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🐝 Wood FYRed Fridays

🐝 Wood FYRed Fridays

Farm to Table Hangout, Pollinator Garden, Weeknight Bites

Thomas Loncar
May 08, 2026

Together With Tim O’Keefe

Good Morning, North Fork! Friendly reminder: Mother’s Day is this Sunday, which means the clock is ticking for anyone whose current plan is “I’ll figure something out.” And if that sounds like you, or suspiciously like your kids, our Mother’s Day Breakdown might come in handy.

In today’s North Fork Buzz:

Farm to Table Hangout
Pollinator Garden
Weeknight Bites

Ready, Set, Go!

P.S. Happy Birthday to Ryan Perry! 🎂

The Lowdown

Farm to Table Hangout 🍽️

At 8 Hands Farm, even a regular spring afternoon somehow feels picturesque. Chickens wandering the paths, baby lambs bleating from the barn, and owners Tom Geppel and Carol Festa somehow making regenerative farming look both exhausting and magical.

The 28 acre farm has spent the last 16 years building a loyal following around pasture raised meats, zero waste cooking, and a very hands on approach to farming. The chickens get moved onto fresh grass every day. The sheep mow the lawn. Even leftover animal fat gets turned into cooking tallow and skincare products.

Now the farm is expanding its partnership with the chefs behind Fyr & Salt to launch Wood FYRed Fridays, a weekly summer dinner series starting in June. Wood fired pizzas, seasonal small plates, picnic tables under bistro lights. No pressure. Just good food in a field at golden hour.

Get the full story 👉 North Fork Sun

Pollinator Garden 🌻

Southold Town Hall got a little greener this week thanks to a crew of volunteers from the Southold Town Conservation Advisory Council and ReWild Long Island, who spent Wednesday planting a brand new native pollinator garden behind the building.

The 713 square foot garden has apparently been years in the making and was designed to do a little bit of everything: support pollinators, bloom for as long as possible, and prove native gardens can look intentional instead of overgrown.

The project was led by members of the CAC alongside Cornell Master Gardener Anne Sande and architect Barbara Friedman, who even took a seven week ReWild garden design course to help bring it to life.

Get the full story 👉 East End Beacon

Encanto’s New Space 🥞

Encanto Crepes & Café officially traded its tiny original storefront for a bigger Main Street space, and with it came more crepes, more coffee, and other goodies.

Owners Gustavo Acero and Yuri Catherine opened the business back in 2023 after years of making crepes at home and dreaming up a café centered around good Colombian coffee and food that felt a little different from the local lineup.

Now operating out of the former Di Angela Goods & Accessories space, the husband and wife duo expanded the menu from about 15 crepes to 45 different varieties.

Alongside the espresso drinks and Colombian coffee, the new space also added arepas, cheese breads, and loaded hot dogs.

Get the full story 👉 Northforker

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📸 submitted by Brett Nunziata

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Foodie Friday 🍽

Weeknight Bites 😋

Somewhere around midweek, everyone collectively hits the same wall. The groceries you bought suddenly feel uninspiring, nobody agrees on what they want for dinner, and cooking starts to sound like the last thing you want to do.

Luckily, there are options.

Because tucked into the week between all the weekend plans are some genuinely great dinner specials worth building your schedule around. The kind of spots that make a random Tuesday feel fun again. Whether it’s a casual bite, a comfort meal, or an excuse to meet friends.

So if your weekly dinner routine has started feeling a little repetitive, consider this your nudge to mix things up.

🍔🍺 Monday Burger & Beer Night at Love Lane Kitchen

Mondays are hard. Burgers help.

Every Monday from 4:30–9 PM, Love Lane Kitchen serves up their Burger & Beer Night special: your choice of beef, lamb, turkey, or black bean burger paired with a refreshing draft beer for $24.

Simple, solid, no gimmicks. Just a really good burger, a cold beer, and one less thing to figure out on a Monday night.

🍣🥢 Sushi Tuesday at Maroni

A good sushi night can fix almost anything a Tuesday throws at you.

Maroni’s Sushi Tuesday has become one of those “if you know, you know” kind of nights. Fresh rolls, beautifully prepared sashimi, and the attention to detail that turns a casual dinner into a full experience.

Whether you’re ordering your usual favorites or letting the chefs surprise you a little, it’s the perfect excuse to ditch whatever dinner plan you were pretending to have and spend the night over sushi instead.

🦪🌭 Wednesday Happy Hour at Little Creek Oysters

Some places just know how to do a midweek happy hour right, and Little Creek Oyster is absolutely one of them.

Every Wednesday, they serve up oyster specials both raw and grilled, drink specials, and one of the more underrated stars of the menu: their $5 hot dogs.

Somewhere between the oysters and the hot dogs, Wednesday suddenly becomes your favorite night of the week.

🍜🍹 Thursday Pad Thai Night at First and South

By the time Thursday rolls around, everyone’s already mentally in weekend mode anyway, which makes it the perfect night for something a little more fun.

First and South’s Pad Thai Night is built around all the right things: flavorful Pad Thai, sticky wings, tropical specials, and cold Mai Tais.

It makes Thursday feel like the start of the weekend.

What is your favorite mid-week spot!?
Email us at [email protected] and let us know

Nothing in this section is sponsored. They’re just fun things you need to know. I’ll always let you know when something is sponsored

A Quick Reminder: We Want Your Recipes

Just a reminder that we’re opening up this Foodie Friday space to you, we’d love to start highlighting your go to dishes in upcoming Foodie Fridays. Have a recipe you swear by? Send it over. We especially want to hear if you’re using local ingredients!

How to submit:
Email us at [email protected] with:

The recipe (ingredients + steps)
A photo (even an iPhone pic is perfect)
Your name
Optional but encouraged: a short story - when you make it, who you make it for, or why it’s special
Bonus points if you tell us which local purveyors you hit up for the ingredients

Extra Honey

Authentic Qigong Meditation May 15 at 10:00 AM
Location: North Fork Cheer, Cutchogue NY

Presenter: Dr. Marilyn A. LoPresti, PhD, is an integrative wellness educator, specializing in Qigong and Tai Chi based programs for stress relief, resilience, and wellness. Dr. LoPresti is an international 2024 and 2025 Global Recognition Award Winner.

*Authentic Qigong and Tai Chi Meditation participants will learn simple, effective techniques that support:
- Improved breathing and posture
- Enhanced focus, emotional balance, and resilience
- Greater awareness of the body’s natural capacity for self-healing, often described as “the medicine within”

Pre-registration is required. All participants will be seated on chairs. The cost is $25 for the hour. No experience is necessary.*

Email: [email protected]

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Tom Loncar- Publisher
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