Newark, NJ – May 15, 2013 – Mayor Cory A. Booker introduced New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglass Fisher to the City of Newark’s Urban Agriculture and farmer’s market initiatives with a tour of two urban farms and an urban garden that have received funding from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), yesterday. Mayor Booker [...]
Continue reading...17. May 2013
This month, we continue to the follow Mediterranean diet month with more recipes, and tackle the benefits of looking and feeling better by consumption a more green base diet. This recipe below come’s to us by our middle eastern duo, which we feature last week Gina& Fadia from abeautifulmaison.com. This is another past down family [...]
Continue reading...10. May 2013
With summer rapidly approaching, we’re all looking for ways to slim down and get beach ready. Recent reports published by The New England Journal of Medicine concluded a plant-based Mediterranean diet resulted in lower incidence of heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, May marks Mediterranean Diet month-a celebration of healthy eating! It Keeps [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2013
NEWARK, N.J., May 6, 2013 – Join Greater Newark Conservancy staff and community members at the Conservancy’s Urban Environmental Center, 32 Prince Street (between Springfield Avenue and South Orange Avenue) in Newark for the annual Spring Block Party on Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. In addition to the annual plant [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2013
The Grooming Blueprint is a campaign launched by Seventy Sixes Barbershop to provide free grooming services, workshops and grooming kits to Newark boys and young men. When you look good, you don’t just feel good – you tend to bring out the best in yourself as well as those around you. Through the Grooming Blueprint, [...]
Continue reading...19. April 2013
This is part two of a two-part series. Make sure to read part one here, Urban Foraging for Food Under the Cherry Blossoms. As part of their spring exhibition S’Long As It’s Yours (February 23 – May 31, 2013), Gallery Aferro invited several artists to create performances and interactive events. One of these artists, Moira [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2013
This is part one of two parts about this event, foraging at Branch Brook Park with Gallery Aferro. The second part will be about the food preparation. Look for it next week! Now that the Cherry Blossoms in Branch Brook Park are blooming, it is starting to feel like Spring. Sponsored by Gallery Aferro, an [...]
Continue reading...29. March 2013
We introduced Vonda’s Kitchen sometime ago as a part of the Lincoln Park Coastal Music festival outstanding food vendors last year, featuring a healthy salad demonstration. But sometimes we need to revisit these tasty places. Vonda’s Kitchen has been around for a little over a year, and has become prominent restaurant serving southern cuisine in [...]
Continue reading...27. March 2013
191 Central Avenue, Newark 862-234-2100 Monday – Wednesday: 7:30 am – 10 pm Thursday: 7:30 am – midnight Friday – Saturday: 7:30 am – 11 pm Sunday: 8 am – 10 pm Delivery available Where Babe’s Cheesesteaks once stood now hosts a newcomer. As of December 2012, we now have Al’s CheeseSteak House, right across [...]
Continue reading...4. March 2013
In case you haven't heard the news...Newark is changing. There is a renaissance happening right here, right now. It's not just NJPAC, or the Prudential Center, or a rock star mayor. It's what's going on in our schools - public, private, and charter. It's the growth of our local economy through small businesses. It's what's happening in our communities in areas that haven't gotten attention for decades.
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21. May 2013
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