Soup-A-Bowl 2011~A Much-Enjoyed Success!

The community came together to make the 4th annual Soup-A-Bowl great!  The event raised more than $7,000 make healthy food and opportunities to learn about food and farming more broadly available in our community, Soup-A-Bowl makes 25% of the 60 tons of food we harvest available to low-income folks (subsidies, donations and purchased with public assistance programs like food stamps) and provides scholarship funding for farm visit experiences to local and urban youth.

Your support helps us, each year, to:

  • Donate 10 tons of vegetables and fruit to soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters
  • Educate more than 500 youths about food and farming
  • Make 25% of the 60 tons of produce we harvest available to our low-income neighbors
  • Train 5 to 7 future farmers in sustainable agriculture

Soup-A-Bowl is possible through the hard work and generous support of many, many individuals.  A committee of volunteers lends their time and skills to plan and carry out this event.  If you are interested in getting involved with this dynamic group, contact susan@farmproject.org (473-1415) to learn more about the many different kinds of tasks.  We are especially seeking someone who likes to organize and coordinate a team on a multi-faceted project to follow in Sophia Hsieh's footsteps (thank you for all your work, Sophia!)

Best of all, Soup-A-Bowl was fun!  Here are some thoughts shared by attendees:

This was the first Soup-A-Bowl I could attend, and I loved it!  Such a positive, nourishing event for 9/11.  Delicious food for the present and hope for the future with all the wonderful young and very young folks there. 
Barbara Lindsey

The Soup-A-Bowl this year was the best ever!---KUDOS.
Linda Gaines

The mood of the crowd this year was really jubilant!
Susan Tveekrem

…the soups were plentiful and delicious!!
Beverly Allyn

Thanks for putting on such a great event.  Everything seemed to go so well and smoothly...no long lines, tasty soups and beautiful bowls!
Robin McAdoo

The volunteer soup servers second shift had fun!  Congrats on a successful event!
Lynn Bartolotta

I really enjoyed helping out and am looking forwarding to doing it again next year.
Alicia Dean

I am so happy that I attended another of your events! You really know how to throw a great party. Everything worked, from soup to nuts! The space, pottery, soups, raffle, silent auction all was fun. I will make this a yearly outing. Thanks!
Rhonni Hallman

I had a great time, and am very proud to have been a part of all this!  We hope our music was a good addition to the event; if there are any comments, we'd love to hear them so we can do better in the future. Hooray for the PFP!
Susie Deane for the Deane Machine

I had a wonderful time even before we swept the prizes!  I am delighted to hear that it raised so much! That is really wonderful and for such an amazingly worthy cause!
Jane Livingston

I feel blessed to be part of such a warm, creative, generous and thoughtful community. The celebration of people connecting to each other through the earth was renewing and inspiring.  The staff and the volunteers are to be commended and thanked for giving us such a wonderful gift.  
Alan Berkowitz

I was impressed by the great job the organizers did and what a good turnout there was on a weekend when there were three other food festivals going on in Poughkeepsie and nearby towns. 
Joan Magnuson

I loved the Soup-A-Bowl!  Delicious soup, wonderful people, lovely view, good music.  What a great job you all did.   I really enjoyed making bowls and am already planning to make more for next year.  Oh, one complaint, I did not win the raffle but will try again next year. I wish I could come up with brilliant suggestions but to me it was already brilliant.
Angela Colclough

Ken and I had a wonderful time. The event is another wonderful way the PFP enables us to connect good food with community. We thank those who worked on this event.
Bonnie Scheer

If you have the opportunity, let our sponsors and our food, pottery, raffle and auction donors know that you appreciate their generosity in support of the PFP!  

Sponsors
Corbally, Gartland and Rappleyea, LLP
Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union
Hudson Valley Office Furniture
Main Printing
Rhinebeck Savings Bank

Food Donors 
Adams Fairacre Farms
All Shook Up
Babycakes
Coppola’s
Cosimo's
Crafted Kup
Culinary Institute of America
Mother Earth’s
Meredith’s Bread
Nature's Pantry
RaeRae's
Soul Dog
Stop & Shop
Twisted Soul
Vassar College Dining Services

Live Music
Susie Deane and the Deane Machine

Photography
Dick Crenson

Auction and Raffle Donors
Ailene Fields
Andrea, Desert Willow Designs
Ayumi Horie
Barnes and Noble
Britt Baker, Stone Window Pottery
Cornelia Harris
Davin Butterfield, Butterfield Pottery
Estyn Hulbert
Fred Schlitzer 
Joe Turic
Josh Morgenthau, Fishkill Farms 
Kaete Brittin Shaw
Lesley Reich, Pottery Mountain
Liz Lawrence
Lynne James
Lyudmila and Yevgeniy Dance
Michele Muir
Paul Rich
Peg Keiser
Penny Dell
Poughkeepsie Farm Project
Sophia Hsieh
Women's Studio Workshop
Zinnia Gutowski

Pottery Donors
Students of the Bowl-A-Thons
Instructors Eileen Sackman and Amie Laino

Angela Colclough
Lia Harris
Lynne James
Karl Kruszynski
Kirsten McDonald
Kirsten Olsen
Mana Watsky
Steve Hill
Smriti Kapuria
Rebecca Wisniewski
Risa Hirsch Ehrlich
Butterfield Pottery
Christine Owen
Dutchess Community College Ceramics Studio
Hudson Valley Pottery
Kaete Brittin Shaw
Laura Keller
Leigh Williams
Liz Lawrence
Polly Myhrum Pottery
Pottery Mountain
Smitri Kapuria
Stone Window Gallery
Women’s Studio Workshop

 

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