Food News, Things We Crave, Resources, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks.

(And don’t forget the post below for today’s recipe: Chewy Turkish Apricot Raisin Almond Granola.)

Food News

• If Brooklyn can’t go to the UN, let the UN come to Brooklyn—and learn what urban farming is doing for the Big Apple (via civil eats)
• Meet your meat! Who knew it was so easy for the average Joe to handpick livestock in New York City? (via New York Times)
• Our friends and neighbors in Toronto just passed a law making green roofs a requirement on both residential and industrial buildings within the next 2 years. Hmm. How many vegetable gardens is that? (via Treehugger)

Things We Crave

• This Japanese Fun Fam bamboo Table Manners Kit for kids—educational and beautiful! (via Minor Details)
• Not really something we crave… just funny and weird! Bag of rice birth announcements! (via slashfood)

Resources

• It’s strawberry season, so take your kids a-pickin’ at your local strawberry farm. For those of us in New York and New Jersey, here’s a great list (via Mommy Poppins)
• Recycling is great! Except that you can’t recycle everything everywhere. What to do? Here’s a new iphone app from Earth911.com that can help you find out what to recycle where (via A Child Grows in Brooklyn)

Green Your Eats

• Want to grow your own garden but have no idea how to sprout a seed? This video from retrovore will help (via Civil Eats)

Tips, Tools, and Techniques

• I didn’t have sliced almonds for today’s Chewy Turkish Apricot Raisin Almond Granola Bar recipe. But I did have whole almonds and a hammer. Yep, a hammer can turn a bunch of whole nuts in a ziploc into crushed nuts in record time! 
• I’ve always wanted to try canning and this article about Eugenia Bone (author of  new release Well-Preserved) has info, resources, and a step-by-step slide show (via New York Times)