Food is still gross on school menus
One local teacher is teaching children learn how to grow their own food in a garden behind the school. None of them had ever picked a fruit or vegetable before.
Farmers market strives to keep prices affordable
Prices are higher but food is better, customers say If you had less than $50 dollars to spend on groceries this week – the amount that low-income New Yorkers receive in nutritional assistance…
Salad marks first step toward healthier Bronx
The Bronx Salad is part of a campaign by area nonprofits to bring healthier food to local restaurants and bodegas.
Local food & drink tourism booms
This “Savor the Bronx – Brewery & Distillery” tour has offered insights into the thriving craft-beverage business in the Bronx since May, and most tours have been sold out.
Green Worker Cooperatives celebrates Sancochazo
The summer heat broke just in time for The Big Bronx Sancochazo at Brook Park on Sept. 24. GreenWorker Cooperatives sponsored the Saturday program to inform residents about their organization…
Bakery offers a taste of the old South Bronx
The freshly-baked Cuban style bread and hot breakfast options attract former Bronxites returning for a taste of home, teachers from surrounding schools, construction workers and cops, among others.
Volunteers revive neglected garden
On June 22, residents and green space advocates gathered to celebrate the reopening of a long-venerated community garden that had fallen on hard times.
Letters to the editor: MS 223 students plead for better school food
A group of 9th graders got together to write letters to their school administrators and to The Herald, expressing their frustration and urging the Department of Education to do better.