Eating Green With Bhavani: Wishing Everyone a Joyous Holiday Season! I’ll Be Back in 2026! This Weekend’s Violence Went to My Core; Community Solidarity Sets the Stage for Love & Compassion During the Holidays and Always!! NOFA-NY’s Winter Conference is Almost Here!!

Hi Everyone, I am wishing you all a Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and anything else you want to celebrate! We all need to celebrate anything we can, to balance the grief of this past week! This Weekend’s … Read More

In The News: EPA Proposes New Regulations for Carcinogenic Chemicals; Antibiotic Overuse in Food Production Is Fueling a Global Health Crisis!

EPA Proposes New Regulations for Carcinogenic Chemicals EPA is moving to redefine how cancer-causing chemicals are evaluated by assuming that a safe level of exposure exists for chemicals like formaldehyde, reversing an earlier scientific position that no exposure is risk-free. … Read More

Take Action: Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Carcinogenic Pesticides!

Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Carcinogenic Pesticides! The U.S. Department of Justice, under President Donald Trump, is siding with pesticide manufacturers Bayer (Monsanto) and Syngenta (ChemChina) in an effort to block cancer victims from suing over exposure to glyphosate … Read More

Recipe: Vegan Vegetable Quiche

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Here is a recipe for one of the four quiches I made last week for my various holiday guests. In addition to this vegan variation, made with tofu, I also had a gluten-free quiche, one with spinach and feta, as … Read More

Eating Green with Bhavani: As the Holidays Approach, Finding Ways to Give Back!

Hi Friends, We are living through some very challenging times, especially for our neighbors whose legal status is in question, and who are struggling financially during this time. Unfortunately, we can’t change the crazy man in the White House, but … Read More

Take Action: Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Toxic PFAS! Tell General Mills to Reject GMO Wheat! Tell Congress to Support Organic Farmers and Reject the Better Food Disclosure Act!

Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Toxic PFAS! Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just approved its second “forever chemical” pesticide in the past 2 weeks! Isocycloseram can now be sprayed on various crops and landscapes, despite concerns about perfluoroalkyl and … Read More

In the News: What New York’s Next Superstorm Can Do To The City! How Trump’s Administration is Hurting Ourselves and Our Planet!

New York’s Next Superstorm Threatens Our City In this NY Times article, Hillary Howard projects what could happen to New York City in our next superstorm, like Hurricane Sandy. Climate change is increasing flood risks for New York City by … Read More

Eating Green with Bhavani: Digging Up Dahlia’s for Next Year’s Planting! In Solidarity with Our Neighbors, Keeping the Vigil Alive!

Digging Up Dahlia’s and Storing them for Next Year! This was my first year planting Dahlia’s. I had always shied away from planting anything that needed to be dug up in the Fall, only to be planted again in the … Read More