Spring into Spring in the City

Spring has sprung and just because we are urbanites, doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the green of the season right in our own “backyards.”

Family Fun

Start with a trip to our farm, The Golden Earthworm. (Yes, I call it our farm.) June is the ONLY month you can pick your own strawberries and pretend to be a real life farmer…without all the actual hard work put into the planting, maintaining, etc.
  (Photo credit: Golden Earth Worm website)

Below are the dates and times you can “be one” with the berries.
June 3, 4, 5
June 10, 11, 12
June 17, 18, 19

HOURS
Wednesday – 11-6
Friday – 9-5
Saturday – 9-5
Sunday – 11-4

PRICES
$4/quart for current CSA members
$4.50/quart for all non-members

Spring means babies at all of the fantastic zoos. This year is no exception.
  (Photo credit: Central Park Zoo website)

Enjoy the Mongolian foal at the Bronx Zoo. (Be sure to check out their totally green toilet while there too.)
Perhaps Nubian kids are more your thing. If so, Visit the Queens Zoo.
Wallabies your favorite? Check out the babies at the Prospect Park Zoo.
And if it be Banded Mongoose pups that set your heart a flutter, make a trip to the Central Park Zoo. (Check out Hecksher Playground while you are there. The Egyptian theme and water paths will thrill the wee ones.)

   (Photo credit: NY Botanical Garden website)

If botanical therapy is what you seek, check out New York Botanical Garden“s Gardens of Alhambra, a Spanish themed experience complete with food and flamenco dancing. $20 for nonmembers and free for members. While there, check out the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden and the Ruth Rae Howell Family Garden.  This month thery are featuring hands on gardening for families. Is there any better way to celebrate Spring?

Date Night

Perhaps Spring is putting you has put you in the mood for romance?

How about a stroll on Manhattan’s High Line.  The beautifully re-purposed railroad tracks make for the perfect, romantic, no-impact date.

(Photo credit:  High Line Website)

The park can be accessed from 7AM to 10 PM via…

• Gansevoort Street
• 14th Street (elevator access)
• 16th Street (elevator access)
• 18th Street
• 20th Street

Top off your green date with a visit to the highly acclaimed GustOrganics.  A meal of organic Argentinian/ItalianAmerican cuisine comes complete with a woven friendship bracelet.

519 Avenue of the Americas @ 14th street
New York, New York 10011.
For reservations, please call 212.242.5800

Enjoy your June everyone!

– Brandi