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Recycling
September 30, 2014 Green Your Halloween!
With Halloween 2014 coming on the heels of the BoxTrolls movie, recycled (and recyclable) cardboard costumes are sure to be in high demand. Even if you won’t be creating one of these characters, we’ve got great tips for greening this season of ghosts and gourds. *...
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GrowNYC
September 26, 2014 Big Apple Crunch Returns October 24th!
In honor of National Food Day on October 24th, GrowNYC’s third annual Big Apple Crunch is taking over the city once more. Big Apple Crunch is a city-wide celebration of healthy eating, achieved the best way we know how - by crunching into apples, all over the Big...
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Uncategorized
September 08, 2014 Spotlight: L.E.S. Youthmarket’s Phylisha Conyers
At the end of last month, during the busy season at Youthmarket, we visited our Lower East Side Youthmarket which is in partnership with Henry Street Settlement, whose mission is to ”open doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers...
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Greenmarket
August 15, 2014 When cows fly…
You can now find a little piece of the Hudson Valley on your next JetBlue flight. Ronnybrook Dairy’s blackberry drinkable yogurt is available now on select JetBlue flights to California departing from JFK Airport in New York City and Boston’s Logan...
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Community Gardens
August 12, 2014 Foothold Technology’s Volunteer Day: An Interview with Founder and CMO Nick Scharlatt
On June 24th, Foothold Technology spent the day volunteering at PS 25 Eubie Blake School in Brooklyn. The enthusiastic team revived the school’s garden area by clearing weeds, building raised beds, and constructing benches for an outdoor classroom. We spoke to...
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Greenmarket
August 04, 2014 Fresh Foodbox profiled in the Observer
GrowNYC's Fresh Foodbox program was recently profiled in a New York Observer article entitled "Overpriced and Underserved: How One Group is Fighting Food Deserts in NYC." We couldn't have said it better ourselves!In a city that seems to have a grocery store or fruit...
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