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Break it down! Good soil is underrated. Everyone reading this has probably tasted the difference between good and bad soil in their life - you just may not have known it. Plants require certain inputs in order to grow healthily. Many large-scale farming operations load the dirt up with ‘fertilizer,’ which is either natural or synthetically produced, and provides nutrients in a form that can be quickly taken up by plants. Using loads of fertilizer can be a cop out - even if y

This summer, we were lucky enough to sign up for a community-supported agriculture box offered by our local Queens County Farm Museum. What is Community-Supported Agriculture? I’m so glad you asked. A “CSA” as it is often called, is a subscription, essentially, where you sign up to buy fresh produce and ingredients (it could be flowers, vegetables, meat, etc.) from a local farm or cooperative. Sometimes with CSAs, like with ours, you get a set box or bag of food every week o

The Queens County Farm Museum is a historic institution in the borough of Queens, New York City. They started offering what is known as a CSA - community-supported agriculture - subscription this summer for produce and I was lucky enough to be able to sign up. You pay to receive produce the entire season long and you receive a box each week with in-season, fresh produce. It is...incredible! One of the challenges and benefits of a CSA is that you don't know what you're going t