Eating local can be challenge during the snowy months as the produce available at farmer’s markets gets less numerous by the week. And then this happens!
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Hungry Filmmakers – Sept 28th
From the Just Food newsletter … Tuesday, September 28, 7:30PM Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave New York, NY 10003
Weekly Links
Help Save the Ridgewood Resevoir [NYC Wildflower Week] Walkabout: The Wallabout Market [Brownstoner] Nothing in Life is Guaranteed [Brooklyn 11211] Housing Development Threatens Russian Seed Bank [Aol News] Food Insecurity Rising in America [Newsweek] Food Crises and National Security [Al-Ahram] Pakistan sees food price surge amid flood, UN says [BBC] Record Droughts, Floods and FiresContinue reading “Weekly Links”
Order up some New York State MAPLE SYRUP
It’s a rainy Sunday here in Williamsburg and Earth Day in McCarren Park has been postponed until next Sunday (May2). Here on the Southside, we were up early but in no mood to venture outside into the wet streets. (Not to mention that our favorite brunches in the hood don’t start until 11am at theContinue reading “Order up some New York State MAPLE SYRUP”
Britain bins £12bn of food and drink every year
Great article on the The Guardian website today about wasted food and it’s carbon and monetary foot print. Details of the Love Food Hate Waste campaign can be found here. Es
Just Food Newsletter
Hola – the JustFood newsletter has just been published – subscribe to the newsletter – more information on each topic is on the website. In this issue: Policy Action Alert! Help Pass “FoodprintNYC”! A citywide initiative on food an agriculture systems in NYC – Resolution 2049-also known as FoodprintNYC resolution – has been introduced byContinue reading “Just Food Newsletter”
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”
Southside CSA 