Food, fiddlers, farmers: success!
This Saturday night, country mouse and ...
Growing with Garden School
For twelve weeks from January into April, Growing Chefs is pairing its classic curriculum of cooking and horticulture with The Garden School, in Jackson Heights, Queens. This past week, we ...
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 ...
Gardening and Composting in New York City
Location: 3rd Ward 573 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn
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!
NOFA New York
My first year as a farmer’s apprentice, I asked my farmer, Keith Stewart, what it was he did during the winter. It was almost Christmastime, and my own contracted time on his land in Port Jervis, ...
Winterizing sky-high farmland
Winter is a much-awaited season for me. The anticipation starts for me in August, when after a long (and busy day), I’ll start looking for a place to farm away the holidays in the Southern hemisphere. This year, with cold weather ...
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 ...
