Business A Navy Yard Firm Has Created A Pod/Farm That Harnesses Crickets As A Means Of Survival The Navy Yard is being reborn as an innovation center and one firm thinks bugs are the future. Terreform Open Network Ecology (63 Flushing Avenue, Unit 192), an urban innovation and tech think tank, has created prototypes of cricket-breeding pods meant to ensure man’s survival of major disasters by
farming New Farmers Market Coming To Parkside Plaza This Sunday, July 19 Image via GrowNYCA new greenmarket is coming our way! GrowNYC — which operates such markets around us as the Cortelyou and Flatbush Junction sites — just landed their permit to operate a farmers market at Parkside Plaza (at the intersection of Parkside and Ocean Avenues), which will debut its locally grown fruits,
Farmers The Windsor Terrace-PS 154 Greenmarket Is Now Open Every Sunday Through December Photo courtesy the Windsor Terrace-PS 154 Greenmarket.The Windsor Terrace-PS 154 Greenmarket (11th Avenue between Sherman and Windsor Place) is back in the swing of things, with the market opening last Sunday and continuing each week through December. The market is open from 9am-3pm every Sunday. Thanks to Caroline Hiteshew,
Emily Winkler-Morey New Pop-Up Shop Featuring Local Grain Farmers Coming To The Cortelyou Greenmarket This Sunday Photo via bkgreenmarkets.This Sunday, February 22, we can emerge from our winter hibernation and go see some new faces at the Cortelyou Greenmarket! Emily Winkler-Morey, the manager at our greenmarket, let us know that the Greenmarket Regional Grains Project will be setting up a pop-up shop with grains, beans,
agriculture Get Bzzz-y During NYC Honey Week Festivities At The Brooklyn Navy Yard NYC Honey Week starts this coming Monday, September 8! If you’re interested in the sweet stuff and how local beekeepers go about getting it made, you can join Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BLDG 92 (63 Flushing Avenue near Cumberland Street) at one of their events to learn more. Their
brooklyn grange Eat Local & Learn At The Farm On Adderley's Upcoming "Meet The Farmers" Dinner This coming Monday, September 30, join Ben Flanner of Brooklyn Grange, Jon Wilson of Staten Island’s Snug Harbor Heritage Farm, and the Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative for an educational Meet the Farmers Dinner at The Farm on Adderley (1108 Cortelyou Road between Stratford and Westminster Roads). Flanner and Wilson
farming Uncle Sam vs. Front Yard Gardeners? (Sheepshead Bay front yard garden with budding herbs and soon-to-be vegetables; Photo by Ray Johnson) There is a proposed bill on the legislative table that will affect our food chain, and organic farmers would like for us all to keep an eye on it. The bill is H.R. 875:
