Vogue Magazine: Meet Aerthship, the Collective Spotlighting the Culinary Wonders of New York’s Urban Farms
Photo: Sophie Hur
“We ate dinner in a greenhouse made cozier with the sounds of raindrops, under a canopy of drying cotton which was grown on the farm the year before.”
By Maria Geyman
Vogue Magazine
June 28, 2023
Excerpt:
For me, it started with the bees. Within the first few months of moving to Brooklyn from Portland, Oregon, I bought a pair of vintage Gucci flats with a botanical pattern: bees, beetles, flowers. After reading as many books on beekeeping as I could get my hands on, I decided to buy a hive of my very own. Consisting of 10,000 bees and one queen, I picked it up outside of Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan and brought it to live in my Brooklyn backyard. My morning ritual before the bees all flew away (the technical beekeeping term for this is that they absconded) was to have a cup of tea in my bee-decorated shoes, then watch and listen as my bees flew in and out of their hive, before playing with the flowers that I grew in drawers from old filing cabinets.
If you’re wearing a cotton T-shirt, eating a slice of bread, or enjoying a glass of wine, somewhere on planet Earth, a farmer grew that fiber, grain, or fruit. In New York—a city that often seems to revolve around fashion, culture, and restaurants—it’s easy to feel distant from the source. To watch a bee pollinating a flower in a city park, to hear a neighbor’s excitement that they’ll be growing corn in the community garden this year, to enjoy a locally-sourced dinner are all small ways that we reconnect with nature in metropolitan places.
