Greenmarket Farmers "Sling the Mud" at Each Other

A week ago the Times reported on Jay Dines, an upstate farmer banished from the city’s Greenmarkets for selling meat he had not raised himself. Today the paper follows up with a look at these complicated Greenmarket rules that have many farmers chafing. Alfred Milanese, co-owner of Martin’s Pretzels, is in his 26th year at the Greenmarket. But he says other vendors resent him because he’s allowed to bypass the “producer-only” rule and sell pretzels made by Mennonites in Pennsylvania: “Over the years people have pointed fingers. They say, what about the pretzel man? He doesn’t have his hands in the dough.”