When reading Amanda Hesser's article about the intrigue at the Greenmarket, it confirmed everything Gothamist loves about New York: Power struggles happen even where there are nice Amish farmers selling pretzels and cheese or granola-y types selling wheatgrass and Fuji apples. As much as we love the greenmarkets all over the city, reading about the infighting was a little disheartening though expected. As was the news that New York's greenmarkets look like a shabby (though chic) relative to other cities' greenmarkets (yes, we have the "New York is the bestest" blinders on). Blue Hill co-owner Dan Barber said about San Francisco's greenmarket, Ferry Plaza, which is indoors with running water and electricity, "You go there and you feel like you're in 2004." Running water and electricity: Hallmarks of 2004.
The Council on the Environment of NYC runs the Greenmarket and has schedules for what runs when. And then there's the big kahuna of them all in NYC: The Union Square Greenmarket.
New York magazine followed Wylie Dufresne at the Union Square Greenmarket. And the New School does offer a class where you go to the Greenmarket then head to the kitchen and make a meal.
