Support locally grown food by buying produce from your neighborhood farmers market! Thankfully NYC has them all over the city and throughout the week, in the summer! They offer a wide range of locally grown produce, an array of flowers, plants, herbs, honey, fresh seafood, and vegan treats: wholesome, organic, and economical!
GROW YOUR OWN!
I am excited to go to the farmers market this weekend to replace my blueberry tree that shriveled up while I was away... it enjoyed its few weeks of 36th floor, glorious sunshine anyway, but was too parched to survive my homecoming. RIP.
In addition, I ought to get some herbs, vegetables, and some flowering plants; although foremost utilitarian, their natural aesthetic appeal, and fresh, mood-boosting scents tend to supersede their obvious purpose. I can think of no better way to spice up my apartment! After all, you eat with your eyes, AND your nose long before anything hits your tongue! Utilize all of your senses, and go for fresh, RIPE, natural smelling, brightly colored, organic, fresh- off-the-farm produce. You can't go wrong, when it looks and smells like REAL FOOD.
BEFORE
AFTER
Union Square has one of my favorite farmers markets, but I must say, this past weekend, it was rivaled by the one in Long Beach! With their sweet white peaches, extra crunchy, Peruvian, better-than-a-corn-nut-corn-nuts, chard roots the COLORS of the rainbow, beautiful Tibetan jewelry, and their especially handsome metro farmers that carried your groceries at no extra cost, LBFM really outdid themselves!
Tickle your senses,
L
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