Archive for the ‘Farms & Friends’ Category
Food, fiddlers, farmers: success!
This Saturday night, country mouse and ...
NOFA New York
My first year as a farmer’s apprentice, I asked my farmer, Keith Stewart, what it was he did during the winter. It was almost Christmastime, and my own contracted time on his land in Port Jervis, ...
Winterizing sky-high farmland
Winter is a much-awaited season for me. The anticipation starts for me in August, when after a long (and busy day), I’ll start looking for a place to farm away the holidays in the Southern hemisphere. This year, with cold weather ...
Liberty View Farms
Liberty View Farms, an hour and a half north of New York City, is part apple orchard and part paradise. I drove up yesterday with Paula Crossfield and her friend Melanie to celebrate the ...
Local-est Dinner
For this farmer, it isn’t truly summer until I eat my first summer fruits. Eggplants, peppers, and zucchini from Rooftop Farms were on the grill by mid-July, prepared by host & ...
For the birds!
The Meerkats are at it again–and by “it,” I mean our continuous investigation of where fun, nature, curiosity, film and getting up really early meet. The magic of cinema has taken us into the woods of Prospect Park. This past ...
You are what your parents make you eat.
It’s been said that while the rest of the world buys food to eat it, New Yorkers eat to talk about it. Never has this seemed more true than in the past year. Parents who previously limited their fears to mercury poisoning and picky toddlers refusing peas on their ...
New Greens at the Greenmarket
One of the things that makes Kira Kenney so fascinating as a farmer is her propensity to introduce crazy new greens to the Market. She insists Evolutionary Organics, her farm up in New Paltz, benefits from a wide ...
