Help a school in the South Bronx build a greenhouse.
The Bronx Academy of Letters, a school in the Slow Food NYC Urban Harvest program, has purchased a greenhouse and is looking for a few volunteers to help assemble it. If you are good with your hands; have similar experience; or just want to help out, please contact Anthony Galardi at anthony.galardi@gmail.com.
The Bronx Academy of Letters is one of Slow Food NYC's Urban Harvest in Schools locations. They have made great progress in the past year and we are proud of their achievments.
Please take a moment to look at the video that our incredibly talented Slow Food NYC intern, Julia Kelly, made for us this summer at Ujima Garden. Enjoy and share the link with friends!
Save the date! Slow Food NYC will be holding its annual fundraiser and experience auction, The (S)low Down, on Wednesday, November 16th at 6:30pm at the fabulous Invisible Dog Gallery in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Our group at Ujima is always up for trying new recipes—no matter how sophisticated a palate one might think a dish requires! When we made gazpacho the other day we weren’t sure whether the cold soup would be popular with the kids, but they all gave it a try and nearly everyone was a fan. Today we made California rolls–wrapping carrots, crab, avocado, and cucumber in seaweed with sticky rice. Perhaps an even bigger hit than the food itself (which, don’t get me wrong, was very well received as usual) were the chopsticks that we all used.
Tomorrow should be an amazing day. There is so much food ready to be harvested at Ujima. We have white eggplant, Italian varieties, and Japanese. We also have a field full of swiss chard, kale, and collard greens. We have one HUGE watermelon that is getting bigger and bigger every day. On Thursday, our last day, we will be picking it and eating it with all the kids. I think they will be so excited because they have watched that baby grow for the last 6 weeks. Our corn is almost ready to be picked and should be ready by the end of the week too. Our bean teepees are about 7 feet tall
It’s hard to believe that our final week of camp has arrived! Last Thursday, the kids took part in a special lesson on nutrition, during which they learned how to identify and distinguish between simple and complex carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. The students had fun matching cardboard cutouts of certain items, like pizza and eggs, to each of these categories.
It’s hard to believe that our final week of camp has arrived! Last Thursday, the kids took part in a special lesson on nutrition, during which they learned how to identify and distinguish between simple and complex carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. The students had fun matching cardboard cutouts of certain items, like pizza and eggs, to each of these categories.