It’s finally May and today’s lunch included a lovely salad of freshly picked wild arugula, lettuce thinnings, baby pac choi (the ones that look like little green wide-based vases), radishes and mache, with finely chopped parsley and chives. The spiciness of the wild arugula is balanced with a sprinkling of a sweet touch of finely chopped dried or fresh fruit. …
If You Are a Little Gardener and Live in Brooklyn
Join educators Alexa Fábrega and Mira Hunter for garden workshops at the Heaven’s Gate Community Garden for little hands. Each family will take home their beautiful garden box or bird house. All proceeds go to help fund environmental projects at the garden. $15 Each RSVP kiyomi@bjafa.org Alexa Fábrega is a designer, writer, and gardener, based in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in Tokyo, Japan, …
The First Multi-Family building to Dump its Dumpster
In 2007, North Vancouver’s Quayside Village Cohousing Community of 20 units became the first multifamily building to “Dump the Dumpster”. Now that’s taking recycling to a sustainable level. Still today in 2015, we have not heard of another multifamily building to do this. And we would love more company, lots of company. Have you heard of anyone else reducing their waste …