Calling my compost bin “innovative” might seem like a stretch, but more than most “disruptive” things incessantly peddled at us the days, there’s no question it helps make this city a better place.
Food For Thought
Waste stream specialist and Ditmas Park resident Elizabeth Balkan believes even small, incremental design changes can have a significant impact on what and how much we toss.
“I don’t think that great food is coming from anxious, terrified hands,” says the founder, Alex Koones. “Good food comes from happy hands.”
New Yorkers have excellent resources within a garden-gloved hand’s reach, foremost among them include Cornell Cooperative Extension and GreenThumb.
In the midst of grim current events, these New Yorkers only make our city a better place to eat, drink and gather.
Every year I want to be that person who bakes my friends and family some dark chocolate sablés or sends individualized notes, but every year I make a batch Amazon order the week before Christmas (#nofilter).
Inspired by a single sip, a Brooklyn photographer goes on a pilgrimage to the source.
They’re eaten by people living in 80 percent of the world’s nations. The festival wants the U.S. to catch up.
They carved out space in the new garden center where unlimited water, soil and supplies are within an arm’s reach for their neighbor gardener.
If you come alone and sit at the bar, expect to make new friends.
A few months of meetings, visits and hopeless Japanese lessons later, here we were, meeting the chickens who’d be laying the eggs for our Tokyo outpost.
The owner partnered with an existing flower shop so that both local businesses could flourish.
