Here's info on the LUNGS CSA

The folks at Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS) passed along news about their ongoing community-supported agriculture (CSA!) program... and info about how to take part this fall...

The program runs week to week. A person can sign up just the weeks they want produce. One just pre-pays for the weeks they want to participate. It is $10 per week and you get a full bag of locally grown seasonal produce.

In September, the Miracle Garden, 194 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B, serves as the pick-up spot Show up between 1-3 p.m. at Miracle Garden this coming Sunday [Sept. 1] and start supporting an amazing community organization that promotes the community gardens in the East Village while also supporting local farming and healthy eating.

All the money goes to the local family farm.

Questions about the CSA? Ask away via email: info@lungsnyc.org.

2019 CSA shares now available at the 14th Street Y

[Image courtesy of the 14th Street Y]

Via the EVG inbox...

It's that time of year again! Sign up for your local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Mountain View Farm supplies farm fresh food to the 14th Street Y CSA.

Shares will be delivered on a bi-weekly basis from early June through the end of October, for a total of 11 distributions. Shares will include seasonally available fruit, such as, strawberries, blueberries, peaches and apples!

Farm share members will pick up a pre-boxed share filled with certified organic produce and fruit (organic when available) every other Tuesday in the lobby of the 14th St Y (344 E. 14th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue) from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Each box will contain 8-12 different items, including vegetables, herbs and fruit. The cost of the share for 2019 is $420.

Sign up online at our website.

Signup for the Washington Square CSA ends June 1

The folks from the long-running Washington Square CSA reached out to let us know that the deadline to sign up for their Summer 2019 CSA season is June 1. (Note: this date was extended. It was previously May 10.)

They have pickups in the East Village at St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery every Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. Their offerings include various organic fresh vegetables ... and several additional ad-ons, including fruits, meats and cheeses.

This link has more details ... and this link has info on the shares.

CSA sign-up time at the 14th Street Y

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Now's the time to get your 2018 share! Don't wait, sign up now! New for the 2018 season: Shares will now be delivered on a bi-weekly basis from early June through the end of October, for a total of 11 distributions.

Also new for 2018, shares will include seasonally available fruit, such as, strawberries, blueberries, peaches and apples! Farm share members will pick up a pre-boxed share filled with certified organic produce and fruit (organic when available) every other Tuesday in the lobby of the 14th St Y from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Each box will contain 8-12 different items, including vegetables, herbs and fruit! The cost of the share for 2018 is $415.

Sign up online at our website. (The website also includes contact information for Ben and Liz at Mountain View Farm and Alice, the distribution coordinator at the 14th Street Y.)

The farm was voted Best Local CSA for 2018 in the Valley Advocate Reader's Poll! This makes 10 years in a row that the farm has been voted Best Local Farm or Best Local CSA!

We look forward to another season with everyone! Thank you for choosing Mountain View Farm and supporting local agriculture...

Deadline approaching for the 14th Street Y CSA Winter Season

The folks at the 14th Street Y shared this... via the EVG inbox...

Shares are still available for the 14th Street Y CSA WINTER SEASON! Act quick!

You have until Oct. 31 [Ed note: Tuesday!] to sign up for your local WINTER CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).

Mountain View Farm supplies farm fresh food to the 14th Street Y CSA.

You will receive six bi-weekly distributions beginning in November — you will pick up a massive (but manageable) box of glorious, fresh vegetables at the 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St. (between 1st and 2nd Avenues).

Distribution dates are:
Nov. 20 (Just in time for Thanksgiving!)
Dec. 4
Dec. 18
Jan. 2 (A Tuesday)
Jan. 15 (Martin Luther King Day)
Jan. 29

This makes it easy to enjoy fresh organic produce all through the winter months.

Each distribution will consist of 25-30 pounds of produce.
The cost for one share is $330 for the season (around $2.10 per pound!).

Vegetables you will see in your share include: Carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, potatoes, winter squash, cabbage, purple top and hakurei turnips, black, daikon and watermelon radishes, kale, onions, celeric, leeks, bok choy, garlic and much more!

You can sign up online here. Email alice14ycsa@aol.com if you have CSA-related questions.

Details on the $10-a-week CSA in these East Village community gardens

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LUNGS Fresh Food Bag CSA
Get a bag full of fresh & healthy produce straight from the farmer to you for only $10 a week — and only the weeks you want — along with volunteer help from you and the gardens of our New York City Community Garden District. The program is managed by LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens).

HOW IT WORKS:
This CSA is unique — you pay in advance but only for the weeks you want. SIGN-UP & PICK-UP is Sunday from 1 pm to 3 pm. When you pick up on Sunday you will pre-order and pay for the following week, or the week after.

See you this Sunday, August 6th, between 1 pm and 3 pm at Green Oasis on 8th Street between Avenues C&D to sign up!

It’s run entirely by volunteers, so all the money goes to the farmer. The family farm we work with uses organic methods but is not certified organic. The CSA typically begins in mid-June and—as we have for the past four years — runs every Sunday until Thanksgiving.

Pick up your produce between 1 and 3 pm on Sunday. If you cannot make the pickup time you need to arrange for someone else to pick it up for you. After 3 pm we are not responsible for your order. So if there are bags not picked up at the end of the day we will sell them to cover any losses that are inevitable in a volunteer-run program.

Bring tote bags! The first week you order please bring two tote bags for the season. Please bring good sturdy bags that can carry 10 pounds of produce. When you pick up the following week, bring back your bag!

Please remember that ALL the money that goes through this program goes to the farmer. This is a strictly volunteer program bringing fresh healthy food to your table. Please respect the time and energy that goes into setting this up and putting it together week to week.

Schedule of Loisaida community gardens hosting the LUNGS CSA:
August — Green Oasis, 8th Street between Aves C&D
September — La Plaza, 9th Street & Ave C
October — De Colores, 8th Street between Aves B&C
November — TBD
(and thanks to Campos, 12th Street near Ave C, for hosting us in July!)

CONTACT info@lungsnyc.org with CSA in the subject line if you would like to join.

Time for the Sixth Street Community Center CSA

We mentioned the other day that it's sign-up time for the 14th Street Y CSA. (Reps from the Mountain View Farm will be at the Y today, 14th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, from 3:30-6:30 p.m.)

Meanwhile, it's also time to register for the summer-fall season at the Sixth Street Community Center CSA.

Via the EVG box...

Our Community Supported Agriculture season will begin Tuesday, June 13! We will be working once again with Hepworth Farm located in New York's Hudson Valley. Hepworth Farm will be providing Vegetable Shares for 24 weeks and Fruit Shares for 23 weeks. Fruits include strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, cherries, apricots, plums, peaches, nectarines, melons, pears, apples and grapes. For a list of vegetables please click here.

In addition to produce, we will continue to offer wild Alaskan fish year-round. We will also have available Stonehouse olive oils and balsamic vinegar, organic eggs, butter, yogurt, honey, maple syrup and other specialty items. You can also join our organic raw milk and cheese club.

This season we will continue using a sliding scale payment structure that will offer subsidized shares to low-income households. Your participation supports our efforts to make healthy local organic produce accessible to all members of our community.

To sign up please download and fill out the registration form attached or register online here.

Last fall, The Village Voice named the Sixth Street CSA as the best in NYC.

The Sixth Street Community Center CSA is between Avenue B and Avenue C.

H/T Charlie Chen!

Sign up time for the 14th Street Y CSA

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It's time to sign up for your local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Mountain View Farm supplies farm fresh food to the 14th Street Y CSA. Sign up now to join — and every week you will pick up a massive box of glorious, fresh vegetables at the 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

The farm has been busy in the greenhouse since mid-March and is currently prepping the fields for planting. They have already seeded onions, beets, fennel, leeks, cabbage, broccoli, kale, lettuce, celery, celeriac, swiss chard and so much more! Everything is looking really good in the greenhouse and the first share will be here before you know it!

Visit their website for more information and follow the link to purchase a share.

And feel free to come meet the farmers at the 14th Street Y — in the lobby — on Tuesday (April 18) from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Come taste some samples of the veggies they will be supplying.