Share Peas still remain a late spring/early summer a favorite for many gardeners and farmers market shoppers. Yes, there are plenty of pea-haters, but when you love peas like many of us do, you are […]
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Sustainable Affordable Housing Management: Now in print and Ebook
Share JUST released last week, Carolyn Zezima’s new print version of her book on sustainability and affordable housing, called, “Sustainable Affordable Housing Management: A Money-Saving Guide to Keeping Your Site Green, Healthy & Energy Efficient,” […]
Watch Campos Community Garden Transform from Sluggish to Sensational
Share The 2016 gardening season has been a roller coaster so far…We started the season without two of our long-time gardeners, Campos’ founder Beverly McClain, who died last summer, finally succumbing to breast cancer she […]
Red, White and Delicious — Step Up your next BBQ with Grilled Radicchio
Share At Campos Community Garden’s Fourth of July barbecue, the grill is usually packed full of all kinds of meat, with a variety of pasta and other salads. But this year, a new item joined […]
Digging through the Layers to Spring’s Fava Bean Treasure Trove
Share Two of the most frustrating–or at least exceedingly labor-intensive–beans to prepare, fava beans and lima beans, also serve as among the most delicious and satisfying bookends to the gardening season. Each of them require […]
Children from University Settlement Tell Their ‘Garden Stories’
Share Beginning last summer, NYC Foodscape teamed up with Garden Stories Leadership Workshops to help develop some of the gardening programming and learning approaches. Garden Stories creates interactive workshops for children in underserved neighborhoods that […]
UPDATE: Watch Webinar on the Many Benefits of Green Roofs: Grow Plants and Food, Improve Water Run-Off and Enhance Value
Share As part of the release for her book, Sustainable Affordable Housing Management, NYC Foodscape’s Carolyn Zezima hosted a free webinar with publisher Vendome Group, LLC on green roofs on April 21st, called, Green Roofs—How to […]
NYC Foodscape Partners with Garden Stories to Provide Storytelling Workshops, Benefit Feb 3 at City Lore Gallery
Share It’s cold and the New Year has barely started, but the gardening world is already thinking about Spring. NYC Foodscape invites you to a great event benefitting a new organization called Garden Stories: Leadership […]
Turn Food Policy into Action on 11/17 at Campos Community Garden — with Chefs Tom Colicchio and Bill Telepan
Share TOM COLICCHIO ANNOUNCES 2015 FOOD POLICY ACTION SCORECARD Join chef and food activist Tom Colicchio, owner of Crafted Hospitality, at Campos Community Garden on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, as he announces the findings from […]
‘Tie-Dye’ Memorial Honoring Legacy of Adam Purple Saturday at La Plaza Cultural
Share Wear purple and join community gardeners, East Village and Lower East Side residents, local artists, historians and community leaders to remember and honor Adam Purple, the legendary community gardener and environmentalist at a memorial […]