local food
Save the Bed-Stuy Farm
Posted November 16th, 2009 by Paula Crossfield
One of the most logical ways to eliminate food deserts – those places that don’t have adequate access to fresh fruits and vegetables – is through urban agriculture. In Brooklyn, residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant are fighting to keep their urban farm – which produces 7,000 lbs of fresh produce per year – alive in the face of development. Reverend DeVanie Jackson and her husband, Reverend Robert Jackson converted a garbage covered lot into a farm to support their work feeding 4,000 New Yorkers every month at the Brooklyn Rescue Mission. Now the city wants to take the land back to build affordable housing. You can sign the petition to save this neighborhood farm from destruction, and then take a look at this video directed by Dulce Fernandes over at the Green Fork blog.
Edible Eat, Drink, Local Week
Posted September 14th, 2009 by Kristin PedersonEdible East End, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens have teamed up with CENYC and chefs and restaurants who love the local food movement as much as we do for a big ol' edible celebration of what's good around town. Participating restaurants will serve prix fixe meals featuring the best of the local bounty, and donate a portion of the proceeds to CENYC's all-important Greenmarket program. Fall in the city is tasting mighty fine this year.
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NY
United States
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September 27, 2009 - 12:00pm
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Invitation to Join "Buy Local NY"
Posted February 20th, 2009 by Jane ShuputPlease Circulate Widely
An Invitation to Participate…
The New York State Working Group on Local Foods and Local Markets has established a yahoo group: Buy Local NY (BuyLocalNY@yahoogroups.com).
This yahoo group is for anyone interested in growing, processing, distributing, selling or promoting New York foods to New York consumers. It’s also for those interested in buying, cooking, preserving and enjoying the bounty of New York. Buy-Local stakeholders including but not limited to program facilitators, project coordinators, farmers, processors, distributors, food service directors, market managers, consumers, and others are invited to join this Buy Local NY yahoo group; which will focus on connecting farmers and consumers.
This group is facilitated by the New York State Work Team on Local Foods and Local Markets, which is supported by the Cornell Small Farms Program.
Work team leaders include:
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LOCAL FOOD ACCESS NEWS
Search For Good Food Gets Easier With Expanded Eat Well Guide
Posted by Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally
When The Sustainable Table launched its online directory, The Eat Well Guide, back in 2003, its goal was to help folks find non-factory farmed animal products. But as the demand for fresh, local, sustainably produced food grows, The Eat Well Guide’s growing right along with it, broadening the scope of its mission to include produce, farmers’ markets, and vegan restaurants. The folks at Eat Well are even dipping their toes in the water with H20 Conserve, a campaign to encourage wiser water usage.
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