Food Systems Network NYC is a volunteer-run, member-driven organization. We can't do our work without your help.
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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: Hilary Baum, Baum Forum; Lynn Fredericks, FamilyCook Productions; Sara Grady, Glynwood; Ed Yowell, Slow Food NYC. |
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MARCH OPEN NETWORKING MEETING
Open Networking Meeting on Open Accessible Space Information System (OASIS) and Community Food Mapping Efforts
Additionally, Kimberly Libman, a PhD candidate in Environmental Psychology at CUNY Graduate Center will demonstrate her work on community food mapping, which includes community/youth participation in field work and geocoding.
DATE: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
TIME: 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Fund for the City of New York, 121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor.
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Upcoming Benefits for FSNYC and for the Brooklyn Food Coalition
The Food Systems Network NYC will be hosting the NYC debut of the King Corn follow-up Big River at its fundraiser on March 15th, followed by a panel with the filmmakers, plus Hudson Valley Farmer Cheryl Rogowski and Steve Rosenberg of Scenic Hudson. Find out more here.
Additionally, Urban folk singer Jen Chapin is hosting a dinner and concert to benefit school food reform on March 6th. Details here. |
The Community Kitchen Brings Old Traditions to New Cooks
Delicious recipes and social justice? You can get a taste of both at the Community Kitchen series of cooking classes sponsored by the Rise Up Baking Collective. Find out more about how they, led by collective co-founder Alexandra Lopez Reitzes, are working to affordably pass on food traditions to a new generation.
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| Announcing the Food Environment Atlas
To promote research on how a variety of food environment factors interact, the USDA has released the U.S. Food Environment Atlas. Assembling statistics over three broad categories of food choices, health and well-being and community characteristics, the atlas strives to help interested parties identify causal relationships and formulate effective policy interventions related to the spatial realities of community food systems. Learn more in an article by Sara Grady here. |
| No Farms No Food Rally in Albany on March 15th
Though current funding for farms and food represent far less than one percent of the state of New York's $130 billion budget, severe and disproportionate cuts to food, environment and agricultural programs have been proposed in Governor Paterson's 2010-2011 State Budget. Find out what you can do about it here. |
 Video Feature: Month #15 People's Garden NYC
Interested in helping with the effort to put a garden in front of City Hall? You can watch the supporting video here. | |
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