Registration for the 2013 summer season is now closed. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please email us at farmspot@gmail.com
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You can find 2013 prices here. Registration will open soon and remain open unti April, 15th.
Check back for updates.
Yellow Potatoes – 4 lb.
Parsnips – 1 lb.
Rutabaga – 1.5 lb.
Watermelon Radish – 1.5 lb.
Red Beets – 2 lb.
Carrots – 5 lb.
Sweet Potatoes – 5 lb.
Savoy Cabbage – 1 head
Green Cabbage – 1 head
Winter Sun Farm
Broccoli, Green Beans, Edamame, Butternut Squash Puree, Blueberries, Tomato Puree (in a jar!) and fresh Pea Shoots.
Applications for our Winter CSA are now available! Registration is open until November 30th. Sign up now to secure your shares!
Golden Earthworm Winter Vegetable Share – Certified Organic $157
Approximately 15-18lbs of mixed root crops and greens
Winter Share vegetables may include any of the following: Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Beets, Potatoes, Rutabaga, Kohlrabi, Watermelon Radish, and possibly Kale, Spinach & Arugula. The farm has worked hard to add lots of great greens grown in their greenhouse to the winter shares!!
Briermere Farms Winter Apple Share- Non-Organic $25
3lbs mixed apple varieties per delivery
Briermere Farms Winter Cider Share – Non-Organic $24
1/2 gallon fresh-pressed cider per delivery
Click here to sign up for the Golden Earthworm and Briermere Farm shares.
Edit your subscription, add more shares, etc, here or make an additional payment
Winter Sun Farm – $149
This is a flash frozen share from multiple farms upstate NY. Get summer veggies and fruit all winter long!!
Each month, members receive 7 individually packaged items such as frozen blueberries, corn, broccoli, butternut squash, peppers, and more! They also add a fresh item each month (e.g., greenhouse pea shoots).
New this year, lower prices; get a 5 month share at last year’s 4 month share price!
What’s in a share? Click here to see!
Check out this video that tells you all about Winter Sun Farm.
Click here to sign up for Winter Sun Farm share….(choose Jackson Heights CSA)
We hope you will all join us!!
Warmly,
The Farm Spot Core Team
The farm truck arrived about 10 minutes ago! Neil, the driver, said he encountered long lines at gas stations that spilled into the streets causing MASSIVE gridlock!
Again, we apologize for the lateness.
Please make every effort to come pick up your veggies – we have no way to store large amounts of leftovers. You can ask anyone to come pick up – a friend, neighbor, family member, etc.
We will plan to stay until 9pm tonight – and a little later if it seems people are still making their way here. If you need to check in with us, please call Angel at 347-731-7110.
Thanks for your patience!
Farm Spot just got word the the Golden Earthworm truck is stuck in gridlock traffic-the driver estimates he’ll arrive after 7. We will make every effort to stay late to allow extra time for people to pick up tonight. In the meantime Lewis Waite and Milk Not Jails are there for pickup. Please enter through the school doors on 82nd Street as the yard is closed.
We sincerely apologize and will update with more information as soon as we get word.
The Golden Earthworm Organic Farm is hosting a fundraiser, SHARE: A Field to Plate dinner, on August 12th from 4-7pm. There will be a farm tour, live music and an auction. Tickets are $175 and will benefit North Fork Education Initiative, an amazing new organization that creates educational programs with a focus on arts and the environment on the East End. They will be launching a K-3 school, Peconic Community School, in downtown Riverhead this fall. Please join us for an enchanting evening featuring our delicious organic produce prepared by top local chefs, Shinn Vineyard wines and artisanal products from local producers. It’s going to be an evening to remember! TICKETS now available for online purchase here. This is an intimate gathering, so seating is limited!
If so, you should read this article from The New York Times, plus a slide show with vegetable-storing tips:
Raw Panic
By JULIA MOSKIN
HERE’S a dirty little secret of summer.
What should be a beautiful and inspiring sight — your kitchen, overflowing with seasonal produce — is sometimes an intimidating tableau of anxiety. The knobbly piles and dirt-caked bunches are overwhelming. Already the peak-ripe multicolored peppers are developing soft spots; the chard is wilting and the race is on.
“People often feel overwhelmed in the kitchen, and when all this produce suddenly arrives, they panic,” said Ronna Welsh, a chef in Brooklyn who teaches workshops on, among other topics, produce management.
Vegetable anxiety can strike anyone at this time of year: C.S.A. subscribers, compulsive farm-stand stoppers and even vegetarians. “All this produce arrives with a deadline,” said Benjamin Elwood, a lawyer in St. Paul. “It’s like when a DVD comes from Netflix. You feel like you have to watch the movie ASAP in order to get your money’s worth, but the pressure makes you not want to watch it.”
An interesting editorial from the New York Times on the roll of dirt from fresh produce in our diets:
Dirtying Up Our Diets
By JEFF D. LEACH
OVER 7,000 strong and growing, community farmers’ markets are being heralded as a panacea for what ails our sick nation. The smell of fresh, earthy goodness is the reason environmentalists approve of them, locavores can’t live without them, and the first lady has hitched her vegetable cart crusade to them. As health-giving as those bundles of mouthwatering leafy greens and crates of plump tomatoes are, the greatest social contribution of the farmers’ market may be its role as a delivery vehicle for putting dirt back into the American diet and in the process, reacquainting the human immune system with some “old friends.”
Increasing evidence suggests that the alarming rise in allergic and autoimmune disorders during the past few decades is at least partly attributable to our lack of exposure to microorganisms that once covered our food and us.
Vegetable Share
There will be a delivery this week, however, due to the storm the vegetables will not be washed. Thank you for understanding. Check The Golden Earthworm newsletter for updates about what’s in the share.
Fruit Share
Finished for the season
Herb Share
Finished for the season
A Note on the final deliveries of the season
This is just a quick reminder about the final delivery of the season. There will be no delivery on Thursday, November 22 because it is Thanksgiving day. So we will skip that week and make your final delivery the following Thursday, November 29th. The delivery you receive on Thursday, November 15 (the week before Thanksgiving) will be the holiday share, as it will include special items that members may want to cook for their holiday meal.
Want to Join the Farm Spot Core Group?
We are looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to start for this winter season. This is a rare opportunity! If you are organized and love our CSA. Reply to this e-mail us and let us know!
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