UPDATE:  We’ve sold out, but see below for info on $10 tickets for the bands and cash bar

We spend most of our days at Brooklyn Based HQ crafting emails you’ll actually read, but from time to time we like to produce an event for your pleasure, and ours.

So we’d like to invite all of you to the first annual Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown on Friday, October 10, from 6 to 10 pm, at the best canal-front venue in the city, The Yard. To throw it, we’ve joined forces with some of our favorite movers and shakers: Kelly Geary of Sweet Deliverance, Matt Tyson and Mike Grimes of Ear Farm, Blue Marble Ice Cream, Cathy Erway of Not Eating Out in New York, and of course, butcher Tom Mylan of Marlow and Sons, Diner and Bonita, who learned his craft upstate at Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston. (Which you may have read about in the Times>>)

It made perfect sense, then, to ask Joshua Applestone, third generation butcher and Fleisher’s co-owner (along with his wife Jessica Applestone) to supply the evening’s main attraction: a 200-pound heritage hog, roasted over a pit and served, with Kelly’s help, alongside a variety of salsas, corn two ways, fresh greens, and beans and rice. Cathy has agreed to lend a hand with the apple crisp and Blue Marble is whipping up a batch of cinnamon ice cream just for the occasion. We’ll have Sixpoint on tap (Hop Obama and Righteous Ale, of course) and from 6 to 7 pm, they’ll be just $1.

Afterward, Applestone will tell us why the heritage breed pig we’re eating is so delicious, and hear from the organization this whole shindig benefits. Kelly has arranged to donate $2 of each ticket to the New Farmer Development Project, a Greenmarket program that gives immigrants who want to farm the resources to start their own agricultural endeavors. She’s also the mastermind behind the Gowanus Harvest Festival, a daytime music and food melee at The Yard on Saturday, so you can see why we’re so thrilled to work with such a dynamo.

Along with all the deliciousness and do-goodedness, we’ll have an amazing lineup of bands to turn up your heels to. On stage starting at 6:15 we’ll hear three locals — Bel Air, Motel Motel (who’ll both be playing the CMJ fest), and The Jones Street Boys (who you may remember from “12 Ophelias” in McCarren Park) — playing a harvesty mix of Americana and rootsy folk. All are curated by Ear Farm, which celebrates its third year Oct. 10. (Funny how things come together.)

All in all it should be great food, great music and lots of bitchin’ Brooklynites — like Brooklyn Based brought to life. So snatch a ticket now, cause they’re going fast!

What you need to know:
Friday, October 10 at The Yard, 388-400 Carroll St.
Doors open at 6
Cash bar; $1 Sixpoints until 7
Tickets include all food and are $32 advance, available here>> and $40 at the doorWE SOLD OUT!!! But $10 tickets will be available at the door for the music and cash bar
Free for kids ages 10 and under
Rain or Shine

Sent by Annaliese, Chrysanthe, and Nicole. Photos from top by STG54 and 3rd Ward via Flickr.