Flying Pigs Farm’s frozen dough is entirely innocent of both trans-fats and machine handling, looking as lovely as if I’d raised the piglets and ground the wheat myself.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?
This week, we’re switching up our weekly What We’re Reading to celebrate spring. Read on to find out what we’re coveting at the Greenmarket these days.
Something feels right about buying food off of a sailboat rather than a diesel truck.
Cancel your brunch plans and start fasting Saturday night because this Sunday, June 23rd the New Amsterdam Market is back!
These days, everyone’s abuzz over the arrival of spring at the Greenmarket. I’ve seen triumphant tweets about asparagus and fiddleheads and obsessive instagramming of duck eggs and ramps. But my personal favorite Greenmarket goods, which returned to Union Square last week, aren’t actually ready to eat.
Jeanne Hodesh of Greenmarkets tells us what green goodies to look for while we’re waiting for spring produce to arrive.
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like Opening Day of the Down to Earth Farmers Market at McGolrick Park. Stop by for fresh fish from American Pride Seafood and pastured beef, lamb, goat meat and pork from Stone & Thistle Farm. Here’s what’s happening this week.
Yesterday the Department of Sanitation and Grow NYC dropped some pretty heavy news on New York City: since they introduced collections at Greenmarkets in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island in 2011, they’ve collection ONE MILLION POUNDS of compost.
For over a century, Tribeca was the place to buy turkey and all the trimmings
While we’d advocate for everybody shopping at farmers markets year round, there’s truly no time like summer to appreciate the bounty of local goods at our fingertips.
We might be short on open acres but here in the shadows of skyscrapers we’re enjoying a bumper crop of agricultural innovations.
