NYC Greenmarkets 31 May 2009 05:04 pm
Strawberries are Now!
There’d been rumors (notably over at Greenmarket Report) that strawberries had arrived in some NYC farmers markets. I’d yet to see any with my own eyes though.
Last Tuesday, a dreary, cool gray day, I stopped by the East Village greenmarket at St. Mark’s Church, on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street (one of a few markets open on Tuesdays), to pick up some asparagus for soup. I hadn’t visited this market before, and so I strolled around even after I had my asparagus in hand. And there they were – rows of the familiar green cardboard quart-
sized containers, filled to the top with shiny-red, seed-speckled, green-stemmed strawberries. Summer has arrived.
The berries were brought in from Kernan Farms, in far southern New Jersey, near the Delaware Bay. In the sweep of seasonal produce, it makes sense that, and as I reported recently, farms north of the city are still a few weeks away from a ripe crop. Which only means that we have weeks and weeks to come to enjoy ripe seasonal strawberries!
on 31 May 2009 at 6:18 pm 1.janiejaner said …
No berries, but stewed up some rhubarb yesterday and served it up on buttermilk pancakes this morning: yum! Not expecting berries at McCarren for another couple weeks I guess…
on 31 May 2009 at 10:58 pm 2.Martin said …
Huh. We’re on our SECOND week of Jersey strawberries from the Abbingdon Square market. We pigged out this weekend on two large cartons. Thus far, I’d characterize these strawberries as four stars out of five.