Archive for the ‘...in action!’ Category
Sustainability: the Children’s Edition
Growing Chefs partnered with the Garden School in Jackson Heights, Queens this past winter and spring to teach a grow-it, eat-it gardening and cooking class. As part of our culinary curriculum, we focused on simple, locally available seasonal ingredients, ...
DIY Terrariums
Growing Chefs returns to the Garden School in Jackson Heights, Queens, to pilot our new math and science curriculum. Partnering with staff with experience at Francis Perkins Academy and the Natural History Museum, our garden-based botany and kitchen chemistry ...
Kids Can Change the Food System
Written Paula Crossfield, this piece below was first featured on Civil Eats.On a recent Sunday afternoon in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, over a hundred people gathered at the 6000-square foot Eagle Street ...
Spring Chickens!
This past week has been one of heat and rain (pictured here: rain), and the growth of all the vegetables in my ...
Harvest Time in Harlem
In this day and age of schoolyard gardening-mania, the most important lesson I’ve learned in many years of attempting to grow carrots on school property is making sure you have dedicated staff on the site to keep the plants alive when the season changes and the chilrden ...
WNYC features food not lawns
This week, I joined food-not-lawns revolutionary Fritz Haeg, borough president Scott Stringer, and Growing Power’s Will Allen on New York’s own WNYC radio. The conversation, a two hour evening event led by host Leonard Lopate, can be found ...
Urban Farming on WNYC
On April 8th, 2010, Fritz Haeg and Metropolis Books will celebrate the release of the new edition of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn with a lively conversation at WNYC’s Greene Space exploring the ...
Farm Season Begins
This morning, spring jumped the clock forward an hour and the mid-March day, as though awakened from its den, stormed forward like the proverbial lion to rain, hail, rain, mist, and rain again after a brief window of sunshine. Not to be deterred, at 8am ...
