Comment | May 14, 2012 | By The Editors
Farm Share is offering a special offer for Edible Brooklyn readers: The first 10 to sign up will get $40 off a organic CSA share that comes with Brooklyn home delivery.
Comment | April 20, 2012 | By The Editors
It’s not often there’s a call for city farmers, but East New York Farms! has put out exactly that. The group is expanding their acreage to a now-vacant lot on the corner of Hendrix and Livonia Avenues.
Comment | April 17, 2012 | By The Editors
This just in: In June the first Fleisher’s Meats–meaning the original retail outlet in Kingston–will teach a day-long $300 class in pork slaughter and butchery, complete with a farm visit, some hands-on sausage-making and three meals.
Comment | April 14, 2012 | By The Editors
In this week’s NY1 segment, we visited Hayseed’s Big City Farm Supply in Greenpoint, an urban farming shop and training center that will be open through June.
Comment | April 5, 2012 | By Amber Benham
Brooklyn Grange may have single handedly propelled the rooftop farming movement into headlines, creating a tipping point of sorts for urban agriculture. And now the folks behind rooftop fresh lettuce have set out to alter the ecosystem once again, this time by saving some fellow plant lovers–the bees!
Comment | April 3, 2012 | By Rachel Wharton
If you missed Gabrielle Langholtz, our editor-in-chief, on Fox News this morning talking about maple syrup–how it’s harvested in our foodshed, how to cook with it, how this has been one of the shortest seasons in recent history–take a look-see right here.
Comment | April 2, 2012 | By Amber Benham
At Edible nothing warms our hearts like somebody learning to grow their own tomatoes or make their own ricotta. We’re all about empowering home cooks to take control of their food, both where it comes from and how it’s made. So when Williams-Sonoma told us they’d be launching a new line this April to help customers take their food from seed to table, we couldn’t have been more pleased.
Comment | March 26, 2012 | By The Editors
Our brand new Dairy Issue includes a profile of Kriemhild Dairy’s incredible Meadow Butter, made by a cooperative of four farmers who raise their cows on excellent pasture.The group current sells their milk to the commodity market, but turns some of the cream into this nutty, rich and golden yellow boutique butter, now available at specialty food shops in the borough.