Walking past Three Guys from Brooklyn, a produce market and specialty food store in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights neighborhood, it is nearly impossible to avoid the siren call of fresh produce. There, under a green-and-white awning, rows of wooden carts overflow with beefsteak tomatoes and broccoli crowns, blushing donut peaches, and fat, fragrant melons. Signs handwritten in […]
Propel’ve built a smartphone app called Fresh EBT, which helps people receiving government food-assistance funds with an assortment of tasks that many more fortunate souls take for granted. Propel’s first partner was a produce store on Fort Hamilton Parkway, 3 Guys from Brooklyn. Store manager Philip Penta says 90% of the store’s goods can be bought with EBT […]
You wouldn’t know it based on the recent string of Nor’easters, but spring is on the way again, New Yorkers! We just got back that hour of daylight, March Madness is upon us, and the temperatures are beginning to climb above 40. That means lots of healthy, flavorful, festive seasonal crops are hitting the shelves […]
