Get your tickets now! It’s an online RSVP only. Market is closing at 3pm sharp to make way for taco-eaters. Your donations are headed for our hurricane-struck farm friends upstate.
Brooklyn Night Bazaar!
This time of year when the sun sets at 7pm and the ghosts of Halloween seem ever closer, many farmers plant cover crops, sow garlic for the summer harvest, and start heading to bed earlier as the nights drop down to 40*F. Not so these Brooklyn greenthumbs: after an 85*F on the Rooftop Farm, the Eagle Street crew headed over to downtown Brooklyn to participate in the white-light-lit wonderland of the DeKalb Market’s first Night Bazaar. We were swayed into pulling a 16 hour day by Joann Kim of the Greenpoint Food Market, a notoriously delightful organizer, and the allure of our favorite memories of night markets in Bolivia, Peru, Fiji and other warm-weather climes with an appreciation for live chickens, warm spices, and barter. The ten PM shopper is a canny one, and we sold out of our hot sauce in less than two hours. It was a pleasure to meet new friends off the rooftop–and although Gina, the rooftop chicken who joined us, won’t admit it, we’re sure she had a great time, too.
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Sunday Market October 9th
Hot peppers, how we love ye. The sweet flesh, the sharp bite, the deliciously high nutrient content of a deeply healthy food. Oh, and the colors match what the world is about to do to celebrate fall.
Join us this Sunday during our farm market and open day as we clean up tomatoes, sow clover, and pick peppers while not rubbing our eyes. It’s not quite the end of tshirt season, so get your Rooftop Farm shirt on before the holiday season shops them all away!
Rooftop Farm’ll be at Brooklyn Night Bazaar
This Sunday, October 8th from 5pm-Midnight, you’ll find us at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar!
Located at the new DeKalb Market in downtown Brooklyn, we’re bringing our Sunday best in produce and treats. Look for chickens–they’re joining us too!
Sweet Visitors at Eagle Street’s Hives
This week we had the pleasure of two sweet things: in the early hours of Sunday, Meg Paska harvested our first fall frames from her top bar hive at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm–and later in the day, Michael Leung of Hong Kong Honey came by for a visit. We’re excited to meet these “newbees”–intelligent, interesting, passionate beekeepers recent to the trade–and pick their brains about the lovely balance of self-education in ecology and entomology necessary to keep 30,000 ladies happy in a hive.
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Hot Sauce & Compost Cookies!
This week at the Farm, we’ve got the hots for you! Our Andy, Ladybug, Hungarian Hot Wax, Jalapeno and Ancho Poblano peppers are in full swing, with more rare varieties in smaller amounts–you’ve got to try them to believe us, but we’ll swear up and down we’ve got the hottest fruits in town. We’ve been making our beloved “CONCENTRATE!!” a mix of vinegar, salt and hot peppers that lets the peppers shine. Your job is to add the mango juice, tomato puree, chocolate powder and roasted peanuts–whatever it is that allows you to enjoy best the spiciest crop on the farm.
This Sunday at 2pm we’re joined by author, professor and historian Annie Hauck-Lawson, who’ll school us on making a treat that sounds tasty but is best left for the garden: worm compost cookies. Yum! More on Annie can be found here.
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How sweet it is! This weekend’s events.
This Saturday and Sunday are full of places to go and food to taste! Your farmers will be serving up tasty treats with the first annual New York Honey Festival in the Rockaways on Saturday, and then Saturday night we’re boogey-ing back to Brooklyn to The Good Festival for a 9pm cooking demo between live music sets. On Sunday, we’ll be on deck to serve up more treats (and teach you how to pot up the plants to grow them!) at Taste Williamsburg-Greenpoint. Don’t worry: our Sunday market will be open from 10-4 as usual this Sunday, as well, so you can still get your favorite ingredients for your own cooking, as well as pitch in as we sow our fall crops.
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Sunday Market, September 11th
Oh basil! The season of its sweet green leaves is quickly closing–when frost comes in a month, we’ll bid our best pesto ingredient adieu. Come join us at our Sunday market, 10am-4pm.
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Farm CLOSED for Labor Day
Labor Day became an official national holiday in 1894. It’s a favorite holiday of ours at Rooftop Farm, as it marks the gentle bridge between seasons when our fruiting plants (tomatoes, cucumbers) begin to fade. We farmers feel the same, making that last rewarding sprint-push towards the Fall. What’s not to love about early September? The nights drop to 60*F, we can again plant radishes, and the monarchs float across the farm on their journey down the Northeast Atlantic flyway zone towards sunny Mexico.
The Rooftop Farm is closed today for the Labor Day holiday. See you on Sunday, September 11th from 9am-4pm.
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Open House NY Rooftop (in Russian!)
We hosted Open House New York this past weekend to a tune of about 200 new visitors in one busy morning. A real treat! To see more of the event, check out Channel One Russia’s coverage. This excerpt below made us smile:
Those wishing to observe the changing face of agriculture formed a long line to the roof. Right on top of an urban high-rise was a farm with vegetable beds. There, tomatoes, peppers, dill, and parsley grow on a commercial scale. Many NY locals had no idea they had neighbors like this. Once a year, they become tourists in their own city, discovering that the miraculous is right next door.
Желающие проследить за переменами в сельском хозяйстве выстраиваются в длинную очередь на крышу. Прямо на городской высотке – ферма с грядками. На них в промышленных масштабах выращивают помидоры, перец, укроп и петрушку. О таком соседстве многие местные жители даже и не догадывались. Раз в год они становятся туристами в собственном городе, обнаруживая, что удивительное рядом.