Action Alerts and Events

Please go to our Brooklyn Food Coalition website for the most up-to-date list of events.

Bed-Stuy Farm in danger of losing land!
The Bed-Stuy Farm (sponsored by Brooklyn Rescue Mission) is in danger of losing half of it’s land to potential development. The farm provides fresh produce to the Brooklyn Rescue Mission Food Pantry and a place for young people to learn about farming and healthy food. The farm needs your help. For more information go to brooklynrescuemission.org. Sign the petition here!

Labor Day, Time for Lunch Eat Ins
The Time for Lunch Campaign is a project of Slow Food USA, an educational non-profit with the goal of creating a world in which everyone can enjoy food that is good, clean and fair. They’re asking parents, teachers and every responsible citizen to speak up and tell our nation’s leaders that change can’t wait: It’s time to provide our children with REAL FOOD at school. Learn how you can participate at one of the Brooklyn Time For Lunch Labor Day Eat-Ins.

Tell your senators: Monsanto can’t feed the world!
In a promising move, the G8 — a group of the world’s eight wealthiest nations–has just announced a shift away from providing direct food aid to developing countries and towards helping farmers abroad produce and distribute their own food. That’s a laudable goal. But Congress and The Administration are using this singular moment to move their own agenda: propping up U.S. biotechnology companies like Monsanto whose GMO foods appear in everything we eat from cereal to baby formula. To sign the petition to ask your representatives to reconsider this agenda click here.

Bring Back Compost Giveaway
Bring back New York City’s free compost giveaway (which kicked the bucket last year because of funding issues).  If you didn’t know NYC had soil to give, well, they do.  Follow the link, sign the petition and remember: we can all be better locavores if we get that free dirt back! Bring Back Composting to NYC

There are many, many, many more food justice related events going on in Brooklyn. If you are part of an organization and would like to have your fair, festival, workshop, discussion, farmers market, or other community activity displayed here, please contact info@brooklynfoodconference.org.