New York is now considered the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the US, but GrowNYC has kept Greenmarkets open while adjusting operations to continue to serve the city’s residents and farmers. In this episode, GrowNYC’s director of farmer assistance, Christopher Wayne, talks to host Lisa Held about how the...

Take a break from the increasingly stressful news cycle for some uplifting food stories First, we hear from Jessica Krainchich, who brought us into the world of youth markets with the legendary planner, Bob Lewis. Then, H Conley has a story about the seed breeder working to make vegetables taste...

For the past eleven years, Michael Hurwitz has served as the Director of Greenmarket, a program of GrowNYC that operates 51 producer-only farmers markets throughout New York City. In 2011, he created the FARMRoots Technical Assistance Program, providing marketing, business, and succession planning assistance to Greenmarket growers. Michael was also...

It's a big show this week on Beer Sessions Radio, and we’ve got some special guests joining us to talk about New York State rye, including farmer Thor Oeschner, author Amy Halloran, June Russell from Grow NYC, distiller Chris Williams from Coppersea Distilling, Chris Murillo from NY Distilling, Daric Schlesselman...

Ever wondered why New York City is known as "The Big Apple?" The term dates back to John Fitzgerald in the 1920s, jazz musicians in the 30s and 40s, and years later around the 70s to encourage tourism. Today, the term is resurrected in the annual Big Apple Crunch, which...

This week on We Dig Plants gets down and dirty with the Gowanus Canal. Joined by Jeff Hutchinson and Erikof the Gowanus Canal Conservancy hosts Alice Marcus-Krieg and Carmen DeVito talk about what the Conservancy is doing to follow their mission to be a "steward for the preservation, restoration and...

While Hurricane Irene may have hit this last August, its aftershocks are still being felt by farmers and growers in New York and around the Northeast. This week Let's Eat In welcomes Jean Hodesh and June Russell of Greenmarket NYC to discuss the hardships that their producers are facing and...