Wednesday April 6, 2011

composting in tight quarters workshop

That is one ginormous compost pile.

Curious about compost? Come to a workshop I’m leading next Saturday, April 16 at the New York Botanical Garden Midtown Campus!

Mastering the Urban Garden Saturday: Composting in Tight Quarters
Experience the alchemy

Categories: blog education news Tags: composting gardening

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

Categories: blog environment events food/drink Tags: brooklyn composting farming fun worms

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

Categories: blog education environment food/drink Tags: brooklyn composting worms

Monday May 10, 2010

what’s going on?

Yeah, I know. This blog has been very quiet. But that’s only because my life hasn’t been. A lot more doing and a little less documenting. So here, in a nutshell, is a rundown of some

Categories: agriculture art/craft blog Tags: composting farming sustainable agriculture

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

Categories: action blog food/drink Tags: composting

Wednesday August 26, 2009

skills to pay the bills (or at least save a little dough)

Got a hankerin’ to make stuff, but don’t know how? In a time when people are pinching pennies out of necessity or just to consume less for the good of the planet, it helps to know

Categories: art/craft blog education food/drink recycling Tags: composting cooking drinking eating fun gardens water

Wednesday August 19, 2009

do chickens get seasick?

Below the BQE, in a barren industrialized part of Brooklyn, was docked the Waterpod…

Do chickens get seasick? Does sea air help or hinder the tomatoes? If you get a chance to visit the Waterpod – 3,000

Categories: agriculture blog community recycling Tags: animals brooklyn/nyc composting gardens nyc sustainable water

Monday July 6, 2009

follow this man: will allen

If you didn’t catch this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, you missed out on an article about one of the best role models for young Americans, and heck, old ones too. Will Allen — urban farmer,

Categories: agriculture blog eating food/drink Tags: composting eating farming permaculture urban agriculture urban homestead