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RIVERHEAD, Suffolk County, CSA - Community Supported Agriculture Eat. Grow. Enjoy! It is our goal to help you along your journey towards fresh, local, organic, home-cooked eating and a healthier life.
CLICK HERE to SIGN UP for the CSA or SEE PRICING To get on our email list to receive news about winter shares (once a month, at the farm in Riverhead) and/or future summer shares, enter your email into the "join ourmailing list" box below left. Pick
up your CSA share at the Garden of Eve Organic Farm & Market located at 4558 Sound Avenue, on the corner
of Sound Avenue and Northville Turnpike (Rt 43).
See our Farm Market page for directions and a
map of the pickup location. We offer pickup on Wednesdays, Saturdays or Sundays from 10:30am-6pm. ONLY this location offers flexibility if you need to change your pickup day, even at the last minute, so that you don't miss your share! FREE for Farm CSA Members:
REFER-A-FRIEND BONUS! Any existing CSA member who refers a new member will get a $25 gift certificate to the Garden of Eve farmstand, to use on anything you want! If you are a new member signing up now, put your friends' name on the application so they can get credit! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2012 SEASON: 24 weeks, for all shares except flowers, which will be 20 weeks (end Oct 20).
First pickup: Wed June 6, Sat June 9, Sun June 10 Last pickup: Wed Nov 14, Sat Nov 17, Sun Nov 18 (week before Thanksgiving) Half-shares will get assigned A or B week and come for a "full" pickup, every other week (instead of getting half the amount, every week).
If you are not able to make your share pick-up, you are welcome to have a friend pick up your share. No prior notice is required, just tell them to check in under your name. NOTE: Organic Meat, cheese, and possibly seafood shares are likely to be offered in 2012 as well as the shares listed below.
This share type allows the most flexibility, if you would like to select what types of vegetables you receive each week, and set your own pickup schedule. Buy any produce, fruit, and even plants and groceries at our farm market, on any schedule (we are open daily April 1-Halloween 10am-6pm), but still get CSA value, a relationship with the farm, and 10% off all packaged goods. “Family Basket” gives you $575 worth of produce for $500! Spend approx $23/week over the CSA season. “Couple/Singles/Weekender Basket” gives you $290 worth of produce for $250! Spend approx $12/week during the CSA season.
The season includes a wide variety of vegetables, however they DO NOT COME ALL AT ONE TIME. It is likely that you will not get tomatoes until August (two months into the CSA!) when they naturally ripen in the Northeast, and no potatoes until around that time as well. EARLY SUMMER (June-July) June and July include copious amounts of cooking greens and lettuces, including spinach, bok choi, mizuna, mustard greens, tatsoi, Swiss Chard, kale, and others. Remember the ground is still warming up from the winter till late May; the last frost date in our area is May 5 (this is the date before which nearly ALL PLANTS can be KILLED when planted outside). Other early summer delicacies include snap and snow peas, garlic scapes, scallions, and in late July zucchini, sweet corn, summer squash, and cucumbers, MID SUMMER (August-Sept) This is the time that those of us who are seasonal eaters, live for. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, squashes, potatoes, sweet corn, melons, herbs, basil, onions. We grow dozens of types of tomatoes and 5 kinds of peppers, 3 kinds of eggplant, so the diversity is amazing. The CSA share at this time of the year is bounteous. FALL (Oct-Nov) In the fall we have time to focus on harvesting the massive amount of crops we have planted for you, our CSA member! We are bringing in and handing out thousands of pounds of potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, (in a good year) onions, cabbage, garlic, etc. We see a return to the cold-hardy greens as the weather chills, including the kales, and our old friends Swiss Chard and Bok Choi. We try to make the last two pre-Thanksgiving shares everything you'll need for that special dinner, including butternut and other sweet winter squashes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, garlic, collards, and more.
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