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Just Food
Tuesday night, at 11 venues scattered around New York City, generous and lucky diners celebrated the food of the season, the urban farmers who produce it, and the chefs who render it delightful. This event, billed as “A City Farmer, A … Continue reading →
Beets and Berries for Breakfast
When we eat from the industrial food system, we generally plan our meals in advance, or simply cruise the refrigerator. With roof-top agriculture, one starts each meal with no pre-conceptions about the menu. Instead, meal preparation starts with a pleasant … Continue reading →
Posted in Beets, Berries, Blackberries, Cooking and Eating, Meals and Menus, Ornamental Shrubs, Roses
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Battery in Brooklyn
Although Battery Rooftop Garden is located at the tip of Manhattan, its roots are in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, specifically at Annie Novak’s Eagle Street Rooftop Farm (see http://www.rooftopfarms.org ). Monday night the Battery Rooftop Gardener, together with 30 friends, set out … Continue reading →
Columbus Day Rooftop Garden Dinner
Perhaps it is climate change, or perhaps the normal vagaries of the weather. But October 11 featured a 76 degree afternoon, and at 5:30 six guests gathered for the final al fresco roof top garden dinner of the season. The … Continue reading →
Posted in Apples, Basil, Beets, Chefs, Cooking and Eating, European Pears, Greens, Herbs, Lettuce, Malabar Spinach, Meals and Menus, Pears, Potatoes, Root Vegetables, Spinach, Tomatoes, Vegetables
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Another meal from the roof, August 3, 2010
A group of the Battery Rooftop Gardener’s law partners and their spouses enjoyed another meal sourced entirely from the Rooftop Garden on August 3. The abundance of the harvest can be seen below:
Dinner Party 21 July 2010 — Everything From Battery Roof-top Garden
Annie Novak, urban farmer and head of http://www.growingchefs.org, together with Jordan Colon, chef at EAT in Williamsburg, prepared a fabulous multi-course meal sourced entirely from the Battery Roof-top Garden:
September 21, 2010 — Breakfast
21 September 2010 — Breakfast As Michael Polan reminds us, humans are nearly unique in the animal kingdom in having to ask themselves the question, “What shall I eat?” I have taken the approach, at least at breakfast, in letting … Continue reading →
Posted in Cooking and Eating, Green Beans, Malabar Spinach, Meals and Menus, Raspberries, Spinach, Tomatoes
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July 8, 2010 — Breakfast
7/8/10 — Breakfast Snacked on blueberries during yoga, but decided for separate courses of blackberry and raspberry, to really taste them. Picked the blackberries already completely black, both larger and smaller. The variation in flavor between individual berries – all … Continue reading →
Posted in Blackberries, Blueberries, Cooking and Eating, Meals and Menus, Peas, Raspberries
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July 7, 2010 — Dinner
July 7, 2010 — Dinner First peas. I tasted a few fresh off the vine. The small ones were sweet and tender, the larger ones a bit less so. Still uncertain whether these were the sorts of peas that one … Continue reading →
July 7, 2010 — Breakfast
7/7/10 Breakfast Following days of unrelenting heat and sun, the temperature peaked yesterday at 103. Although the plants did not look stressed, I noticed last night that the most ripe blueberries on the bush were not as plump as they … Continue reading →
