bumper crop: next generation farmers
Photo by Pooja Prakash.
Growing and eating together part of plan for Billings Forge
WNPR by Anna Sale
May 15, 09
Billings Forge is an old, brick factory complex in Hartford's Frog Hollow neighborhood. Metal tools used to be made there. In the 1970s, it was converted into apartments. Today, it's mixed income housing, with half of the units reserved for low-income tenants.
Frog Hollow is largely a Puerto Rican neighborhood. But at Billings Forge, with the addition of a new arts space and a high-end restaurant, it's drawing an increasingly diverse crowd. That's all part of the plan - to build a community where different people come together to live, work, and socialize. And it's increasingly focused around food.
Alice Waters, the godmother of the local food movement, visited Billings Forge during a stop in Hartford, and it was a big deal.
bumper crop: our next generation
BROOKLYN, New York – June 23, 2009: As Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA, states in this Time For Lunch campaign video, public school cafeterias get less than ONE DOLLAR PER DAY PER STUDENT to spend on ingredients for that student's lunch.
Slow Food USA (www.slowfoodusa.org) today launched Time for Lunch (www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch), a national campaign to tell Congress to provide America’s children with real food at school. One of the major milestones for the campaign will be orchestrating more than 100 Eat-Ins in communities across the country on Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2009. The Eat-Ins will draw attention to the need for real, healthy food for the more than 30 million children who participate in the National School Lunch Program. The program is part of the Child Nutrition Act that Congress will reauthorize later this year.
Slow Food USA (www.slowfoodusa.org) today launched Time for Lunch (www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch), a national campaign to tell Congress to provide America’s children with real food at school. One of the major milestones for the campaign will be orchestrating more than 100 Eat-Ins in communities across the country on Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2009. The Eat-Ins will draw attention to the need for real, healthy food for the more than 30 million children who participate in the National School Lunch Program. The program is part of the Child Nutrition Act that Congress will reauthorize later this year.
