Green Market with Mary Cleaver. 03/26

Last Wednesday my group and I met Mary Cleaver at the Union Square Green Market. We organized to meet at 9:30 am at the corner of 16th and Union Square West. We browsed through the stalls with Mary while she tested the fruit and vegetables for ripeness. She mentioned that she was interested in installing  a composte system in the kitchen of her restaurant. We talked to a woman that runs a composte plant and would be willing to help Mary. After that we went to buy twenty-four pounds of apples and carried them to The Cleaver Company in Chelsea Market. When we arrived Mary told us that we would be doing some work in the kitchen. She handed us aprons and introduced us to the head chef. He lead us to a giant sink with about 200 potatoes in a cart beside it. We were instructed to pick out the small potatoes, wash them twice, then dry them. After a hour and a half we had washed all the small potatoes plus another 50-ish large ones. I learned that if you want to start composting that you can just bring the waste to a stall at the Green Market. Also that 12 pounds of apples is a lot heavier than it sounds.Ava