Posts tagged: #ny

May 5: Square Foot Gardening Workshop

This workshop will teach you a simple and versatile option to grow your own food using about 20% of the space of a conventional garden. Led by Square Foot Gardening Foundation’s Certified Instructor and Master Gardener, Reese Michaels, you’ll learn … Read More

April 19: Long Island Food Coalition Brings LI 2018 Spring Conference

April 19, 2018 9am – 1pm Hofstra’s Student Center Theatre 151 Keynote Speaker: Mark Winne has worked for 40 years as a community food activist, writer, and trainer. From organizing breakfast programs for low-income children in Maine to developing innovative national … Read More

February 21: CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum

Food Policy in New York City Since 2008 Part 2: Lessons for the Next Decade – hosts the second of a two-part series looking at the progress the city has made on food policy and what else needs to be … Read More

February 13: Food Policy for Breakfast Series @Hunter College

What Are You Really Eating? Food Transparency Exposed A presentation and conversation with Urvashi Rangan, Chief Science Advisor, GRACE Communications Foundation about the dizzying array of food labels and consumer demand for increased transparency. More info and register online here!

December 24: Community Solidarity Food Share – Heampstead, NY

Join in sharing hundreds of thousands of pounds of plant-based groceries during the holiday weeks; warm winter clothing and hot vegan meals as well. You can dant toys as well as a monetary donation. Hempstead Food Share – Sunday, 12/24 … Read More

Food Shortages and World Hunger; Fiber Hijacked by Big Food; Musk Brother Invests in Food; New Legislation Hampers DEA From Cracking Down on Opiates;

Rice and Beans: $1.20 in New York, $73 in Haiti “The United Nations World Food Programme just released a report on the cost, relative to average income, of a basic meal such as rice and beans in 33 countries. Someone living in … Read More

Dicamba Affects All; Wasted Release; Pruitt Repeals the Clean Power Plan; SNAP’s 40th Anniversary

DuPont’s Weedkiller Divides Farmers  Dicamba is one of DuPont’s top-selling products; an herbicide used alongside the Monsanto company’s GMO-seeds, which are genetically altered and designed to resist the aforementioned, toxic weed-killing chemical. Yet, rifts between farmers, namely between those who use the herbicide and those who refuse to, peaked … Read More

Keep the Soil, Not the Grass; Artists’ Share More Than Fruit; Healthy School Food is Here to Stay; NY Fast-Food Workers Make Political Gains; Nestle Comments to Protect Food Safety

U.S. Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It’s Blowing Away – NPR, the Salt In recent years, dust storms have returned, driven mainly by drought. But, according to rural residents and others, farmers are “making the problem worse by … Read More