NY property boom impinging on produce supply
Demand for real estate is gobbling up family farms as owners choose to cash in on the surging value of land in New York
New York
APPLE trees have blossomed, and soon fruit will begin emerging at Elizabeth Ryan's orchard in the Hudson Valley. Before long, her harvest will head south to Manhattan, where Miro Uskokovic, the pastry chef at Gramercy Tavern, will use it to create an apple and carob cake while Michael Anthony, the executive chef at the Studio Cafe inside the Whitney Museum of American Art, will turn it into an apple compote spread over pie dough and covered with a streusel.
Ms Ryan's apples are also on school-lunch menus and sold at farmers markets all over the city. Her farm, Stone Ridge Orchard in Ulster County, is part of a rapidly expanding pipeline that carries fruits and vegetables from farms across New York state to consumers clamouring for fresh ingredients grown in soil not far away.
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