New York celebrities and food luminaries are lining up against fracking in the city’s watershed, including a new coalition of food and drink businesses formed to push elected officials to ban fracking in the state, and to send a message to the whole nation.
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Why New York’s junior senator could be the best hope for our nation’s broken food policy.
We’ve been making the rounds of winter farming conferences in the region–from NOFA to PASA–and we just got back from the most urban of these, Just Food’s 2012 conference at the High School of Food and Finance in Hell’s Kitchen, which included a job fair organized by Good Food Jobs and workshops advising on how to start a career as a farmer, raise money for your food startup, or launch your food-related nonprofit.
AMAGANSETT–Last Sunday morning, despite torrents of rain, more than 100 farmers, chefs, winemakers and concerned…
Among the teachers, medical professionals and other New Yorkers lobbying Albany for their share of…
A couple weeks back, Food Systems Network NYC, the de facto local food policy council…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been following the Brooklyn Do Gooders contest, particularly the…
The Role Model: Kaity Tsui What She Does: This 25 year old native-New Yorker lives…
The Movement Matriarch Joan Dye Gussow, suburban homesteader, food activist, partial inspiration for our Eat…
In downtown kitchens and upstate fields, they’re introducing city kids to real food.
