A Can Opening Kind of Weekend

This year I took advantage of the summer bounty and learned to can.  In case you are not familiar, canning at home means preserving food in jars.  In my opinion its an art and one in which I had never dabbled. I followed my roommates lead,  she had canned before,  and the sage advice found [...]

Mushrooms, Medicine, and Culinary Magic with Dan Madura

photo credit: Tom Giebel Dan Madura is the owner of MycoMedicinals, the premier Mushroom distributer of the New York City Greenmarket system. Upon approaching him for this interview, he wanted to clarify that he is not an entrepreneur, but happy to help you anyway he can. If I know anything about good business it’s an [...]

Thank you. I’m glad to know we’re friends, of course; There are so many outcomes that are worse.

A Speech to the Garden Club of America by Wendell Berry from the September 28, 2009 issue of the New Yorker. (With thanks to Wes Jackson and in memory of Sir Albert Howard and Stan Rowe.) Thank you. I’m glad to know we’re friends, of course; There are so many outcomes that are worse. But [...]

Cayuga in the Field: Local Grain Rising

Is it even possible to grow grains and beans in New York soil? New to the Greenmarket, Cayuga Pure Organics proves the answer is undoubtedly yes. The first vendor selling locally grown grains, beans and flours in New York, Cayuga’s liaison to the world, Tycho Dan talked with me about the business of beans and [...]

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