We have farmers! Right here in our neighborhood! Brooklyn Grange is the world’s largest rooftop farm and they create enough on their farm to sustain not only a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) member group, but also to represent and sell their goods at Smorgasburg weekly on Saturdays. Ben and Dave both said they would be…
Stephen Burke, the president of the Ithaca Hours local currency recently got in touch to say he’s coming to Brooklyn! If you want to meet him and ask some questions about what it’s like to live and work with alternative currency, get yourself down to Red Hook. Details from Stephen: Hello Brooklyn (Torch, and other)…
Next up, the makers of the Impossible film which fascinated me enough to write a stipend project proposal based on taking pictures. These Impossible people are so helpful. They hooked me up with a cool frog tongue which helps protect the evolving film from the ever bright sun. (or other light sources) Patrick even helped…
With my stipend check in hand, I went off to deposit the check at our local Federal Credit Union, The Brooklyn Coop. Samira and Geoff are so great, they introduced me to a host of services they provide for our neighbors. The Brooklyn Coop has all sorts of really wonderful account features for residents. Financial…
First up, Macktez, the stipend grantors, local IT consultancy group, are all around good people. When I went by to pickup the stipend check, they were having a feast. Here is Matthew with the feast, my check, my wallet and a Brooklyn Torch voucher. I got my stipend check and shook hands with as many…
We are honored to announce that the Impossible Project will be sponsoring Mary’s project to photograph local exchanges while explaining the concept of a local currency to merchants.
Mary Jeys was just awarded a stipend to produce a photo project to document every monetary exchange made with reverse engineered Polaroid film in a classic Business Edition Polaroid camera for 31 days representing one month. Macktez, an IT consultancy group in Manhattan invited panelists to review proposals and here is one highlight from the…
In June, I had the honor of being interviewed by a very bright writer named Hrag Vartanian. He writes for The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. His piece on Bushwick Open Studios, featured myself and the Brooklyn Torch project in good light. What I want to publish here today though, is the full interview as I…
Now that we’ve had a few local events and we have met some challenges and opportunities with a degree of success and mixed-success (always forward, never straight!) We are working on a mission statement and future goals and overall ideals to improve how we say what we do. I’d love to hear what you guys…
Our first exchanges will begin on February 3rd, 2011 at the Dumbo Arts Center. At 6pm, we will have an exchange table to trade your services and/or your goods for others. Vouchers will be available if you cannot find items you want, but want to turn something in. Vouchers can also be traded for Brooklyn…
