Many people have emailed and called Alexis and me with offers to help in any way they can. I will post all fundraising efforts here on the blog as we hear about them.
Current efforts under way to help Soul Food Farm get back on its (pointy) feet after this terrible setback:
Soul Food Farm Fire Fund: To help get Soul Food Farm access to cash, whether for rebuilding the chicken houses and ordering enough replacement birds to meet their obligations to their existing customers or frankly whatever, with her reluctant permission I’ve set up a PayPal donation account in Alexis’s name, under the new email account firefund@soulfoodfarm.com. Please consider donating whatever you can spare via the PayPal button. You can also go to Paypal.com and send a donation directly via the preceding email address. [Update: Don't be alarmed if PayPal says the account is not yet verified; I need to get Alexis to fill in some details. Also, please note that those who dislike PayPal can also mail a check made out to Soul Food Farm to 6046 Pleasants Valley Rd., Vacaville, CA 95688.]
Benefit Dinners:
The wonderful Sam Mogannam of Bi-Rite Market is working on a dinner to be held at 18 Reasons, the market’s community center. Details to come.
Samin Nosrat, former sous chef of the sadly shuttered Eccolo, and I are putting together a fundraiser involving a formal dinner ($$$) and informal hors d’oeuvres reception ($). Michael Pollan has kindly agreed to speak at it if his schedule permits. There will likely be an associated auction and raffle. We tentatively have a venue but are looking for meat, produce, and wine/alcohol donations, auction/raffle donations (restaurant gift certificates, hotel stays, anything), volunteer crowd wranglers, etc. Please email me if you would like to help (put Soul Food Benefit in the subject line).
More to come as I hear about it.
Canvas Underground will host a dinner to benefit Soul Food Farms on Sunday, October 11. Menu and details to come.
Hi Eric! I just wanted to say that I know Nosrat from the Free Farm Stand, and really appreciate what you’re doing here. I set up the Acme Bakery donation for the Free Farm Stand; they receive all of Acme’s Ferry Building bread at the end of Saturday. I know Bi-Rite stocks their excellent bread, and I doubt Acme would have a problem with you taking their end of the day bread gratis (they start from zero every day, and the vast majority of the end of the day bread is composted) in support of your efforts. Best wishes in your endeavor; I went to culinary near Cowtown and it would be awesome to have Pollan at 18 Reasons!
Jamie