Queens County Farm Museum Transforms Into a Working Farm - NYTimes.com

Queens County Farm Museum Transforms Into a Working Farm - NYTimes.com:

"For a glimpse of agriculture in a land of high-rise apartment buildings, busloads of New York City schoolchildren have come for years to the Queens County Farm Museum. There they have petted Daisy the cow, walked through the cornfield maze, ridden the hay wagon and examined pens and fields that seemed just like those of a real farm.

But over the past year, the museum has become a real farm. Since Michael Grady Robertson was hired as its director of agriculture a year ago, it has been raising more crops and animals, using sustainable methods, and plans to expand.

For the first time, the farm is running a stand at the Union Square Greenmarket [...]"