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Arugula! Arugula!
Saturday, August 4, 12-1:30pm
Greening the City Festival
Weeksville Heritage Society, Brooklyn
 With Food in Mind launches this Saturday with Arugula! Arugula!, a drop-in art and food workshop for children. The event takes places at Brooklyn's second annual eco art festival Greening the City.
Artist Jenna Spevack will teach children ages 6 and up how to make mini farms from a simple combination of arugula seeds, soil, and recycled containers. The young artists-slash-farmers get to take their portable creations home and watch them grow! What’s a family to do with the greens after they sprout? Alongside Spevack will be community chef Melissa Danielle, demonstrating how to harvest and use arugula in a delicious and healthy dish. Arugula! Arugula! follows the life cycle of plants from soil to stomach.
Organized by The Laundromat Project and hosted by Weeksville Heritage Society (map), Greening the City provides underserved communities with resources to "go green," while also creating an open forum for artists, farmers, food and environmental activists. With Food in Mind is honored to be part of this important event. Other Greening the City activities include green-related games led by local artists, presentations by Pratt Center for Community Development and Citizens Committee of New York, music by DJ Manchild Black, and Caribbean-style tacos served up by Brooklyn Moon. Greening the City runs from 12-4pm; With Food in Mind's workshop is from 12-1:30pm only. Register HERE for this FREE event.
About the Instructors
Jenna Spevack is a Brooklyn-based artist, ecological designer, educator and activist. Her work has been shown by venues across the globe. Most recently, she grew edible microgreens as part of her Chelsea gallery installation Eight Extraordinary Greens. Spevack has been recognized by major publications, including the New York Times, Daily News, New York Arts and WABC News. She is a tenured Associate Professor of Creative Media at the College of Technology at the City University of New York. Melissa Danielle is a Health Coach, Yoga Instructor, Good Food Guide, and self-proclaimed Know-It-All intersecting food, farming, wellness, and community. A resident of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Danielle coordinates the neighborhood food club Bed-Stuy Bounty.
Image credit: © Jenna Spevack. A microfarm inside a small travel case.
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