I’m giving the opening keynote at the Maine Grain Alliance’s 2025 Kneading Conference, which culimiantes in the Maine Artisan Bread Fair on July 26. My talk is at 8:30 a.m. at the Strand Cinema in Skowhegan, Maine. I’m really looking forward to this one.
by Marion Nestle
Feb
27
2010
Manhattan’s sustainable food system?
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is clearly serious about sustainable food issues, just issued a new report: FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System.
Here are some of its goals:
- Promote urban agriculture
- Connect upstate and Long Island farms with downstate consumers
- Increase the sale and consumption of regionally grown foods
- Increase the number of “alternative” food markets, indoors and outdoors.
- Require a food curriculum in public schools
- Support large-scale and small-scale composting
- Increase access to drinking water fountains
- Support the rights of farm workers
- Create a Department of Food and Markets
If Manhattan can do this, other boroughs (and cities) can do this too! Let’s do what we can to help Mr. Stringer make these work!