"We're already looking towards next year. After all, Borough Market quickly became a weekly event..." Photos: Erin Zimmer When I first visited the New Amsterdam Market on a brutally cold, ice-whipped December day back in 2007, Robert LaValva and Cerise...
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[Photographs: Brian Yarvin] There's a certain pleasure in visiting Salem County. It's as rural as New Jersey gets and when you're driving down straight roads through flat farm country, it's a bit more like Alabama than Newark. Even though...
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"I want fresh stuff in the store, and I'd rather have my own." [Photographs: Brian Yarvin] Wedged in between offices and suburban homes, Abma’s Farm Market is one of the nation’s very few farms with a Starbucks practically on its...
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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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There was an innocent-enough-looking link here on Serious Eats here the other day. It led to a graphic on the top twenty farmers' markets in America. When I saw that it showed that three of the top in the...
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Inspired by a recent Talk thread, in this week’s Market Scene we present you with our official Absolute Best of Union Square Greenmarket list. (Please note that we have by no means tried every single item at the farmer’s...
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"There's an incredible richness in this yogurt." In my quest for 100 percent grass-fed dairy, I was having one hell of a time coming up with a good yogurt. Until I found the Hawthorne Valley Farm stand at the Union...
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This has been a strange year for produce. Cool temperatures and more rain than a jungle conspired to make this a tough time for farmers. Of course, the baked goods, pickles, and deli items that make up a huge...
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Squash from Sycamore Farm. Red raspberries from Terhune Farms. The last time I set foot in the Union Square Greenmarket, it was a sea of green: spinach, sorrel, and lettuce galore, with not a single fruit in sight (except...
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Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, and just about anyone who’s ever taken a road trip would agree: one reason this country is fat and diabetic is the sheer convenience of buying processed food, compared with, say, scoring a reservation at...
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