This Saturday, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s “Making Brooklyn Bloom” conference will feature workshops and lectures dealing with growing things in the city: Kick off the spring gardening season at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with this daylong conference on how to green up our communities by revitalizing our soil, the foundation of life in the garden. This [...]

March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, right? There is no either/or involved? These are the things we’ve been arguing about around the ol’ homestead lately. Weighty, I know. Well, no matter whether the weeks bear more resemblance to Simba or Bo Peep, we’ll be keeping busy in March, supporting and [...]

Attended Work It Brooklyn at the Arsenal last night, and was amazed by the variety of freelancers, artists and entrepreneurs there. During the “speed networking” round, I think I volunteered to paint Brooklyn roofs white this spring; promised to introduce a guy who wants to make a Japanese travel show to an acquaintance of mine [...]

All right, there’s really not that much snow on the ground here in North Brooklyn. I just want to bond with my DC friends who keep twittering about it, okay? I want a shared cultural moment and, dammit, the weather just won’t cooperate! Nonetheless. You should come out this weekend to: 1) The Love Party [...]

As usual, Joann Kim is on top of EVERYTHING GOING ON IN NORTH BROOKLYN in terms of creative events, volunteering and community involvement. She is currently co-starting a networking group for north Brooklyn freelancers (Work It Brooklyn) and promoting the efforts of folks in Bushwick to turn unwanted space in the Most Holy Trinity Church [...]

Via Joann, the Unhappy Hipsters tumblr:  Dwell magazine images re-captioned. This is my favorite:  Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome. Also via Joann, Radish, a “seasonally prepared foods” store, is set to open this spring on Bedford Ave, in the storefront [...]

So have you ever found yourself thinking, man, I wish I could help out a bunch of independent filmmakers without doing anything other than drinking and dancing with my friends? OH MY GOD, now you can! Yeah, tomorrow night, in fact. You just get yourself to the Production Lounge on Franklin Avenue in Greepoint. There [...]

Yes, it’s come to this, folks: Huffington Post is holding a hottest beekeeper competition. First, we gave you the hottest organic farmers, and you sent us photos of your favorite agri-hotties. Now, we at HuffPost Green are continuing our love affair with sustainable agriculture by taking it to the next level … with cute beekeepers, [...]

Had the pleasure of listening to a band called Bow Ribbons at Monkey Town Tuesday night. They only played two songs, because they were sharing the evening with Jolie Holland, Mike Wexler, Garrett Devoe and others (in what Monkey Town described as “a night of medieval sonic drone guitar rock, fiddle, folk-pop and expert percussion”) [...]

• Brooklyn’s Backyard Chicken Keepers from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Meet Megan Paska and Katrina Mauro both Mother Hens to four curious egg-laying chickens in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They decided to raise chickens for the first time in their tiny urban backyard as a way to live more sustainably. What they discovered is that raising chickens is [...]

After trips to tropical islands (Katie) and the suburbs of Cincy, OH (me), we are once against nestled in cozily in our over-heated, now-crowded-with-Christmas-presents Greenpoint home. And we intend to hibernate. I mean, we are, in fact, at this moment, hibernating. I don’t think Katie has left the house in 48 hours; I did go [...]

Welcome, class! This will be the first of many Friday “Home Economics Lessons,” links to the random cooking-, farming-, dancing-, creating- and Brooklyn-spectacularity-related things we’ve been reading about throughout the week. Let’s begin with this article in Bust magazine, via Stem + Leaf, about the history of home economics. Writer Emily McCombs notes, “From feminist [...]

For all those of you who are spending the holiday with those you love, even though you may not technically be “home” … Enjoy: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cy3hMbl1W8] I am not spending the holiday at home, nor with the person I love like this (because he is, no lie, spending the day at Barbara Streisand’s house), but I [...]

Cobra Pates are vegan nut pates made by Justin Bland, a member of the Goddamn Cobras creative collective. Cobra Pate comes in two regular flavors— Almond-Tomato-Basil Maple-Walnut-Lavender —and one seasonal flavor: Cashew Chai. Ingredients All herbs that went into the pates are from Garden of Eve, a certified organic producer from Suffolk County, NY. All [...]

It’s Greenpoint Food Market day! The now-once-a-month festival takes place in the basement of the chuch at 129 Rusell, across from McGolrick Park, between Nassau and Driggs. This Saturday, Katie & I will be there, debuting “Cobra Pate,” vegan nut pates from our friends in the Goddamn Cobras. It comes in three seasonal flavors: almond [...]

When I was a freshman in college, my friend Kari asked me if I would like an orange. We were sitting in her dorm room with some friends. I accepted her offer, and watched, a few minutes later, as everyone in the room stared at me aghast. My faux pas? I had bitten into the [...]