FYI:
Reading: Mark Winne "Closing the Food Gap"
Friday, March 7th @ 7PM - Free
Bluestockings Bookstore
In "Closing the Food Gap," food activist and journalist Mark Winne reports how access to healthy and affordable food has widened in the U.S. since the 1960's. Looking at community gardens, food banks, farmers' markets and food policy, Winne offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's table.
http://www.bluestockings.com/events.html
Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington.
And
The 27th Annual Making Brooklyn Bloom - Edible NYC: Green it! Grow it! Eat it!
Saturday, March 8, 2008
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Palm House - 1000 Washington Avenue
Featured Panel:
From Seed to Table: Building a Healthy Food System
* Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap
* Karen Washington, NYC Community Garden Activist
* Kimberly Vargas, Added Value Senior Youth Participant
Free Admission to Botanical Gardens with FLYER
See here for more details: http://www.bbg.org/vis2/2008/mbb/
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