Tomatoes: The Catastrophe, the controversy, the culinary joys

Food Systems Network NYC will be holding a panel to celebrate the tomato and explore the tomato blight crisis and the impact on local farming. Farmers who grow tomatoes will talk about their tomato crops or losses due to late blight. Christina Grace from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and others will also contribute their views at this forum, the Network’s first evening program.  It will take place Thursday, September  24, 2009 at the Ethical Culture Society, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, in the Library, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.  There will even be a few local tomatoes to sample, and a few recipes.     

Suggested donation: $7. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: 646-233-3058 or kristin@foodsystemsnyc.org.  

Subways: 2, 3 at Grand Army Plaza, F train, 7th Avenue

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