What a weekend, Internet! The New York City Food and Climate Summit was on Saturday, a collaboration between the Manhattan Borough President’s office and Just Food. It was a pretty impressive scene, I gotta tell ya. There were talks by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Anna Lappe of the Small Planet Institute, Marion Nestle of NYU, and Karen Washington of La Familia Verde, among others. And there were workshops, too, a good 30 of them. The only downside of the day was having to choose between “Urban Agriculture: Roofs, Walls, & Other Under Utilized Spaces” and “Tackle Hunger, Health and Environment in Your Community.” We picked Urban Agriculture, and learned about Greenpoint Rooftop Farms, Manhattan Borough President’s Land Use Department and BrightFarm (we especially like BrightFarm’s Science Barge.) There were tons of other talks and workshops to go to. It was an awesome day.
But don’t just take my word for it:
Adriana Velez from the blog What I Made for Dinner was there
So was Paula Crossfield from Civil Eats
And Marion Nestle, in addition to sharing really inspiring words in the plenary session, talked it up on her blog.