles, then turn left onto Pitcher Lane -- Gigi Market is approx. 0.5 miles (on left)

FROM NORTH: Taconic State Parkway South to Jackson Corners Rd. exit; Follow Jackson Corners Rd. about 3/4 mi.; Turn LEFT onto Turkey Hill Rd. (CR-56) and continue 6 mi.; Turn RIGHT onto US 9 for .3 mi; Make a LEFT onto Pitcher Lane; Gigi Market is .3 mi. (on left)

FROM THRUWAY: Take EXIT 19 toward RT-28 /Kingston/Rhinecliff Bridge. Merge onto US-209 N toward Rhinecliff Bridge (east) -- US-209 N becomes NY-199 E at the bridge; After crossing bridge, Turn left onto NY-9G / NY-199. Continue to follow NY-9G approx. 4.5 mi.; Turn sharp right onto Budds Corner Rd. (CR-79); After 2 to 3 mi., make left onto Pitcher Lane. -- Gigi Market is approx. 1.5 mile on left.