Lettuce from Queens.
I know this is a blog about cheese but we all need our vegetables too. Yesterday I wentto Queens, way out to Queens and visited the Queens County Farm Museum, well I didn’t so much visit as beg shamelessly to be allowed the privilege of sticking my hands in the dirt for a few hours. Today is the first day Michael, the head farmer, will be selling his goods at the Union Square Green Market. Think, how much more local can it get?
yeah, that’s Queens.
Anyway, everything from the farm is organic and fresh and cared for by a few loyal and loving farmers. They have many many varieties of greens and a myriad of root vegetables. It isn’t just a park but a real, functioning farm and if you want to learn more about where your food is coming from I recommend a drive out there (n.b. via public transit it is a veritable nightmare). They also have a lot of sheep, clean happy sheep, just begging to be milked and become cheese producers. I can see it in their eyes. Yeah, that sounds wrong. Anyway, eat the veggies.