Overcast skies and drizzling mist didn't deter Brooklynites from descending on Grand Army Plaza last Saturday for spring vegetables, meat, and cheese. Among the offerings: gorgeous blooming herbs, commonplace-but-beloved spinach, yes, ramps. Click through the slideshow for a closer look at these May beauties. More
A check of the Union Square Greenmarket in early July reveals summer squash, garlic scapes, berries, sour cherries, plums, peaches and more. More
This week, it got hot at the Greenmarket as the heat index climbed above 105 degrees. The tomatoes tasted better for the wear, and there were goodies all over the place. Click through the slideshow for a look at those... More
[Photographs: Robyn Lee] Drinking apple cider is like drinking autumn. If I had a choice, I'd spend all of October gulping back the stuff and staring at pumpkins, particularly fat ones. My favorite cider right now is from Red... More
Arugula. Photograph from mecredis on Flickr Duck, Duck, Goose: Poultry abounds at the Union Square Greenmarket, where you can pick up pheasant eggs, chicken eggs, heirloom varieties of chicken, small chickens, ducks, turkeys, smoked turkeys, and belle rouge chickens [Lucy's... More
Mesclun. Photograph from thebittenword.com on Flickr Cusp: While winter vegetables and greens, along with meats and dairy from smoked poultry and venison to ice cream and yogurt, still dominate the Union Square Greenmarket, rumor has it that mesclun, harbinger... More
Wreath. Photo by littlerottenrobin. Meat and Eat: While many market regular farms have departed for the season, meat, in the form of lamb, poultry, and liverwurst, are up for grabs at the Union Square Greenmarket. [Lucy's Greenmarket Report] Season's Eatings:... More
The long afternoon light cast a lazy hue yesterday on three of lower Manhattan's Greenmarkets. Most of New York's Greenmarkets aren't open on Sundays, but this cluster from Grand Street in Chinatown up through Tompkins Square Park to Stuyvesant/Peter... More
Greenmarket director Michael Hurwitz answers several questions from City Room readers, like how vendors get assigned to specific boroughs and what Integrated Pest Management does to your make your fruit look funky.... More
Editor's note: Every week our New Jersey correspondent Brian Yarvin checks in with a dispatch from the Garden State. This week we've sent him just over the river to a farmers' market that popped up last year in Philadelphia. The... More
