Craving pie? Here you go, but you need to hurry
Some treat the Labor Day holiday weekend as the swan song to summer. Perhaps a collaboration between Habitat Women Build and Special Touch Bakery will change that tune.
The organizations are teaming up on a fresh-baked pie sale fundraiser, and if you’re hungry right now, I dare you to read what will be available without salivating: Apple crumb, strawberry rhubarb, rumbleberry, cherry, bumbleberry, fudge brownie, chocolate cream, and pumpkin.
All of the pies are made by Special Touch Bakery, a Rochester-based nonprofit organization that provides training and employment to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Women Build is a pretty neat group as well.
It’s a volunteer-led initiative of Habitat for Humanity of Ontario County that supports multiple construction projects a year and offers hands-on opportunities to learn home-building and maintenance skills. The goal is to help Habitat build decent and affordable homes for families in need. Women Build volunteers raise funds to purchase the supplies and materials needed for construction projects.
The pies are $20 each. Diet be darned – order more than one (but do it quickly)!
Orders will be accepted online by Aug. 5 at www.ontariohabitat.org/pie or call Fundraising Chairperson Peggy Mooney at 609-221-8704. Pies will be available for pickup at the Habitat Restore, 3040 County Road 10, Canandaigua, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22.
This is important: Only preorder pies will be available. Proceeds benefit Women Build projects in Ontario County.
More information about Habitat for Humanity and this fundraising event can be found at www.ontariohabitat.org.
Cornell blinded me with science (of food and drink)
If you’re looking for something to do that has something to do with food and drink and the impact science has on both, well, look no more.
Visit the Cornell AgriTech campus in Geneva from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, as faculty, students and staff will showcase their scientific research, give tours of the facilities, research fields and greenhouses and demonstrate how important (and fun) science really is as part of Cornell AgriTech’s 140th anniversary open house.
All sorts of interesting stuff are included in a listing of the highlights – I mean, how can you look away from a high-powered microscope look at crop diseases in New York or meeting hissing cockroaches? You can’t, I know.
This may be just me, although I highly doubt it, learning about unique ways to breed tasty tomatoes in unique shapes, sizes and colors and seeing the collections containing thousands of apple, grape and cherry varieties sounds like time well spent.
And just in case you ever need to know this, learn how to extract DNA from a banana using household ingredients – as an example of how scientists use DNA to improve food, not a way to beef up your tropical daquiri for your deck party.
All kidding aside, perusing the list of open house highlights – which is subject to change, at https://cals.cornell.edu/cornell-agritech-140th-anniversary-open-house -- gives an indication of many things we take for granted when it comes to digging in to the food on our plates.
And when it comes to the health of our Finger Lakes, get insight on what it takes to implement lake-friendly lawn care, which is a hot topic in Canandaigua and other communities on the region's water bodies that have been experiencing problems with blue-green algae and invasive species.
The open house is open to all audiences and all are encouraged to visit the campus for a fun-filled educational day. Parking is available at Jordan Hall at 630 North St., Geneva. No registration required.
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