Comment | March 15, 2012 | By The Editors | Photographs by Daniel Bowman Simon
Was it just yesterday it was 72 degrees and so sunny we needed SPF 30? Luckily our intrepid photo editor, Rebecca McAlpin, had an outdoor assignment. Working on our next issue–Eat, Drink, Local-themed–she tracked Daniel Bowman Simon to the greenmarket to buy seedlings and then to a community garden where they were planted in raised beds.
Comment | February 29, 2012 | By The Editors
Each year the Hudson Valley Seed Library commissions New York State artists to design the packaging for a special line of heirloom seeds called Art Packs. Until March 2, you can see the packs next to the original works–and buy both the seeds and reprints of the art–at the Horticultural Society of New York on West 37th Street. If you do miss it, don’t worry–you can get a glimpse of the 23 packs and the 23 works of art on our most recent NY1 segment. Watch it right here.
Comment | October 12, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton
We like to pride ourselves on using up every bit of a plant, gobbling up everything to young radish leaves, to pickled Swiss chard stems (a tip we learned from Michael Anthony at Gramercy Tavern) to the fresh roots of green garlic (that one was from Shea Gallante, of Ciano). But until we went with NY1 to The Bronx to visit Toby Adams, the manager of the 1.5-acre Ruth Rae Howell Family Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, we didn’t know that you could actually eat the tops of carrots.
Comment | September 30, 2011 | By Marie Viljoen | Photographs by Marie Viljoen
It ain’t over till it’s over, sister. There is still gardening to be done.
September has been weird, in terms of weather. And who knows what October will bring, but above my head, on the silvertop roof, there will be…
Comment | August 26, 2011 | By Marie Viljoen
Out on the Rockaways artist Frank Meuschke’s beach farm is pumping out tomatoes — at least until Irene pays a visit. We ate his Brandywines and Black Russians warm from the vine with burrata and torn up basil. Frank and his wife Betsy Alwin turn the crop that they can’t eat into sauce as fast as they can.
5 comments so far | August 15, 2011 | By Marie Viljoen | Photographs by Marie Viljoen
Summer savory (Satureja hortensis, native to Southeastern Europe) has been growing on my New York City terrace for four years. The annual cousin to hardy winter savory (Satureja montana), I find it more flexible in culinary applications as its flavor…
Comment | July 15, 2011 | By Jessie Cacciola
These days it’s pretty easy to get a quick farming 101, or lend a hand at a rooftop or community garden plot. But if you really want the nuts and bolts of raising a real bed of greens, Just Food…
1 comment | July 5, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton
As the days get steamier this summer the gardeners out there remember how hard it is come July to keep your basil and hyssop from wilting and your tomato vines pert and perky. Frieda Lim is one local gardener who…