Union Square Greenmarket Reconnaissance
Posted by Faye Mermey on Growers & Grocers.
The most useful tool an eco fashionista in New York City has is the link to Lucy’s Greenmarket Report. Four days a week in the summer and every Saturday in the winter, Lucy awakes before dawn and in all weather, walks the two blocks from her apartment to the Union Square Greenmarket. There she buys a luscious assortment of local, seasonal and often organic produce, which can include tiny Jerusalem artichokes, heirloom tomatoes, fairy-tale eggplants, purple carrots, butter, heritage turkeys, blue eggs, pink grapes, steamed lobster, level three chilies, gooseneck squash, orange cauliflower, lemon verbena, whole milk ricotta cheese, wildflowers, and fresh Morel mushrooms.
Before you’ve had your freshly brewed bundle of mint tea, she has returned, unpacked, and written up an enthusiastic and charming but most importantly, accurate report on what, on that specific day, The Greenmarket has to offer – and which stand is running out of what the fastest.
Remember to bring copious cash and your own stylish tote bags – or if you’re particularly lucky, French market baskets, woven, that are profoundly sturdy and long lasting, smuggled into New York via an Aunt’s Paris apartment up at the Bastille.
http://www.echonyc.com/~lwollin/greenmarket.html
Union Square Greenmarket
Union Square
Start at Broadway and 17th Street – the center of the market
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday
8 – 5:30
