Up on the Farm Dinner - Wed June 20 @ 6:30pm   WHAT: Up on the Farm, an evening benefit with dinner, drinks and farm tours WHY: To support the establishment of Western Queens's first food cooperative WHEN: Wednesday, June 20th, 2012, 6:30-9:30 p.m. [rain date: June 27th] WHERE: Brooklyn Grange, 37-18 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11101 TICKETS: $150, http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/249687 CONTACT: Tatiana Orlov and Nicole Murray at fundraiser@queensharvestcoop.com. On Wednesday, June 20, Queens Harvest Food Co-op and i was really, very hungry present Up on the Farm, an intimate dinner and fundraiser to help make Western Queens's first food cooperative a reality. This year, Queens Harvest invites its supporters to a true farm-to-table dining experience that also highlights New York City's urban farming initiatives and features guest speaker Dr. Joan Gussow, who has been called the "matriarch of the eat-locally-think-globally food movement," by The New York Times. Dinner, served among the beautiful bounty of the Brooklyn Grange, Long Island City's organic rooftop farm, will be prepared by the chefs of i was really, very hungry, and sourced from the Grange as well as other local purveyors.  Additionally, guests will enjoy local beer and wine, and be invited to meet the farmers behind the Grange's urban farming initiative and take tours of the farm. Ticket sales benefit the Queens Harvest Food Co-op. They can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/249687 For more information, please contact event co-chairs Tatiana Orlov and Nicole Murray at fundraiser@queensharvestcoop.com. About Dr. Joan Gussow: Dr. Joan Dye Gussow is a serious food producer, a writer, and professor of nutritional ecology. Dr. Gussow currently serves on the boards of Just Food, the Sustainability Fund, and the Frontera Farmer Foundation, as well as on the Board of Trustees of her Hudson River village. She has authored, co-authored, and edited many articles and several books, including The Feeding Web, The Nutrition Debate, and Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture. This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, based on the lessons learned from 30 years of growing her own food, was published in 2001 by Chelsea Green. A long time organic mini-farmer, Joan now lives, writes, and grows all her own organic produce on the west bank of the Hudson River. Her most recent book is Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables (Chelsea Green, 2010). To learn more about Dr. Gussow, go to http://joansgarden.org.