GREENPOINT-WILLIAMSBURG CSA at McCarren Park

Brooklyn, New York
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

2012 Signups will be open by late January.

For wait list and information about the 2012 season please email williamsburgcsa@gmail.com

Greenpoint-Williamsburg CSA offers a choice of 2 distribution sites:

• Saturday mornings from 9:30am- Noon @ McCarren Park in the Community Garden, across the street from the Dog Run
• Wednesday evenings from 530pm-8pm @ Lutheran Church of the Messiah (129 Russell St; southside of McGolrick Park)

Due to the large nature of our CSA, members must join in person at a sign up event. See the Greenpoint-Williamsburg CSA website for event information:
http://www.greenpoint-williamsburgcsa.org/

Come on down to an event for more information or email williamsburgcsa@gmail.com

A WINTER SHARE is offered from Dec-May. Click here for more information.

 

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SEASON: 24 weeks, for all shares except flowers, which will be 20 weeks (end Oct 20).

First pickup: Wed June 6 (GREENPOINT), Sat June 9 (WILLIAMSBURG)

Last pickup: Wed Nov 14 (week before Thanksgiving), Sat Nov 17

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.

Full Harvest Vegetable Share

June-Thanksgiving, approx. 24 weeks – 7-8 items per week, includes enough vegetables for two large vegetarian meals per week, for a family - or sides for the whole week. See harvest chart for approximate schedule of vegetables including heirloom tomatoes, mesclun salad mix, zucchini, baby corn, summer squash, cucumbers, lettuces, beets, carrots, plus pumpkins, gourds, winter squash. 

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, and more.

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.

 

Fruit Share

June - Thanksgiving, 24 weeks – Starts out in June with strawberries, then cherries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, peaches, apricots, plums and pears in July and August, and mainly pears and apples September through November. Fruits are very fresh and flavorful, not organic but  grown on our next-door neighbor’s farm and some other NYS farms, using lots of compost and low-spray techniques.

Egg Share

June - Thanksgiving, 24 weeks – Receive a HALF-dozen farm-fresh eggs from our own pastured, free-range hens, fed no hormones or antibiotics. If you want a FULL dozen each week, get TWO Egg shares (price is the same, but doubled).

Flower Share

June - October, 20 weeks – A gorgeous weekly bouquet of fresh-picked flowers, grown organically, different every week. Includes zinnias, snapdragons, sunflowers, black-eyed susans, and much more. CLICK HERE to see some of the different flowers we grow.

 

"Full Share Combo" is one of all shares every week, at a $40 discount off the sum of the individual share prices.

 

"Half Share Combo" responds to POPULAR DEMAND for a little bit of everything at a reasonable price. It includes a HALF share of everything (which means one full share, picked up every OTHER week) at a $15 discount off the sum of the individual half share prices.