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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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NYC Greenmarket locations
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Greenmarket promotes regional agriculture and ensures a continuing supply of fresh, local produce for New Yorkers. Greenmarket has organized and managed open-air farmers markets in NYC since 1976. Greenmarket supports farmers and preserves farmland for the future by providing regional small family farmers with opportunities to sell their fruits, vegetables and other farm products to New Yorkers.
Buy Local
Eating locally grown food is nothing new. A hundred years ago, over 95% of Americans lived on farms. City dwellers ate food brought by horse and cart from nearby farms. In the 1800s, Brooklyn was the top producing agricultural county in the US. In the 20th century, farms moved west and many local farms were paved over. By the 1970s, New Yorkers complained of brown lettuce and hard tomatoes while local farms went bankrupt. Greenmarket was a natural solution to a two-fold problem: by selling their homegrown crops in New York City, local farms could stay in business and bring fresh food to city neighborhoods. What began with twelve farmers in an empty lot in 1976 has grown into the largest network of its kind in the country, with rigorous "grow-your-own" standards.
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Greenmarkets in NYC rock! I just can't get there early enough. The Union Square market does brisk business and the famous chefs can be seen there early in the morning getting their vegetables.
When we travel to other countries, and cities, it is one of the most important things we look for as part of the local culture and flavor. We got to regular supermarkets, but green markets and wet markets are a real flavor of the location you are visiting, giving insight to how the locals live.
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