Deck the Halls with Rounds of Rosemary
For everyone on your list who’s said, “Christmas is okay, but I wish I could eat the decorations.”
Farms
This Summer, Natural Gourmet Institute Offered a New Certificate in Sustainable Farming
In response to the urgent need for organic and regenerative agriculture, the Natural Gourmet Institute offered its first certificate in sustainable farming this summer.
The Cleaver Company Crew Goes Table to Farm During an Upstate Staff Field Trip
Once a year, Mary Cleaver shutters shop so her whole staff — from serves and sous chefs to dishwashers and bookkeepers — can go back to the land, at least for the day.
In the Frenetic Financial District, Battery Urban Farm Sits Quietly
At the corner of State and Pearl streets, a lush little one-acre plot sits quietly rimmed by a crosshatch bamboo fence and overseen in part by its plumed permanent resident: a wild turkey named Zelda.
Can Urban Farmers Make a Living?
Carolyn Dimitri, an associate professor of food studies at New York University, received a USDA grant to study the economic viability of urban agriculture in the U.S.
Niman is a Pig’s Best Friend
Good for livestock, farmers, chefs and eaters.
Pumpkin Picking with FreshDirect
Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to learn more about FreshDirect when our photographer Randee Daddona spent the day with FreshDirect cofounder David McInerney and team.
Art, Fall, Farms, Multimedia, Recipes, Season, Slideshows
4 #BigAppleCrunch Instagrams for Food Day!
Happy Food Day! Hopefully you joined hundreds of other New Yorkers for this year’s Big Apple Crunch. Either way, check out our three favorite photos from our Instagram contest!
PHOTOS: In the Works — A Feature on Greenmarket Cheesemaker Consider Bardwell
Our writer Nancy Matsumoto recently took a trip up to visit Consider Bardwell in Vermont, for a story that will run in our pages next summer. The farm is beloved at NYC Greenmarket for their award-winning unpasteurized goat and cow’s milk cheeses.
Giving a Cluck — How the World Society for the Protection of Animals Collaborates for Change
Time was, groups fighting for animal rights typically sought change via boycotts, angry letters, ads showing factory farm horrors and urging their fellow Americans to go vegan. But in recent years, one leading animal rights organization, World Society for the Protection of Animals, has taken another path.
What We’re Reading: October 12, 2013
Like we shared last week, here’s what our editors have been reading as of late.
Food Sovereignty Prize to Be Awarded in NYC on October 15
Next Wednesday, October 16, the World Food Prize will be awarded to Monsanto and Syngenta. Next Tuesday, October 15, the Food Sovereignty Prize will celebrate an entirely different vision of the future of food and agriculture.
