tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38658566390621402642011-11-27T18:17:22.945-05:00An attempt to keep up to date information on and reviews of the Farmers' Markets and Community Gardens in New York City, with occasional other information for New Yorkers interested in sustainability and/or gastronomy.Elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05679965651306652464noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3865856639062140264.post-24811079752563704762009-05-04T08:20:00.008-04:002009-05-04T08:56:26.590-04:00

If you're unfamiliar with the Jonathan Coulton song for which this post is named, you should familiarize yourself at www.jonathancoulton.com, but probably *after* work.Otherwise, we are back in business folks! Spring has begun, the first of May arrived, and the veggies and other tasty local things are back and growing in force. Greenmarkets all over the city will be starting back up over the

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Just thought I'd give a quick update on the status of Operation Market Garden. We're not dead, we're just sleeping, much like perennial plants do in winter. In fact, the reason for the downtime is precisely because of that; most of the Farmers' Markets in the city are closed down because things don't grow locally during the winter.Yet it's important to note the forecast! Mayor Bloomberg has

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The West side? I knew I'd have to make the journey across town eventually, but I didn't think it would happen as a spur of the moment thing. I had some free time, I needed some food, so I decided to actually go through with it. It was quite an adventure. As you know, on the West Side, people wear shoes on their heads and hats on their feet, and their clothing is all inside-out by

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In my post about the Third Avenue Street Fair, I noted that I had found a place called Green Apple Cleaners, notable for the large amount of advertising that it was doing and for being something that I'd been looking for in Manhattan for awhile: a Green Dry Cleaner. My $20 free promo gift certificate in tow, I went over to their 2nd Avenue location, which was the most conveniently located for me

Elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05679965651306652464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3865856639062140264.post-54369814528830970912008-09-17T12:27:00.008-04:002008-09-17T13:26:22.838-04:00

This little angel lives at the 96th st. Subway Station in the Station Operator's booth; isn't it fantastic? Kinda looks like it's rockin' out.Given that the Bowling Green farmers' market was so lackluster I decided that I needed to try and get out to another market this week, so I went 80+ blocks away for the Mt. Sinai Hospital Greenmarket, which is at 99th St. on Park and Madison, closer to

Elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05679965651306652464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3865856639062140264.post-45644304683673376602008-09-16T21:18:00.008-04:002008-09-17T01:58:44.611-04:00

If you can see the customs house, then you are near the Bowling Green farmers' market.Today, I tried to give the Bowling Green Greenmarket a second chance. It just has such a fantastically redundant name that, really, I couldn't let my first impression condemn it.My second impression, however, was sufficient. The basic details are that the market is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 AM to 5

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Frequently I have to fight the impulse to turn this into a general purpose blog on sustainability, especially scientific and engineering problems in making our society cleaner, leaner, and greener. It's already mean enough.Of course, I fight this impulse with my strong desire for this blog to remain useful as a tool for those seeking to find good farmers' markets. Luckily (!) I have discovered

Elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05679965651306652464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3865856639062140264.post-30456633516835612322008-09-10T13:35:00.008-04:002008-09-11T16:52:00.590-04:00

Tuesday saw me visiting the St. Mark's Greenmarket, which is one of the smaller Greenmarkets available. The location is, unsurprisingly, right in front of St. Mark's Church in a little parklike area there. It is located at 10th st. and 2nd Avenue, and it has longer hours than most of the Greenmarkets around, running from 8 AM to 7 PM on Tuesdays. It's not available year round, but that seems

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In many ways it was a departure from my usual for this particular blog, but I was on the way to the bank this past Sunday when I stumbled upon the entirely unexpected presence of a street fair in the upper regions of Third Avenue. After dazedly winning a burrito from a magical spinning wheel, I proceeded to examine just what was going on.After wandering around and finding vast numbers of things

Elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05679965651306652464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3865856639062140264.post-21399591093263965052008-09-04T11:07:00.003-04:002008-09-12T08:38:50.223-04:00

Yesterday's agenda, right after meeting with faculty and going to class, involved me heading down to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, which I assure you is really difficult to type into an iPhone. It is right next to the UN and so is frequently the site of protests for, against, and indifferent to oppression, Free Trade, genocide, the WHO, The Who, Israel, Palestine, and other countries exploited by

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This past Thursday I attempted to go to the Bowling Green Greenmarket. I say attempted because while getting there was very easy (just go down to the Bowling Green subway stop and walk up and look around), there wasn't much of a market there.There were all of three stands, and one of them was selling jewelery. The problem with this is that I was hoping to buy things to cook, and there weren't

Elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05679965651306652464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3865856639062140264.post-29701243101794408472008-08-28T01:08:00.000-04:002008-08-28T02:17:11.621-04:00

Yesterday I found my way down to Union Square for the Greenmarket that lives there on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, starting at 8 AM and ending at 6 PM. The Greenmarket program runs a variety of other Farmers' Markets in NYC, and there is probably one near you if you live in New York. It's a program of the Council on the Environment of New York City and they have more information

Elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05679965651306652464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3865856639062140264.post-87642908965001864702008-08-26T22:29:00.000-04:002008-08-27T00:02:47.132-04:00

I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s. There are Fraggle Rock animators and writers rolling in their suburban retirement homes at the work ethic I developed despite their very best efforts. This blog is another example of how that very dedication to seeing my harebrained crazy soft-boiled dreams turned into printed internet and dead-tree page realities can be twisted towards doing something

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