The Queens County Farm Museum was once just that — a nonworking farm where the poor, deprived children of New York City could experience agriculture without getting their hands dirty — but over the past year it’s evolved into a real farm that produces pork, poultry, and veggies for sale at the Union Square Greenmarket.

“Crops have been grown on the farm since the 17th century,” Annaliese Griffin writes in the NYT. “It’s the last trace of what was a bread basket for Manhattan until the 20th century.”

The farm is holding a benefit dinner with Slow Food on March 14th. I’ll be there!