Day lilies are fair game—and fine fare.
Print Issue: May/June 2012: Issue No. 23
We might be short on open acres but here in the shadows of skyscrapers we’re enjoying a bumper crop of agricultural innovations.
An upstate entrepreneur is turning would-be compost into liquid gold: squash seed oil.
More than 60 percent of the produce on the menu at his West Village restaurant, Bell, Book & Candle, is grown in soil-free aeroponics towers on the building’s rooftop.
Jacober’s favorite, by the way, would probably please the real Morris: It’s chef Austin’s riff on a Reuben, made with dilly Russian “tartar” sauce, corned beef and his own pickled Napa cabbage.
A classy program helps city farmers mind their peas and coops.
An upstate startup only stocks seeds that ♥ NY.
Year-old FoodCorps grows veggies, awareness from grass roots.
Riverpark restaurant turned a stalled construction site into city salad.
How the well-heeled men behind Manolo Blahnik stepped boldly into the cow field.
When it comes to pigeon and squab, it’s all relative.
One determined New Yorker learned food stamps can be spent on seeds and seedlings—and set out to change the world.
