Comments on: Late Summer Album, Union Square Market (Part II)

By: sister

sister — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:46:26 +0000

kurzhaar, You are right, strawberries should be organic but that is difficult to find, and considering the miniscule amounts one eats compared to other fruit it isn’t worth worrying about. Strawberries are perennial to a certain degree and generally not rotated annually. Better to eat fewer berries. Remember the Alar scare with apples?

By: Mila

Mila — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:32:01 +0000

Gorgeous colors and textures! Imagine what a bouquet those vegetables would make, and then how healthy it would be to eat that melange. I love the color of the cauliflower.

By: Lissa

Lissa — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:45:27 +0000

What does the orange cauliflower taste like? And the hen of the woods mushroom? I’ve never seen these before!

By: kurzhaar

kurzhaar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:54:07 +0000

As I understand it from the owner of the California CSA of which I was a long-time member, the key to organic strawberries is frequent crop rotation to minimize the chance of fungal infections. If there is one crop you should choose as organic, it’s strawberries…apples and such can be peeled, many other fruits and vegetables can be well washed to remove pesticide traces, but strawberries are like little sponges that hold onto pesticides, which are usually fungicides and can be quite toxic to mammals.

By: izang

izang — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:51:04 +0000

the cauliflowers look wonderful….as well as everything else….

By: calorie shmalorie

calorie shmalorie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:01:07 +0000

For a while there I thought, “what strange color and petal shape of hydrangeas..”, only to scroll down and read they were mushrooms!

By: sister

sister — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:00:32 +0000

The organic produce at Union Square are certified as such. In addition there are farmers who farm organically but do not go to the trouble of getting certified. Then there are the larger farms who make no apologies for using pesticides or fertilizers to pproduce spectacular fruit and vegetables. Apples, peaches, pears, strawberries, spinach are very difficult to farm organically. One only has to ask, the vendors are patient with the endless questions they answer all day. I mostly try to buy organically grown produce, milk, and poultry and unfortunately pay a higher price for it and at this pont in life it may all be all irrelevant but it was more of concern when I was feeding young children. I am just very happy to have had access to fresh produce from the tri-state area in the middle of NYC four times a week. That’s about “locavore” as I can get without moving to a farm area.

By: terrey

terrey — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:07:09 +0000

the tomatoes look like siniguelas…i like these photos, especially the flowers.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:45:57 +0000

Divina, they look great, but I wouldn’t assume they are pesticide or fertilizer free, in fact, I suspect many are not purely organic, given their size and lack of bug bites… :) But the selection and quality were totally amazing.

By: millet

millet — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:54:49 +0000

wooooow!