by Mackenzie Faber | Feb 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
The other day I, for a number of reasons, found myself talking to the person charged with installing fiber optic cables on my street. I could tell from his Southern accent and bewilderment at the cold that he wasn’t from around here, and I could tell he was at least...
by Mackenzie Faber | Feb 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
A farm grew in Brooklyn. Did. Used to. I figured out today that it’s gone now. But that doesn’t change the fact that for a couple years, a farm grew in Flatbush. Broccoli, cucumber, bittermelon, callaloo, Swiss chard, marigolds, zinnias, Thai basil, sungold cherry...
by Mackenzie Faber | Feb 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
I didn’t think about joy too much until January 31, 2020. It was the day my roommate in Brooklyn, upon walking through the threshold of our fourth floor pre-war apartment in Bushwick – old scuffed floors, funny little entryway in which we hung a tiny disco...
by Mackenzie Faber | Oct 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Image from plenitudpr.org We are thrilled that one of our EcoGather partners, Plenitud PR, a community-based non-profit that has been operating in Puerto Rico since 2008, is visiting Sterling this week. In tandem with co-founder Owen Ingley’s visit, we’re taking an...
