We prefer to eat "local". The food is fresher and just plain tastes better.
Now that summer is full swing, we've been making the most of the beautiful weekends by heading over to Prospect Park to shop the GreenMarket Farmers Market in Grand Army Plaza.
GreenMarket brings the best and freshest upstate produce, dairy and meat to the very heart of Brooklyn. All food is grown and produced by regional farmers specializing in organic, unprocessed, and free-range products.
I guess it makes perfect sense, but did u know that eating locally grown food is nothing new? A hundred years ago, over 95% of Americans lived on farms. City folk ate food brought by horse and cart from nearby farms. In the 1800's, Brooklyn was the top producing agricultural county in the US. In the 20th century, farms moved west and many local farms were paved over. By the 1970's, New Yorkers complained of brown lettuce and hard tomatoes while local farms went bankrupt. Greenmarket was a natural solution: by selling their homegrown crops in NYC, local farms could stay in business and bring fresh food to city neighborhoods. What began with 12 farmers in an empty lot in 1976 has grown into the largest network of its kind in the country.
I guess it makes perfect sense, but did u know that eating locally grown food is nothing new? A hundred years ago, over 95% of Americans lived on farms. City folk ate food brought by horse and cart from nearby farms. In the 1800's, Brooklyn was the top producing agricultural county in the US. In the 20th century, farms moved west and many local farms were paved over. By the 1970's, New Yorkers complained of brown lettuce and hard tomatoes while local farms went bankrupt. Greenmarket was a natural solution: by selling their homegrown crops in NYC, local farms could stay in business and bring fresh food to city neighborhoods. What began with 12 farmers in an empty lot in 1976 has grown into the largest network of its kind in the country.
If you haven't checked out the great local food offered in NYC, get to a GreenMarket this weekend. It's never a bad idea to eat good, clean food AND support our local farmers.
Enjoy some pictures of a fraction of the recent GreenMarket fare-
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