Note: Meet Your Farmers is a weekly series where we profile the farmers that mean so much to serious eaters everywhere. This week we catch up with our pal Ron Binaghi. [Photographs: Erin Zimmer] Name: Ron Binaghi Farm: Stokes Farm How many acres? 17 Your crew: Four full-time and three part-time at the farm Hours: We work about 60 to 85 hours between Monday and Saturday, and rest on Sunday. What you grow: Tomatoes (nine kinds of heirloom), eggplant (eight kinds), peppers (mostly Hungarian yellow), Persian cukes, kirbies, zucchini (round zucchini, yellow long zucchini, and others), lettuce, asparagus, strawberries, onions, basil (five kinds), radish, cilantro, potato, and assorted herbs (five acres full)....
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Rick Bishop from his farm in Roscoe, New York, to a farmers' market in New York City.
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"There's nothing more satisfying than producing something. In my case, it's a truckful of delicious food." Last week we began talking about the farmers that mean so much to serious eaters everywhere. Starting this week, we'll get an up-close and personal look at some of the individual farmers that grow and raise truly delicious stuff. Today we want to introduce you to Rick Bishop of Mountain Sweet Berry Farm in Roscoe, New York. Tomorrow we're going to post a really cool documentary we made about Rick and his family and their twice weekly visits to the Union Square Greenmarket in New York. In the meantime, let's get to know him. Name: Rick Bishop Farm: Mountain Sweet Berry Farm; Roscoe, New...
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Farmers supply us with more in-season serious deliciousness than any other group of people I can think of, and given the adverse growing conditions this year, they need our support now more than ever. In the coming weeks, we're going to put the Serious Eats spotlight on some of the farmer heroes all over America.
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Farmer's markets all over the place--at the Ferry Plaza in San Francisco, in the Twin Cities, at the Greenmarket in New York City, and at Borough Market in London--are suffering from wintertime blues. Yeah, January's not the best time to be a locavore! But at the Ethicurean, Spanky Horowitz manages to have himself a good time at the market in Montreal anyway....
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