October is National Farm to School Month
What is Farm to School? In 2010, the same year they signed the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, Congress also issued a mandate to create a Farm to School Program within the USDA. From 2013-15, the USDA allocated $78 million in grants to support programs that integrate...
Use Your Entire Carrot
The Jewish holiday (and New Year) Rosh Hashanah began at sundown Sept 20. The word ‘carrot’ in Yiddish means “to multiply.” Carrots are often eaten to multiply the blessings of the new year. We also know that carrots improve sight and are chock full of Calcium and...
Program Officer Sarah Carlisle
Allergic to Salad Program Officer Sarah Carlisle just started listening to Hamilton. She’d never gotten into it since she didn’t have access to tickets (like most of us) but she’s become readily wrapped up in the story. “It’s pretty easy for me to get into any...
Seasonal Slaw
40% of food gets thrown away—a troubling statistic particularly in this city where we have so many to feed. While organizations like City Harvest intervene in waste systems to ferry food excess to vulnerable populations and celebrity chefs advocate for frugality, much...
What’s Marinating at Win Son?
Utterly unassuming, Win Son blends in with the bodegas, used furniture shops and chinese restaurants that pepper every corner of this bustling stretch of Graham Avenue on border between Bushwick and Williamsburg. An array of Brooklynites assembled for weekend brunch...School Lunch is Free. For Everybody.
Until the start of this school year, less than a third of NYC public schools offered free lunch to all students. Now, thanks to more intensive tracking of student backgrounds, the city has discovered that it qualifies for a federal program that funds school lunches....
Recipe of the Week: Plum Chia Jam
One of the exciting aspects of the Allergic to Salad curriculum is that it empowers young children to embrace cooking skills that many adults view as advanced. We make butter from scratch, ferment our own sauerkraut, and teach children how easy it can be to preserve...