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We just received details about the Deep Winter 2026 Vegetable Share from Golden Earthworm Organic Farm. 
This winter share will have three distributions, all Thursdays, 5:30 – 8:00pm at St. Mark’s Church: January 8th, February 5th, and February 26th.

We apologize for the short notice, especially during the holiday season, but there is a quick turnaround.

Please sign up by December 31st!

Optional add-on Apple Share: Large, 5lb tote of Apples from Champlain Orchards.  Ecologically-grown, non-organic. Price: $38

Volunteer: As a volunteer-run organization, we ask that each share volunteers for one distribution shift during the winter share. (Note: if two households split a share, just one distribution shift is required.) We will be sending out a link to members to sign up for volunteer shifts soon.

Mushroom Share from Big Apple Fungi

Local Queens mushroom farm. The variety of mushrooms will vary based on availability, but mostly will include: oyster, king trumpet, lion’s mane, shimeji, maitake and chestnut.

Prices are for three deliveries: 1/2 pound is $30; 1 pound is $60.

Sign up HERE

Questions about mushrooms: info@myshrooms.one

Wishing everyone very Happy Holidays!

Pick up at St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82nd St., Jackson Heights, NY, 11372, Thursdays, 5:30 – 8:00pm.

Fruit Share: This is a 16-week fruit share from Champlain Orchards of Shoreham, Vermont. Pickup will be at the same time as the vegetable CSA (Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:00pm at St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82nd St.), but PLEASE NOTE: distribution will begin in August, with exact start date to be determined later in the summer as the fruit ripens. We will announce the date via email and website.

Prices:

Full Vegetable Share, April 23rd – June 7th: $909.04

Biweekly Vegetable Share, April 23rd – June 7th: $454.52

Subsidized Vegetable Share, April 23rd – June 7th: $454.52

Full Fruit Share: $176.32

Biweekly Fruit Share: $88.16

Early Bird Pricing! For the first time, we’re offering a special early bird price for members who sign up by April 22nd, 2025.

Refer a Friend! Receive a gift of a canvas Farm Spot tote bag if you refer a friend who signs up for a vegetable share. Be sure to drop us a line to let us know!

Biweekly Share! This year we are offering a vegetable share every other week (instead of every week). There will be Week A and Week B distributions. You will be assigned a week. If you have a preference, please let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate you if we can. (The farm needs to split the alternate week shares 50/50 in terms of delivering, so we’ll need to keep a balance between Weeks A and B.)

Subsidized Vegetable Share In an effort to keep CSA shares accessible regardless of income level, Farm Spot offers a limited number of Subsidized Vegetable Shares. Sign up is on the honor system, available on a first come first serve basis. As more funds become available, we will increase the number of subsidized shares. 

2025 Pricing – Please read the message from Golden Earthworm Farm about their price increase this year: “You’ll notice an increase in the vegetable share price, reflective of our increasing costs of labor and transport.  This year the government’s mandatory wage rate increase jumped to $18.80/hour.  We had also underestimated the transport costs last season, so those had to be adjusted so we don’t lose money.  Under normal circumstances, we don’t expect significant share price increases from year to year.”  If you have any questions about the details of this increase, please let us know.  

A Farm Spot Administrative Fee has been added to the price of our shares to cover our expenses, most notably the rent we are required to pay to St. Mark’s Church for weekly use of the space. Since we cannot know how many shares will be sold every year, we do our best to calculate the administrative fee based on past years. If we have excess funds, they are rolled over into the subsidized share fund. 

Two volunteer shifts required per share* (not per household, so if two households split a share, it’s still a total of two shifts) *unless someone is unable to physically fulfill the volunteer responsibilities.

Questions: farmspot@gmail.com

We are excited to host Glynwood Grains & Staples for a Pop-up Sale of grains and beans this week. Thursday, November 14th, 5:30-8:00pm. Cash + credit cards accepted. Anyone is welcome to shop, not restricted to CSA members!

Read more about Glynwood, and see a list of products that will be available for sale below

The Glynwood Grains and Staples, is dedicated to revitalizing our regional food system by returning grains and staples to their foundational role. Our program builds on the progress of the local foods community over the past decades, focusing on enhancing the Northeast’s capacity to produce, process, and market staple foods (grains, beans, corn, rice). We are committed to creating valuable programming that fosters skill development while encouraging the integration of local staple foods into our regional cuisine. 

Through our Grains & Staples Pop-up, our main goal is to provide consumers’ access to a diverse array of freshly milled flours, whole grains, beans, and legumes from small farms in New York State and the greater Northeast to bolster local agriculture and inspire culinary creativity. 

Explore our Product List and we welcome your feedback and questions. 

grainsandstaples@glynwood.org

The time has come to SIGN UP for a 2024 CSA share! 

Farm Spot will be partnering with Golden Earthworm Organic Farm again this year. Our CSA partner from 2006 – 2021, Golden Earthworm is now based in southern Vermont and continues to provide certified organic produce. The 2024 CSA season is 22 weeks, and they are able to provide an optional fruit share from a nearby farm. We’re looking forward to enjoying their delicious produce again, along with the helpful recipes and farm updates in their weekly newsletters. 

SIGN UP HERE – and please forward to anyone that might be interested. Deadline to sign up is 5/15/24!

Information about the 2024 share:

Distribution location: St Mark’s Church on the corner of 34th avenue and 82nd street

Dates: Thursdays, June 20th to November 21st, 2024, 5:30-8pm (no distribution on July 4th)

Cost for the vegetable share: $875.30

Cost of the Subsidized vegetable share: $437.80 (limited number of shares available – if sold out, please email us to be put on wait list)

Cost for the fruit share: $145.35

VOLUNTEERING

All members are expected to volunteer two shifts per share; Members who have both a vegetable and fruit share are required to serve two shifts, the requirement does not double. Any members for whom the ongoing COVID-19 crisis makes volunteering unsafe or impossible should email Farm Spot. Farm Spot CSA is only possible with the help of volunteers – we do not have other means to operate distribution. Feel free to contact us with any questions: volunteerfarmspot@gmail.com

Sign up for volunteer shifts here

SHARE PICK-UP

The above dates, between 5:30 pm & 8:00 pm, at St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82nd st. If you do not pick up your share during those hours, it will be donated appropriately. We are unable to save shares. If you are unable to pick up your share yourself, you may ask a friend or neighbor (even if they are not a Farm Spot member) to pick up your share on your behalf. Please remember to give them the principal share member’s name (the name that your share is listed under in the sign-up book).

Splitting shares:

In past years, Farm Spot has encouraged members to look for share partners on social media and community message boards. People have been known to find share partners on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/farmspotcsa/). If you cannot find a share on your own, please email farmspot@gmail.com and we will do our best to match you with a share partner.

We are offering a Winter Share for the first time in several years! Four monthly deliveries of a 20+ pound box of organic vegetables from Golden Earthworm Organic Farm. For those unfamiliar, Farm Spot was partnered with Golden Earthworm for about 16 years, until they lost much of their leased farmland in Long Island and were no longer able to provide enough vegetables for CSA groups. They have since relocated to land they now own in Vermont, and we are happy to partner with them for a winter share (Note: our current farm, Angel Family Farm does not offer a winter share).

Sign up HERE

Winter Vegetable Share: each month a 20+ lb box of organic vegetables, including winter squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, potatoes, rutabaga, beets, watermelon radish, cabbage (and possibly broccoli and cauliflower). $221

Optional Add-on Shares from Briermere Farm, in Riverhead, Long Island, a non-organic farm that uses compost in their farming practice.

Apple Share: each month a 4-pound bag of a variety of apples. $37

Apple Cider Share: each month a 1/2 gallon of apple cider. $35

Dates: Thursdays, 5:30 – 8:00pm. November 16th, December 14th, January 11th, and February 8th.

Location: pick up for the Winter Share will be at The Queensboro Restaurant, 80-02 Northern Blvd at 80th St.

Sign up HERE – deadline to sign up is October 20th!

Please email us at farmspot@gmail.com if you’d like more info or to be added to the waiting list.

For our current members, see you later this week, on Thursday, June 15th from 5:30 – 8:00pm for our first distribution.

— Please remember to bring BAGS to haul your vegetables home.

— If you can’t make it to pick up, please ask a friend or neighbor to pick up for you as WE CANNOT SAVE SHARES. All unclaimed shares will be donated.

See you there! 🌟 🥬 🌟

We still have vegetable shares available.

Deadline is extended to June 8th, sign up here!

The first distribution is Thursday, June 15th and runs through October 26th.