We here at Prospect-Lefferts Gardens CSA have produced a brochure about eating fresh (hopefully local and organic) food. The brochure also includes resources for access to good food and health in the PLG/Flatbush area. Click here to download the brochure (pdf).
Permaculture sounds like a really complicated science-y word. While in fact a science, it is also simply the idea of using the nature of plants and animals to sustain one another in a balanced way. The word is a combination of “permanent” and “agriculture” as well as “permanent” culture.
Some of you might have already seen the article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend about Will Allen, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but I thought I would share it anyway. Mr. Allen has managed to create a local food system to feed 10,000 plus people–in mostly underserved and low-income populations. It is an […]
