Beekeeping Lesson & Lunch!

Bring your kids and join us as we learn about the wonderful world of bees! Meg Paska, an urban beekeeper and homesteader, will teach us about the work that bees do and give us the basics on keeping bees in our backyards and rooftops.  Then, we’ll head over to the backyard of Ditmas Park residents Mike Sheehan and Diana King to visit their hive!  We will investigate their hive in action and participants will be able to get as close as they feel comfortable. 
We’ll wrap up the day with lunch at The Farm on Adderley and bee-themed arts & crafts.
Please note:  Safety is of the utmost importance.  Participants will be given guidelines for appropriate attire for the event.

WHEN: Monday, July 16th
TIME: 10 AM, lunch at noon.
LOCATION: The Farm on Adderley & a neighborhood hive (walking distance from The Farm!)
PRICE: $20 / child, $25 / adult

To sign-up send an e-mail to
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5% Days!

ABOUT SHELDON FARMS

Sheldon Farms is a sixth-generation family farm located in Salem, New York. They specialize in potatoes, sweet corn, maple syrup, pumpkins and a host of summer vegetables. Pat & Albert Sheldon were hit hard by last year’s hurricane and their fall harvest was decimated.

The Farm on Adderley relies on the bounty of local farms to provide us with the best and freshest produce available.

5% of our day’s sales here at the restaurant will go to helping Pat & Albert with lost income from the fall harvest.

Join us every Monday in June  to help out Pat & Albert!

Forage & Dine

Barrier Brewing Co. Dinner

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Nextdoorganics CSA!

Nextdoorganics, an urban farming CSA, has a pop up CSA pick up Monday nights from 7-8pm at Sycamore Bar & Flowershop.

What is a CSA? A CSA is a community supported agriculture program designed to help stabilize the local food system by arranging for members to pay for produce and farm products upfront, often before they are even planted. Seeing as they’re in New York City, the NextDoorganics folks have modified the traditional CSA model to make it more flexible for members (recent press about us in the Washington Post) and to to tap the amazing pool of small-batch producers in Brooklyn/NYC who source their ingredients from local farms. Becoming a CSA member gives them some stability, a community, with a predictable harvest and income, so that the local food system becomes more sustainable. That’s community supported agriculture.

During these winter months while the ground is cold and they aren’t growing anything, they are offering some really great items from our local Brooklyn food system. The Winter CSA includes bread from Roberta’s, cheeses from Saxelby Cheesemongers, farm fresh eggs, and a variety of Brooklyn-made, small-batch, locally-sourced pantry items. Some of our pantry items include farm-direct, Brooklyn-roasted Kona (Hawaii) and La Merced (Peru) coffees from Brewklyn Grind (In a CSA? This is New York!), pickled vegetables from Sour Puss Pickles, seasonal preserves and jams from The Stand, and granola from The Farm on Adderley.

You pay as you go. Packages range from $20-50/week. You can make choices about what you need each week or exclude items altogether. You can skip a week if you’ll be traveling or you can cancel permanently at any time. Produce will be back in the Spring/Summer.

Sign up at NextDoorganics
Pick up Mondays 7-8pm at Sycamore

Other CSA pick ups in Bushwick, Williamsburg, Ditmas Park, & Gowanus
Deliveries to Manhattan, Brooklyn, & Queens

Natural Winemakers’ Dinner

For more information on Jenny and Francois’ other Natural Winemakers’ Week events, see their site.

Valentine’s Day

Celebrate love!
The Farm on Adderley will be offering a three-course prix-fixe for those celebrating love on Tuesday, February 14th.
We will have two seatings:
6:30
8:30.
Parties of any size can reserve a table for the prix fixe.
$45 / person (beverages, tax and gratuity not included).
Also, there will be a beverage pairing available for $22 / person.
Plus, guests will receive a little treat from our friends down the street at Sycamore.
To reserve a table, please send an e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with your desired seating time and number of guests in your party.

**Please note, the restaurant will be open for regular dinner service, as well.  Our regular reservation policy applies to those who wish to order from the dinner menu.  Valentine’s reservations are for the prix fixe dinner only.

Pre-Industrial Dinner

Step back in time with us and imagine Brooklyn in the mid-1800s.  Farms flourished and Flatbush bustled as workers harvested crops in the neighborhoods we now call home. 
Join us at The Farm on Adderley for a meal inspired by the food eaten by the people who lived and worked on farms in the area.  Electricity had yet to be delivered, so refrigeration wasn’t available – food preservation techniques were the key to ensure food could be enjoyed all-year long.  Chef Tom Kearney is creating a four-course meal showcasing these practices and techniques.
Our guest for the evening is ‘historic gastronomist’ Sarah Lohman, who will provide a historical context for the food we’re eating and how Brooklyn – and specifically Flatbush - fit into the larger network of farms and food distribution in New York in the 1800s.
Sarah Lohman is an educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and also works as a freelance curator, consulting with institutions such as The Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens to create public programs focused on food.

Date:  Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Time:  7:30 PM
Cost: $69 / person (beverages, tax & gratuity not included).

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Holiday Parties

Planning a holiday party or dinner get-together?
We can accommodate groups of all sizes and we would love to have you.
Send us an e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.

Inaugural 2012 Brunch

The Farm on Adderley will be open for brunch on Sunday, January 1st, 2012 from 10:30 to 3:30.
Come by and start planning the execution of those resolutions while you enjoy a delicious bloody mary.
Reservations accepted for parties of 5 to 10 people.
Give us a call!
718.287.3101

New Year’s Eve!

Join us as we get 2012 off to a great start!
The Farm on Adderley will be offering a five-course prix-fixe on December 31st, 2011.
There will be two seatings:
The first seating is at 6:30 and costs $65/person.
The second seating is at 9:30 and costs $95/person.  The second seating also includes live music and a champagne toast as the clock strikes twelve.
*tax and gratuity are additional.

Reservation Policies for New Year’s Eve
We can accommodate a limited number of parties of 10 or more people.
To make a reservation, please send us an e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
In your e-mail, please specify which seating you prefer, the number of people in your party and a telephone number where you can be reached.
Important note:  For parties of 5 or more people, we will require a credit card number to hold your table.  We have a one-week cancellation policy for these reservations, fully refundable if you cancel on or before Saturday, December 24th.  After December 24th, our cancellation fee is 50%.

Gingerbread House Making

On Wednesday, December 28th children of all ages are invited to come build an all-natural gingerbread house here at The Farm on Adderley.
We’ll provide a pre-fab ginger-home and all the necessary goodies to create a palace. Please note there will be no corn-syrup or artificially colored candy in our workshop – only dried fruit and natural candy for these creations! 
The event starts at 10 AM and goes until 7:30 PM (with a break from 4 to 5:30 PM).
Join us!  Come in for lunch and make a house afterwards!  Or come in with a friend for an early dinner while the little one works away!
Parents are welcome to help.  Also, a staff member from The Farm on Adderley will be on-hand to help out in the workshop if you would prefer to grab a seat at the bar, say, have a glass of wine and observe from a distance.
Supplies are limited!
To reserve a house, please send an e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
$25 / house, including candies & dried fruit for decorating (+ tax).

Donkey & Goat Winemakers’ Dinner

Donkey and Goat (aka – Tracey and Jared Brandt) are a risk-taking husband and wife team in Berkeley, California who push the envelope with their “low-touch” natural winemaking: they hand-harvest their grapes early, they stick to natural yeasts and they don’t use additives.  On the bountiful California wine scene, they truly stand out.
 
As Tracey puts it, “We make our wines for the table, not the cocktail glass.” In other words, they craft wine that was built for food. Tracey and Jared will be at The Farm on Adderley for a five-course dinner paired with their exceptional wines, so come and see for yourself why these wines matter!

When:  Monday, November 7th
Time:  8 PM
Where:  The Farm on Adderley
Cost:  $80/person, not including tax/gratuity.

Space is limited.  Please notify us of any special dietary restrictions, as the menu will be fixed.

Send an e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to reserve a spot!

Win Brunch Through Our Friends at Brokelyn!

Our friends over at Brokelyn have voted us the best brunch in Brooklyn!
To win brunch for four at The Farm on Adderley, click here.

Chinatown Shop & Cook

Join Chef Tom Kearney for a market tour of Brooklyn’s Chinatown.

Participants will meet at a specified location in Sunset Park (TBD) to explore the bounty and diversity of foods available there.  We’ll take a look at ingredients we don’t commonly see on the shelves of our local grocery stores or at our neighborhood farmer’s markets and how we can integrate them into our pantries and fridges.  We’ll poke around the fish market and learn how to choose, for example, the perfect fish to fillet for dinner.

After spending the afternoon together shopping, guests will disperse and then reconvene at The Farm on Adderley at 8 PM for a sit-down dinner featuring items from the day’s adventure.  Following the dinner, recipe cards will be distributed so you can try your hand at Tom’s dishes.

Important note:  This event involves a lot of walking.  Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared for plenty of hoofing it on foot. 

Space is limited to 15 participants.

Dietary restrictions must be known before-hand, as the menu will be fixed.  The menu will be geared towards a more adventurous palate, dietarily speaking. 

Transportation to and from Sunset Park is up to you, but a bicycle group will be meeting at The Farm on Adderley at 12:30 the day of the event to cycle over together.  Keep in mind that you may want to buy a bunch of groceries and that you’ll have to tote them back with you (ie - bring a decent-sized backpack).

Itinerary

Date: Sunday, October 23rd
Market Tour: 1pm
Dinner: 8pm
Cost: $50/person*
*beverages, tax and gratuity not included

To register, send an e-mail to thefarmonadderleyevents@gmail.com

This event is rain or shine!

Thanksgiving 2011!

The Farm on Adderley will be hosting Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 24th.

Join us to celebrate!

The cost is $55/person and includes a three-course meal. 
A vegetarian option will be available.
A ‘Children’s Plate’ will be available for $20 for children 12 and under.
Beverages, tax and gratuity are not included in the cost.

Take a look at the menu.

For a table reservation, the seating times are:
12:30 PM
3 PM
5:30 PM
8 PM

For a spot at the bar, reservations will be accepted at the following times:
1 PM
3:30 PM
6 PM
8:30 PM

Reservation Policies for Thanksgiving
We can also accommodate a limited number of parties of 10 or more people.
To make a reservation, please send us an e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
In your e-mail, please specify which seating you prefer, the number of people in your party and a telephone number where you can be reached.  Also, send along a second choice of seating time.
Important note:  For parties of 5 or more people, we will require a credit card number to hold your table.  We have a one-week cancellation policy for these reservations, fully refundable if you cancel on or before Thursday, November 17th.  After November 17th, our cancellation fee is 50%.

We look forward to hearing from you and hosting you for Thanksgiving!

Pig Roast

Join Chef Tom Kearney Saturday, September 17th, for a 14 hour pig roast.  Roasting of the 150lb pig begins Friday evening, and carries on through the night.  To cool you off, Lagunitas Brewery of Petaluma, CA will be pouring $5 pints of five of their delicious beers. Food will be available starting at 4pm for $25/plate.

Roasting begins at midnight on Friday (no tickets necessary), come and take a peek or join us for a beer!

Where: Sycamore

When: Saturday September 17th, 2011 2pm - 8pm Food Served @4pm

What: $25 One Plate of spit-roasted pork with sides

To Purchase Tickets: Available ONLINE ONLY at brown paper tickets

Italian Winemakers Dinner

1 Chef. 3 Winemakers. 1 Wine Blogger.
Dinner.  Wine.  Discussion.

Chef: Tom Kearney of The Farm on Adderley
Winemakers: Giacomo Mastretta of La Porta di Vertine, Marco Spagnol of Az. Agr. Spagnol, and Guido Zampaglione of Il Tufiello
Blogger: Walter Speller of Sucking Grapes

4 Courses. 8 Wines.
February 7th. 8:00pm
$75/person
Limited Availability.  Email us for reservations at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Valentines Day 2011

Monday night we’ll be offering a special menu to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Reservations will be accepted for parties of all sizes. Those diners who are less than five and would like a reservation will be limited to the pre-fixe menu. If you’d like to stop by without dining on the pre-fixe we suggest coming during off-peak hours; between 5:30 and 6pm or after 9:30pm. The Valentine’s Day menu pre-fixe is $45 for three courses.

When: Monday, February 14th
                5:30pm, 7:30pm, or 9:30pm

What: Three course dinner, Champagne toast

Price: $45/person

To Reserve: Email only: thefarmonadderley@gmail.com

Meat-the-Butcher Dinner

Josh and Jessica Applestone layed the groundwork for what has become a craze for whole-animal butchering when they opened their shop six years ago. That shop, Fleisher’s Grass Fed & Organic Meats in Kingston, NY, has changed the landscape of some of the more ambitious New York City restaurants. In an effort to eat sustainably and source meat locally, Fleisher’s brought back the lost art of whole-animal butchering.

We’ll be co-hosting a dinner with Josh and Jessica at the Farm and we’d love you to join us. We’ll be serving five courses featuring some of Fleisher’s wares. Josh and Jessica will be talking about: why butchering whole animals is an essential component of cooking sustainably; why naming the farm on a menu can be an empty gesture; why the heritage breed trend is a fad; what does it really mean to use the term “grass-fed”. Oh, and ask them what’s up with being vegetarians for 17 years.

When: Wednedsay October 20th @8pm

Where: The Farm On Adderley

What: Five Course Dinner. Q&A with Josh & Jessica Applestone. Price $65

To Reserve:

Sixpoint Beer Dinner

Since we opened the doors we’ve had at least one tap devoted to a Sixpoint beer. These guys are selling 90% of their beer in the five boroughs and it’s all on tap. This year they celebrate their sixth year in business and it’s amazing to come across as many people as we do who consider Sixpoint one of their favorite breweries. What an accomplishment for such a young brewery. Join us while we serve four courses of dinner to match four unique Sixpoint beers. The brewers will be with us to talk about the beer and answer questions.

When: Tuesday October, 5th 2010 @8pm

Where: The Farm On Adderley

What: Four Course Dinner, Four Beers $55 (Gratuity NOT included)

To Reserve: Tickets available ONLINE ONLY

Winemaker’s Dinner

In collaboration with our friends Jenny & Francois, we’re excited to host Tony Coturri at The Farm next week. “Tony is a third generation California winemaker, a Jazz aficionado, a motorcycle enthusiast and an outspoken advocate of natural winemaking. The Coturri winery has never and will never use grapes treated with pesticides, fungicides or herbicides. The story of this dynamic winery began when Enrico Coturri immigrated to America with $10 in his pocket. Upon arriving in San Francisco, he worked as a barrel cooper and helped rebuild the city after the devastating earthquake in 1906. Enrico taught his son Harry “Red” Coturri the Italian winemaking methods that he brought with him from the village of Farneta, Italy. Red founded the Coturri winery in ‘79 with his sons Tony and Phil. Tony has been making wine since ‘64; he runs the winery and is in the process of teaching his son Nic the craft.”

The night will include five of Tony’s wines paired with a five course dinner.

Date: Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Time: 8pm
Location: The Farm On Adderley
Price: $90/person tax & gratuity INCLUDED!
To Reserve: Tickets available ONLINE only at Brown Paper Tickets

The 1st Annual Good Food Festival

Wanna sample the food from some really ambitious, ingredient driven restaurants and support a cause? If so then, you gotta get your butt into Manhattan for a Sunday afternoon. We’ll be there along with Craft, Gramercy Tavern, Collichio & Sons, Minetta Tavern, Flatbush Farm, Brookvin and others. What do we all have in common? We all list Basis Foods as one of our purveyors. Basis is a mission based company that partners with farmers and local food artisans to bring food to restaurants that is 100% traceable.

Basis Foods and The FEED Foundation will co-host the first annual Back to Basis Good Food Festival in celebration of the season’s harvest. By day, the festival will feature traditional, localized, 100% traceable food from family farmers, alongside tastings from the top NYC restaurants that support them. In the evening, an intimate farm-to-table dinner will be served featuring farmers and chefs. Ticket proceeds will benefit The FEED Foundation’s 30 Project and Just Food.

Where: Gansevoort Plaza Manhattan

When: Sunday September 19th from 11am - 4pm

What: Prices Range from $22 to $185 depending on what you’re up for.
     
To Purchase Tickets: Click Here

Good Food Festival Official Page

New Brooklyn Cookbook Book Signing

The much buzzed about cookbook The New Brooklyn Cookbook is about to be released October 5th 2010. The Farm On Adderley has contributed a couple of recipes to the upcoming book and quite frankly we’re friggin delighted to be in it. This is the book that needed to be written about the current state of Brooklyn Food. Brendan and Melissa Vaughan have done a tremendous job of painting a picture of what Brooklyn restaurant and food artisans are re-setting their sights on. Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite laid the groundwork and coined the term in their 2006 article in New York Magazine “Hungry In Hipsterville”.

This week The Farm’s Tom Kearney will be participating in a panel discussion with Sean Rembold of Marlow & Sons, Frank Castronovo of Frankies Spuntino and Prime Meats and Kheedim Oh of Mama Oh’s Kimchee at Brooklyn Kitchen/The Meat Hook in Williamsburg. Admission gets you an advanced copy of the cookbook. Oh and we’ll be providing food too. Here’s the deets:

Where: Brooklyn Kitchen
        100 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

When: September 11th, 2010 @ 2pm

What: $65 Admission
          Hors d’oeuvres
          Beer from Sixpoint Brewery
          Copy of The New Brooklyn Cookbook
          Seating for the Q&A with panel participants

To Reserve: Here

Seating is limited to 45 people!!

Here’s a bit more info specifically about the book:

From New York Magazine’s Blog Grubstreet
Preview the table of contents
       

Pretty Things Beer Dinner

Ok no big deal, just the coolest brewers you’ve ever met, making some of the most important beer being made are gonna come and have a beer dinner with us.

Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project is not a brewery at all but the efforts of a brewer, Dann Paquette and his wife Martha. What they do is basically go into other people’s breweries and make beer wherever they’re welcome. To date that is happening in Massachussetts. Pretty Things beers are routinely sold out of production because they have such a hard time keeping up with demand. For our dinner, team Pretty Things will roll out four beers to be paired with four courses.

Where: The Farm

When: Wednesday July 14th, 2010 @8pm

What: $55 Four Beers, Four Courses

To Reserve: Reservations available ONLY online at Brown Paper Tickets

If you want to learn more about Pretty Things and see some of the quirkiest, passionate most idiosyncratic people making beer, then check out www.prettythingsbeertoday.com

Ommegang Beer Dinner

Set on a former hop farm in the Susqehanna River Valley, Brewery Ommegang has become somewhat of a legend for their Belgian style ales. Join us while we taste a selection of four of their brews and pair food to match.

Where: The Farm

When: Thursday April 15th 2010

What: $45 Four Beers, Four Courses

To Reserve: Call the restaurant at (718) 287-3101.

Good Spirits

Catch us at this Edible Brooklyn Event taking place at the the Bell House. Chefs from Brooklyn restaurants The Vanderbilt, No. 7, Fette Sau, Walter Foods, Fort Defiance, Mile End and Palo Santo will also be there. Each of us will be paired up with a Spirits producer and match a dish to a cocktail. We’ll be working with French vodka producer Vertical Vodka. Some of our favorite distillers will be there too; Tuthilltown Spirits, Death’s Door, Rhum J.M., Ilegal Mezcal, Compass Box, Chartreuse and Warwick Valley Vineyard & Distillery. Such a solid lineup of food & drink, can’t wait!

Where: The Bell House
                  149 7th Street
                  Brooklyn

When: Tuesday April 6th
                6-9pm

What: $40 Hors d’oeuvres & Cocktails

To Reserve: Tickets available through Event Bee or at the door.

Winemaker’s Dinner

Join us for a five course dinner with wine pairing. We’ll be sitting down with winemakers from the portfolio of Importer Jenny & Francois Selections. Jenny and Francois have been trailblazing the way for natural wines for over ten years now. By “natural” we’re talking about wines with little to no technology used in the vinification and farming of the grapes. These winemakers are driven by a passion for the process not a penchant for profit. They reject many of the cellar practices you’ll find in commercial wines like: reverse osmosis, the use of grape extracts for coloring, cold stabilization, the use of spinning cones, acidification, the use of enological enzymes, the use of enological tannins, the use of aromatic additives. These winemakers are more interested in tradition and a “low-touch”, non-interventionist approach to winemaking. They are often interested in the principles of biodynamism. Their vineyards do not use herbicides or pesticides, there are no engineered plants or genetically modified clones, there are no synthetic chemicals used in the winemaking whatsoever. The wines are often unfiltered and unfined. Their harvesting is done by hand not machine so as not to compact the soil. They do not purchase yeast from a catalog as do most wineries, they allow the natural indigenous yeasts present on the grapes to spontaneously ferment. These folks are the real avant-guarde of winemaking in the world right now and they tend to be mostly from France. Although this year we’ll be having dinner with Toni Coturri from Sonoma and a new winemaker from Chianti! Taste these exciting wines next to local food that’s been prepared especially for each wine.

Where: The Farm On Adderley back dining room (communal table)

When: 8pm Wednesday March 10th, 2010

What: Five course dinner paired with five wines
      Pre-Fixe $65

To Reserve: 718-287-3101. These events fill up fast so reserve early…seating will be limited.

For a full listing of happenings during “Winemaker’s Week” check out the Jenny & Francois itinerary: Jenny & Francois Winemaker’s Week