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Wish granted
Well then! I must explain what became of my quandary. It was nerve-wracking for about a day, but I slept on it — and on Friday afternoon I called the executive director of the organization that...
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Swoon! My heroes
I’m going to see Michael Pollan speak at P.S. 1 (in their new P.F. 1 courtyard, an “urban farm” that’s been built by architecture design contest winners just for this summer) tomorrow night at a...
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Friday: foiled, then fascinated
Silly me. I underestimated New York’s fervent love for Michael Pollan and sustainable agriculture. On a Friday evening, after a day full of downpours, I didn’t expect there to be quite so long a line...
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Chix and the city
Remember this guy? Of course you do: Manny Howard chronicled his attempt to eat hyper-locally for a year — that is, food from his own Kings County backyard — and along the way he found out that...
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A beautiful morning, happily spent
This past Saturday, I enjoyed my first volunteering experience at the Greenmarket at Fort Greene Park. I attended a mandatory volunteer training session at Grand Army Plaza several weekends ago, and...
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A Taste of Greenmarket, but not for me
O, how I wanted to attend last night’s Taste of Greenmarket fundraiser for CENYC. Unfortunately, it was a benefit with benefit prices ($150 a head), and, well…that’s a bit rich for this blogger....
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Unemployment ain’t nothin’ but a number
Today, the AP is reporting that the government will release a report tomorrow showing that over 200,000 Americans lost their jobs in October, with a record high total of current jobless claims: the...
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Put down that hamburger
The meat industry has some ‘splainin’ to do. This week and next, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including environmental ministers from 187 countries, meets in Poznan,...
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Voice your support for a sustainable USDA
How? You can sign on to this letter, for starters. And do it quick, ’cause bloggers, journos and pundits seem to think Obama is gonna announce this puppy any day now. Food Democracy Now, a grassroots...
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Brooklyn Food Conference
A bit late with the cross-post, but I blogged for Farm Aid‘s Homegrown.org about my experience at the Brooklyn Food Conference. Here’s a taste: I attended “Our Sustainable Restaurants: A Roundtable of...
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