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Food Systems Network NYC
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brings together organizations,
professionals, and community advocates dedicated to nourishing New Yorkers and enriching the regional farm community through collaboration, education, and advocacy.
FSNYC holds Open Networking Meetings the second Tuesday of each month. For more information, email info@foodsystemsnyc.org
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Special thanks to the following FSNYC members for their contributions to this month's website and newsletter:Lynn Fredericks, FamilyCook Productions; Lexi Van de Walle, Lighthearted Locavore; Ed Yowell, Slow Food NYC. |
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FEBRUARY OPEN NETWORKING MEETING
Understanding the Bed-Stuy Food System
Date Change: Friday, February 12th!
Please join us on Friday, February 12th, for a focus on the community
food system in Bed-Stuy from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm at St. John's Bread
and Life, 795 Lexington Ave., Brooklyn. We will begin with a tour led
by Yemi Oyename, Director of Food Services for St. John's, followed at 1pm by a panel
discussion on the multiple strategies, organizations, and individuals
in Bed-Stuy working on local issues and programs. The panel will
include Yonette Fleming, Vice President of the Hattie Carthan Garden;
Melissa Danielle, Bed-Stuy Farm Share; and Sabrina Baronberg, Deputy Director, New York
City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Friday, February 12th
12:30-2 p.m.
St. John's Bread and Life
795 Lexington Ave
Brooklyn, NY
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Interview with Nancy Romer of the Brooklyn Food Coalition
Since the hugely successful Brooklyn Food Conference in May 2009, the Brooklyn Food Coalition (BFC) has been working to implement grassroots food system change, neighborhood by neighborhood. FSNYC's Lynn Fredericks got in touch with Nancy Romer, General Coordinator of the BFC, to talk about its activities and plans for the future. You can read the interview here.
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February Food Detective: What Wheat Where?
Ed Yowell attended a recent conference whose organizers share a vision of New York State agriculture transformed by organic wheat production. For more on the past and future of wheat in New York, visit Ed's article here.
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| New York State's Council on Food Policy Underscores Power of Collaboration in Report to Gov. Patterson
Since 2007, seven state agency heads and 14 public and non-profit sector representatives have been working together on the New York State Council on Food Policy. Lexi Van de Walle reports on what their efforts have so far produced here. |
| East New York Farms! to Host Grub Party
Promoted at the Growing Food and Justice Conference at Growing Power in October, the idea behind Grub Dinners is for neighbors to get together and talk over health, mostly local and seasonal food. East New York Farms! is introducing the idea to Brooklyn this Friday, bringing together community gardeners, urban farmers, food advocates and community members at one big potluck. Find out the details here. |
 Video Feature: Month #14
NYC's Cool New Backyard Farms -- Growing More Than Just Produce
Bee Ayers of BK Farmyards discusses their efforts to create a network of urban farms that will provide work for urban farmers and affordable, healthy food for communities in her introduction to this film about their first season. Learn about the efforts of BK Farmyards to turn more Brooklyn backyards into CSA shares and what you can do to help. | |
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