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17th Street Farmers Market Petition
On May 25, 2008
The 17th Street Farmers Market has a petition online, concerning the management–or non-management–of the Market. Please read it, and sign and/or comment.
Urban Farmers’ Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market
On May 7, 2008
IN the shadows of the elevated tracks toward the end of the No. 3 line in East New York, Brooklyn, with an April chill still in the air, Denniston and Marlene Wilks gently pulled clusters of slender green shoots from the earth, revealing a blush of tiny red shallots at the base.
“Dennis used to keep them big, and people didn’t buy them,†Mrs. Wilks said. “They love to buy scallions.â€
Growing up in rural Jamaica, the Wilkses helped their families raise crops like sugar cane, coffee and yams, and take them to market. Now, in Brooklyn, they are farmers once again, catering to their neighbors’ tastes: for scallions, for bitter melons like those from the West Indies and East Asia and for cilantro for Latin-American dinner tables. READ MORE
Visit us at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale!
On April 29, 2008
Spring Plant Sale
Thursday May 1, 2008 to Saturday May 3, 2008
The Garden’s plant sales are among the largest in the region with more than 40 vendors selling plants ranging from well-known favorites to rare exotics. Presented by Garden volunteers. No admission fee; regular Garden admission to visit the Garden.
Thursday, May 1, 1 – 6 pm
Friday, May 2, 9 am – 5 pm
Saturday, May 3, 9 am – 3 pm
“Why Bother?”, by Micheal Pollan
On April 29, 2008
Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer. I don’t know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in “An Inconvenient Truth” came long after Al Gore scared the hell out of me, constructing an utterly convincing case that the very survival of life on earth as we know it is threatened by climate change. No, the really dark moment came during the closing credits, when we are asked to . . . change our light bulbs. That’s when it got really depressing. The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart. read more
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