Making Food Work - Holley Atkinson

Work with a variety of initiatives and start-ups in local food, food systems & sustainable agriculture, providing digital media, product development, marketing, technology, development, strategic advisory and consulting services. Also support several leading social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations working for food system change.

Upcoming events...

June 19-25 Edible Eat Drink Local Week
June 20-24 Global Gateways and Local Connections: Cities, Agriculture, and the Future of Food Systems - Joint 2012 Annual Meetings & Conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) @ New York University and The New School
Thurs July 26 Chefs for the Marcellus - save the date for a starchef-studded food, wine, and beer event to fight fracking at the Brooklyn Winery, sign up here to receive an update when tickets go on sale
Fri-Sun September 28-30, the Better World By Design conference at Brown/RISD...
Thurs November 1 - Slow Food NYC Annual Gala - save the date!

Scroll down the page for a full Google calendar feed of more upcoming and current events...

Past events...

TECHmunch NYC | Food Blogger Conference - Fri May 18 10a @ Astor Center
The Great Googa Mooga in Prospect Park May 19-20 - skip this next year

Food Book Fair - Fri May 4-Sun May 6 @ Wythe Hotel
Brooklyn Food Conference 2012 Saturday May 12 @ Brooklyn Tech H.S.

Chefs for the Marcellus - "Spring Fling" to fight fracking in New York State, music, cocktails & chefs' tastings from some of Brooklyn's best - Sun April 29 @ Ger-Nis Culinary Center
Culinary Historians of New York - "The Weird World of Mushrooms" with Eugenia Bone Wed May 2 6:30p @ Jimmy's No. 43
NY Tech Day - Thurs April 19 10a-4p
Woody Tasch & Joan Gussow, "Investing Sustainably" @ 92nd Street Y - Thurs April 19 8-10p
New York Green Festival & Earth Day Street Fairs - Sat-Sun April 21-22
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative "Spring in Kings" @ Pok Pok NY - Sun April 22 1:00p
Slow Money Earth Day Entrepreneur Showcase at Stone Barns - Sunday April 22 3-5p
Frackonomics: Debunking the Financial Myths of Shale Gas & Embracing a Green Energy Future @ NY Ethical Culture Society Tues April 24 6:00p
1st Annual Village Voice Choice Streets Tues April 24 7:00p Intrepid Pier 86 - SOLD OUT

Culinary Historians of New York - "Beating the Nazis with Truffles and Tripe: The Early Years of Gourmet Magazine" with David Strauss Wed Apr 18 7:30p @ National Arts Club
food+tech Meetup - the first of 2012! Tues Apr 17 7p @ Idle Hands Bar
"The Perils and Promise of Fracking" - Mon April 9 6:30p @ Tenement Museum. More info: http://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/item/the-perils-and-promise-of-fracking
"Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics" by Dr. Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim @ Fales Library Tues April 10 4:00p - New York University’s Fales Library, home of one of the nation’s largest and prestigious collections in food studies

Parish Hall - open for lunch now, opening for dinner April 13
SxSW Interactive, March 9-14, 2012 in Austin TX - read about "Better Food Through Open Data Standards" panel Sun March 11
Celebrate Heritage Radio Hosts, Wed March 21 7p @ Santos Party Center
Slow Food NYC - The Manhattan Slur Happy Hour at Terroir - Tues April 3
IACP 34th Annual Conference March 29-April 2 @ New York Headquarters Hotel: Millennium Broadway - This year's focus is on "The Fashion of Food" - Come examine, challenge and celebrate the ways in which the food world interacts with other cultural currents, and explore how food both initiates and responds to the never-ending pursuit of "the new."

Slow Food NYC - Village Voice Choice Eats Tues March 13; Buffalo Trace Bourbon Fri March 16 at Ger-Nis Culinary Studio - both sold out - tickets for SFNYC events here
"Just Food Conference 2012: Eat. Work. Grow the Movement" @ Food & Finance High School Fri Feb 24 - Sat Feb 25; WORKSHOP ATTENDEES: resource page now available, if you didn't receive the link please contact me. For the overwhelming # of ppl who needed tips on Twitter, I recommend Dean Sree Sreenivasan of Columbia J-School's excellent Twitter newbie guide. Also check out recent NYTimes article on quick ways to acquire skills in social media.
Smash success - Gumbo Cookoff to support Chefs for the Marcellus efforts to BAN fracking in NY State @ Jimmy's No. 43
"No Farms, No Food" Rally in Albany with American Farmland Trust, Wed Feb 15
NYU Stern Social Innovation Symposium w/Jeff Hollender, others - Fri Feb 10
NYU Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship event w/Seventh Generation's Jeff Hollender on "The Future of American Business: Will It Revive or Destroy Our Economy?" - Tue Feb 7
Slow Food Meets Big Business @ Columbia Business School Alumni Club of NY - Thu Feb 2
TEDxManhattan @ Times Center Sat Jan 21, 2012 - photos and talks available
foodtechconnect Farm Bill Hackathon Sat Dec 3 8a-11p
Small Planet Fund Gala & Auction - Fri Dec 9 7:00p-10:00p - honored Real Food Challenge and is dedicated in memory of Wangari Maathai
Slow Food NYC - SLOW U: First Annual Slow Food Show & Tasting @ Jimmy's No. 43 - Sat Dec 3
The (S)lowdown, Slow Food NYC's fabulous annual benefit and experience auction - Wed Nov 16 6:30p @ Invisible Dog Gallery - We honored Mary Cleaver of Cleaver Co and The Green Table with our Snailblazer Award, and enjoyed delicious cocktails from some of NYC's best mixologists, plus a roast pig from Zak Pelaccio of Fatty 'Cue
Slow Food NYC - SLOW U: Green Meat - Sat Nov 12 1:00p - tickets for all SFNYC events here
The 2011 New York Green Summit: From Farm to Fork - Wed Nov 2 8:00a-5:00p - tickets here
Slow Money NYC - Private Dinner with Founder Woody Tasch - Wed Nov 2, 2011 7p @ Parish Hall - Register Now
The Thirty-first Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures - Sat Nov 5, 2011 10a-5p - Speakers are Gar Alperovitz, Juliet Schor, and a Special Panel: "Voices of Today's Youth: Occupy Wall Street and the Call for a New Economy." @ Community Church of New York, 40 East 35th St - tickets $50
Culinary Historians of New York - "The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women" with Janice Bluestein Longone and presentation of the Amelia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Culinary History to Jan Longone - Thurs Nov 10 6:00p @ New York Public Library (FREE TO THE PUBLIC; RSVP here)
Slow Money National Gathering in San Francisco, CA - Wed-Fri Oct 12-14, 2011

Culinary Historians of New York - Paula Wolfert on "The Food of Morocco" Thurs Oct 6 7:00p @ International Culinary Center - tickets for all CHNY events here
Slow Food NYC - Beer and Oyster Classic Mon Sept 27 7:00pm - tickets for all SFNYC events here
Slow Food NYC - Annual Members Meeting & Board Member Recruiting - come find out what Slow Food NYC is all about, and join us! Mon Oct 3 6:00pm - tickets for all SFNYC events here
"Food+Tech Connect Anniversary Party" @ The Grind Wed Sept 21 6:30p
Culinary Historians of New York - "Season Opener: A Celebration of Our Members and Annual Business Meeting" Thurs Sept 22 6:30p
Slow Food NYC - SLOW U: REALLY Local Beer July 22, 2011 6:00p - tickets for all SFNYC events here
"Art & Agriculture" w/farmer Peter Nadin et al - Tues July 19 6:30p Old Field Farm and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise gallery talks in July 2011 on subjects related to agriculture, land and water rights, art, community and production.
food+tech Meetup/Ideastorm - Wed July 20, 6:30-8:30p - At this meetup we conducted group brainstorms - products, features, development ideas - with two startups from the group:
Windowfarms (http://www.windowfarms.org/)
Feast Upon (http://www.feastupon.com/)
Slow Money NYC - series of great July 21, 2011 events with Will Allen - please join us
Slow Food NYC - Prospect Park Foraging (May 22 2p), Chasing Chilies (May 22 6p), Pickling with Rick (June 22 8a and 6p): buy tickets here
Slow Money NYC - Entrepreneur Showcase Sat May 14 - was standing room only
"Water Fight! Fracking, Food, Art & Economy" - Monday May 16, afternoon symposium at The New School. Hydrofracking is dangerous to all New Yorkers who drink water, or eat food. The objective of this action-oriented conference was to inform, intensify, and energize current efforts to stop industrial hydrofracking in our watersheds and regional foodshed and replace it with tools to build a green economy and protect our ecosystem. The program was moderated by Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet.
Culinary Historians of New York - "Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War" Tues April 12 6:30p @ 61 Local
Lamb Butchery, Nose to Tail Demo, Tasting, and Auction @ ICE Sun April 10 2:00p
Urban Gardening Class and Dinner: Everything Comes From Dirt @ iCi Restaurant Sun April 17 5:00p - fabulous food growing class and amazing dinner, plus plantables to take home
Slow Food NYC Slow U: Tasting the Local Cheese Renaissance Wed March 16
Culinary Historians of NY: History of the Bloody Mary Mon March 14 - you missed delicious, kitschy '40s and '50s food...
IACP NY Regional Conference - programmed by The Culinary Trust - Fri Feb 18-Sat Feb 19 - Sam Kass keynoted Program details here
TEDxManhattan "Changing the Way We Eat" - Sat Feb 12, 2011 @ Prince George Ballroom - videos now available online... worth a look
Social Media Week New York Feb 7-11, 2011- Food Fighters panel at iCi Thurs Feb 10 food+tech Eats & Apps - A Food (App) Lovers’ Roundtable Dinner @4food Tues Feb 8 sold out!
Chautauqua at 61 Local - Press Launch Party, Fri Jan 28 6:00pm at 61 Local
food+tech Meetup with ThisBatch.com et al, Tues Jan 25 at Court Street Foods
3rd Annual Cassoulet Cookoff 1-5pm @ Jimmy's Sat Jan 22
Culinary Historians of NY - "97 Orchard: The Edible History of an Immigrant Ghetto" with Jane Ziegelman Wed Jan 19: tickets here
Slow Food NYC board elections - member voting ended Mon Jan 17 - Rachael Mamane of Brooklyn Bouillon and Judy Goldberg of Parents Mag among others voted to the Board for 2012
Tuesday Dec 14 food+tech Meetup holiday hang at Jimmy's No. 43...
Monday Dec 13 Culinary Historians of New York with Diana Pittet and Kara Newman on Monastic Cheeses and Spirits at the National Arts Club...
Wed Dec 8th was Slow Food NYC's blowout cocktail party to raise funds for our Urban Harvest programs - Mark Bittman represented and raised the most @ auction
Food+Tech Connect, Open Source Cities, & Gojee sponsored the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon Dec 4 as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. This open-source hacking event brought together developers from all over the state to hack on real-world problems relating to how we grow, prepare, and interact with food.
Tuesday Nov 16 6:30 - another installment of Five on Food at the food+tech Meetup, generously hosted by Windowfarms
TEDxBrooklyn "One Moves Many" Saturday, November 13 @ Pratt Institute
Locavores' Dilemmas: Melanie Rehak discusses her new book "Eating For Beginners" with Steve Jenkins and David Shea Thursday Oct 21, 2010 7:30p @ NYPL (free, but you must RSVP)
Culinary Historians of New York honor Betty Fussell - Tuesday Oct 19, 2010 at Astor Center: tickets here!
Farm Camp at Flying Pigs Farm - a one-of-a-kind educational opportunity for professionals working in food service, food media, and farm and food advocacy to learn about the challenges and opportunities associated with agricultural production and distribution in the Northeast - next session is Sun-Mon Oct 17-18, 2010
A Better World By Design Conference - to develop innovations for global issues; this year's challenge - propose solutions to the problem of food deserts - this event is entirely student-run @ Brown/RISD Oct 1-3, 2010
Culinary Historians of NY Season Opener - A Celebration of our Members IV - Wed Sept 22, 2010
food+tech Meetup "idea storm" - Tues Oct 19, 2010
"Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen" @ MoMA - Runs Sept 15-March 21, 2011
Agriculture 2.0 Global Markets Conference NYC Tues Sept 14
Slow Money NYC Meetup Wed August 4th 7pm (join now to get future meeting details)
Ittleson Networking Reception co-host of the panel on hi-tech/new media careers and career paths @ Cornell Club - Wed July 21 6:30-8:30pm
food+tech Meetup - 3rd installment of "five on food" - Tues July 20, 6:30p @ Windowfarms (156 William Street)!
Inaugural Slow Money NYC Meetup - Wed July 14 7:00 (potluck)
Digital Cocktails: GreenTECH NYC - panel discussion on "The Business of Green in NYC" (free event, but seats are limited) - Tues July 13 6:00-8:30pm
Meatopia:BBQ on Governors Island - celebrating Good Beer Month and to benefit Slow Food NYC and Just Food - Sun July 11 11:30-4:30
Summer Crab Boils at Back Forty - every Tuesday this summer - don't miss them!
Film release week for Shelley Rogers' What's Organic (About Organic)? - June 21-27
Travel to Copenhagen provided by Smith St Brooklyn travel boutique Flight 001 (June 17-20)
food+tech Meetup with the next installment of "five on food" @ Jimmy's No. 43 - Tues June 15 7:00 (doors at 6:30)
Culinary Historians of New York - Damian Mosley on food in early 20thC Harlem - Thurs June 10 6:30 @ NYU Steinhardt Food Studies Program - buy tickets here
Slow Money National Gathering in Shelburne Farms, VT - June 9-11
Webinar - Landing Your Dream Job: Step-by-Step Strategies Toward a Career in Sustainable Agriculture - a great line-up of presenters from Annie's, Earthbound Farm, BrightFarm Systems, and more - Tues June 8 1:00-2:15 ET
Brooklyn Food Coalition's Brooklyn Bicycle Garden Tour - Sat June 5 11:00-4:00
Farm Camp "Room to Grow: Real Roles for City Residents & Food Professionals in Urban Agriculture" - Mon May 24 6:30 @ Astor Center
Hungry Filmmakers I / II / III @ Anthology Film Archives - food and sustainability documentary film festival series - Mon May 24 6:30p
Culinary Historians of New York - Jeri Quinzio on the history of ice cream making @ Mount Vernon Hotel Museum - Wed May 19 6:00
The first food+tech Meetup with "five on food" @ Jimmy's No 43 - Tues May 18
Brooklyn Farmacy's "reveal" taping for the Discovery Channel's "Construction Intervention" - Tues May 4, 2010
Saveur Languedoc Ateliers de Cuisine Kitchen Assistant - April 18-24, 2010
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Daily reads

Daily food system - my morning Twitter scan
Food and Tech Connect - indispensable go-to
EWG AgMag - food & farming

Links

A Million Fracking Letters - Ban hydrofracking in New York State - send your letter now
Chefs for the Marcellus - Food professionals, join Mario Batali and sign on to the campaign to fight shale gas hydrofracturing ("fracking") in New York State
Phoenicia Diner - A new local food project in the Catskills, stay tuned
Sea To Table - Sustainable fish, direct to chefs
350.org - Solve the climate crisis now
61 Local - A Brooklyn public house & beer hall
A Better World By Design - Advisor to this annual Brown/RISD student-run conference
AgSquared - Online farm planning and management software
Alternet - Food - Inspiring action, journalism, and advocacy on the environment and more
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS listserv)
Brooklyn Bouillon - Partners with NY farms to deliver sustainably produced stocks and demi-glace to the healthy home cook
Brooklyn Farmacy - Fresh, friendly, local
Brooklyn Food Coalition - Changing the food system in Brooklyn
Chef's Collaborative - A national chef network that's changing the sustainable food landscape
Community Food Security Coalition - Dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems ("comfood")
Crop Mob NYC - Flash mobs help NY farmers
Culinary Historians of New York - Sharing knowledge of how food has affected humans (and humans, food) since earliest times
Experimental Cuisine Collective - A working group of scholars, scientists, chefs, writers, journalists, performance artists, & more
Farm Camp at Flying Pigs Farm - Food service, food media, farm & food advocacy pros study the challenges & opportunities of agricultural production & distribution in the Northeast
Fenugreen - Amazingly simple, sustainable, food storage material that reduces waste
Five Acre Farms - Food grown and prepared <275 miles from where it's sold
foodtechconnect - DAILY READ - Innovators at the intersection of food & information technology
food+tech Meetup - We believe tech can do much to address the challenges in our food system
food52 - Food community, recipe search, and cookbook contests
Good Food Jobs - Find yourself one!
Gotham Media Ventures
GreenDrinks.org
GrowNYC
IACP / The Culinary Trust - Annual conf in 2012 is in NYC, March 29
Jimmy's No. 43 - A local beer & food mecca
Just Food - Connects communities & farms w/ resources & support to make fresh, locally grown food accessible to all New Yorkers
Kitchen Gardeners International
Local Dirt - Find a farmers market near you
Local Food Systems - Promoting strong local economies by building business ecosystems rooted in agriculture
The Meat Market (Great Barrington, MA)
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
New American Tavern - A movement to build restaurant/bar/cafés for people who care about politics, current events and community
NY Tech Meetup - New York's tech community (geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers etc.)
SNAPgardens - Did you know Food Stamps (SNAP) can be used to buy food-producing plants and seeds?!?
Plovgh - A new way to access local, seasonal produce
Real Time Farms - Know where your food comes from
Slow Food NYC - Good, clean, and fair food for all New Yorkers
Slow Money Alliance
Slow Money NYC
Social Media Club NYC
Tasting Table New York City
Urban Ag Elist
Windowfarms - Vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible indoor window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials

Voices

A VC - Fred Wilson
Appetite for Profit - Michele Simon
Betty Fussell
Mark Bittman - new opinion column
Civil Eats - Paula Crossfield
Comestibles - Kathryn McGowan
The Dairy Show - Michael Crupain
Farm Friendly - Sherri Brooks Vinton
Fed Up With Lunch - "Mrs. Q"
Fertile Ground USA - Melissa Waldron Lehner
Food+Tech Connect - Danielle Gould
FoodPolitics - Marion Nestle
Food Culturist - Nicole Taylor
Kurt Friese - Chef Kurt Michael Friese
Gastropoda - Regina Schrambling
Grist - Food - Tom Laskawy
Groundswell - Nicole Reed
InsideClimate - David Sassoon et al.
Kitchen Gardeners International - Roger Doiron et al.
La Vida Locavore - Jill Richardson
Lighthearted Locavore - Lexi van de Walle
The Locavore Way - Amy Cotler
LucidFood - Louisa Shafia
Marion Nestle - Food Politics
Not Eating Out In New York - Cathy Erway
Michael Pollan - articles and writings
Saveur Languedoc - Anne de Ravel
Take a Bite out of Climate Change - Anna Lappe et al.