Time for Lunch!
As the school year begins, out come the brown paper (and chic reusable) lunch bags. But for those kids who eat hot lunches, enter Slow Foods. Yesterday they organized a cross-country call to action around the Child Nutrition Act, the ...
Final summer visits to Rooftop Farms
Summer made itself obvious today: third and fourth grade visitors from the Police Athletic League braved the morning heat to plant and mulch at Rooftop Farms. Our favorite morning activity? Using chocolate bean shells donated by Mast Brothers Chocolate as ...
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 ...
Sundried Tomato Pesto
To celebrate the beginning of tomato season, Growing Chefs took the stage at the New York Botanical Garden’s Conservatory Kitchen. With the help of two young gardeners, Julia and Janine, we put together a child-friendly sundried tomato pesto.
Tomato Blight: Now, more than ever–buy local.
About a month ago, I wrote about rain: how hard June has been for our upstate farmers, whose crops are drowning in the fields. Now a plague of a different sort has struck, borne in our second month of humid air: tomato blight.
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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 & ...
Easily-Grown Salad
Here’s a perfect starter food for all beginning gardeners: salad. Sow your tiny lettuce and radish seeds now, and in just over 30 days, your window box will have everything you need but the dressing! I ordered my seeds from ...
Senposi Curried-Rice Wraps
Senposi (sen-poe-sigh), a Japanese, collard-greens-like leaf, has a new incarnation as a tortilla today. After cooking up some curried rice with ...
