urban farming

If you love New York City and food — especially meat, honey, vegetables, sugar, beer, fish and wine —you will be riveted by Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Bee Keepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York.

This past Saturday hundreds of food-focused individuals filed into Manhattan's Times Building to hear five hours of TEDx speeches made by leaders in food policy. TEDx (an independently organized offshoot of the TED Talks) is an all-day conference where speakers are invited to make 10-minute speeches relating to the day’s theme. Saturday’s conference, organized by the Glynwood Institute, had the ambitious theme of “Changing the Way We Eat!”