The Rooftop Beekeeper

I just received my advance copy of 'The Rooftop Beekeeper: A Scrappy Guide to Keeping Urban Honeybees' which features my photographs. I started working on this project with my beekeeper and author friend Meg Paska back in 2011. It has been a long and enjoyable journey during which I have made many new friends and I am proud to finally see it in print. It is is published by Chronicle Books and now available to buy on Amazon.com. 

Organic Heirloom Tomatoes

These late season organic heirloom tomatoes were grown in Brooklyn. On the left and right are examples of the Purple Calabash (Solanum lycopersicum). An open pollinated variety which is believed to have originated in Mexico and has a rich, almost wine-like flavor. In the middle is the Green Zebra tomato. It was developed in the 1980s by tomato breeder Tom Wagner in Everett, Washington and is actually the result of combining four different heirloom varieties.

Outtakes

Maple sap overflowing from central collection tanks at the bottom of a sugarbush.

Inside the Sugar House at Mill Hollow Maple.

Here are a few outtakes from a photo story I shot about making artisanal maple syrup at Mill Hollow Maple in New Lisbon, New York.

Making Maple Syrup at Mill Hollow - Food52.com

I recently visited Mill Hollow Maple, a Certified Naturally Grown maple syrup producer in upstate New York to document the process of syrup being made. Food52.com just ran a piece featuring the resulting photographs. Please CLICK HERE to see all the images and read the full story.  

The Nectar Of Brooklyn: Inside Brooklyn Grange Bees, The City’s First Commercial Apiary

Nona Brooklyn just ran a great story featuring my photographs on the Brooklyn Grange Apiary. Please CLICK HERE to read the full article.

Indigo Rose

Chocolate Stripes

                                                      

Chocolate Stripes organic, heirloom tomato grown in Brooklyn, 2012.

Reisetomate aus Siebenburgen

Reisetomate aus Siebenburgen, organic heirloom tomato grown in Brooklyn 2012

Reisetomate aus Siebenburgen, which translates from German as "travel tomato from Transylvania" actually has roots in Central America. Native Indians would take this unusual variety on trips and break off the individual lobes to eat without the use of a knife.

First Tomato Harvest

A beautiful organic Ananas Noire tomato developed by the Belgian horticulturist Pascal Moreau.

Grown in Brooklyn, 2012

Moon and Stars

Citrullus lanatus, grown in Brooklyn, October 2011

Watermelons has been cultivated for at least 4000 years and there are more than 1200 varieties. Citrullus lanatus or "Moon and Stars" is an open pollinated Amish heirloom variety that was once thought to be extinct.

Black Krim

Organic Black Krim tomatoes grown in Brooklyn, NY 2011