About

Nine years ago in DUMBO, Anna Castellani, RIchard Lamb and Clifford Shikler felt that their up-and-coming Brooklyn neighborhood needed a place to buy fresh and healthy food.  They decided together that the only way to find such a market was to create one.  In 2005, Foragers opened its doors to a pretty skeptical crowd.  At the time, small, independent markets like Foragers were a new concept, and people were not as interested in sourcing and growing practices as they are now.   Over the years, as people became more savvy about food quality, neighbors grew to count on Foragers to be a reliable source for healthy food.  In 2009, we even established our own farm in Canaan, New York to help meet our customers' demands for local produce and pastured eggs.  Soon we were looking to expand to a second location and chose Chelsea because of its diverse, vibrant community.  We were lucky to find a big enough space to house two more of our dream concepts: the Table, which is our farm-to-table restaurant, and Foragers City Wines which carries mostly organic, sustainable and biodynamic wines.  Two markets, a restaurant, a wine store, a delivery truck and one farm later, Foragers is dedicated to bringing food of the highest quality to our shoppers.