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Community Gardens
April 02, 2014 GrowNYC Releases Resilient Garden Manual
GrowNYC is proud to announce the release of the Resilient NYC Community Garden Guide, a practical guide on making your garden more resilient, including step-by-step guidelines to minimizing storm damage. Superstorm Sandy came as a surprise to so many New Yorkers and...
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Recycling
April 01, 2014 Growing Recycling, One Building at a Time
Photo: Jamie Towers General Manager, Victor Berrios, stands with the growing piles of recycling GrowNYC’s Office of Recycling Outreach and Education works with apartment buildings throughout the five boroughs to identify their challenges to recycling, improve...
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Greenmarket
March 19, 2014 Drive Change at Union Square Greenmarket
Our friends at Drive Change are at the Union Square Greenmarket today, March 19, promoting their brand new food truck Snowday and maple syrup. Drive Change is a social enterprise with a fleet of food trucks serving delicious, market-inspired menus and supporting...
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Recycling
March 03, 2014 Unexpected Benefits in School Wide Recycling Initiatives
How do you improve recycling in NYC schools? Involve the whole school in the effort! Recycling protects our environment, stimulates economic development creating local jobs, and reduces global warming gases, benefitting the entire community. At these K-12 Staten Island schools in the Recycling...
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Greenmarket
February 21, 2014 Farm Aid 2013 Highlights
Farm Aid has just released a highlights video from the press event at their 2013 conference in Saratoga Springs, NY. GrowNYC's Youthmarket program, which has run a farm stand at Farm Aid for the past few years, is joined on the dais by Farm Aid President and...
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Greenmarket
February 19, 2014 Gisella Isidori Reveals Her Secrets to Making Pasta with Local Grains
Bakers are doing it. Brewers are doing it. Why not pasta makers? We're, of course, talking about incorporating local grains like heritage wheat, barley and emmer into pasta making. As the Greenmarket Regional Grains Project continues to spread the word about the...
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