Organized by the Five Borough Bike Club, this tour will visit four urban farms in three different boroughs; cross four bridges; and end with a BBQ and a celebratory ribbon cutting at Smiling Hogshead Ranch, marking its transition from guerrilla...
Author: John Eastman
SPOILED: Corruption from Farm to Table
Journalists for Transparency, a collective of journalists and storytellers that seeks to explore issues of transparency and corruption around the globe, investigate food safety and security in their debut publication, SPOILED: Corruption from Farm to Table. SPOILED features nine articles from...
Benefit: Urban Farm Recovery Project 9/14
Join the Urban Farm Recovery Project (UFRP) and the Brooklyn Grange at a benefit on the East River to celebrate four years of innovative paid urban agriculture internships and vocational training for asylum seekers and refugees in NYC. The UFRP is...
Report – A New England Food Vision
Food Solutions New England (FSNE) announced the release of A New England Food Vision, a collaborative report and bold vision outlining how New England can locally produce at least 50 percent of clean, fair, just and accessible food for all citizens by...
Copake Agricultural Center
Northeast Farm Access (NEFA) is a farm consulting organization in New Hampshire that works with investors and farm clients to make sure an investment in agriculture yields results that are good for the investor, the farmer and the land. Their...
Beyond the Kale briefing recap
I attended the February 11, 2014, CFF Urban Agriculture Working Group briefing about the forthcoming book--Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City--and found the afternoon to be extremely interesting, engaging, and informative. Nevin Cohen and...