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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 Welcomes Shelley Dennis, Author of “Edible Entanglements” to PRN

Posted on July 10, 2019

Hi All, What a busy summer, and it’s flying by!! So much to do, so many events to attend, so many wonderful people to see, and a garden that keeps on giving and growing. This past Sunday night, I was … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #Come to Life, #Edible Entanglements, #environmental politics, #food justice, #Guayakí Yerba Mate, #Mongo's, #North Brooklyn Farm, #Permaculture Action Network, #Progressive Radio Network, #Rio Salado College, #Shelley Yael Dennis, #slow food north shore

iEat Green is Re-Airing Interview with Elizabeth Henderson, Farmer, Food Justice Advocate, and Mentor, on PRN

Posted on April 30, 2019

Hi Everyone, The Progressive Radio Network is moving, so I got to choose a previously recorded interview to re-play this week. I had interviewed Elizabeth Henderson back in August of 2015, before I got to know her as a co-board … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #agricultural justice project, #elizabeth henderson, #food justice, #nofa-ny, #Northeast Organic Farming Assoc., #Peacework Farm, #Progressive Radio Network, #social justice

iEat Green Shares Interview with Onika Abraham, Director of Farm School NYC

Posted on March 5, 2019

Hi All, This past Thursday, I had the pleasure of talking with Onika Abraham, the director of Farm School NYC, about their organization. Farm School NYC offers adults comprehensive, professional training in sustainable agriculture that is grounded in social and … Read More

Posted in Radio Tagged with: #education, #Farm School NYC, #food justice, #multi-cultural, #Onika Abraham

iEat Green Shares Interview with Qiana Mickie, Executive Director at Just Foods

Posted on February 12, 2019

Hi All, This past Thursday I had a great interview with Qiana Mickie, the Executive Director from Just Food. Just Food, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to food justice and building a healthy food system. They work with small-scale farmers, … Read More

Posted in Radio Tagged with: #and economic injustice, #CSA's, #disparities in racial, #environmental justice, #farmers markets, #food justice, #food sovereignty, #healthy food system, #just food, #leadership skills, #producers, #Qiana Mickie, #small-scale farmers, #social

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

Get Out of Your Seats and Join a Revolution!

Posted on January 8, 2019

Right now, Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion are mobilizing groups around the world to back up their radical political proposals with civil disobedience and take to the streets. For food justice and climate activists, this is really exciting, because we can … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #alarmed, #civil disobedience, #climate activists, #climate disaster, #depressed, #Extinction Rebellion, #failure of our governments, #food justice, #frustrated, #stop williams pipeline, #Sunrise Movement, #Williams Pipeline

Rising Temperatures Affecting Animals Too; Fair Food Program Aids in Farmworker Welfare; EWG Reports on Clean Bug Repellents

Posted on July 24, 2018

As Milk Production Cools In Summer, Farmers Try To Help Cows Take The Heat by NPR According to farmers and industry experts, as the temperature rises, cows begin to eat less. Thus they produce less milk, which has been described … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #boycott, #bug repellent, #Environmental Working Group, #EWG, #EWG bug repellent guide, #fair food, #farmworker, #food justice, #GE, #Genetically Engineered, #Lead in water, #manhattan, #march, #npr, #nyc, #program, #slick cow, #wendys