Greenmarket's fall semester is officially in session!

We're proud to present three Educated Eater panel discussions where we invite New Yorkers to join regional farmers and local food advocates in conversations with that explore aspects of our agricultural sector here in the Northeast.

Immigrant Farmers & Local Food: Greenmarket's International Community
Wednesday, August 24, 6-8 p.m.
The Astor Center
399 Lafayette St. (at East 4th St.)
Tickets: $15. Purchase here.

While all the food available at Greenmarket is grown within a specific radius around the City, several of the program's farmers hail from countries far removed from the Northeast. This anecdotal panel discussion will focus on their journeys to New York, the culinary and agricultural traditions they brought with them, and how they've introduced aspects of their heritage to the Greenmarket community. Speakers include Jorge Carmona of Amantai Farm, Sandy Kim of Hot Bread Kitchen, Hector Perez of Jersey Farms Produce and David Rowley of Monkshood Nursery. Greenmarket's publicity coordinator, Jeanne Hodesh, will moderate. Light fare prepared by Jacques Gautier of Palo Santo and cocktails by Jennifer Smith of the Astor Center will be served at a reception following the panel.

In Defense of Corn
Wednesday, September 14, 6-8 p.m.
The French Culinary Institute
462 Broadway, Ampitheatre
Tickets: $15. Purchase here.

Look beyond high fructose corn syrup and join us as we explore the misconstrued crop of corn, defending its rich history and culinary merits. Greenmarket's fall semester of Educated Eater panel discussions continues with a line-up of experts who will examine corn in its many incarnations: corn on either side of the equator, distilled corn, corn as animal feed, and corn through the ages, from a native crop to its present state in the Northeast. Speakers include Jessamyn Waldman of Hot Bread Kitchen and Thor Oeschner of Farmer Ground Flour, moderated by Ian Cheney, director of King Corn. A tasting of popcorn and corn-centric snacks will follow the discussion.

Farmland Conservation
Wednesday, November 16, 6-8 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Tickets: $5. 212.229.5488 or boxoffice@newschool.edu
Free to students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

Greenmarket was launched in 1976 with a twofold mission: to give New Yorkers access to locally grown food while keeping regional farmland in production and protected from development. Thirty-five years later, 230 family farms, constituting more than 30,000 acres of farmland, sell their products at Greenmarkets. The pressure to develop farmland is particularly high in our region, and devising strategies to keep farmland in production is of paramount importance. The challenges and solutions to protecting farms from development are discussed by speakers including David Haight, New York director of American Farmland Trust; moderator John Clinton, chair of the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management program at The New School; and others to be announced. Sponsored by Greenmarket and the New School Food Studies program.