33rd Annual Making Brooklyn Bloom Event

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Gardens serve, teach, and inspire young and old alike. In honor of 100 years of The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's groundbreaking Children's Garden, BBG celebrates the ways that gardens provide common ground for bringing generations together with their annual Making Brooklyn Bloom event. Now in its 33rd year!

With free workshops, films, information and more, the event is a wonderful opportunity to socialize with other local gardeners. Expect some giveaways and freebie handouts including brochures, catalogs, and more.

The event is this Saturday March 8th from 10am to 4pm. Workshops always fill up quickly, so if you go, make sure you get there before 10am and sign up for the goodies so you're not left out! Workshops include:

New Yorkers Enjoying Making Brooklyn Bloom

• A Farmer's Yoga
• Can We Get the Lead Out? Soil Contamination in Urban Gardens
• Connecting the Plots: Crossing Generations in the Garden
• Dive into Compost Bins
• Educating the Senses: Edible Schoolyard NYC
• Gray and Green: Cultivating Active Retirees
• Grow Your Salad: The Edible Container
• Heritage Eating: Foodways 1914–2014
• Just Get Out There: Tools for Nature Walks and Talks
• Kitchen Botany
• Seed Starting with Youth
• Tree Care for All Ages

Check out the event posting at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's website for all the specifics. See you there!

How to Save Food, Resources, Money and Address Hunger.

We already know that we throw away a lot of food. How many times a month do you clean out your fridge of bad leftovers? Ever see people not finish a meal at a restaurant and just leave the rest behind? Have you thought about how much expired produce is rotting in the dumpster behind your local supermarket and how many franchise eateries throw out the unsold food at the end of the day?

We aren't just wasting food by doing this, we are wasting all of the resources and energy that has gone into the  production of the food. Not to mention, if you check out the infographic to the left, we could potentially feed 7 billion people by being conscious of our actions and making some simple adjustments to our routines.

The video below sums up some  statistics in less than two minutes about how much food, energy and resources are wasted from the farm to the fridge in a people managed food system.