Harvesting Legacies from the Land, A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, August 18th. 12pm – 2 pm. 92Y Tribeca
What is sure to be a moving and illuminating conversation — moderated by David Mas Masumoto, renowned third-generation California farmer and award-winning author of Wisdom of the Last Farmer and Epitaph for a Peach — as we explore the connections between families and farming, fathers and their children, and the pleasures and challenges they face as multi-generational farmers.
Panelists include:
Ron Binaghi Jr. and Sr. from Stokes Farm, one of Greenmarket’s founding farmers, their family has been farming since 1873, and they are recipients of New Jersey’s “Outstanding Young Farmer of the Year Award.”
Fred Wilklow from Wilklow Orchards, a sixth-generation farmer, whose family has been farming their land since 1855, and who have been with Greenmarket for over 25 years.
Cheryl Rogowski from W. Rogowski Farm, a second-generation farmer and recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant for her innovative approaches to family farming, whose father inspired her to farm.
“Wisdom of the Last Farmer is about more than farming a great peach. It’s about a family that’s been shaped by the land over three generations. It’s about a father and his son. It’s about wisdom, and humanity, and homegrown memories, the way a great taste — a meaningful one — has its own kind of DNA. There’s nothing in the world more delicious than that.” Dan Barber, Exeutive Chef, Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, 2009 James Beard Award for “Outstanding Chef,” and Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2009
Location: 92Y Tribeca 200 Hudson Street, corner of Canal.
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The Garden of Eve is proud to announce, that through a combination of skill and good fortune, tomatoes will be given to their CSA members this year. This is not the case for all farms in the NY area, so we consider ourselves LUCKY!
This week’s share should include 1 pint of cherry tomatoes/sungold cherry tomatoes and possibly another variety? We shall see what is harvested!
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These past few weeks our farm share has included many ears of sweet corn on the cob (22 small/medium ears to be exact), so I just had to make a salad!
Southwest Corn Salad
3 – 4 large ears of corn
1/3 cup onion, diced
1/3 cup bell pepper, diced
1/2 – 1 teaspoon jalapeño pepper, minced (feel free to add more if you can handle the heat!)
1 teaspon olive oil
1 avacado, cubed
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
juice of a lime
salt and pepper, to taste
Shuck the ears of corn. To remove the stubborn strands of silk- simply blast the corn with water from the faucet and then place is large pot of boiling salt water. Cover and cook for about 5 minutes (cook longer if you like softer corn kernels). Remove corn from pot with tongs onto a plate to cool.
Heat olive oil in small pan with onion, bell pepper, jalapeño pepper, and a pinch of salt. Saute for roughly 5 minutes or until vegtables are softened.
Meanwhile, chop cilantro, cube avacado, and squeeze juice from the lime into a medium size bowl. Then add the cooked onion, bell pepper, jalapeño pepper, and removed corn kernels from the cob into the mixture and stir well. Salt and pepper to taste.
Garnish with cilantro and/or a lime wedge.
*You may like to drain the salad with a mesh strainer, depending on how much liquid is retained from the corn.
Serves 4
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In this June 15, 2009 photo, Talia Kahn-Kravis of Brooklyn, left, and Alexis Gerber of San Francisco, rear right, lead goats to pasture at Centro Ammehula, an organic farm, in Santa Eulalia del Monte, Spain. Backpackers pining for European adventure have discovered life on the farm, shoveling manure, feeding pigs and making butter as a recession-beating way to sate their wanderlust. ((AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar))
A European farm vacation sounds like unbelieveable adventure! Backpackers take green vacations on European farms with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF). WWOOF, a Britian organization was founded in 1971. They provide information exchange for volunteer workers and the organic host farms that offer learning and working opportunities across the globe.
Interested in WWOOF?
They offer food and lodging at an organic farm in exchange for volunteering to work at the farm. Annual registration fees vary by country, but are typically around $30-35 (20-25 euros). Opportunities on every continent.
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