We wanted to share with you a new report we published on Thursday which concludes that the vast majority of New York City street fairs are bland and repetitive. Our report features ideas for improving these staples of summer from 25 innovative New Yorkers, including the founder of Chowhound, the organizer of Red Hook Food [...]

FreshDirect, the major grocery-delivery company servicing the NYC area, has announced that it’s significantly upping its local-food offerings. Cool Hunting reports: The online grocer will travel to over 30 farms found within 300 miles of NYC to gather goods like Grafton Village cheeses, Nature’s Yoke eggs, Wickham’s Fruit Farm tomatoes, Brooklyn Brewery beer and much [...]

NY Magazine says Greenpoint, Brooklyn (my home sweet home) is NYC’s 5th “most livable” neighborhood: Ah, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A neighborhood at once blessed and cursed. Upside: It borders the East River and has glorious views of Manhattan’s spires. Downside: Much of the waterfront is blocked off by a grim stretch of decaying industrial sites. Upside: [...]

NY has organized its own ‘Crop Mob. ‘ Crop Mob NYC is “for aspiring farmers or the merely ag-curious.” We will organize mobs to descend on farms around the metro area to help them for a few hours with whatever tasks are in front of them. Learn about organic agriculture, meet cool people, have fun, [...]

Rooftop Farms co-founder Annie Novak will participating in EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, a conversation about growing food in public spaces on Thursday, April 8th at WNYC’s The Greene Space.  [44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street)] For EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, Annie will be joined by Manhattan Borough President Scott [...]

• 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 [...]

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 [...]