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The FarmPlate Young Farmers Series: Josh Morgenthau from Fishkill Farms
Jeff Gangemi May 23, 2012 New York City 0 comments
  NAME: Josh Morgenthau FARM: fishkill Farms AGE: 28 Tell us a more about your farm and how you got into farming:I grew up in New York City. After college, I moved a little bit upstate, to the farm my grandfather started in 1913. My father had kept it running at a loss over the years. What did you do before you started farming? Have you found it be an easy transition from your previous job?I was a painter. I studied art in school, and I originally moved back to the family farm to paint. Once I started planting vegetables, and raising chickens, I could not go back. The farm was like a living, changing work of art, and it took me captive. What made you choose New York?It was my heritage...
Farm to Table with Tom Colicchio’s Own Top Chef James Tracey: What’s On Your Plate?
Jeff Gangemi Apr 16, 2012 New York City 0 comments
James Tracey is Executive Chef at Craft Restaurant and Colicchio and Sons Restaurant in New York, the two flagships in Tom Colicchio’s Craft Restaurant Group. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Tracey has also worked at The Gramercy Tavern and the St. Regis Hotel in New York, before helping Colicchio launch Craft in 2002.  The restaurant won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant that year and has continued a successful run of serving local, seasonal fare ever since. Tracey says being able to rely on a trusted group of farmer-producers makes his job easier, and it’s been a key to the success of both restaurants. "When you can look, taste and feel what the...
Farm to Table at James Beard Award Winner ABC Kitchen: What’s On Your Plate?
Jeff Gangemi Apr 03, 2012 New York City 0 comments
New York’s ABC Kitchen, which won the 2011 James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant, has gone to great lengths to earn its farm-to-table reputation. The restaurant and its team of chefs have committed to sourcing 70% of its menu from within 90 miles of the restaurant between May and October but often sources up to 85% locally.  The majority of produce in the restaurant is locally grown on organic farms that do not use pesticides synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, or GMOs. The meat products are also locally sourced where possible, and the animals were treated humanely. That’s an astounding achievement for a fine dining restaurant in New York City! We at...
Sustainable Baby Food Delivery Coming to New York City
Jeff Gangemi Feb 17, 2012 New York City 0 comments
As those who have lived in The Big Apple know, you can get just about anything delivered right to your door. Soon, that ever-growing proliferation of convenience will include local, sustainable baby food. That’s thanks to a new company called Farm to Baby, which will soon offer a subscription-based service in Brooklyn and Manhattan. As far as we know, the menu will not include pureed pizza. A recent interview on PSFK.com with co-founder Lauren Utvich explores the genesis of the company and its plans for launch. Read on for more. “Eating locally has restored the link between the farm and the table, an ideal pioneered by Chef Alice Waters at her Berkeley, California restaurant, Chez Panisse...
Sustainable Food Mecca Stone Barns Beckons to New Yorkers
Jeff Gangemi Feb 01, 2012 New York City 0 comments
Everyone knows that New York City has long been home to a diverse and thriving food culture, with growing numbers of artisan food producers, urban farms, and locavore-friendly restaurants.  But for those looking for a glimpse of fertile land unfettered by the trappings of the big city, there is a sustainable food and farming mecca just 25 miles north of Manhattan. Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a non-profit farm and education center that grows over 200 varieties of produce year-round. Farmers there also raise laying hens, broiler chickens, turkeys, geese, sheep, pigs and bees. It's already relatively well-known, but we at FarmPlate wanted to give them a plug for the...
Chinese Takeout Meets Farm to Table?
Jeff Gangemi Jan 24, 2012 New York City 0 comments
Everyone who indulges in Chinese takeout knows that feeling of inevitable guilt that follows the pleasure of eating the famously sauce-laden and MSG-laced creations. But that’s starting to change, at least in New York City.   A great piece on WSJ.com follows several highly-trained NYC-based chefs that not only bring their technical culinary skill from respected kitchens, but also their penchant for fine ingredients. It remains impossible to match the bargain basement prices common at the City’s ubiquitous takeout spots, but some restaurateurs are hitting that middle price range just right. Hopefully this is a trend that continues. To search FarmPlate.com for good Chinese restaurants in...
Farm to Table at Occupy Wall Street? Organic Farmers Donate Healthy Food For Protestors (Video)
Jeff Gangemi Nov 14, 2011 New York City 0 comments
Here's an interesting look at how some organic farmers and chefs are helping keep Occupy Wall Street protesters healthy and well-fed. At 2,000 meals a day, they'd qualify as the largest — and no doubt the healthiest — soup kitchen in all of New York City. Amazing! To watch the Aol/Huffington Post video, click here > Check out Six Circles Farm (featured in the video) on FarmPlate!
Crop Mobbing: A First Attempt At Urban Farming
Emily Morgan Apr 16, 2010 New York City 3 comments
I was a little nervous about what my Sunday afternoon would be like when I got a message on Facebook that included the instructions, "Eat a big breakfast, this ain't your 9 to 5 desk job! We'll be doing physical labor!"  I was gearing up for my first ever Crop Mob--a volunteer phenomenon that took off in the New York City area after a New York Times magazine article about the initiative ran in late February. The concept, as detailed on the Crop Mob website, is simple: “Crop mob is primarily a group of young, landless and wannabe farmers who come together to build and empower communities by working side by side. Crop mob is also a group of experienced farmers and gardeners willing to...