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  • Chuck Yanikoski
  • Kimberly Stoner
  • Teresa Mucci
  • Nena Johnson
  • Erika Harvey
  • Elizabeth Neilson

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Rebecca Burdett is attending Brooke's eventon Saturday
2009 Farm-Based Education Conference at Double Tree Hotel, Tarrytown
November 12, 2009 to November 14, 2009
The 2009 Conference will be held in New York's Lower Hudson Valley (35 miles north of New York City) on November 12-14, 2009. The Conference will be hosted by Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and the Farm-Based Education Association. Ev...
Brooke added 2 discussionson Friday
A discussion started by Brooke was featuredon Thursday
Excerpt from the article that appeared in the Energy & Environment section on July 1, 2009: Increasingly, subdivisions, usually master-planned developments at which buyers buy home sites or raw land, have been treating farms as an amenity. “There...
3 blog posts by Brooke were featuredJune 30

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Brooke

"Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work" by Matthew B. Crawford

By sheer luck, since we don't have a TV, I caught the Colbert Report (probably a re-run) while visiting friends in CT this past weekend and author Crawford was a guest on the show. I was captivated by his simple premise as a philosopher / mechanic who, in his book, "Shop Class as Soulcrat: An Inquiry into the Value of Work", aims to destroy, "the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one's hands." Also by sheer luck, I found this book yesterda… Continue

Posted by Brooke on June 30, 2009 at 4:19pm — 1 Comment

Brooke

"Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun "

Dining & Wine
Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun
By MARIAN BURROS
Published: June 17, 2009
Gardeners are raising fruits and vegetables on rooftops, high above the noise and grime of urban streets.

“For the children, it’s exciting when you grow something edible,” said the school’s [P.S. 6 on New York’s Upper East Side] principal, Lauren Fontana.

LINK TO ARTICLE

Posted by Brooke on June 23, 2009 at 2:37pm

 

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