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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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