Summer Begins!

It's been a while since we've posted, we know. I've been more than busy with several endeavors, most recently the Bushwick Open Studios Cabaret, which introduced me to a whole host of new, talented artists from Bushwick and the surrounding environs (photos here).

Zach's been up to his elbows in compost and soil, not only on our roof, but at the rooftop garden he's installed at Madiba. He's also getting into the swing of things as a market manager for GrowNYC--managing three youth-run farmers markets, working on a food access project in Washington Heights, and connecting area restaurants with local produce.

On our roof, we've started harvesting the first of our cucumbers, collard greens, rainbow chard, garlic scapes, and dragon's tongue wax beans--tonight's dinner (prep pictured above) was locally made linguini from Caputo's featuring a lot of our rooftop harvest, local mozzarella, and a farmer's market pattypan squash. We're also growing a bunch of purple heirloom tomatoes, ground cherries from Zach's sister Claire, Peruvian purple potatoes, carrots, chiles, beets, garlic, and for the first time ever, Zach's growing hops--on a bedspring trelis!

Oh, and did we mention we're engaged?