QUAIL HILL FARM E-NEWS - Peconic Land Trust

THANK YOU
FARM BREAKFAST
Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
-- Clement Freud
Thanks to a great group of volunteers, the 11th annual farm breakfast on Saturday, June 23 -a
beautiful, sunny, not too hot day -- was a perfect affair.
Jane who organized the breakfast extends BOUNTIFUL THANKS (in more or less the order of
making the breakfast happen) to:
On Friday (and before)...Scott (who also did the coop order) and farmers Joe, Brett, Anna and Annie who
mowed the orchard, picked rhubarb, transported kitchen set up, tables and packing crates, and...
... Nick for helping to set up the Apple Orchard.
PLT's Laura Fischer and Pam Greene for daily ongoing assistance.
Alice Kaltman and Katy Brennan who washed coffee pots, mugs, bowls and all the farm's
harvesting containers, transforming them into sparkling compost and recycling bins.
Robert Schwagerl who over the years has turned our cooking space into a sleek, efficient outdoor
kitchen -- a long way from those first breakfasts turned out on a couple of backyard gas grills.
Pauline Yeats and Judy Freeman for making the strawberry rhubarb compote.
Jo, Patty and Peachie at the Green Thumb in Water Mill for selling us potatoes and onions at cost. And
Ronnie Grill, Susan Cook and Lindsay Morris for roasting the potatoes. And Gordian and Gabriele Raacke,
with a peeling assist from Bettina Volz and Don Lenzer, for making the onions.
Ursula Lee and Liadain Smith for harvesting the herbs for the potatoes and eggs.
The Iaconos whose hens were prolific enough to supplement Quail Hill eggs altho this year farm
hens produced all the eggs we needed.
And on Saturday...Early arrivals (6 a.m. onwards) Martha Sutphen, Susan C., May Kuckro, Francesca J, Nick,
Gordian, Kevin Coffey, Carla Ash and Jerry Pluenneke for setting up on Saturday morning.
Dorothy Donovan, Johanna Ellner, Linda Lacchia, Jonathan Groffman, Martha Sutphen, Gabriele and Bettina
who staffed all the tables: breakfast admission, utensils, books,and t-shirts, mugs, At the
Common Table info and the QHF membership raffle.
Kevin C. who kept Robert and Gordian in pancake batter and Chris Schwagerl who joined the merry
band.
Jane Umanoff, Susan C., Kathy Masters, and Hilary Leff who made the softest, tastiest eggs and
reheated the potatoes, and Bernadette Costanzo who performed admirably as sous chef.
Thanks to Linda L. and Linda Golden and the unknown baker of those marvelous scones for
supplying the muffin table. (Next year, more baked goods, please and thanks.)
Sean Mulligan, Susan Taylor, Doug Mucaire, Steve Frankel and Gardner Frankel who joined the clean-up
crew -- Gordian, Scott, Nick, Kevin and Kathy, and many more -- transporting supplies, compostibles
and recyclables to the farm shop and washing the coffee cups and pots.