Community, Farmers, People, Spring 2012: Issue No. 25, Traceability

A Man, a Plan, Manure

In search of fertilizer, a chef-turned-farmer finds something unexpected.

March 26, 2012 | By George Weld

Community, Farmers, Magazine, Notable Edibles, People, Winter 2012: Issue No. 24

Boswyck Farms Is All Wet

The 49-year-old with a curly mop of hair and slightly hippie sensibility was a computer programmer until just three years ago.

February 28, 2012 | By Rachel Wharton

Community, Fall 2011: Issue No. 23, Farmers, Farmers Markets, Farms, Magazine, Notable Edibles, People, Producers

Vienna’s Brooklyn

Crossing the Danube Canal from Vienna’s glittering historic center to the city’s less glamorous Second District, I knew I was entering our borough’s “sister…

September 30, 2011 | By St. John Frizell

Community, Fall 2011: Issue No. 23, Farmers, Magazine, People, Traceability

A Year—or Two—Farming in Santa Cruz

Each year, a group arrives from all over the world for a full-time, six-month intensive in the hows and whys of organic farming.

September 30, 2011 | By Saskia Cornes

Community, CSAs, Farmers, Farms, People, Producers, School gardens

Doing What We Can With What We Got–bk farmyards Puts Backyards into Crop Production

In case you missed last week’s Edible segment about on NY1, we just wanted to give you yet another peek of the fields at Fox Trot Farmyards, a 450-square-foot real, working farm–meaning people pay for its produce–run by bk farmyards smack in the back of a South Brooklyn backyard.

August 19, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton

Community, DIY, Edible Ingenuity, Farmers, Magazine, Notable Edibles, People, Summer 2011: Issue No. 22

Haute Horticulture

Design innovations are reinvisioning urban agriculture. Here are three of the latest ways Brooklynites are transforming cramped cribs into edible oases.

July 5, 2011 | By Louise McCready