Alright, as I mentioned earlier I’ve been missing Brooklyn lately, and another reason is tomorrow’s Harvest Festival at the Added Value Farm in Red Hook.   So, once again, I ask all of you New Yorkers to head down to the festival and let me live vicariously through your experience at this amazing urban farm.   My college friend Caroline Loomis helps run this remarkable, formerly-concrete-now-verdant oasis, which teaches kids from the community to grow and sell their own produce.   Beyond providing a much needed nutritional resource for the community, the Added Value programs provides lessons in self-sufficiency, sustainability and leadership.   And their Harvest Festival is just plain fun!   I had a blast last year (as you can see from my canning demonstration below), and this year sounds like an even bigger hoot with “Music/Performances, Kids’ Activities, Pumpkin Patch, Contests, Farm Animals, Info Booths, Vendors, Farm Tours, and more!”

takepart and head down to the Festival tomorrow or if you can’t donate to help support Added Value.