Brooklyn elected officials announced a new joint sponsored legislation to expand urban agriculture and maintain community shared space at Ashford Street Abundant Garden.
The website was launched with the help of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
On June 11, the New York City Council’s Committee on Land Use held a hearing on Council Member Rafael Espinal’s bill calling for the development of an urban agricultural plan.
Council Member Espinal is hosting a town hall to support the future of urban farming in NYC.
It’s no secret that Brooklynites take their food seriously, and Bushwick is no different
As good Brooklynites, we here at Bushwick Daily are familiar with the virtues of composting our food scraps
Look up and support your local community garden in providing sustenance and critical green space.
The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the election for Rafael Espinal’s seat until June but the candidates are still running and “politics is still alive and well in Brooklyn”
Rafael Espinal has vowed to act against a national move away from environmental progress. Take a look at his proposed legislation.
The 7th annual ¡Calabazafest! will take place next weekend on Sunday, October 30.
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir are bringing their unique brand of activist gospel performance to Lot 45 (411 Troutman St, Bushwick) this coming Thursday in a benefit for EcoStation:NY
Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC’s neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other
Bushwick galleries are kicking up the pace as we enter into the mid-summer scape. While the rest of the art world may be on vacation (oh we’re not jealous of the sand, surf and sun they’re experiencing—okay maybe we are…) we are experiencing more commotion from the current set. Bushwick’s summer kids are in a sort of microcosm—a […]
Bushwick non-profit Ecostation:NY has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a community-oriented rooftop farm
Bushwick Farmers’ Market is back! Our local purveyor of farm-fresh produce returns Saturday, May 31 to its flagship location in Maria Hernandez Park
By Katarina Hybenova, Maria Gotay & Lauren Piper
While the museum’s show on the African food diaspora remains delayed, it still wants to put culinary history on a map
Another win for the environment!
The proposed legislation has been hailed as one of the most progressive climate change policies.
The Brooklyn Packers, a Brooklyn-based food cooperative, invited everyone to party in the name of justice at Bushwick Starr.
The Farmers Behind RiseBoro’s Markets.
Aside from living in Bushwick, many of us commute to work in the city and to other parts of Brooklyn, spending large chunks of our day standing smashed up against a subway window, working for companies with strict deadlines that have us grinning with clenched teeth. Now that I have you all riled up, allow me […]
It’s Thursday night, folks, and we’re hearing the weekend is going to be lovely
If you’ve ever shopped at the Bushwick Food Coop, you know that no trip to its tiny storefront at The Loom would be complete without at least one conversation about food
Sunshine, friends, bikes, trucks, lots of booze and art everywhere! Bushwick Open Studios weekend might easily be proclaimed as the time of the year to spend out in the open