Archive for the ‘...in action!’ Category
Greenthumb Greenpoint
This post originally appeared on Greenpointers.blogspot.com
Late last year, post rooftop-farm season, I started working on a bioremediation project in north Greenpoint. The land in question is soil-turned-gravel-parking-lot, turned soil ...
Food, fiddlers, farmers: success!
This Saturday night, country mouse and ...
2/27 Growing Chefs Fundraiser in Brooklyn
Join us on Saturday, February 27th at 7pm in north Brooklyn as we gather foodies, green thumbs, and chefs to celebrate the art of eating well from field to fork.
Hosted ...
Q&A on Rooftops
Alex Mitchell, of the excellent blog and forthcoming book Theediblegardener.co.uk recently put together this series of interview questions for me about farming on a rooftop. It was such fun to answer, I’m posting it here!
Killing Chicken(s)
I was born and raised vegetarian, and take a practical approach to my decision to continue the practice of selective eating: I learn how to kill animals. Simply put, if it makes me feel bad, and then I continue to not ...
Happy Thanksgiving, green home Chicago!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. During college, I spent the holiday in a vegetarian household in Park Slope with my best friend’s family. In years past, I’ve worked the Wednesday Union Square Greenmarket, selling produce to harried day-before shoppers, then headed upstate with friends the next day to eat surrounded ...
Cheap Date
Listen up! Heritage Radio’s “Cheap Date” (a delightful show hosted by Cathy Erway) just put a farm-friend, Michael Grady Robertson of Queen’s County Farm, on the same wavelength as yours truly and Katherine Goldstein of the Huffington Post. We ...
Growing Chefs on Martha Stewart
As a local foods advocate, the first thing I noticed when I walked into the studios at Martha Stewart were the beautiful winter squash placed as stage decor. I’ve been farming on a television/movie sound-stage ...
