Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like this Sustainable Seafood Supper Club at Brooklyn Commune. Here’s what’s happening this week:

Wednesday, May 22nd

Greenmarket’s 2013 Season of “Educated Eater” presents Educated Eater: International Cuisine, Local Ingredients

First, Craft Beer Week is a time to celebrate the small and independent brewers who give beer its good name. So on your commute home today, pop in your corner bodega for a six pack or grab a seat at your neighborhood watering hole and enjoy a craft brew on tap. Whether it’s a citrusy, hoppy brew like Six Point’s Bengali Tiger or a light, refreshing Summer Ale from Blue Point Brewing Company, we won’t judge. Just get out there and support the men and women behind our nation’s growing craft beer scene. Click here for some official craft beer events taking place around the state.

From June 22nd to 29th celebrate Eat-Drink-Local Week with us by dining out, cooking in and enjoying local, seasonal ingredients like, you guessed it, local beer! Visit a neighborhood brewery, try your hand at homebrewing, or raise a glass of your favorite ale in honor of our local foodshed.

And last, but very far from least, join us at Good Beer, our beer and food pairing extravaganza, on July 31st. Last year the pairings ran the gamut from rich meat dishes like chicken gizzard and lamb bacon kebabs to seafood-spiked fare like mini Maine shrimp rolls and spicy avocado soup with pickled squid. And, obviously, there was whole lot of good beer.

There you have it: three reasons to drink beer from now til August. Cheers!

Heard recently in the halls of The Earth School: “Dude, our farmers are in the house!”

“Everything is ‘our farmers,’” says Elizabeth Horton, director of public relations for Organic Valley, who helped organize the day’s events.

The farmers in question are Susan Hardy and Maureen Knapp, Organic Valley dairy farmers from upstate New York who have formed an ongoing relationship with The Earth School, an eco-minded public school on East 6th Street. Two weeks ago, the farmers paid the schoolkids a visit. They helped 4th and 5th graders make ice cream, taught them about healthy soil (and how it relates to milk) and collected a box of recently hatched chicks ready to start their life on the farm.

“When we started visiting, the schools kept saying ‘Can you bring a cow?’” Susan says with a laugh. “No, we can’t bring a cow! The chicks were our compromise.” Soon she found herself walking the city streets with a giant bag of corn for the chicks that would also be used for a lesson in seed saving and grain grinding.

Susan and Maureen agree that their efforts to bring a slice of farm life to the city are paying off. The kids seem to remember every detail of the farmer visits, from Maureen’s collection of cow earrings to the more important things. Sitting on plastic milk crates, the students lean in as Susan holds up flash cards and asks questions.

“Do you know what organic means?”

A hand shoots up: “No chemicals!”

When time comes to take turns cranking the old-fashioned ice cream maker, most of the kids walk away rubbing their arms. It turns out, making food is hard work, even if you aren’t on a farm.

We’re thrilled to announce our fourth annual Eat Drink Local week, an eight-day locavore love fest for our foodshed celebrated by Edibles around the tri-state area. For one week, starting June 22nd, we urge you to show some love for our local food system by dining out, cooking in and enjoying local, seasonal ingredients.  Here you’ll find a directory of participating restaurants, fantastic farmers markets, and businesses churning out artisanal goods made with love and lots of local ingredients.

And with all the focus on food, don’t forget our local brewers and booze makers!  On Wednesday, June 26th, join us at Brooklyn Brewery for Pass the Paella, a night of local beer and all-you-can-eat paella made by Nick Suarez of the Backyard Cooking Company and Theo Peck of Peck’s.

Stay tuned for more ways to eat and drink local…

Brian Luster!  We loved his photo of New York ramps, ready to be cooked.  Something about the beauty of the bouquet of ramp leaves, the freshness of a local ingredient and the wine in the background (who doesn’t enjoy a glass of wine while cooking?) made us smile.  But here are all the entries we received.  What do you think?  Did we pick the best one??

Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like tomorrow’s pig butchering demo at Jimmy’s No. 43 where farmer Michael Klampfer from Møsefund Mangalista Farm will break down half a Mangalista hog. Light lunch to follow. Here’s what’s happening this week:

Thursday, May 16th

More than three decades ago and long before Brooklyn was a culinary destination, The River Café ushered in a new movement in dining: local food.  Now, having suffered millions of dollars in damage during Hurricane Sandy, the restaurant’s owner, Michael “Buzzy” O’Keeffe, vows he will rebuild.  Read more here in our current issue.