(1) Disco Soup in NYC: Friday 20 September, 5-9pm, Super Pier (15th Street and Westside Highway), Free party to chop, peel and prepare surplus fruit and vegetables to the sound of dance music. All with fresh ingredients that would have otherwise been wasted and salvaged from farms around New York and New Jersey: blemished tomatoes, supersized watermelons, surplus squash and other fresh delicious produce.

(2) NYC’s Greenmarkets this weekend, as is the Montpelier farmers market. I think I’ll hit City Hall market today and Union Square tomorrow.

(3) (PARK)ing Day today: A national movement to temporarily reclaim urban parking spaces. Montpelier, VT info here. Portland, Maine too. HT: Steve Hingtgen and Sarah Schindler.

(4) The Horticultural Society of New York’s annual show of international contemporary botanical art opens in Midtown. HT: New York Today.

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