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Community Garden Sites Available on Long Island This Spring
NewsLI.com, April 20, 2012
Community garden plots at 832 Merrick Avenue in East Meadow will be available this season to residents of Nassau County. The project is sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County. Each bed measures 5’ by 20’, and cost for the season is $75. Applications for garden space will be available online on 4/23/2012 at http://blogs.cce.cornell.edu/nassau/. Applications and payment are due on 5/4/2012 . A lottery will be held on 5/7/2012 to assign the garden beds. Read More >>
Push to Give Midsize Farms a Hub at a Bronx Market
Decades after the slow-food movement began championing the benefits of locally grown fruits and vegetables, pressure is mounting for New York City to stand up to big vendors and make room for the region’s midsize farms at the Hunts Point wholesale produce market in the South Bronx. Read More >>
April is high time for enjoying New York's saltwater spring fishery: Baitfish are plentiful in both the western Long Island Sound and along the South Shore
| NY Daily News, April 19, 2012
New York’s flounder season opened on April 1. The striped bass opener in marine waters south of the George Washington Bridge was April 15. Ling continue to fill buckets as anglers occasionally mix it up with a cod. Read More >>
Seasonal Whole Foods Market Coming to East Hampton
The Sag Harbor Express, April 17, 2012
Around Memorial Day, people passing through Montauk Highway in Wainscott will have a new seasonal business offering a variety of local produce and perhaps even fish in a farm stand setting.
This kind of establishment is traditional on the East End — except in this case the store being opened is organic food market giant Whole Foods. Read More >>
Celebrating National Nutrition Month and Promoting Wellness in Long Island Schools
PRWeb, April 9, 2012
Every year during National Nutrition Month, Whitsons School Nutrition partners with school districts to promote smart eating habits and healthy lifestyles. Commack, East Islip and Hicksville School Districts in Long Island, New York celebrated Nutrition Month with nutrition education activities and wellness fairs. Read More >>
Sea Cliff Food Group Eyes Community Garden
Glen Cove Patch, April 5, 2012
A community garden is being planned for a plot of unused land on the grounds of the Aqua New York water company on Prospect Avenue in Sea Cliff, according to members of a local food cooperative. Read More >>
2012 Small Farm Summit was all about growing, accessing, and eating healthier, local FOOD!
Interest in growing and farming on Long Island is a booming enterprise as evidenced by the nearly 700 people who enjoyed the Small Farm Summit on Saturday, April 14 at Hofstra University. More than 30 organizations, led by the North Shore Land Alliance and including Hofstra University, Whole Foods Market and the Land Trust Alliance, stepped up to sponsor the second annual Small Farm Summit. It was an extensive day of learning, hands-on instruction, entertainment and networking focused on growing more food locally for individual use, in schools, to feed people in need and to grow the local economy.
Summit topics covered something for everyone including new developments in “Aquaculture,” shellfish and finfish cultivation, which has been a mainstay on the north shore for centuries. For the backyard gardener there were classes offered on composting, building healthy soil, season extension methods, and insects of significance to Long Island. For health and nutrition advocates topics included school gardens, edible medicinal plans and school lunch nutrition. Experiential workshops on bee-keeping and chicken-rearing delighted children and their parents. Beginning farmers and experienced farmers attended panels focused on business planning, marketing agricultural products, organics and value-added operations.
Other sponsors of the 2012 Small Farms Summit included High Mowing Seeds, Edible East End, The Center for Collaborative Communities, The Town of Oyster Bay, The Waldorf School of Garden City, LI Green, Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, iEat Green, Long Island University, Adelphi University, Farmer’s Market Kennedy Plaza, Slow Food Huntington, Peconic Land Trust, NOFA-NY (Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York,) Kaos Farms, Nassau Land Trust and many others who lent their expertise in creating a day that put food producing passion to anyone who wanted to learn about it.
The Small Farm Summit is a part of the Small Farm Initiative that began in 2010 to support sustainable efforts in local food production, farmland preservation, food waste reduction and recycling, water conservation and agricultural education. Full Article...
Other Farm Summit Posts
Becoming part of the 'Good Food Revolution'
Long Island Small Farm Summit: Cultivating Food Justice Panel
Small Farm Summit Displays the Bright Future of Long Island Food
Will Allen, keynote speaker of the 2012 Small Farm Summit, on Urban Food Gardening
Ann Cooper - Lunch Lessons: Changing The Way We Feed Our Children
Small Farm Summit, April 15, 2011 with Joel Salatin, keynote speaker
This weeks video is Stephen Ritz - Green Bronx Machine - Growing Our Way Into A New Economy
2011 Small Farm Summit
