Farmers from around our region were hit hard by Hurricane Irene. To help them, please participate in Dine Out Irene on September 25, when participating restaurants around the city will donate up to 10 percent of their sales to Just Food and GrowNYC to benefit NY area farmers hard hit by the hurricane.
The folks behind the Pig Island fest next weekend at Governor’s Island have decided to offer our readers a whole durn pig: a 50 to 70 pound gutted and cleaned local, free-range porker.
In the past few days news of serious and continued flooding, power outages and other serious damage in agricultural areas outside of the city have come to light. Many acres are still underwater–but there are a few places that are already collecting donations or gathering help.
For 15 years The Lower Eastside Girls Club on 56 E. First Street has served as a place where inner city chicks between the ages of 8 and 23 can go to improve their bodies and minds and work on their resumes, through yoga, photography, filmmaking, museum trips, book clubs or working for the Club’s bakery and CSA program.
As Reports of Farm Damage Roll in, GrowNYC Has Set Up a Donation Page Earmarked for Hurricane Relief
As we mentioned yesterday, GrowNYC is just beginning to hear about Irene-related damages from Greenmarket farmers throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Wind, water and flooding may not have affected us so much here in Manhattan, but they have taken their toll on many areas just outside of the city.
We haven’t yet had a chance to hit the Union Square Greenmarket — which opened as per its normal schedule this morning — so we’re wondering if any readers who have might fill us in on a crop report. Unlike farmers in Eastern North Carolina — who took a serious wallop to their fields — we’re hoping Irene spared our foodshed.
Much ink has been spilled over M. Wells in the past two weeks, the majority…
Edible Manhattan editor Gabrielle Langholtz just appeared on the WNYC show Last Chance Foods to explain what hardneck garlic is and why it’s so great, and also to urge us to get it now–while the freshest and the biggest bulbs are still available. Listen in to the show right here.
On August 27th, professional city tour guide Matt Levy hosts one of his regular bike jaunts through Bushwick, East Williamsburg and Williamsburg. It’s a four-hour tour of a few of the remaining German brewery buildings left from the dozens that once dotted the area.
we’ve happily got 20 discounted tickets for Edible readers for this Sunday’s New Amsterdam Market fundraiser from 1 to 4 p.m., which will feature seasonal and locally inspired concoctions from lThe Bent Spoon, Blue Bottle Coffee, Marlow & Sons, KINGLeche Crème, Steve’s Ice Cream and many more.
As we put the final touches on our fall issue–it’s about Edible-minded travel–there’s one piece in particular that we’re especially fond of. Our writers may eat their way through the Caribbean, Austria, Spain or South Africa, but it turns out the piece we’re really digging is on the trip closest to home.
