Summer Nights at Stone Barns

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is pleased to present Summer Nights at Stone Barns, a lecture series exploring the critical path ahead for achieving a healthy and sustainable food system for us all. Featuring contributors from our newly released book Letters to a Young Farmer.

Come early to enjoy evening farm tours, tastes and hands-on activities. Sandwiches and salads from Blue Hill Café and Grain Bar and wine by the glass will be available for purchase. Pre-program begins at 5:00 pm.

TICKETS:
Each individual lecture is $20 per person.

July 13, 7 pm: Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She teaches and lectures widely about food policy and advocacy and is the author of several prize-winning books on the politics of food and nutrition, most recently Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). 

July 20, 7 pm: Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless is the award-winning chef and co-owner of restaurants in Chicago, including Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, and Xoco. He has authored nine best-selling cookbooks and hosted PBS’s Mexico: One Plate at a Time for more than a decade. Besides winning the James Beard Foundation’s highest honors, he is the recipient of Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest award given to nonnatives who have done great work for the country.

July 27, 7 pm: Raj Patel 
Raj Patel is a senior research associate in the Unit for Humanities at the South African university currently known as Rhodes University and a research professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing.

Members receive 10% off the ticket price
If you are a member, you will receive an email with a code to take advantage of your 10% discount. If you need your member discount code, please call 914 366 6200 x140.

To become a member and take advantage of this and other perks, click here or call 914 366 6200 x140.

Cancellation policy
We have a 48-hour cancellation policy for all tickets. For a refund, minus a $1.25 processing fee, please contact us within 48 hours of your visit at 914 366 6200 x131.