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Today the Times takes a long, hard look at Jay Dines, an upstate farmer who was banished from the city’s Greenmarkets only to get thrown out of the Brooklyn Flea as well. Inspectors from the Greenmarket – who visit vendors’ farms to verify they’re personally growing or making everything they sell at the markets – have accused Dines of making his all-beef hot dogs and bacon from animals obtained elsewhere. Dines says he’s just “trying to keep from losing the farm,” but the reporter totally catches him in a lie about his hot dogs.
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The times does a pretty good job of making this dude sound shady. He may be "just doing what he needs to survive" but his unwillingness to be transparent about where he's acquiring his product, where he's storing his animals, and so forth, is weird. It very much makes it sound like he's using meat and/or methods that don't match what he's claiming on his website.
Although I am inclined to believe that a TON of greenmarket farmers probably do a little bit of these things, from time to time, and don't get caught. Business is business, and ideals don't put money in the bank.
He's not the only fake farmer. At Union Square there is a guy selling flowers who claims his farm is in Barrington, NJ. There are no farms in Barrington, NJ. It's a tiny town of about 1 square mile. Nothing but houses and a couple of shopping centers. No farms.
Whoa! I have been buying chicken from Dines Farms at the Fort Greene Greenmarket for a year or two now. I wondered why they had moved to the Flea - they were pretty vague about why. Now I know.
If a farm address is listed as Barrington, NJ, it doesn't mean that the farm is in the actual town. The town address includes people who live in the countryside surrounding the town; it's an entire perimeter around the town. This farm may very well be in Barrington township and you're not necessarily going to know.
I grow all of my beautiful asparagus in Teterboro NJ.