The Hudson Valley Seed Library is looking for some creatively seedy people. Their tag line says it all; Heirloom Seeds with Local Roots. An amazing project to create an accessible and affordable source of locally-adapted seeds and revive the local seed trade. Cool, eh? Well, these good people sent out a call for artists, becauseContinue reading “Call for Art”
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Deeply Rooted
On yesterday’s Leonard Lopate show on WNYC was a segment about a new book , “Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness“. Promo line for the segment… A century of industrialization has created a food system riddled with problems, yet we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists and chefs for solutions, insteadContinue reading “Deeply Rooted”
Give Us Bread: a local play about the Food Riots of 1917
The Anthropologists are putting on a play that sounds right up our alley… Food prices shot up overnight. Starvation threatened families from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the Lower East Side to the Bronx. A group of women came together to demand action. Boycotts accelerated into riots. The year was 1917 and prices for basic food itemsContinue reading “Give Us Bread: a local play about the Food Riots of 1917”
Southside CSA 