GrowNYC’s FARMroots program offers a path to farm businesses for city dwellers from low-resource communities.
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It’s hard to keep up with everything that’s happening in food, but we’re still going to try. Here’s what’s been on the Edible editors’ radar this week.
What makes Nobletree really notable among the crowded crop of Brooklyn-based roasters is that it doesn’t just source green beans from well-tended trees and then roast them, but grows them too.
This week, our editors consider what’s next: for overfished oceans, threatened and necessary insects, locavores, and undeniably “scrappy” farmworkers. Read on.
In our latest issue, Amy Zavatto explores the history–and temporary death–of the cassis industry in the Hudson Valley. Thanks to the development of fungal-resistant versions of the black currant bush, the dark berry is making a comeback.
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.
