I grew up with that plastic honeybear bottle filled with indifferent grocery store honey.  So I didn’t get the magic of honey (other than the cute bottle) until much later.  Now that I have access to the Greenmarkets all over the city, I have become addicted to the wonderful local honey available from numerous farms and apiaries in the region. Tremblay Apiaries produces raw, unpasteurized honey on a farm in the Fingerlakes region of Upstate New York.  The variety of honeys th

Lavender By The Bay brings the charms of the French countryside to the heart of New York City.  They grow twenty varieties of lavender on 10 acres of farmland in East Marion, Long Island, and they bring their wonderful smelling piles of tiny blooms to the Union Square Greenmarket.  I picked up a fresh big bunch of lavender for our office on Monday, and it smells amazing.  This morning I pressed it lightly between my hands to release the scent, and my hands smell like fresh la