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Boro Foodshed
Last spring, Rebekah Wilce of Cobble Hill borrowed a friend’s bike and hopped the Long Island Railroad to visit the 100-acre Green Thumb organic farm in Watermill, NY. The glorious day of petting...
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Fields of Plenty
In the summer of 2003 my son Aaron and I left our farm in British Columbia and embarked on an extraordinary journey across the US and Canada. We traveled to see fruit growers, meat producers, cheese...
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Hudson Valley Orchards Welcome Visitors to Pick the Crop
What’s the best apple? “It’s the one you’ve just picked,” says Dave Fraleigh, the sixth generation Fraleigh to grow apples at Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook. No, not that Red Hook—we’re in a town up in...
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Market Relics
It started four years ago when I bought a new scanner. The first thing I scanned was a piece of fish I’d bought at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket. After that I made it a habit to get a really good...
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Heirloom: Notes From a Tomato Farmer
Tim Stark’s heirloom tomatoes are famous at the Union Square Greenmarket and a perennial fixture on the menus of many celebrated restaurants. But his farm has roots in Brooklyn, as he explains in this...
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Fall 2008
Amidst all the recent chatter of elections and economic bailouts, there’s been a lot of talk about the anti-Wall Street: Main Street. While pundits and politicos might intend to invoke the...
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Truck Farmer
I first heard about Ian Cheney’s mobile farm on Twitter. Next, I caught a glimpse when it made a Carroll Gardens cameo at a party to benefit young farmers. Then, over in Red Hook, I finally had the...
View ArticleLocal Grains Gain Ground
There’s something simple and comforting about a bag of flour. Plunging one’s fingers into its cool, dry softness is a nostalgic pleasure, and one that is always reassuringly consistent. That’s because...
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The Best of the Bunch
Greenmarket groupies love to debate which farmer has the plushest plums, the hottest habaneros or the finest fennel. But when it comes to grapes, there’s no contest: The Blue Ribbon goes to Ken and...
View ArticleEx-Chef Ray Bradley Excels in a Muddy New Field
Lately the celebrity chef is starting to be supplanted by the celebrity farmer, to the point where “Agrarian Idol” will undoubtedly be headed soon to big screens in home kitchens everywhere. Ray...
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BEST WAY TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX TRUCK After seeing a friend’s mobile art gallery—outfitted in an 18-foot diesel box truck with completely clear walls—26-year-old Fort Greene resident Nick Runkle had...
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Doing What We Can With What We Got–bk farmyards Puts Backyards into Crop...
In case you missed last week’s Edible segment on NY1, we just wanted to give you yet another peek of the fields at Fox Trot Farmyards, a 450-square-foot real, working farm– meaning people pay for its...
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A Year—or Two—Farming in Santa Cruz
Last year, after over a decade in Brooklyn, I moved to California to be part of the legendary apprenticeship program at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz. I was...
View ArticleVienna’s Brooklyn
Crossing the Danube Canal from Vienna’s glittering historic center to the city’s less glamorous Second District, I knew I was entering our borough’s “sister city”—my Brooklyn bones could feel the...
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Boswyck Farms Is All Wet
Everything is illuminated. To inspire other year-round farmers, hydroponic master Lee Mandell uses the majority of his Bushwick apartment as a massive grow room. Apartment 1D at 1609 Dekalb Avenue...
View ArticleA Man, a Plan, Manure
Peter Osofsky had been delivering Ronnybrook milk to my restaurant, Egg, every Saturday morning for almost four years before I managed to arrange a trip to visit the farm. What drew me there at last...
View ArticleA Wealth of Produce in 66 Square Feet
Four years into the new century I paid rent to a family of dramatic landlords on Flatbush Avenue, on the ratty edge of Park Slope. Their oversize teenage children, pale and hulking, would show up at...
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A Two-Acre Farm Will Help Brooklynites Get Hyperlocal Veggies
You think Brooklyn wants more fresh local produce? What about another million pounds a year? That’s what an outfit called BrightFarms is planning to grow in a state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse...
View ArticleGoing in for the Kill
The problem is that I really smell like human. So says Peter Zander, the Upper East Side expat and professional photographer who decamped to the Hudson Valley, via Paris, two decades ago and last year...
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The Empire State Strikes Back
In August, when New York’s U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand visited Quail Hill Farm on Long Island for a meet-and-greet over peach cobbler, farmer Scott Chaskey told the 100 or so assembled chefs,...
View ArticleFlatbush Fig Farm: A Family Business Takes Root- And Branches Out
Flatbush Fig Farm is the perfect triple-bottom-line business, with one small catch: This year they plan to spend roughly half their profits on a Death Star. But never fear—their Star Wars aspirations...
View ArticleIn Flatbush, a Farmhouse
A Colonial farmhouse stands in East Flatbush, and it smells like jerk chicken. Tucked between the aromatic Footprints Caribbean Café and the American Best Car Wash is an out-of-place verdant hollow...
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FROM EDIBLE LONG ISLAND: Eat Like a Greek
From Edible Long Island: The image of tossing and watering seeds in perfectly plump green field, wearing a trendy straw hat and carrying a basket brimming with colorful fruits is enough to turn almost...
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Here’s to You, Bill Maxwell — Greenmarket Veteran to Retire
If you frequent the Grand Army Plaza, Union Square or UN markets, then you may have seen his sprawling stand. If you’ve dined at Franny’s, ABC Kitchen, ABC Cocina, or any of Peter Hoffman’s Back Forty...
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What’s in Season: January 7, 2014
Welcome to the polar vortex, folks. We’ve got some single-digit temperatures out there this morning that will somehow drastically swing into the 50s by the weekend if all goes as predicted. Erratic,...
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Brooklyn Grange’s City Growers Program Challenges Kids to Think Outside the Box
Visiting students investigate a worm bin with City Growers. (Photo courtesy of Cara Chard) In 2010, the Brooklyn Grange arrived in New York, promising city-grown produce from the previously...
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VIDEO: Learn More About the Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm
We first wrote about its farmer Ben Flanner five years ago, when he and Annie Novak were raising (food on) the roof at Eagle Street Farm, blazing the trail straight skyward. They’ve come a long way —...
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You Say October, We Say Goatober: Our Editors’ Thoughts on Why You Should Eat...
Did you know that goat meat is in fact the most popular protein around the world? It’s a lean, nutritious source of meat and has a lower carbon footprint than beef, pork and lamb. But in the US, we...
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