The rescheduled and much awaited CNN report on the Roots in the City Farmers Market aired last night on Anderson Cooper 360. Did you miss it? (I did.) You can watch it online here, on the AC360 blog. Catch a glimpse of our fruit expert Melissa Contreras explaining tamarind to CNN correspondent John Zarella and [...]
Archive for May, 2010
CNN report on Overtown market
Posted in market, media, tagged CNN, Roots in the City on May 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Good eats in the Garden
Posted in chef, events, farmer/grower, food, photo, recipe, tagged Claire Tomlin, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Farm & Garden Festival, Gabriele Marewski, Laura Lafata, Margie Pikarsky, Miguel Bode on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It was a great weekend for the Fairchild Farm & Garden Festival, sunny and warm but not yet excruciatingly hot. A lot was going on, and I was running from presentations in the Garden Room to various tents and back trying to keep up with interesting events. On Saturday morning, I dropped in at the [...]

