Shares Are Going Fast. Purchase Your CSA Share Today!

We are excited about all the members that have been joining us for the 2013 CSA season so far and would like to say a big WELCOME!

If you’re still waiting to register for the LICCSA 2013 season, then don’t wait, do it now! We still have shares available but they are going fast! Registration will remain open until we sell out.

Purchase your CSA shares using either of the following 2 convenient online forms:

1. If you would like to purchase your share in full using a credit card (No longer available). Please note that if you choose to pay with a credit card, the share prices reflect additional credit card fees.

2. If you prefer to pay by check or money order or are purchasing a share with your Food Stamp/SNAP benefits, (No longer available).

We like to offer our members as many options as we can, so if you prefer downloading, completing and then mailing in your membership agreement, please go ahead: Membership Agreement Form 2013

Sign Up for Your Share for the 2013 CSA Season!

Hello Members and Soon-to-Be Members,

The wait is over and it’s now time to start signing up for your CSA share and focus on building our LICCSA community for the 2013 season!

This season we are happy to provide you with 2 convenient ways of purchasing your share online.  If you would like to purchase your share in full using a credit card (No longer available). Please note that if you choose to pay with a credit card, the share prices reflect additional credit card fees.  If you prefer to pay by check or money order or are purchasing a share with your Food Stamp/SNAP benefits, (No longer available).

We like to offer our members as many options as we can, so if you prefer downloading, completing and then mailing in your membership agreement, please go ahead:  Membership Agreement Form 2013

ANNOUNCING: The 2013 LIC CSA Season!

Hello Members and Soon-to-Be Members,

It’s our favorite time of the season – the first part when we focus on building our community! That means accepting applications for all our Veggie loving/ CSA sponsoring neighbors in the LIC and Astoria areas .

Share applications for the 2013 season will be on their way soon to your email inbox and will be posted here as well, so be on the look out and check back soon.

This year, distribution will take place between May 29th through October 23rd on Wednesdays, between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Hour Children located at 36‐49 11th Street, Long Island City.

Any questions please leave a comment below, or email us at longislandcitycsa@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing returning members and new members on the first week of distribution!

Veggie Share, Week 21

Today, members will be receiving the following goodies:

-1 lb. fingerling potatoes (rusiian banana)
-2 heads broccoli
-1 bunch turnips
-1 head lettuce
-2 peppers
-1 Butternut
-1 bunch collards
-1 lb. onions
-1 bunch arugula

View this week’s recipes from the farm chef, Carol Hargis and read the letter from Farmer Chris and his family.

If you want to read/print out the newsletter as a newsletter in print, you can!

Enjoy!

News from Lewis Waite Farm + Deadline for Placing August CSA Extras Order

It’s time to get those extra items orders in!

LIC CSA Members who would like to order extra items through Lewis Waite Farm must do so by midnight on Sunday, July 31st.  Delivery for extra items will be on Thursday, August 4th. 

Distribution for Lewis Waite items takes place at LIC Market on the delivery date between the hours of 3:30PM – 10:00PM.  LIC Market is located at 21-52 44th Drive, LIC, NY.

Please note: LIC Market is a busy restaurant so it is recommended that members avoid pick ups during the dinner rush (7:00 -8:30-ish) or  be prepared to wait as it may take the staff  a little bit longer to get your items than it would during the other hours of distribution.

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Cows Grazing from Lewis Waite Farm

Visit Lewis Waite Farm’s website to place your order.  If this is your first time ordering,  follow the  instructions on the LIC CSA Flyer.  Also, keep in mind the following product updates and current specials when selecting your goodies:

Product Updates:

•  Argyllshire Farm: New Lamb inventory posted: leg steaks, loin chops, and a few ground lamb.
• Egg Producers: The hens have had a hard time with the heat wave, and slowed laying. Luckily, the pullets have started laying and we now have Medium Eggs!
• Farmer Ground Flour: is discontinuing the 2lb size of White Pastry and White Bread Flour, so the inventory we have will be all we get.
• Harry’s Honey House: Derek at Harry’s packs up Raw Honey for us each fall, and what we have posted now is the last of his supply. If you are a Raw devotee, order now!
• Lewis Waite Farm: Bacon and linked pork sausages are in.
• Manx Station Farm: New inventory posted!
• West River Creamery: Londonderry available! Jane is also making Chevre rolls in three flavors now: Plain, Chive, and Ginger. We are also waiting for an update on their lamb sausage with red wine and feta, and we’ll let you know!

Current Specials

• Argyllshire Farm: 10% off Mutton Items!
• Lewis Waite Farm: Beef Shank w/meat and marrow pieces on sale! Keep the kitchen cool while the crock pot makes dinner! Now $3.99/lb – perfect for Osso Bucco!

Something New: Introducing Mack Brin Farms: Pastured Chicken

Julianne is working hard on her farm, doing it all herself. Though not certified, her fields have been clean for 15 years. Her chickens are moved daily through the fields, and supplemented with local feed – non GMO, non medicated. There is a limited supply, but we are working on getting more in as we can. These pastured birds have excellent flavor. The first batch will be 50 HENS, and we are picking these up on Thursday. We can’t make anything available on the website until we have them back and counted, but feel free to write and reserve some!

Something Tasty – Duck Soup

This Something Tasty comes to us from Sonya Gropman, a CSA member. She writes about using the whole duck in her blog post, http://eatartword.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/duck-soup/.

Something to Discuss - “In the News”

National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement threatens small farms and markets everywhere! Sign this petition to help stop “one-size-fits-all” rules for agriculture, and protect your right to by un “sterilized” vegetables! They need 20,000 signatures by Thursday.

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/391?akid=350.56172.oVA9sK&t=8

“Today the USDA and Big Ag are conspiring to implement a set of rules that favor giant industrial growers while placing small, diversified farms at risk. Known as the National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, this set of rules was designed by industrial growers to protect their market share while harming their main competition, the growing local and organic food movement. The Leafy Green agreement, drafted by the largest vegetable growers’ lobbyists in an effort to whitewash their growing food safety problems, would implement draconian practices that saddle farmers with one-size-fits-all rules and would drive local and organic farmers out of business with expensive regulations”

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LIC CSA Member Survey

It may seem like the 2010 CSA just ended, but our farmers are already planning for Spring and making decisions about what to plant. Please take a moment and fill out our survey so that we can provide them with some feedback.

Plus, we would like some feedback on how you thought the CSA was run last year in general. Your feedback will help us make the CSA better!

Upcoming Lewis Waite Distribution Dates

The LIC CSA has a partnership with Lewis Waite Farm, which provides additional extra-item choices for our members.  Items include a range of farm fresh products such as: beef, lamb, chicken, duck, eggs, grains, cheese, honey and many more. The products come from a network of small-scale farmers in upstate New York and Vermont.

Upcoming distributions will be on the following Saturdays: 12/18, 1/8, 2/12, 3/19, 4/16, 5/21. Pickup will be from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at LIC Market 21-52 44th Drive, LIC, NY 11101

To learn more about the farm and its products, please visit the Lewis Waite Farm website.

Reminder: Last Three Winter Share Distributions

The last three winter share distributions will take place on Nov. 20, Dec. 11, Jan. 8 between 10 am and 12 pm at Hour Children Food Pantry located at 36-41 11th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106.

Winter Farm Share

The Winter Farm share is finally here! The winter farm share will consist of 4 distributions: Nov. 6, Nov. 20, Dec. 11 and Jan. 8. The core offering is the vegetable share from The Farm at Miller’s Crossing, our reliable and high quality partner. The vegetables will be a mix of fresh greens (as weather permits), winter vegetables (roots and hardy ground vegetables) and “flash frozen” vegetables from this last summer.  The Winter Farm Share will have sliding scale income pricing options as well as a SNAP (food stamp) option.

In addition, there will be beef, poultry, and dairy options from neighboring farms. See the downloadable farm and FAQ for full details.

Remember, the hard deadline for all of these shares is Oct. 27 (if you mail in your form it must be received by then). The Farm at Miller’s Crossing has a finite number of vegetables shares that they are splitting between 3 CSA’s, so the sooner you submit your form the better.

Please download and read the form and FAQ’s first and if you still have questions, email us at longislandcitycsa@gmail.com

Extra-item Fruit Share

We are happy to announce that we will be working with Hepworth Farms, in Milton, NY, for our fruit share. The “extra-item” fruit share will only be available to those members that have purchased a vegetable share.  If you have purchased a vegetable share and would like to sign-up for the fruit share, please fill out the Fruit Share Form, which can be found by clicking here, and return it to:

New York City Coalition Against Hunger
50 Broad Street, Suite 1520
New York, NY 10004

We will only have two fruit deliveries in June (when the harvest is light) and then starting in July we will have weekly deliveries. There will be 19 fruit share deliveries total.

Since the fruit-share distribution has already begun, the new price will be pro-rated. 

To find out more about the farm, and it’s owner of the farm, Amy Hepworth, click here.