The Happy Harvest Dinner 2.0!
Welcoming all community 11-16-22

We hope all community will join us to gather for a seasonal, celebratory dinner. We celebrate a spirit of sharing and caring in community, mindfully honor the beautiful harvests of the region, and experience a new realm of plant-powered possibilities! This entirely vegan/plant-based dinner is free for all who attend and is served primarily To-Go, with some café tables for dining in (available first come, first served.)

Brought to you by the Happy Vegan Cart free food team: Institute for Animal Happiness, People’s Place and NY Farm Animal Save.

Participants and menu to be posted soon! (Photos are from last year’s event)

When: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022

Where: The Community Café at People’s Place - 777 Broadway, Kingston, NY

Time: 4-6 pm

For our 15th week, something extra special - THE HAPPY HARVEST DINNER!

All FREE. GRATIS! NO CHARGE. ALL COMMUNITY WELCOME!

WHEN:                    Wednesday November 17th, 2021

TIME:                          4 pm to 6 pm

WHERE:                      People’s Place, 777 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401

Notes: There are some cafe tables for eating in, but if seats are all taken, volunteers will be boxing up the dinners as you order and give to you to take home. Please also note that only people wearing masks will be allowed to enter the cafe, and all inside the building will have to wear masks unless while seated and eating.

The Institute for Animal Happiness and People’s Place - With supporting partners NY Farm Animal Save and Powered by Plants Consulting - are excited to present a special event as part of this collaborative, free vegan food initiative: The Happy Harvest Dinner!

Special thanks to Sunflower Market and Hudson Valley Farm Hub for supporting this event.

The Happy Harvest Dinner was conceived to fill a need for greater access to (and awareness of) healthier, kinder and more sustainable food options to support the community during the Holiday Season. In a time of zoonotic pandemic and when we are facing a worsening climate crisis – combined with a growing interest in animal welfare and unending human health concerns - more and more people are seeking change and willing to try something new! There are healthier, more sustainable options that still allow us to indulge in the same flavor profiles and recipes we know and love at this time of year, but are better for our health, use less resources to produce, and don’t rely upon a system of harm to animals.

Festive, filling, holiday food can also be healthy and healing for all: all humans, all non-humans and the planet too! And everyone, no matter their income or abilities, deserves access to these healthy choices in order to be equal stakeholders in a healthy planet for future generations. What we eat and how we farm literally affects the entire earth and the lives of all who live here.

MENU and PARTICIPANTS:

CHEF KIM PROTTAS (OF PEOPLE’S PLACE):

Butternut Squash Soup

Roasted Root Vegetables

Entrée of Braised and Seared Tofu “Steak.”

POWERED BY PLANTS CONSULTING (Rebecca Carucci):

Apple Cranberry Cornbread Stuffing

HEALTHY GOURMET TO-GO (Roni Shapiro):

Kale Salad with Candied Walnuts and Festive Dressing

LITTLE GARDEN OF EAT’N (Siobhan Dupont)

Baked vegan mac and cheese made with a butternut purée base and topped with breadcrumbs and vegan cheese

Cookies and Apples for Dessert

Warm Spiced Cider

The Happy Harvest Dinner is grateful for the generous support of local health food destination Sunflower Market (of Rhinebeck and Woodstock)! We’d also like to thank Hudson Valley Farm Hub.

The Happy Cart hits the streets for week two!

Come join us again outside of People’s Place at 17 St. James Street, Kingston NY on Wednesday the 18th to carry on this new new tradition that brings a positive new option for nourishment and empowerment to Kingston. People’s Place and Institute for Animal Happiness welcome all.

Huge thanks to the staff and volunteers of People’s Place - and to the volunteers from the Institute for Animal Happiness - for helping the cart come to life.

Gratitude once again to Chef Kim of People’s Place, for bringing her talents to this effort. This week we hear she is going to be making her swoon-worthy Vegetable Fried Rice. We’ll update when we know for sure but all we do know is everything she makes is delicious!

Special thanks to these supporting partners:
Lantern Publishing & Media - For their donation each week of a selection of amazing vegan-theme books for a few lucky cart-visitors to take home.
Earth Breeze - for donating free packages of their incredible, plastic-free and plant-based laundry detergent sheets. A revolutionary product that can really make doing laundry easier and lighter on the planet… no plastic bottle to harm the earth, and nothing to lug around and hurt your back!
Unovis - for donating the cart itself to this project.
NY Farm Animal Save - for their support and camaraderie on this project, and for all of their amazing street activism and work on a very-much related project, www.pandemicfreeworld.com
Hudson Valley Farm Hub - for providing so much fresh produce and delicious staples to the kitchen at People’s Place that will find their way into cart offerings.

Join us to keep building a Happy Cart Community at People’s Place. We hope to see you there!

The Happy Cart hits the streets!

Come join us outside of People’s Place at 17 St. James Street, Kingston NY on Wednesday the 11th to celebrate this new addition to the neighborhood and a positive new option for nourishment and empowerment. People’s Place and Institute for Animal Happiness welcome all.

Huge thanks to the staff and volunteers of People’s Place - and volunteers from the Institute for Animal Happiness - for helping the cart come to life.

Gratitude to Chef Kim of People’s Place, for bringing her talents to this effort. We’ll be learning from chopping veggies with you!

Special thanks these supporting friends:
Lantern Publishing & Media - who will be donating selections of amazing vegan-theme books each week for some lucky cart-visitors to take home.
Earth Breeze - for donating free packages of their incredible, plastic-free and plant-based laundry detergent sheets. A revolutionary product that can really make doing laundry easier and lighter on the planet… no plastic bottle to harm the earth, and nothing to lug around and hurt your back.
Unovis - for saving the cart and donating it to this project.
NY Farm Animal Save - for their support and camaraderie on this project, and for all of their amazing street activism and work on a very-much related project, www.pandemicfreeworld.com
Hudson Valley Farm Hub - for providing so much fresh produce and delicious staples to the kitchen at People’s Place that will find their way into cart offerings.

This will be the “soft opening” and help us understand what is needed to run the Happy Cart program. We hope to see you there!