Many of the produce you can find at New York City greenmarkets are indigenous to Latin America. Some are common pantry staples like tomatoes and potatoes. Others, you may not have reached for before like tomatillo, groundcherry and an herb called pápalo.

Amelia Tarpey is a program and publicity manger for GrowNYC Greenmarkets. She shares what crops originally from Latin America are grown in New York, and fun ways to prepare them.