iEat Green with Bhavani on The Progressive Radio Network
Hello Everyone,
I just spent a delightful weekend in Vermont with my family and friends. What a gift it is, to watch our children grow up with life long family friends, enjoying the outdoors, and sharing the Slow Food Life!
Last week, I started a program with the children from The River Fund Food Pantry, introducing them to the wonders of gardening, harvesting vegetables, cooking a healthy lunch and playing in the pool. What fun!!!
Please join me tomorrow on my radio show. My guest this week will be Deb Taft, the organizer of Crop Mob NYC, and a newly developed chapter called, Lower Hudson Crop Mob. Crop Mob is a group of individuals, many with no agricultural experience at all, who come together to build and empower communities by working side by side to strengthen our foodshed. Crop Mob’s serves farms by providing groups of volunteers for special projects or tasks. There are different Crob Mob chapters across the country. To find one near you, visit their website at http://cropmob.org
My guest for next week will be Owen Taylor, the City Farms Program Manager for Just Food. Just Food is a New York City based organization that aims to unite local farms and city residents of all economic backgrounds with fresh, seasonal, sustainably grown food. He graduated from San Francisco State University in Urban Studies, where he focused on the role of urban agriculture in food security and community development. Owen has also completed the 8th International Agroecology Short Course at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was a member of the Food Project’s 2006-2007 BLAST Leadership Cadre. Owen spent a year teaching urban ecology and design in New York City public schools, and several years giving gardening and composting workshops in San Francisco and New York City (as a Just Food trainer). He began with Just Food in late 2005 as the Chicken Intern, and continues this work with eggs, fertile soil, and delighted hens, hen-keepers, and the people who love them.
Remember, it is every Wednesday from 5-6 pm, EST. To listen live, go to www.progressiveradionetwork.com and click the "Listen Live" button in the right hand corner.
If you miss the show, you can always listen in at a later date by going into the archives. It usually takes 24 hours for the current show to be put on line, but all the past shows (along with the recipes) can be downloaded from the website. All of the shows are also available through iTunes and are downloadable onto your iPhone.
Just go to the PRN website, my direct link is: http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/eating-green/, scroll down and choose which show you want to listen to. Then press “download”. The show will come on, or you can download it to your iPod and listen in the car or wherever!
In peace and love,
Bhavani
Upcoming Events
New York City Restaurant Week
When: July 11th to July 24th
NYC Restaurant Week is a great oppportunity to try out some of the best restaurants New York City has to offer. Over 250 restaurants are offering 3-course lunch and dinner prix-fixe meals for $24.07 and $35.
Click Here for a list of participating restaurants
Slow Food Huntington Chapter Meeting
When: Monday, July 18th 7:30 PM
Where: Cinema Arts Centre,
423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY
Please join us in planning all of our upcoming events. We need your help!
Cooking Demo with Bhavani
at the Gateway Community Gardens
When: Tuesday, July 19th, 6-7:30 PM
Where: Gateway Community Gardens,
Huntington Station, NY
Nassau Land Trust Presents:
Sustaining a Delicious Economy: Land Trusts Rethink the Local Farm
Where: Old Westbury Gardens,
71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, NY
When: Wednesday, July 20th 6 PM
Presented by David Haight, New York State Director of American Farmland Trust. Accompanied by dinner, raffle prizes, music, and fun at the Picnic Pops concert.
Will Allen Talk At Boys And Girls High School
The Good Food Revolution
When: Thursday July 21st 6PM
Where: 1700 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY
FREE
Donations Appreciated, $10 Suggested, $5 for students/low income
For more information, click here.
Preserving the Harvest:
Canning, Freezing, Lacto-Fermentation, Drying and Root Cellaring
When: Saturday, July 30, 9am-5pm
Where: The Pfeiffer Center, 260 Hungry Hollow Road
Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977
Tickets: $95
For more information, click here
Slow Food Huntington is joining Food & Water Watch for their National Fair Farm Bill Tour this Summer
When: Sunday, July 31st
Stay tuned for more details!
Foraging Walk with The Natural Nurse, Ellen Kamhi
When: Wednesday, August 3rd, 5PM
Where: Restoration Farm, Old Bethpage, NY
Slow Food Huntington presents:
Let's Eat! Films on Food Series
Our next screening will be
Forks Over Knives
When: August 11th, 7:30 PM
Where: Huntington Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY
Reception to follow and speaker TBA
OMG! (Oh My Girls!)
Keep your eyes open for the Grand Opening. OMG! is a healthy living center exclusively designed for girls between the ages of 8 and 18, where I will be the Senior Chef. Its focus is on the physical, nutritional, psychological and social health of teens and tweens.
Take Action!
Save the Clean Water Act
Industry-backed members of Congress are attacking fundamental Clean Water Act protections with H.R. 2018, a new dirty water bill that would let polluter-friendly states ignore national clean water standards and set us back to the time when industries and big business were free to dump their toxic sludge into our waters. Media reports indicate a full House vote on HR 2018 could happen as early as next week. So please act now and call your representatives and let them know you they should vote NO on this issue.
Help Write a Contract for the American Dream
Submit your ideas for creating an economy that works for all of us.
In the News
Are Monarch Butterflies Disappearing?
Due to the spraying of herbicides on genetically modified corn and soybeans, milkweed is becoming eradicated. Monarch butterflies, who lay their eggs on this once prevalent weed, and are now facing population decreases due to the loss of milkweed.
To see the full New York Times article, click here.
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
Summer Conference
From August 12th to 14th, at UMass Amherst, NOFA NY will be having its Annual Summer Conference. There will be over 225 workshops on organic farming, gardening and land care, draft animals in farming and forestry, homesteading, sustainability, nutrition, food politics, activism, and much, much more.
Click Here for more information
350.org's Moving Planet Day
Moving Planet is a worldwide rally, on September 24th, to demand solutions to the climate crisis. A single day to move away from fossil fuels. Come on bike, on skates, on a board, or just on foot. Come be a part of something huge!
Slow Food Huntington will be hosting an event on September 25th.
Stay tuned for more details!