Photo © Valery Rizzo. All rights reserved.

Event Roundup: This Week’s Picks – September 22

Posted by caro.stanley

Photo © Valery Rizzo. All rights reserved. Fall is officially here, and with it plenty of ways to celebrate the equinox: rooftop dinners, steak feasts, seasonal beer, and more. Read on for this week’s ...

 
The yellow flowers that grow on squash aren't just beautiful - they're edible!

This Week’s Greenmarket Pick: Squash Blossoms!

Posted by peter.hobbs

by Cathy Erway You might see them at the market and think they’re pretty, but it can also be pretty darn confounding trying to figure out what to do with them. Long, bell-shaped, ...

 
Zucchini and other summer squash are coming into season at local farmers markets.

This Week’s Greenmarket Pick: Zucchini

Posted by peter.hobbs

Zucchini and other summer squash are coming into season at local farmers markets. Call them courgettes, as the French say, or by their better-known Italian name, zucchini — they’re here. And these summer ...

 
Rhubarb being sold by Red Jacket Orchards at the Greenpoint / McCarren Park Greenmarket.

Greenmarket Gaze – Valery Rizzo Captures Brooklyn’s Farmers Markets

Posted by peter.hobbs

Park Slope-based photographer Valery Rizzo is back this month with a bevy of portraits taken at Greenmarkets across Brooklyn.  Over the course of a few weekends, Valery worked the Greenpoint/McCarren Park and Grand Army ...

 
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Blue Cheese, Blueprint: How Cato Corner Farm Transformed a Stinky Obsession Into a Life Calling

Posted by laurenmwilson

“I had a little tiny cheese aging room and I went out one morning and the entire room from floor to ceiling was covered in blue mold!  I was like, ‘This is the ...

 
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On The Streets: Greenmarket Shopper Mark Cassidy Tells Us What He’s Got In Store For His Haul

Posted by peter.hobbs

Editor’s Note: Be warned, Brooklyn: Each week, Cathy Erway will be accosting an unsuspecting stranger at a local Greenmarket, to find out what they’re eyeing, what they’re buying and ...

 
Stephanie Villani of Blue Moon Fish

This Week’s Greenmarket Pick: Squid from Blue Moon Fish

Posted by peter.hobbs

Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome our new columnist Cathy Erway to Nona. Cathy will be hitting Brooklyn Greenmarkets for Nona each week, picking out a particularly ravishing-looking seasonal ingredient, talking to ...