Entries tagged with 'farmers'
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Hurricane Irene was easy on New York City, but outside the city things were much tougher. Vermont experienced tremendous flooding after the storm, as did southern New Jersey and upstate New York. A quick turn around NYC's Union Square Greenmarket this week made clear that the storm was indeed devastating to many farmers in the Northeast.
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Lani's Farm, from Bordentown, NJ, has a small stand at the Union Square Greenmarket on Mondays, but they stand out among the crowd with some of the most unique and pristine produce around. Grown and handled with care, they inspire...
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Editor's note: You know Ben Fishner from his Market Scene reports and Apps Only column; starting this week, he'll be chatting with New York farmers in between his market reports. All you, Ben! Ben and Jeannette Shaw, first generation farmers,...
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About ten minutes into my tour of Iceberg Farms in Howell I had the feeling that something was missing. All the components of a small farm were in place—the beehives, wandering chickens, plastic sheathed greenhouse with produce plants ready...
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John Fazio in Modena, New York,
raises ducks as well as fresh rabbits. In this episode of
Food Curated, documentarian
Liza de Guia visits his bunny haven, where about 2,000 of them (ranging from babies to does) live. Watch the video to see how a local, fresh rabbit farm operates.
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In Food Curated's latest video, documentarian Liza de Guia (who we just got to know even better in yesterday's Meet and Eat) takes us to a small duck farm in Modena, New York (80 miles outside the city) where...
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[Photo: Robyn Lee] The New Amsterdam Market is now convening monthly at the South Street Seaport, and there's a lot to look forward to this Sunday—namely, pigs and beer. Master butchers Josh Applestone (Fleisher's) and Tom Mylan (Marlow and...
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"All livestock sold for slaughtering purposes only." [Photos: Brian Yarvin] Walking through the calf pens at the Livestock Co-op Auction in Hackettstown, I spotted a few guys who resembled my idea of an all-American farmer. Soft-spoken, wind burned, and looking...
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One dude. One acre. 100 varieties. This video features Dan Machin's one-acre farm, dubbed The Lone Acre, in Riverhead, Long Island. Machin focuses on diversity and companion planting—"using different plants to offset different pests and diseases"—and shows that you...
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"Dairy manager Peter Kindel even had to turn down Martha Stewart’s request to bring her the milk at an off-premise farmers' market once." This week we decided to profile a Greenmarket personality: Hawthorne Valley (partly because we're obsessed with their...
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