When you have a few minutes, check out this piece by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker partly about a Just Food program to proliferate community gardens with egg-layers.
Adam is trying to only eat food grown locally, including chickens raises in NYC. It’s illegal, so that adds a little extra drama to the article.
Lots of slow food references in the piece and cornerstones of urban farming…including community gardens, urban/backyard chickens (for eggs) and rooftop honey.
But Adam wanted to see if he could get more than eggs for protein and set about trying to find locally raised meat in NYC. I won’t spoil the ending.
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