Celebrating 'All Things Local' this week with Nicole Day Gray / Fighting Hunger Friday Benefiting The Community Pantry

Join 'All Things Local' with Nicole E. Day Gray on WIOX community radio Tuesday evening, 4/21/2015 from 6pm to 7pm. Tune-in locally to WIOX 91.3FM or stream the 'wildly diverse' universe on wioxradio.org.

The 'All Things Local' radio show is ALL about creating and sharing connections with food, farms, forests, & people; to the myths and stories that live in the landscapes around us. Speaking to the passions for our local community, friendships, agriculture, entrepreneurship, creativity, and the places we call home where ever that may be by bringing our community to the table. Exploring & Celebrating 'All Things Local'.

Peggy Bellar & Meade Camp of Keller Williams Upstate NY Properties (Catskill Dream Team) and Frank Canavan of The Community Pantry (Arkville, NY) will be joining Nicole on ‘All Things Local’ to talk All Things Fighting Hunger Friday. On Friday, May 1st, when you dine at any of the participating 22 area restaurants (see listing below), you will have the opportunity to leave a donation; 100% of which will benefit the pantry. Kevin Spelman of Mod Media donated his services & designed a logo for the event. This logo was appropriately printed on a small brown lunch bag that waiters at the participating restaurants will use to collect donations.

The pantry serves over 400 households in the Town of Middletown per month. Cash donations allow the food pantries to purchase the items they need most at the time they need them. As summer approaches more children will be out of school and without the meals the schools provide. Even a small amount helps your food pantry year round. Most of the pantry recipients work full-time and 17% of our area residents live below the poverty level with median incomes of about $25,000 per year.

Keller Williams Upstate NY Properties Margaretville branch, along with community partner, AgriForaging, Inc. have pledged to do a matching donation of up to $1,000. In addition local Keller Williams agents will make a donation for every sale that is closed in the Margaretville office.  To learn more, please visit the Fighting Hunger Friday Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fighting-Hunger-Friday/491407467680258?fref=photo

Participating restaurants include: Arkville Bread & Breakfasts, ate.o.ate catering/Rich EllsworthBrushland Eating HouseBUN N' CONECassie's CafeCrazy River CafeLa Cabaña Mexican Restaurant & BarMi Lupita,Oakleys woodfired oven & grillPhoenicia DinerPublic Restaurant & LoungePeekamoose Restaurant & Tap RoomQueens Mountain Cafe,Sam's Country StoreThe Shire PubSummerfields Steakhouse/Night Owl LoungeThe Andes HotelThe Cheese BarrelInn Between - CatskillsThe Flour Patch, Woody’s, and Zephyr Restaurant.

To stay connected with 'All Things Local' radio programming, please visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/AllThingsLocalonWIOX, Twitter page at: https://twitter.com/LocalCatskills and/or check out their website at:http://www.agriforaging.com/the--all-things-local--radio-show.html.

Here's a little about Nicole:

Originally from New Hampshire, Nicole enjoyed her childhood on a small farm in Hopkinton. After earning a B.A. in Economics with a focus on Environmental Economics from the University of New Hampshire, and completing graduate work in Finance from Boston University, Nicole began her business career as an Associate at a prestigious Labor Economics firm in NH. After over nine years, Nicole, along with her mother Joan, then founded the natural foods manufacturing business, Mediterranean Delights. Mediterranean Delights, based in Southern Vermont, successfully serviced & distributed to retail and foodservice distribution channels nationally (All Natural, Certified Organic, HACCP approved & third party audited). After thirteen years in the food manufacturing business, Nicole moved to the Catskill Mountains and began working with non‐profit organizations providing guidance and technical assistance to value-added food producers, farmers and agricultural infrastructure enterprises.

Currently, Nicole serves as the Owner of AgriForaging, Inc., is the radio show host of "All Things Local" on WIOX 91.3 FM, President of Hickory Advisors, LLC an Endowment Fund Management Firm, serves as a Board Trustee at Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith, NY plus volunteers as the Administrator for the New York State Farmstead & Artisan Cheesemakers Guild. Nicole resides in the midst of the gorgeous Catskill Mountains (Delaware County) with her husband.

To learn more about 'All Things Local' & AgriForaging, Inc., please visit http://www.agriforaging.com.