We are lucky to be part of a passionate local food community at NYU.
The Sustainability Task Force has a subcommittee for Food and Purchasing that focuses on the way the University uses it’s purchasing power and guides it toward more sustainable and local food products.
Adam Brock, a recent Gallatin Grad and Urban Ag guru of ours, recieved the Gallatin Deans Award in 2008 and wrote Room to Grow: Participatory Landscapes and Urban Agriculture at NYU.
Annie Myers and Carla Fernandez have a Green Grant of their own called Radishes and Rubbish, which is a series of Urban Ag and Waste Facility field trips around the city. (Huge plug for them — their trips are a blast.)
Adam and Annie also have their own blogs focused on sustainable food systems, Wild Green Yonder (Adam) and Thoughts on the Table (Annie).
There’s also Two Birds One Stone, coordinated by the one and only Sami Feld. Two Birds One Stone uses student volunteers to dispose of dining hall food waste by donating it to shelters around the city.
Jennifer Berg, a professor in the Steinhardt School, has a Green Grant from 2007 to start Grow, Cook, Eat, Learn, an urban agriculture project focused on connecting children to gardening.
These are just a few of the resources out there … we’ll update as we find them.
