Dear Friends, Our Community Supported Agriculture summer-fall season will begin Tuesday, June 5th. We will be working once again with Hepworth Farm located in New York’s Hudson Valley. Hepworth Farm will be providing Vegetable and Fruit shares. Fruits include strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, cherries, apricots, plums, peaches, nectarines, pears, apples and grapes. In addition to produce, [...]
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A tasting menu of summer veggies and beer By Jonathan Schecter As the great philosopher Homer J. Simpson once said, “Beer, the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.” There is no time when that rings truer than a summer Sunday evening. With the work week looming, there is nothing better than playing [...]
By Crystal Butler, Compost Committee Chair The Sixth Street Community Center has received a grant from the city to implement a composting plan in conjunction with El Jardin del Paraiso, a park and garden that runs from 4th to 5th Streets between Avenues C and D. The Community Supported Agriculture program run through Sixth Street [...]
by CSA Member Jamie Michel Preheat the broiler (top burner of the oven only) to 450 degrees. Toss whatever vegetables you plan to cook in olive oil, salt, and pepper. Make a single layer of the vegetables on a baking sheet—don’t crowd. Place the baking sheet on the oven rack that is six inches below [...]
by CSA Member James Michel We cooks are conductors of food. We direct the grains, the proteins, the fruits, the vegetables, the oils, and the acids—each item of food possessing an inherent rhythm that we seek to fit within the greater rhythm of the kitchen. We home cooks attempt to find a perfectly orchestrated refrigerator [...]
by CSA Member, Jamie Michel I grew up in the Upper Midwest, where an overabundance of air conditioning in summer and central heating in winter obscured the cultural sense of “summer foods” and “winter foods.” Whether it was June or January, baking bread was baking bread, the result of which was always pleasant and worthwhile. [...]
The Community Farmworker Alliance (CFA) a NYC based group working in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) will be hosting a series of awesome events between February 4-6. Not to be missed!
Save the date!
Use your CSA share to battle members to see whose dish reins supreme.
Sunday September 19, 2010, 2pm
Judge members dishes and decide who cooked the best dish!
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Extra boxes of tomatoes are now available for purchase and pick-up this coming Tuesday. Details inside
