Monday October 20, 2008

red hook harvest

This past Saturday my friend Anne and I hopped on our bikes (after the helpful guys at Bicycle Station put Anne’s bike chain back on) and headed down to the Red Hook Harvest Festival hosted by

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Friday October 17, 2008

bcue: introducing third thursday public forums

The Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment (BCUE) launched their series of Third Thursday public forums yesterday, October 16th at 6pm. The series will explore the economic challenges facing the borough in greater detail.

I couldn’t

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Saturday September 6, 2008

where is everybody?

Today’s farmer’s market run was rather unsuccessful. Hanna (downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm) kept most of the farmers away. I don’t blame them, it looks pretty menacing out there.

We wanted to get eggs from Flying

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Saturday August 30, 2008

growing to feed a community

In a city where few people have outdoor space to call their own, NYC community gardens become a gathering place, a sort of communal backyard and more. The gardens feed friendships and nourish bodies. In the

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Wednesday August 27, 2008

the techie perspective on urban farming

It seems to be on everyone’s radar — I’m talkin’ ’bout urban farming. It’s not just for citybillies. Even techies want their veggies homegrown, off the CO2-spewing agricultural grid, so to speak. Here’s the cool tech

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Monday August 25, 2008

the urban homestead, revisited

[Image: Just Food]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about urban homesteading. While catching up on my back issues of Treehugger emails, I came across this post about the very same subject. In Oakland, California, they’ve

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Monday August 25, 2008

yesterday’s brooklyn foraging tour

To round out our weekend of enjoying the great outdoors of this fair borough, my boyfriend and I joined a class called “Feasting for Free in Brooklyn” through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (but led mainly through

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Sunday August 24, 2008

yesterday’s brooklyn bike adventure

Yesterday morning I had the hankering for a bike ride. Knowing there were some decent bike routes to get to the Bay Ridge promenade that eventually runs beneath the Verazzano-Narrows, my boyfriend did a little research.

One

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Sunday August 24, 2008

best sandwich ever!

Step 1. Go to the farmer’s market (if you live in Brooklyn, try Grand Army Plaza on Saturday; in Manhattan, go to Union Square on M,W,F, or Sat.; outside of NYC, try here)

Step 2. Get yourself

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Tuesday August 19, 2008

my farmer’s market dinner

Oh man, that was delicious. It was like a gourmet meal. And a majority of the dinner we just ate was made from farmer’s market goods. Here’s what we had:A hearty salad of sunflower greens, watercress,

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