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WE BUILD COMMUNITY THROUGH FOOD
We do this by forming genuine, trusting relationships with our farmers and partners, and serving food that embraces the seasons.
In our kitchens, our chefs prepare real food from scratch, inspiring them to cook up their best ideas and their own best futures.
We believe in the power of a shared table—for the everyday and the extraordinary—a place where friendships are made and ideas are born.
Let’s start with a meal.
DIG-ISMS
special delivery
I have a family
organic county
It’s a really cool
our focus is on seasonal and local american food
supply chain
locally grown produce
NY PA
vermont and New Hampsi
local food
fresh food at a
eating well is expensive
healthy bowl 12-15$
protein
starch
vegetables
50 farm partners
ne weekend
and
our own farm
last year
we farmed 6-12
In the Hudson Valley
Oranig county
black dirt region
unique piece of land
background
are
enormous
glacial lake
farma
we consider ourselves stewards of the land
don’t have to do much
don’t have to lay compost
time over time
cover cropping
never bare
yep I manage the farm
6th year of farming
first season on this particular piece of land
hired me to come on
planning and budgeting
I was born in 1990…
well I went to school at George washington U
agriculture
wwoofing
beet and avocado farm
CSA
Australia
worked for a couple of months in Australia
fell in love with the ag part
volunteered
northern va
marlyand and VA
farming
volunteer farming
managed one of the cities farmer’s markets
introduction into the thing
move to NYC after graduating
buying for a restaurant
northern spy food co
first farm to table
ride a bike to the farmer’s market
chef
ag policy
enventironmental studies
coursework
food studies food justice
theoretical understanding
macro level policy
industry
govern
non profits
I liked getting my hands dirty
CSA PA in suburbs
20 acre
3-500
time of year
300 full shares
big farm
vegetables
3 acres of fruits
8 acre orchard
apprentice there for 2 years
took over the management
no one is ever prepared to run a farm
make some mistakes
hopefully
12 acres
we grow a little bit of everything
growing for dig in
whole sale buyer
12 different things at the same time
grow more
3 weeks pick 2000 bunches of scallions
grow a lot
few things that we
persian cucumbers
really popular dish for us
this one dish
comes from our farm
so many restaurants one farm couldn’t serve all of them
supply our own chain with our own farm
teach our chefs
have the public
interesting things
example last year
10 different kinds of heirlooms
taste testing for our chefs
work with our partners
10 acres
test kitchen of a farm
grow a little bit of everything
no
50
40 different kinds of vegetables
80 varieties
when I was managing that farm
my background
bolser up selling program
what kind of restaurant
cafe we liked to go to
malverne butery
suburbs of philly
walked in between 3-4
bunch of catalogs
chef was there
Im a farmer
Im intersted in growing for you
your food is great
im
seed catalog
I like this variety
a whole plan
thses amounts
different restaurants
I wanna work with you
so this can be a productive relationship
I said I would grow this amount of food
I’m onna hav eit these particular weeks
menu for the year
have it down in writing
I’m gonna send cauliflwoer in early june
really gratifying
to work with a chef
oh Ill grow
800 bed feet of cauliflower
Im gorw 600
yeah it’s definitely in the winter
late fall
another time when I try to get in
larger
winter sort of
a lot of restaurants are always gonna have a plan b
there gonna understand that thins are gonna go wrong
true believers in
diseases issues
cretain amount of leeway
hey we had a really bad year
getting a great
something you said
we grew a lot of strawberries
case of strawberries
have them for free
let
great to bring something you’re really proud of
you know you’ve done really well
we plan it out in the beginning of the season
we’re not gonna have that much in the winter
they can make other arrangements
mainly on CSA
it was a CSA focus farm
4 high tunnels
grow through the winter
people who specialize in winter growing
people who are very into winter growing
leave the summer to rest of other farmers
not a glut of farmers
make their own thing work
there’s a lot of people in the market
if I’m
my parents always kept a garden
chinese chives
which really take no maintenance
grow and produce
little plot of chines chives growing up
my first was working in Australia
first farm I was at
beet and avocado farm
farmer who was very ecological conscious
there would be a time when the oil ran out
few years
his tractor broke
Im not gonna use a tractor anymore
intense system of cover coping
manual
great way
see the concepts of what a machine does by hand
what needed to be done to the earth
that was a really
there are probably
movement of permaculture
they are more aware of the environmental issues that are pressing
Tell me about your first gardening experience?
Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden.
What I have found the more you do something the less of a pain it becomes
- I used to hate putting out row cover
- you do it a few times
- 1st time it’s terrible
- don’t like putting out sprinkler lines
- heavy and difficult to manage
- like everything
- a lot of people like to glamorize
- get through it and preservere
- I certainly couldn’t be than
My mother
northeast over abundance of water
very few areas
takng notes
seeing what works what does
tdry farm gonna be different
observing taking notes
black dirt
coming from soil in pa
figured out there are things
carrots
really
figuring out what are your
lands strength
working your
What is your favorite activity to do in the garden?
I love transplanting
its one of my favorite
water wheel
it is sensually a giant rack with
one water tank
fill it up
there are a set of
depends on what your planting
one two or three wheels
spikes
water line
into the wheel
punch holes in the ground
dropping
water in the holes
carnival ride
riding along
large machine
throwing plants
transplant almost everything
brassicas
curcurbits
black dirt is very
weed pressure
transplant as much
root crops
we use
a good amount of plastic mulch
because of the weed pressure
without it
mulch will suppress a lot of weeds
the only thing that pokes through is the transplant
bare gound
the transplant hav ea jump start on th weeds
create a canopy over the bed
3 weeks 4 weeks
growing in the greenhouse
not weeding
when I was in college
after I graduated
new thing
johnnys sells it
the paper claw transplanter
trays we use
trays are biodgradable
put it in
push it like
unravels like a chain
transplant
just by using it through the ground
small market
trying to to hire
very cool very satisfying to watch
our scale is a little too large to use it
someone
needing to hire someone
get through really busy
