If you're looking for the freshest herbs, Jersey tomatoes and more, Stokes Farm is your source. our fields are planted and we're already harvesting many of your favorite produce items including squash, and hothouse and cherry tomatoes.
If you live in New York City, you can find us at all of our Greenmarket Location locations, including Union Square, Tribeca and Tucker Square near Lincoln Center.
If you're on the Jersey side of the river, come visit us at our Farmers' Market in Old Tappan on Tuesdays and Fridays or at the River Vale Farmers' Market on Thursdays.
So, stop on by and see what we're growing. We'd love to see you again and hear how you're doing.
Attention Union Square Customers
Starting in April 2008, a 2-year construction project will begin in Union Square displacing many of your favorite farmers on the North end of the market (including Stokes Farm). Please look for us in our new (temporary) home on the South end of the market, across from Whole Foods. For more information, please visit NYC Greenmarket.
New York City Greenmarkets
Please visit us at any of our three markets in New York (from mid-March until late December):
Freshness City Dwellers Hunger For New York Times 6/29, 2008
“What we pick in the morning, we’re selling in the afternoon,” Mr. Binaghi, 48, said.... Stokes Farm was one of the first farms to join the Union Square market in 1976 and since then has been selling its produce there to city dwellers. [read more]
Officials hunt for source of tainted tomatoes NBC Nightly News June 22, 2008
"We sold maybe a thousand pounds of tomatoes same day last year. This year we sold 400 pounds of tomatoes," says farmer Ron Binaghi. The end of the clip features our sign that reads: "Our tomatoes tasty and safe." [watch online]
Oh-so-sweet...strawberries NorthJersey.com June 22, 2008
A great list of local farms, including Stokes Farm, where you can buy fresh Jersey strawberries this June. [read more]
Speak up, if you want your (Jersey) asparagus Star-Ledger 4/23/2008
As the mercury inches upward and the local asparagus season heats up in response, in the upper reaches of Bergen County, Ron Binaghi, Jr., of Stokes Farm in Old Tappan tries to steer clear of his 15 rows of green and purple-tinged spears. "I can't pick it because when I'm out there, I keep eating it," he said. [read more]
The People Who Feed Us recently put together a great video about our farm. You can find it on YouTube. And be sure to check out The People Who Feed Us for more videos of other New York City area farmers.
We have come a long way since Isaiah Stokes bought 40 acres of property in
Old Tappan, New Jersey in 1873. Over the past 130 years, we have gone from
a wholesale vegetable farm to a retail-based specialty herb and vegetable
producer. We currently operate 35,000 square feet of greenhouse space (and more is on the way) where
we produce over 75,000 4.5" flowers, 5,000 hanging pots and 4,000 bedding
plant flats each year.