By Mary Deyns Brandão As much as we love our farm shares, from time to time schedule constraints prevent us from picking up weekly allotments. If you’re like me, you’ve probably found yourself wondering where exactly those delightful herbs, vegetables and fruits end up. You probably know that the surplus volunteer on staff for the … Continue reading Forest Hills CSA Member Impact: New Life Community Food Pantry
Category: Community Events
Free Trees this Saturday
In partnership with MillionTreesNYC, New York Restoration Project invites you to pick up a free tree at one of our tree giveaway events this fall. This weekend (October 5th and 6th) we are giving away 100 free trees in Forest Park with Council Member Crowley's Office. Dozens of trees will be available first come, first served Date and … Continue reading Free Trees this Saturday
LIC Flea & Food
If you are looking for tasty local food, you can now find scrumptious eats just a short ride away in Long Island City. The LIC Flea & Food opened on June 15 and runs every Saturday and Sunday through the summer. On opening weekend there were more food vendors than purveyors of goods, but this … Continue reading LIC Flea & Food
Forest Rego Compost Collective Update
Happy Earth day to our Forest Hills CSA Family! Today members of our Compost Group went to Randall's Island and gathered several black plastic bags (donated by Wafa's Restaurant) with your mulched and chipped Christmas Tree's and Hannukah Bushes! CSA member Chloe Bishop donated her time and made arrangements so that we … Continue reading Forest Rego Compost Collective Update
documentary film: American Meat Monday, April 15th
We just received this information from our farmers Alan and Nancy Brown, of Lewis Waite Farm: Coming up is a not-to-miss week-long New York City premiere of the documentary film American Meat, which looks at our nation's meat industry through the eyes of farmers all over the country. It's an important, timely film about the future … Continue reading documentary film: American Meat Monday, April 15th
2d ANNUAL COMMUNITY STOP & SWAP
SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 10:30 AM TO 1:30 PM Central Queens YM & YWHA 67-09 108 Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375 Give new life to old things! Bring clean, reusable, portable items to share OR just come see what is free for the taking! Bring as much as you want and take as much as you want. They welcome: … Continue reading 2d ANNUAL COMMUNITY STOP & SWAP
Forest Hills Greenmarket starting up again April 7th!
The Forest Hills Greenmarket will be open again on Sundays from 8am-3pm It is located infront of the Forest Hills Post Office on Queens Boulevard and 70th Avenue, as it was last year. It will run every Sunday through December 29th.
Tasty Local Food at the Brooklyn Flea
If you're looking for some delicious food on the weekend, just travel to your next door neighbor(hood) for some tasty, local fare. Every weekend through November 18, food vendors set up shop at the Brooklyn Flea Market. On Saturdays, you can find food vendors at the Fort Greene Flea. On Sundays, hop on the BQE … Continue reading Tasty Local Food at the Brooklyn Flea
Taking the Ug! out of August
There are many great things about living in NYC, but if we are all to be perfectly honest, August isn't typically one of them. There are days it feels like you are trying to walk through soup to get from point A to point B. If you spent all your vacation money on July and … Continue reading Taking the Ug! out of August
Start July with a Bang
When many people think of the summer, they often think of long, hot drives to the beach where they will fill up buckets of sand and empty out their wallets. It doesn't have to be so, my fellow New Yorkers. Fighting for a square of sand is not the only way to enjoy summer. July … Continue reading Start July with a Bang
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