Orchard Recipes

Sam Van Aken hosts a gas­tro­nom­i­cal after­noon gath­er­ing at his expan­sive Open Orchard per­ma­nent art­work on Gov­er­nors Island. The artist will share his­tor­i­cal dish­es using fruits har­vest­ed from the orchard itself, which con­tains hun­dreds of heir­loom fruit vari­eties that were once grown wide­ly through­out New York but have large­ly dis­ap­peared due to cli­mate change and indus­tri­al­ized agriculture.