by John Eastman | Sep 5, 2014 | News
Organized by the Five Borough Bike Club, this tour will visit four urban farms in three different boroughs; cross four bridges; and end with a BBQ and a celebratory ribbon cutting at Smiling Hogshead Ranch, marking its transition from guerrilla garden/farm to...
by John Eastman | Sep 4, 2014 | News
Journalists for Transparency, a collective of journalists and storytellers that seeks to explore issues of transparency and corruption around the globe, investigate food safety and security in their debut publication, SPOILED: Corruption from Farm to Table. SPOILED...
by John Eastman | Aug 26, 2014 | News
Join the Urban Farm Recovery Project (UFRP) and the Brooklyn Grange at a benefit on the East River to celebrate four years of innovative paid urban agriculture internships and vocational training for asylum seekers and refugees in NYC. The UFRP is a project of the...
by Adam Liebowitz | Aug 22, 2014 | News
Karen Washington is a NYC-native who has been gardening in the Bronx for decades. She has become a sought after voice and leader for food justice in urban areas. Civil Eats recently featured her in their Faces and Visions of the Food Movement, including an interview...
by Adam Liebowitz | Jul 15, 2014 | Past Events
By the spring of 2013, our regional food system had been tested to its max with historic storms the previous two years. Hurricane Irene in 2011 devastated countless acres and farms in the Hudson Valley and surrounding areas, damaging crops at the peak of the...
by John Eastman | Jul 10, 2014 | Literature, News, Resources
Food Solutions New England (FSNE) announced the release of A New England Food Vision, a collaborative report and bold vision outlining how New England can locally produce at least 50 percent of clean, fair, just and accessible food for all citizens by 2060. ...