Thanks to everyone who came out to our
Eco Appeito 2011! Check out photos here and scroll down to see what you missed!

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Cinque Terre, Portland, Maine
Noon-3pm
Tickets are $40 per person to benefit the Ferry Beach Ecology School "Food for Thought" program.
To order your tickets online, please click below:

To reserve your tickets today, please contact Maureen Duggan at 207.283.9951 or maureen@fbes.org.

Eat, drink and mingle for a good cause!

Executive Chef Lee Skawinski and his staff will highlight the best food and drink Maine has to offer:local meats and seafood • area artisan cheeses • locally grown veggies • desserts • hand-crafted beers • area wines

Event also includes: Silent auction • Door prizes • Live entertainment

Tickets are $40 per person. All proceeds will benefit Ferry Beach Ecology School and its Food for Thought program which teaches healthy food and sustainable living choices to children and adults throughout New England.

Silent Auction Items: (More added daily!)

Food & Drink

• Beer for a Year – Shipyard Brewing Company
• Private Brewery Tour – Shipyard Brewing Company
• 2 Maine Foodie Tours tickets for the Old Port Culinary Tour in 2012
• Salmon, tuna, and wild sardines from Vital Choice Seafood 
• $200 Gift Certificate to Vital Choice Seafood
• Trader Joe’s gift basket
• Product gift box from Pastor Chuck Orchards
• 24 piece assorted box of chocolates from Sweet Marguerites
• Box of chocolates from Miyake Sweets
• Assorted Meat Pack – Farmers’ Gate Market
• Gift box from Vervacious
  
• Overnight for 2 at the Inn on Peaks
• 3 Jars of honey from The Honey Exchange - Portland
• Sample Winter Share Certificate from Wolf Pine Farm CSA
• Grinder Set donated by Maine Sea Salt
• Local Sprouts Café gift card
• Bottle of wine from Vic & Whits - Saco
• Starbucks gift basket
• $50 gift card to Whole Foods Market Portland

Maine Crafted Items

• Pottery from Edgecomb Potters
• 2 glass cheese trays Luiza & Rich of Kennebec River Glass Works
• Matted photograph from Maine photographer David Hill
• Custom made vintage handbag from OldBagzz
• Two Weighted Adult Hula Hoops made by our Program Naturalist, Krysta Zambroski
• Handmade Wooden Spoon made by our Food For Thought Coordinator, John Ibsen
• Bird Land – a mixed media piece by Maine artist Elaine Tselikis

Health & Wellness

• Manicure and pedicure at Studio One – Portland
• 10 classes of yoga at Lila East End Yoga – Portland
• Office visit with Natropathic Dr. Peter Knight – True North, Falmouth
• Gift card from O2 Salon
• One hour Reiki session by Portland area Reiki healing therapist Nikki Shields
• Gift certificate to Shift of Maine
• Lobsterman’s Balm Gift Box donated by Casco Bay Gardens

Getaways & Entertainment

• 4 tickets for Portland Ovations CIRCA – Feb. 2 – Westbrook
• Overnight for 2 at the Inn on Peaks Island
• 2 hour sail for two with Portland Schooner Company
• 2 roundtrip tickets on the Downeaster (Portland to Boston)
• 4 tickets for a April/May 2012 Portland Sea Dogs game
• Portland Sea Dogs Sky Box for a 2012 game donated by WMTW8
• Vegetable baskets from Ferry Beach Ecology School’s Garden
• 3 Whale Watch passes – Boothbay Whale Watch
  
• 2 tickets for Anthony Bourdain performance at Merrill Auditorium – November 3 - Portland
• Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens passes

Leisure & Recreation

• Bike tune-up donated by Gorham Bike & Ski
  
• Togus: A Coon Cat Finds a Home donated by author WCSH6’s Don Carrigan
• Five bags of Coast of Maine Organic Products Quoddy Blend Lobster Compost
  
• Longfellow Books gift card
• Estabrook’s gift card
• Ferry Beach Ecology School Summer Camp scholarship
• Autographed books by Tom Wessels, Alice Waters & Jon Reiner