Wednesday June 15, 2011

grilled cheese & pickle party, plus…

This coming Monday, come get your fill of grilled cheese, pickles & beer accompanied by the sounds of a live bluegrass band. I’ll be there selling my Raganella’s Botanical Solutions goods, including my new summer soothers

Categories: blog events food/drink news Tags: events food products

Thursday January 6, 2011

an exercise in mindful living

If you’ve started down the path of “greening” your home or making your lifestyle more eco-friendly you may have noticed how easy it is to get caught up in minutiae. Maybe you’ve faced dilemmas like, I

Categories: blog environment food/drink health news Tags: farming food justice

Thursday September 9, 2010

farm city, here i come!

I’m super excited to be participating in the Farm City Fair this Sunday (9.12), part of the larger 2-week-long Farm City event. I’ll be leading a worm composting demo and tabling all day alongside the NYC

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Wednesday July 7, 2010

eco fun in greenwood, brooklyn

Come out to Greenwood Brooklyn this summer for some fun hands-on workshops for kids of all ages!

I’ll be co-leading a workshop on worm composting on Saturday, July 17. We’ll show you how to set up an

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Tuesday May 11, 2010

our future, our food

Curious about growing food in the city? Want to know more about the strong community focus of gardening in an urban setting?

Next Wednesday, May 19 from 6 to 7pm at the Manhattan location of the New

Categories: agriculture community food/drink health Tags: gardening

Friday April 23, 2010

worms are going to eat my garbage!

I’m very excited. Today, I got worms. Red wigglers. The kind that eat trash – food scraps to be exact. Now I won’t have to cart my compostables to the Union Square Farmers Market (a train

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Monday April 19, 2010

queens gets its first food co-op

When you’re living near THE infamous food co-op in Brooklyn (you know the one) and around the corner from one of the best farmers markets in town, and new CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture outfits) are popping

Categories: agriculture blog community food/drink Tags: cooperative nyc

Tuesday March 30, 2010

riffing on an already improvised recipe

Waking up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window, slowly getting out of bed, looking out to see the dark day – I knew this was a day for muffins.

What kind of muffins was the

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Friday March 26, 2010

sun in bloom eco-eatery

I just came from Sun In Bloom, my friend Aimee’s new holistic eco-eatery on the border of Park Slope and Prospect Heights, where I had a delicious live vegan burrito made with sunflower seeds, yummy spices,

Categories: blog food/drink Tags: brooklyn organic raw food vegan

Wednesday March 3, 2010

big river, big dead zone

What happens when loads of nitrogen from chemical fertilizers get washed from commodity crop farms down the Mississippi and into the Gulf of Mexico? A big fat dead zone is what happens. A dead zone roughly

Categories: blog environment food/drink movies Tags: agriculture oceans wildlife