There’s a buzz in the air in downtown New York today, and I think it comes from all the green things growing in our Good Food Garden in the Meatpacking district as a part of the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival.

Today, the festival gets underway in full swing as Food Network, Share Our Strength and the City of New York unveils Downtown Manhattan’s first Good Food Garden. The dandelion greens, cabbage and kale are all standing at attention on 9th avenue and 14th street, waiting to be admired by passers by. But despite its four-day stint as an exhibition garden, the real goal of these green goodies, like that all Good Food Gardens, is to bring nutritous, locally grown food to produce-poor neigborhoods in an effort to fight malnutrition. We’d like to help take this idea nation wide, but we’re starting right here in our own neighborhood in Chelsea. This garden will be donated to the Fulton House community projects up the street on 9th avenue after the event wraps. But for today, and through Sunday, it’s waiting for you to come take a peek, or a smell, or maybe if you’re really kind and say pretty please, take a taste. 

Thanks for all your support!

-Sarah Copeland, Good Food Ambassador