Lua spends many of her Saturdays with her guncles, Ryan and Jay, who live only two blocks from us and are AMAZING with her. They also happen to have a HUGE balcony and one of my favorite things they're doing with it is creating a garden this year. Jay writes an awesome food blog called Local Food Me and I am so excited for him to begin using his home grown produce in his recipes!
When I picked Lu up this Saturday, I noticed that his leeks and tomatoes were sprouting and it made me long for a garden of my own. I grew up eating food picked straight out of my family garden and I so want to give Lua that experience if possible. No TV dinners for this Beetle :) I'm sure she'll have one or two ice cream cones in her life ;) but I'd like to balance that out with some real, fresh fruits and veggies...not only that, I'd like her to see a cow before she's two - and a chicken, and, of course a horse!
And then - I stumbled upon THIS!
Located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on top of a warehouse, this 6000 square foot green roof organic vegetable farm is home to not only chickens, rabbits and fresh fresh veggies - but, wait for it...
BEES!
I'm not sure how many of you are aware, but I was once determined to find a way to be a beekeeper. I am slightly obsessed with honey and cannot WAIT for Beetle to be old enough to have her first taste of it!
I'm heading over (or up, rather) the first chance I get!
