We had a cooking demo with Kate Strassman of Kate’s Renegade Aboveground Kitchen (KRAK). Kate showed us how to make her excellently tasty and flavorful Coconut Corn Soup and her all-purpose quick and easy dressing. Recipes are below. The Coconut Corn Chowder was quick and easy and had complex flavors of ginger, chili, garlic, coconut […]
Member tip: pickle workshop and festival on Sept 14th . Thanks Gabby! Throughout history, on every continent, humans have been pickling as a way to preserve food in times of plenty and to ensure proper nourishment long after harvests have been exhausted. Today, refrigeration and a global food system have made pickling all but disappear […]
Lots of local food events this weekend! Skip the Fancy Food Show in Manhattan and check out Brooklyn’s own UnFancy Food Show instead. This event was started last year by a couple of food industry veterans as an organic response to the expensive, marketing-driven show at the Javits Center. This year nearly 20 producers will […]
Our CSA host, the Maple Street School invites the PLG CSA to our annual fundraising Gala. This is the school’s most important fundraising event, with all proceeds going towards our operating budget. Come out, dance under the stars, enjoy the open bar and catered, gourmet food and meet fellow CSA members and Maple Street School […]
Our second orientation meeting is tomorrow May 3rd at 11 am at Maple St School. Please be sure to stop by to meet the farmer and other members, and learn how we can all work together to make this our best season ever!
Need to do some shopping? Stop by any Manhattan Whole Foods store on Wednesday April 9th, when five percent of their net sales will be donated to Just Food’s Fresh Food For All Program, which brings much needed locally grown produce into food pantries and soup kitchens in NYC. Last year, the Fresh Food For […]
The average New York City household throws away two pounds of organic waste each day. This adds up to over one million tons of organic waste per year, most of which is transported to landfills. The transportation of waste is very expensive and causes pollution. When organic waste is buried in landfills, it is cut […]
The second annual Food For Thought Film Festival is coming up in April. This year’s program will include three feature films: King Corn, Life and Debt, and Black Gold. There will also be a screening of the trailer for Asparagus: Stalking the American Life, an excerpt from Birdsong and Coffee, and other short films. The […]
Just Food will be holding their annual CSA in NYC conference on Saturday, March 29th. * Come together with over 100 CSA members and regional farmers. * Choose from a variety of informative and dynamic workshop topics. * Share best-practices. * Have your questions answered by our farmer panel. * Network at our end-of-day CSA […]
New Amsterdam Public — the proposed, year-round sustainable market to be housed at the old Fulton Fish Market — will be holding a trial-run called Wintermarket on Sunday Dec 16th. Purveyors, butchers, fishmongers, farmers and cheesemakers will all be on hand, selling food grown within a 500-mile radius like meat from a whole black angus […]
