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Choy CommonsChoy CommonsOrganically Grown Caraflex Cabbage

1 head

This organically grown Caraflex cabbage is a small, cone-shaped cabbage with tender, thin leaves and a sweet, mild flavor, a world apart from a standard round cabbage's bite. Its pointed shape has earned it playful nicknames like sugarloaf and gnome cabbage, and that shape comes from a pointed-cabbage tradition long popular in Germany and Northern Europe, only recently catching on here.

The thin leaves are tender enough to shred raw into slaws and salads, or cook it quickly, braised or sautéed, since it turns tender fast. It pairs especially well with apple, caraway, bacon, and vinegar.

Local
Organically Grown
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Choy CommonsChoy Commons

Chester, NY

Choy Commons is a nonhierarchical cooperative of Asian-led farms working together to build a more connected and equitable food system in the Northeast. Founded in 2021 by farmers who met through the Asian Farmers affinity caucus, Choy Commons grew from a shared desire to build community and explore what it means to be Asian American within the food and climate justice movement.

Their name reflects that vision. “Choy,” the Cantonese romanization of 菜, means leaf vegetable, evoking the East Asian foods and agricultural traditions that connect their farmers to their heritage. “Commons” speaks to their commitment to reciprocity—with the land and with one another—and to sharing food, resources, labor and knowledge.

Choy Commons supports small farms through collaboration, grows ancestral foods for their communities, redistributes resources to provide food to those in need, and creates space to practice and adapt cultural traditions. By weaving together farms, community organizations, mutual aid groups, food purveyors and cultural practitioners, they are cultivating not just food, but a shared sense of belonging, interdependence and food sovereignty.