Egg is a little restaurant in Williamsburg that started as a Southern brekkie spot (hello,
artisan scrapple) then eventually added lunch and dinner service, and now has a six-acre farm upstate. Chef
George Weld didn't want to replace the farmers he'd been working with already, he just wanted to understand the food system better. While the restaurant started out pretty pork-crazy, they're now more veggie-driven.
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The Hudson Valley is that beautiful, expansive chunk of land along the Hudson River that's home to many farms, some of which are represented at New York City's Greenmarket. The farmers trek into the city with their cherries, beets, goat cheese, and many other fresh goodies piled onto flatbeds to sell at farmers' markets and to some restaurants. We recently road-tripped with
ABC Kitchen chef Dan Kluger, to meet some of the farmers that supply his ingredients. Here are snapshots of the goat cheese, squash blossoms, whiskey, radishes, and more from our day of cruising around in tractors (and convertibles).
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In the latest video from
Food Curated, Liza de Guia meets
Ed Tuccio, a farmer on the North Fork of Long Island who's been raising bison for over 30 years. He's part of a small movement of passionate farmers working to bring bison back. It's actually not a bad time to be a bison farmer. There's a growing demand for the meat and prices have doubled. After this taping, Liza polished off a bison burger and walked away thinking,
why don't I eat this more often?
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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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"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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"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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Most people assume it takes a lot of land to be considered "a farm" but Stacey Murphy, founder of BK Farmyards in Brooklyn, can transform any backyard with at least 400 square feet and six hours of daily sun...
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"It was as if the blight and bad weather were a deep, personal secret." If you live in urban New Jersey and decide to head out to the countryside, you have several kinds of countryside to choose from. Down in...
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