Dinner & Auction to Benefit Brett Alcaro

Hilltop Hanover Farm of Yorktown Heights is sponsoring a dinner and auction on Saturday, October 3rd from 7:00 to 9:00 PM  to benefit Brett Alcaro. Alcaro, former farm manager at Hilltop Hanover Farm, is presently battling bile duct and liver cancer.

Area chefs and restaurants are volunteering their time and products to create a tapas dinner with beer and cider tasting. All proceeds from the event will support Brett, his wife Germaine and son, Oliver. Tickets for the dinner are $75 each.

Lucille Munz, the executive director of Hilltop Hanover Farm, has reached out to the community to assist Brett and the response has been overwhelming. The following restaurants/chefs/purveyors have agreed to participate in the benefit dinner: Café of Love and Ladle of Love (Mt. Kisco, Fit Stop Nutrition (Yorktown Heights), Mambo 54 (Tuckahoe), Bella Cucina Maria (Portchester), Seasonz Bounty (Ossining), Sweet Grass Grill and Tomatillo (Tarrytown and Dobbs Ferry), Village Social (Mt. Kisco), Broken Bow Brewery (Tuckahoe), Glynwood Farm (Cold Spring), and Hudson Milk Co. (Putnam and Westchester).

For additional information and to buy tickets, go to www.farmerbrett.brownpapertickets.comor call the Farm at 914-962-4368. If you are unable to attend (only 60 tickets are available), you may drop off your donation at the Farm – 1271 Hanover Street, Yorktown Heights. Cash donations as well as checks made out to Brett Alcaro will be accepted and promptly delivered to the Alcaro family. For the month of September Hilltop Hanover Farm is donating 5% of its Friday and Saturday farm stand proceeds to Brett and his family.

Each week the Alcaro family receives a package from Hilltop Hanover Farm featuring some vegetables, donations, get well cards, and assorted locally made products that the family can enjoy while Brett is undergoing treatments.