![]() ![]() “A few weeks in, working with our first batch of fish eggs, we saw them hatch into little fish and then had a mechanical failure.I felt it deep inside,” he says. Whether you’re planting or hatching, working on a shoestring or backed by the family recycling company, Ng says farming calls for steady nerves. Besides Fish & Game, Ng’s New York-raised steelhead trout is on the menu at Gaskin’s in Germantown, 8 North Broadway in Nyack, and 18 restaurants and chains in Manhattan and Brooklyn.Ī post shared by NewYorkSteelheadHV on at 11:57am PST Expect that retail footprint to expand in 2020, along with more farmers’ market presence. ![]() In 2018, Bon Apetit magazine’s “Healthy-ish” department featured steelhead as “the sustainable, home cook-friendly seafood we’re loving right now.” Last December, the farm announced the debut of its portion-sized twin fillet packs, adding an attractive convenience to a product that’s already a hit at Kings, Balducci's, and through online grocer FreshDirect. Last spring, HVFF became the first-ever aquaculture facility to earn the designation of New York State Grown and Certified and the only seafood producer outside of Suffolk County, Long Island to be included. The dinner featured steelhead sashimi, prepared two ways, as well as a trout main, marinated in sake kasu and grilled over charcoal, along with other locally sourced proteins like mushrooms from Rock City Farm and rose veal from Hawthorne Valley Farm.Ī post shared by Fish & Game on at 7:35am PSTĬolumbia County, he says, is ideal for its proximity to major seafood markets and its growing farm-to-table (think egg-to-plate) scene. The scale-to-tail menu included sashimi, grilled hearts, bruleed belly, a fish head curry, and other extravagant delicacies made with Ng's sustainable salmon alternative.Īnd in December, The Chefs Collective organized “Winter Kaiseki in the Hudson Valley,” a multi-course winter solstice feast at The Barn on Bushnell in Chatham, NY, featuring traditional Japanese dishes. In November, Fish & Game held a prix-fixe dinner just to showcase New York Steelhead, which is raised a mere four miles from the restaurant. “They’ve done some amazing dishes with our steelhead,” Ng says. For dinner, he’s a fan of Fish & Game, where his product has featured on menus prepared by rockstar chef Zak Pelaccio. Ng still lives in New Jersey with his wife and four kids (“Amy’s a city girl, and Edgewater/Fort Lee was about as far as she’d go”), but he’s on-site in Greenport four days a week, 8:30am till 4pm and is a lunch regular at The Cascades. “We’ve got a crop with a lot of biomass and a high CBD content. “This is our first year in hemp, and we’re honestly stunned at the yield,” says Ng. ![]() Using the wastewater from the fish tanks to nourish a crop of hemp is going, well, swimmingly. ![]()
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