Inaugural Urban Farm Bike Tour (Sept. 6)

Inaugural Urban Farm Bike Tour (Sept. 6)

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...
SPOILED: Corruption from Farm to Table

SPOILED: Corruption from Farm to Table

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...
Benefit: Urban Farm Recovery Project 9/14

Benefit: Urban Farm Recovery Project 9/14

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...
Karen Washington – ‘Queen of Urban Gardening’

Karen Washington – ‘Queen of Urban Gardening’

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...
Report – A New England Food Vision

Report – A New England Food Vision

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. ...