22 Aug
Starting next week, Harvest Home will have raffle tickets available for sale. We want to be as inclusive as possible. And so, we have curated wonderful gifts for lucky winner. Raffle books are just $20 dollars. Individuals would receive a book of five raffle opportunities. Raffles will be available at our markets and other distribution vehicles soon.
20 Aug
“The twenty-somethings who make up Tumbling Bones play a mix of old-time country and old-fashioned blues that belies their relative youth. But their folk music is no museum piece. It is living, breathing music infused with
a little of the contemporary rock ‘n’ roll the band members were reared on and reworked into their original arrangements and compositions.
The last half decade has taken them from street-performing on European street corners to venues across the continental United States to an acclaimed performance on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. The band’s debut EP Risk Not Your Soul (2011) reached the Top Ten on the Roots Music Report‘s folk radio chart. Since the release of their second record Schemes in May of this year Tumbling Bones has been on the road non-stop including dates throughout the midwest, east coast, and an outstanding three week tour of Ireland.”
Listen to more Tumbling Bones
7 Aug
Since the turn of the 20st century, most people stopped cultivating fruits and vegetables in their own backyard and opted for the easy option of purchasing their vegetables at the supermarket that are sometimes out of season, and not at all as tasty. I mean, if you can believe it, there was a time when tomatoes weren’t available all year round!
I grew up with the impression that everything you eat comes from the farm, but not just any farm, in particular it was my grandfather’s vegetable patch. Ever since I was little I remember going with him to his field that was always overflowing with gorgeous fresh cucumbers, watermelons, beans, peppers, anything you could imagine it would be there, depending on the season of course.
When we would wake up in the mornings my grandfather would already be back from tending to his vegetables and his goats and sheep. This would mean fresh goats milk for breakfast with our cereal, and of course my grandma would cook up a nutritious meal for lunch with all the vegetables he would bring back.
I look back on my childhood, and particularly this influence of fresh fruit and vegetables being readily available, with a great fondness and am very fortunate to have had the exposure that I did to such a lifestyle so young as I can see how it has influenced my own food choices that I make daily now, so many years later.
Making sure fresh produce being present in the life of a young child during their developing years is one of the greatest gifts that one can give their child, and it is one that will always be increasing in value as the years pass.
1 Aug
As of this morning, Harvest Home Farmer’s Market has received confirmation that the following restaurants are on board for its food tasting benefit this September:
Jin Ramen
Melba’s
LeMonde
Dinosaur Bar-b-que
Creole
Red Rooster
Levain Bakery
5 and Diamond
And congratulations to Melba for her appearance on the View.
Photo credit: Melba’s Restaurant
25 Jul
If you love food, come to the tasting event of the season — Uptown! Below is the link where you can order your tickets. Tell all your family and friends. You will have a great time, great food and beverages.
http://www.stayclassy.org/new-york/events/savor-season-uptown-chef-marcus-samuelsson/e18827
25 Jul
Many Americans have little understanding about farm life. We enjoy and need the food they produce but have no appreciation on the struggles and sacrifices farmers make everyday. In order to better connect, Harvest Home will recommend novels for our supporters to read. We want to make the farm to table experience meaningful and what better way, than to connect with some of America’s great novelists. Our first writer is the legendary Willa Cather and her novel O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather. It was written in part when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York with Isabelle McClungand was completed at the McClungs’ home in Pittsburgh.
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and another between Alexandra’s brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.
23 Jul
Eric White is certified by the Wine and Spirit Education Trust of London and the American Sommelier Association. White is a published wine professional with extensive experience in the NYC wine market.
He has lectured in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, and South Africa concerning logistics in selling wine in America, the basic of tasting wine, The South African Winelands, and the basic understanding of food and wine pairing.
Eric White has worked with premier wine merchants in New York City, international wineries and currently managing The Winery in Harlem, NY.
21 Jul
The Tumbling Bones are purveyors of traditional American music who value, above all, grit. The twenty-somethings who make up the trio – Peter Winne, Jake Hoffman, and Sam McDougle – have been callousing their hands and pushing their vocal chords for years as they’ve toured, recorded, and breathed folk music. Their raw, though lucid, take on old American music has taken them across the world. The Tumbling Bones used to play in stringband-turned-indie rock outfit The Powder Kegs, and their time with that band took them from street-performing in Copenhagen and Berlin to venues along the east coast to an acclaimed 2007 performance on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor” (they played on the show’s “People in Their Twenties Talent Competition” and won first prize).
Their debut, the 2011 EP – ‘Risk Not Your Soul” – combines fiery American spirituals (“Banks of Jordan”), driving fiddle tunes (“Sally Johnson”), wistful folk ballads (“East VA Blues”), and rusty country blues (“St. Louis Blues”). Peter Winne’s deep baritone lead, Jake Hoffman’s cutting tenor, and Sam McDougle’s fiddle and percussion are faithful to old styles, but the Tumbling Bones can’t help injecting modern sensibilities into their music, however subtly. The record showcases the band’s versatility while staying true to their insistence that traditional American music be presented with a strong dose of grit and emotional intensity, even in the 21st century.
20 Jul
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is the official venue for our Savor the Season event and we at Harvest Home Farmer’s Market could not be more excited!
As their website states, founder John Stage began Dinosaur Bar-B-Que with two partners as a mobile concession unit in 1983. After five years on the road, they settled in downtown Syracuse as a quick service lunch/dinner bar-b-que joint in 1988 and in 2004 opened their third Dinosaur Bar-B-Que location in Harlem.
Harlem location
Dinosaur Bar-b-que has been nationally acclaimed as some of the best bbq in the country. With numerous awards under their belt in publications such as Men’s Health and Eating Well magazines as well as receiving the honor of the Number 1 BBQ on Good Morning America, they have also been featured on various Food Network and Travel Channel shows. Their cookbook, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que: An American Roadhouse, was also voted a best BBQ cookbook by the National Association of BBQ.
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que prides themselves on fresh, homemade, high-quality food. They were a natural choice for Harvest Homes, and we are so excited to host Savor the Season – Uptown! at their restaurant this fall.
Founder and owner John Stage of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Visit their website to learn more!
Savor the Season Uptown! 
