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Growing Chefs tour de farms
This past Saturday and Sunday, I had the great pleasure of bringing seven fellow urban agriculturalists who’d worked the ...
Hometown Women in Agriculture!
This time of year–particularly around Thanksgiving–I get homesick for Chicago. Fortunately for me, this week’s visitors to Rooftop Farms included Ruth Katz (‘78) and Amanda Zrust (‘04), fellow graduates of Evanston Township High School. Amanda is now ...
What we are & what we do
Services Growing Chefs offers a wide range of programming for schools and
Monday, September 14th: Growing Chefs & Edible Estates
On September 14th from 6:00 – 8:30 PM, join Growing Chefs in Manhattan as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s trip past our fair city.
The evening will feature harvest activities, interpretive garden tours, and native foods ...
Time for Lunch!
As the school year begins, out come the brown paper (and chic reusable) lunch bags. But for those kids who eat hot lunches, enter Slow Foods. Yesterday they organized a cross-country call to action around the Child Nutrition Act, the ...
Final summer visits to Rooftop Farms
Summer made itself obvious today: third and fourth grade visitors from the Police Athletic League braved the morning heat to plant and mulch at Rooftop Farms. Our favorite morning activity? Using chocolate bean shells donated by Mast Brothers Chocolate as ...
Harvest!
For the second week, now, June has poured down her best rains all over New York. Hurrah: the Rooftop Farm has held up, both the edges of our beds (where the veggies grow), and the strength of our wind-and-sun toughened plants. ...
