The Union Square Greenmarket will host acclaimed author Joel Salatin for a free Q&A and book signing at the Union Square Pavilion on Wednesday, November 2nd, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
Salatin, whom you may recognize from his appearances in Food Inc. or The Omnivore’s Dilemma, will be signing copies of his new book, Folks, This Ain’t Normal. He was recently profiled in Time Magazine.
Textile Arts Center recently visited the Union Square Greenmarket to securely stitch up the hand-crafted tote bags while The Textile Lab demonstrated how to create dyes using various plants available at the Greenmarket. GrowNYC’s Office of Recycling Outreach and Education showed participants how to transform their tees while providing answers to tough questions on how to recycle plastics and electronics.
Many first-timers came by to help “close the loop” by dropping off food scraps for composting with the Lower East Side Ecology Center and textiles for reuse and recycling with Wearable Collections, both of which are services available at Union Square every Saturday.
Interested in learning more about the mobile textile lab? Watch our video below.
This afternoon, teens from our environmental education program were out cooking food at the Union Square Greenmarket in their pizza box solar ovens. One oven went above 200 degrees!
On Saturday, Market shoppers at Union Square indulged their sweet tooths on candy apples donated from Terhune Orchards, Locust Grove, and Migliorelli Farms and candied by Deb Gavito, owner of Body and Soul Bakery.
Thanks to our wonderful Greenmarket volunteers, who were painting faces and distributing apples all day.
Marc Evan and Chris Soria from Maniac Pumpkin Carvers came out to the Union Square Greenmarket on Saturday and carved two 150-pound pumpkins. Amazing!
These locally-grown ghoulish gourds will be on display at the market all week so stop by and see them. Sugar pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, and decorative squash are available at most Greenmarkets from now until Thanksgiving.
Left to Right: Jim Buccheri of Wild Hive Farm, Mike Yezzi of Flying Pigs Farm, Beth Linksey of Beth’s Farm Kitchen, Carlo Petrini, Founder of Slow Food, and Don Lewis of Wild Hive Farm.
Carlo Petrini, founder of the International Slow Food Movement, visited Union Square yesterday to talk to Greenmarket delegates headed to Italy for Terra Madre next week.
The Union Square Greenmarket had a different kind of green visitor on Tuesday: Sesame Street’s Rosita la Monstrua de las Cuevas, the first bilingual muppet, dropped by the Norwich Meadows stand to teach kids about healthy eating.
Photo by Serious Eats.