Posts regarding previous seasons
Golden Earthworm Veggie Share*
Spinach – 1 bunch
Red Romaine Lettuce – 1 head
Green Boston Lettuce – 1 head
Red Boston Lettuce – 1 head
Swiss Chard – 1 bunch
*Contents of the share may fluctuate over the week.
Milk Not Jails
Dairy share pick up
Lewis Waite Farm CSA Extras
If you ordered, pick up your LWF goodies today
Sunnyside CSA is excited to work with Milk Not Jails for a second season! We encourage folks who love fresh local milk to try yogurt and milk samples on Thursday, May 30th, at our first CSA distribution of the season. If you like what you taste, sign up for a 24 week season (2 weeks shy of a full season) of delicious dairy goods from upstate sources. You can feel good about contributing to the activist goals of Milk Not Jails, which also serves as a grassroots campaign to change New York’s relationship to prison economies by revitalizing agriculture.
The 24 week share will include deliveries of milk and/or yogurt from small, local farms partnering with Milk Not Jails. Prices for shares vary by item and are prorated for 24 weeks (instead of the full 26).
If interested, please join us on Thursday, May 30th and sign up for the share in person. Payment can be made via check or Paypal.
You do not have to be a Sunnyside CSA member to enjoy Milk Not Jails dairy shares—yay!
Deliveries will be at our regular distribution time and location: Thursdays from 5-8pm at Sunnyside Community Center.
Questions? Contact us!
SORRY, THE DEADLINE FOR THIS OPTION HAS PASSED.
But you can still order dairy items a la carte throughout the season from Milk Not Jails. Details on those delivery dates coming soon!
Veggie shares are SOLD OUT for the 2013 Summer/Autumn season but you can still order fruit, herb or dairy shares! Just download and send the CSA contract with your check ASAP. DEADLINE April 30, 2013.
While veggies are often center stage around here, fruit, herb and milk shares make a great supplement to your vegetable share. They are also fantastic stand-alone shares—and a local alternative to grocery shopping. Please read about the 2013 Share Options, then download and print a CSA contract and send it, along with your check made out to Sunnyside CSA, to the address on the contract.
Questions? Contact us!
Also, please make sure to Join our Yahoo email group, which is how Sunnyside CSA sends important announcements.
Download and print the Membership Contract: Sunnyside CSA 2013 Contract
This page is for folks who are looking for a share partner for the 2013 Summer/Autumn CSA Season. If you’ve got a share but need a partner, or have no share but want to split one, leave a comment with your contact info!
Please READ the previous posts before writing your own, and contact the person! Otherwise, everyone is posting and no one is responding.
To avoid getting spam, write your email out something like this:
“jane – at – gmail.com”
You can also leave comments on out Facebook page!
Good luck!
Welcome to the Winter 2012-13 season with Sunnyside CSA! We have two kinds of veggie shares this winter: 1. Fresh (mostly root) veggies from Golden Earthworm Organic Farm, 2. Frozen summer & autumn veggies/fruit from Winter Sun Farms. Pick ups are from 6-8pm at Sunnyside Community Services.
Pick-up your veggies on:
December 20th
January 10th
January 31st
February 21st
March 14th
If you forgot to sign up for a winter share this year, don’t worry, you’ll have an opportunity next year. In the meantime make sure to get yourself signed up for our Yahoo Group! All CSA members (and wanna-be members) need to read the emails so you know when and how to sign up for next season. Just in case you’re wondering, sign ups for Summer 2013 will happen soon!
Feel free to Contact Us with questions, comments or ideas.
Attention: Winter Sun Share Members,
Because we sold more than 50 Winter Sun shares this year, the farm gave us a $10 discount on each share!
If you would like to get your refund via paypal or check (which you can pickup on Dec 20) please fill out this online form before December 19th.
If we don’t hear from you, the money will go directly to our Subsidy Program.
Remember our first winter vegetable pickup is next Thursday December 20th.
As we transition to winter and cool-weather veggies, the CSA Core Group is also making a few changes, and we need your help! To keep the CSA running, we have an immediate need for a new Special Products Coordinator. If you want to get to know your community better, get more involved with the world of local, organic food, and want to learn more about sustainable farming in and around NYC, here’s a great opportunity!
Special Products Coordinator
This person coordinates logistics for all CSA products outside of the regular Golden Earthworm vegetable and fruit shares. They are the primary contact for, and liaison with, the farms that provide us with meat, eggs, dairy and frozen veggies (aka: Lewis Waite Farms, Milk Not Jails and Winter Sun Farms). Remember, all Core Group members are volunteers and this position requires that you be available to communicate with our partnering farms, answer CSA member questions, and attend our monthly Core Group meetings. Needless to say, if you become a Core Group member, it will fulfill your volunteer requirement for the CSA.
So if you’re organized, sociable, and interested in getting more involved in the running of the CSA, we need you!
CONTACT US if you’re interested or curious.
Thanks!
There are two kinds of Winter Vegetable Shares: 1. Winter Sun Farms‘ frozen local vegetable share (which you’ve been able to sign up for already); 2. Golden Earthworm’s root vegetable share (available starting now). In addition to veggies, you can also purchase a Cider Share and/or an Apple Share from Golden Earthworm.
The easiest way to sign up is right here, via the web form links below and pay with PayPal. You can also sign up via web form then pay by sending a check to our P.O. box.
Note: Payment must be received by November 15th.
There will be ONE in-person sign up date during regular CSA pickup on November 8th, 5-8pm. If you plan to sign up in-person, please know the details of the shares you are purchasing and *bring your checkbook.*
Read carefully: The sign ups for Winter Sun and Golden Earthworm are separate—if you want both, you must follow the (two) links below and sign up for each share. We have included a $5 admin fee with each share, but if you get both, you only have to pay the admin fee once! Other good news: we do not have a limit to the number of shares we can offer (tell your friends)!
$146 for 5 deliveries of mixed root crops and greens (15-18 lbs per delivery)
Sign up via web form. Review the contract agreement and pricing details and pay with PayPal or mail us a check. Payment must be received by November 15th.
$137 for 5 deliveries of veggies (typically, 6 frozen and 1 fresh (greenhouse pea shoots))
Sign up via web form. Review the contract agreement and pricing details and pay with PayPal or mail us a check. We posted details about the Winter Sun share several months ago on our blog—read more here. Payment must be received by November 15th.
Both vegetable shares complement each other well. Winter Sun collects fresh local farm food over the summer and flash-freezes it for consumption in the winter. Their food tastes really fresh, unlike the frozen food you’re used to getting at the grocery store. Golden Earthworm’s share is mostly root vegetables—things that keep over a long time. So if you sign up for both shares, you won’t get much (if any) overlap between the two.
6:00-8:00 pm at Sunnyside Community Services
December 20th
January 10th
January 31st
February 21st
March 14th
Questions? Contact us!
Hurricane Sandy has devastated many areas of the Tri-State region. Here in NYC, Queens was hit particularly hard. Sunnyside CSA is partnering with Sunnyside Cares—a local group made up of caring Sunnyside businesses and neighbors—to coordinate a food drop-off in the Rockaways. And we’d love your help!
It’s easy, you can chose to donate any and all of your CSA share that can be eaten raw (they can’t take anything that needs to be cooked.) You can also bring other ready-to-eat foods (nothing in glass containers, and any cans must have peel off lids—nothing that requires a can opener) to today’s pick up. We’ll have volunteers there to take your donations and pack them up to get delivered this weekend.
If you want to donate any part of your share, it would be really helpful if you could bring a small box to pack the veggies in. Even more exciting, SCS has agreed that this week’s unclaimed shares can go to Hurricane Relief efforts as well!
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS
Want to do something more? We need volunteers to make this happen.
* Got a car? You can help transport the donation to the local drop-off in Sunnyside tonight at 8pm!
* Got boxes? Bring an extra box or two to pickup!
* Got time? If you’ve got 30 minutes tonight after the pickup (8pm), help us pack up the veggies!
Please contact our volunteer coordinator: volunteers [at] sunnysidecsa.som to donate your time!
We know everyone is busy recouping and volunteering while we recover from Super Storm Sandy, but just want to remind you that the Lewis Waite Farm ORDER DEADLINE for Thanksgiving turkeys is MONDAY NOV 5th.
Deadline Extended to November 9th!
The following are ordering (and turkey thawing) directions from Lewis Waite Farm:
Order by Nov 5th at midnight to be guaranteed a bird.
We always buy a few extra, but you’d be stuck with the sizes we have on hand!
Your pickup day: Thursday, 11/15
Your pickup time: 5-8 pm
Your pickup location: same as usual, at the Sunnyside Community Center
First time ordering? Follow this link for instructions: http://www.lewiswaitefarm.com/csainfo/SunnysideFlyer.htm
How do I order?
Login to www.csalewiswaitefarm.com. If you do not have a profile, use the link above for login instructions. Click Place An Order. Choose the date closest to Thanksgiving from the menu bar. Click on the Product Type menu bar and scroll down for Thanksgiving Turkey from the farm of your choice (see below for farm descriptions). Choose the size, add any special notes. Click Check Out and then Complete Your Order. Make sure you get an email confirmation of your order! If you didn’t get one, we didn’t either!