Southold farmer helps Studio 54 owner's niece

Read the full story at www.suffolktimes.com. Cutchogue farmer Tom Wickham trucked two live apple trees to New York City on Thursday, Oct. 29, all in the name of a food art installation from artist Jennifer Rubell, who invited celebrities like Michael Stipe and Mario Batali for a taste. Ms. Rubell, the niece of famed Studio 54 nightclub owner Steve Rubell, said that the Friday night at the X Initiative art space on West 22nd Street in Manhattan was "fantastic." Her installation was called "Creation," based on three scenes from the book of Genesis in the Bible.
"He's known as a fairly intellectual farmer," Ms. Rubell said of Mr. Wickham. "I was visiting some friends on the North Fork and heard that he'd be open to the idea." The unique transaction, which cost Ms. Rubell $500 per tree, was written about in last week's The New Yorker magazine, and The Suffolk Times caught Mr. Wickham and his workers preparing to truck the trees -- with roots still attached -- all the way to Manhattan.

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