Fresh From the Farm

I can’t help but like this place. They’re always open. If I want to surprise someone with flowers I’m sure to find something I can afford.
If you need something quick and the grocery is closed you can stop in. People are in and out all day. The subway is close and also the bus stop. The park I go to is right across the street.
They’ve been here as long as I can remember. I hope they stay!

This review is for their flower section out side only.
The have a nice selection of fresh flowers at very good prices.

Rude service, deceptive business practices.
I usually buy wedges of watermelon at this place. A while ago they started adding tax to the purchase, which is clearly not a taxable item. Then they dropped this practice for a while. Today I wanted to buy a piece of watermelon that was marked $ 3.63. They wanted me to pay $ 3.95 — taxes included. I told the extremely rude young assistant that it is against the law to charge taxes on non-​taxable merchandise. He said that this is the way they do it and if I don’t like it, I should go somewhere else.
There is a «somewhere else» to go to where one can report tax fraud of this kind, which is what this is.

This place is so wack! The name, «Fresh from the Farm» conjures the idea of a farm stand-​type grocery, with fresh, local food and organic options. I keep getting burned by this place, since it is so convenient, and I keep going back – and it took me so long to accept the fact that Fresh from the Farm does not stock good produce, since it really should. Its name necessitates at least some fresh produce or organic groceries.
First of all, nothing in this place seems fresh to me.
If you buy any vegetables from the refrigerated case, check the date they were packaged – they stock vegetables with the oldest dates of package in the front; if you want to grab a pack of green beans, for example, that were recently packed, chances are, there’s nothing «recent» about the available vegetables, and you need to make a huge scene of removing 20 or so old packages from the front, to grab a fresher pack in the back (they’re pretty deep refrigerator cases). I’m talking about month-​old packages of snow peas and green beans. They also sell pre-​cut vegetables, which would be useful for stir-​frying (Bell peppers, for example) if they weren’t so old and gross – you can see the juice leaching out of the softening vegetables in their packages.
The produce that is not refrigerated is presented in baskets and a wooden produce stand that is the centerpiece of the store – again, suggesting that, because produce is their focus, it would be fresh and local/​organic. Nope! Let me reiterate – nothing in this place is fresh. Yesterday, I needed to buy a Bell pepper, and literally all of them were soft and wrinkled. And they still cost $ 3-​$ 4/​pound.
They have a wall of nuts and granola – the granola contains sketchy oils and unhealthy-​sounding ingredients. I don’t recall exactly what I read on my granola’s ingredients, the last time I bought a package there, but it might have contained corn syrup and palm oil, artificial sweeteners, and preservatives. Why? Granola is so easy to make with few ingredients – I’d assumed the grocery had made it, since I believe they are responsible for packaging it.
This place has no variety – you’d think this would be the place to go for weird produce. Like sweet potatoes (not even that hard to find). They also have no organic options. Not even in their dairy case do they have organic Greek yogurt – I don’t think they have organic yogurt at all, but I was looking specifically for organic Greek yogurt. I could buy the same yogurt from CVS on the same block. This place should be all about natural and fresh produce/​dairy, and they just aren’t. At all. Go to Associated Market across the street, instead. You’ll get fresher produce at a lower price.
Pros: no credit card minimum, friendly guy at the counter with an interesting haircut

Definitely a great place to shop if you need groceries ASAP — especially since it’s open 24-​hours. I’m not a good fan of their babaganoush — the main reason I came in. It’s made with yogurt for some reason so it ended up having a weird tang/​tartness to it. I think it was the yogurt but I’m not a huge babaganoush expert so don’t quote me.
The staff is friendly and helpful if you know exactly what you’re looking for, but if you’re in to just browse and you have no idea what you want, they’re not very helpful. If you’re looking for better deals, go across the street to Associated but if you just need to buy a quick salad mix and don’t feel like waiting to pay, definitely check this tiny grocery shop out.

I stop in every so often for some fresh produce or nuts. They have a great selection of wholesome foods and the price isn’t bad. I love that there’s a couple healthy places to grab produce and foods in the neighborhood. They also make smoothies and juices on the spot but I haven’t tried them yet. A full selection of fruits and veggies and nuts and dried things available when you walk in.
Overall the staff is friendly too and will help you find what your looking for or will point you in the right direction. I’ll be back in there sometime this week I’m sure.

The baklava quality has declined a bit.

Ok place for produce. Neither price not quality is anything to write home about.
I can’t say I’ve ever found anything here to be remarkably fresh. I routinely find fresher, more appealing produce at Associated or the street cart between Lex & 3^rd. This place has helped out when I needed something in a pinch, but only a handful of times. The staff is usually super friendly & nice, though, especially the woman with the short brown hair!
Also it is one of those places that is open 24 hours but I can’t understand why.

This corner grocery store is right by the train station and open 24 hours. I often find myself stopping here on the way home from somewhere, fiending for a snack. They’ve got reasonably fresh produce (just got some yellow grape tomatoes today; ate practically all of them on the walk home), hummus and babaganoush and taboule and Greek yogurt, lots of sweets (from figs to chocolate to Turkish Delight) and a small bulk section with nuts and dried fruits and granola. Great spot to shop on those days when a bag of Ruffles just isn’t doing it for you.

great place to shop for groceries if you need them in a pinch. I especially love that they are so close to me & open 24-​hrs. the produce is usu very fresh, and reasonably priced, although i have found on some occasions that associated had cheaper, more fresh produce. for example the strawberries at associated were 1.99/pt and SO incredibly red & sweet! but at 2.99/pt here, they were «eh». however the spinach was much more fresh as were the red seedless grapes. so you just have to shop around the two i guess. but overall this store is much cleaner, has a small corner grocery store feel, and the staff is ALWAYS pleasant, friendly, fast!
they also make fresh fruit/​veggie smoothies on the spot! pretty awesome touch.

It’s right outside the 96^th and Lex station off the 6 train, so it’s incredibly convenient if that’s your stop.
With that said, the place is great! The produce is the freshest I’ve seen in Manhattan, and the staff is friendly. The store is not big and the selection is not impressive, but if you’re looking for fresh ingredients at a decent price this is the place to go.
If you can’t find it here, then you can go across the street to Associated Supermarket and get the remainder of your shopping list, but feel free to hit up Fresh From the Farm first.
Wow, that was a lot of F’s.