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iEat Green Contemplates Thankfulness, and Puts Gardens to Rest; Sumiya Khan and Amelia Reese Masterson Join Bhavani on PRN to Talk About CitySeed and Sanctuary Kitchen!

Posted on November 13, 2019

I lost a friend last week. I go to bed thinking about her and I wake up in the morning thinking about her. She was too young! It reminded me to slow down and take a moment to be thankful … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #agriculture, #Amelia Reese Masterson, #CitySeed, #culinary traditions, #cultures, #food justice, #food system, #immigrants, #refugees, #refugees and immigrants, #Sanctuary Kitchen, #Sumiya Khan, #Thanksgiving

iEat Green Visits the Kashi Ashram; Qiana Mickie, Executive Director at Just Foods, Joins Bhavani on PRN

Posted on February 5, 2019

Hi Everybody, It’s been a long time since I visited my friends at the Kashi Ashram in Sebastian, Florida, and I am so thrilled to see some of the new projects they have taken up! The biggest change is the … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #agriculture, #food justice, #just food, #Kashi Ashram, #permaculture, #producers, #Qiana Mickie, #regenerative, #small-scale farmers, #Terry Meer

iEat Green Joins NOFA-NY this Weekend for the Winter Conference; Kayleen St.John from Genuine Foods Joins Bhavani on PRN

Posted on January 15, 2019

Hi Everyone, This weekend is NOFA-NY’s Winter Conference, and I am honored to announce that I have been asked to join the board! Assuming I am voted in, I will take my place as a new member of the NOFA-NY … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #agriculture, #cooking techniques, #culinary nutrition, #Culinary Nutrition Certificate Program, #Euphebe Healthcare, #Foundations of Plant-Based Nutrition, #Genuine Foods, #gut health, #heart disease, #Kayleen St.John, #Natural Gourmet Institute, #nofa-ny, #NOFA-NY Winter Conference, #Nutrition in Food Studies, #nyu, #organic farmers, #organic farming community, #organic food, #plant-centric, #vegetarian times, #weight loss

Join Your Local Food Policy Council; The Long Island Food Coalition Needs You!! #BreakFreeFromPlastic For Month of July

Posted on July 3, 2018

Are you a local food aficionado or just curious about how policy affects your local food systems? If so, then consider joining me in the Good Food movement by seeking out your local food policy council to understand and engage … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #agriculture, #break free from plastic, #fall, #land, #long island food conference, #nutrition, #policy council, #public health, #SNAP, #water supply

Tell Retailers to Stop Selling Cheap Palm-Oil Products; Submit Your Comments for Farm Bill 2018;

Posted on June 12, 2018

Tell Retailers to Stop Selling Cheap Palm-Oil Products When concerned citizen and public health advocate, Rich Miller, wrote to Trader Joe’s to complain about its surfeit of products which use palm oil, the company responded by saying that they’d reconsider … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #agriculture, #farm bill 2018, #forestry, #make your voice heard, #nofa, #Northeast Organic Farming Association, #say no to palm oil industry, #soil organic, #sustainable, #Tell Retailers to Stop Selling Cheap Palm-Oil Products;

Submit Your Comments on Misleading GMO Label; Say NO to Glyphosate; Support Sustainable Fishing Company CSA; Beeyond Pesticides: Stop the Use of Bee-killing Lawncare and Ag Products

Posted on May 21, 2018

Submit your comments about the proposed label for Genetically-engineered organisms in processed foods here, before July 3rd. Let them know your concerns regarding product labeling, and demand that foods which have been genetically-modified be required to bear a disclosure indicating … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #agriculture, #bee pollen, #Bee-killing Lawncare, #ben and jerrys, #Center for Food Safety, #Neonicotinoids, #organic, #Pesticides

Pruitt Rules To Degrade Farm-Workers Protections Act; Who Exactly Does Snap Feed? Cuomo Supports NY Farmers; iEat Green’s Radio Guest on CBS 60 Minutes; Victory for NY Renews Campaign

Posted on April 30, 2018

EarthJustice Workers Submit Freedom of Information Act, Putting Scott Pruitt Under Scrutiny From the fields of Florida, to the crops of California, farm workers across the country are directly impacted by federal regulatory laws which allow for use of pesticides … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #agriculture, #Bren Smith, #CAFO, #Climate Change, #concentrated animal farming operation, #cuomo, #farmer, #feeding, #Governor Cuomo, #huffington post, #new york farm bureau, #NY Renews, #renewable energy, #state governor, #Thimble Oyster Company Owner and Ocean Farm Founder Featured on CBS 60 Minutes

USDA Increasing Opportunities for Farmers Across the Country; Fight for 2018 Farm Bill: Still Delayed; Overlapping Communities in Rural America

Posted on March 20, 2018

Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) Applicant Webinars Press release from the Agricultural Marketing Service: On March 7, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced the availability of $27 million in grants to … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #2nd Annual Hudson Valley Farmhouse Ale Competition, #agriculture, #american agriculturis, #Civil Eats, #farm bill 2018, #Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) Applicant Webinars, #grow act, #SNAP