a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Environmental Justice, Food on May 11th, 2009
Are you passionate about local food, urban gardening and social justice?
Would you like to make
your passion your job?
Come spend a year with Just Food as an
AmeriCorps* VISTA!
Apply to serve as a fulltime AmeriCorps* VISTA member and help build a more just and sustainable food system in New York City.
Just Food and several of […]
From Just Food:
Food For Thought Film Festival
Naniola Productions presents the third annual Food For Thought Film Festival; a showcase of films about our most important life sustaining resources: FOOD and WATER.
The festival begins on April 11, 2009 at the Action Center to End World Hunger downtown and will conclude on […]
Posted in Food on Feb 18th, 2009
This is without question one of the cooler programs I’ve heard about:
Community Food Education
Uniting NYC Communities through Food
Community Chef Program 2009
Click here for the 2009 Application
Just Food is looking for people to join its team of Community Chefs. Through Just Food’s Community Chef training program, you will learn how to facilitate workshops about local, seasonal […]
Posted in Food on Dec 21st, 2008
Expect to hear more and more about “urban chickens” (or chickens raised right here in the city) in coming years. Get your first taste on this radio program sent around by Just Food:
Hear all about our recent Chicken Tractor workshop lead by Brooklyn chicken keeper Gregory Anderson in partnership with St. Augustine School’s chicken club […]
Posted in Food on Jun 11th, 2008
[Photo: Tomatoes by flickr user Brouhaha (Jonathan)]
UPDATE: SOME NYC TOMATOES ARE TAINTED. UNCLEAR STILL IF THEY’RE LOCALLY-GROWN. (WE’RE GUESSING THEY’RE NOT, BUT NO WAY TO BE SURE AT THE MOMENT.)
Salmonella in tomatoes? For real?
Fortunately, local NY-grown tomatoes are totally safe. NY 1 reports:
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Posted in Events on Mar 10th, 2008
From Just Food:
Make the city-farm connection at
Just Food’s 8th Annual Community Supported Agriculture Conference
Meet CSA farm pioneer and author of Sharing the Harvest: A Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Elizabeth Henderson.
New York, March 2008: Just Food presents its annual Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in NYC Conference on Saturday, March 29, at Teacher’s College […]