It’s been a beautiful sunny week of spring weather here in NYC which inspired me to visit my Korean farmer who supplied me with napa cabbage and daikon last fall for New Amsterdam market.
After a long winter and severe snow storms in the North East, spring just seems to revitalize every pore in the body and spirit and makes you feel alive!
It was a two hour ride from Port Authority to West Town, NY which is in Orange County (coincidentally, same name as where my mom’s restaurant is in the O.C., Cali). It was a pastoral scene with rolling hills… just the kind of place you want to farm. She prepared simple, wondeful lunch before I took a walk around to see all the budding seedlings and blossoming of the earth.
It will be another 6-8 weeks before there’s fruit from the earth… what I witnessed in my city life dwelling existance is that nature still takes her time. First sign of spring doesn’t produce new crop. I can hardly wait for a new batch of seasonal produce to make local batch kimchi!
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