Growing Season CSA
The Growing Season CSA at Hawthorne Valley Farm runs from mid-June to early November. Each week you'll carry home a basket of fresh farm produce. We hope you enjoy!
After reading the below information, if you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us! The best way to reach us is by email.
Click here to join our 2012 Growing Season CSA!
Locations
Garden City, NY
Pick-up times: Thursdays, 2 to 6:30 pm. Please bring a bag, basket, or box to carry produce home.
Volunteering: The Garden City CSA Core Group requests that all shareholders do two volunteer shifts at the site during the season to help distribute food.
Core committee: The Garden City CSA has an active Core Group that represents the membership at the yearly CSA meetings with the farm, coordinates the distribution site, welcomes new members, and organizes events around the CSA.
Half shares: Officially, Hawthorne Valley Farm does not sell half shares. However, you may make your own arrangements by finding a partner to unofficially split your share. If you choose to share, one person must be designated as primary shareholder, taking responsibility for all payments to the farm. Each partner must note his/her name, address, and phone number on the contract. If you are splitting a share, the first person to arrive on site must pick up a full share and leave the split share bagged and labeled for his/her partner.
Address: Garden City Waldorf School, 225 Cambridge Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530
Harlemville, NY
Site details coming soon!
Address: Hawthorne Valley Farm, 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075
Inwood, NY
Pick-up times: Thursdays, 4:30 to 7 pm. Please bring a bag, basket, or box to carry produce home. After 7 pm all remaining produce will be picked up by the Love Kitchen, a local free food site that Inwood CSA supports as part of its mission.
Volunteering: The Inwood CSA Core Group has always required volunteer help in order to run its site efficiently and also to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere for members. Each member is asked to volunteer six hours over the course of the season. Members may work for 4 hours on one Thursday afternoon and 2 hours on another date, or work 2 hours at a time on three different weeks. There is also always help needed to unload the week's produce from 3:30 to 4:30. For members that can't assist on Thursdays, there are plenty of other ways to help. For more information, please visit the Inwood CSA Site webpage or email the Core Group.
Core Committee: The Inwood CSA has an active Core Group that represents the membership at the yearly CSA meetings with the farm, coordinates the distribution site, welcomes new members, and organizes events around the CSA.
Half shares: Officially, we do not sell half shares. However, you may make your own arrangements by finding a partner to unofficially split your share. If you choose to share, one person must be designated as primary shareholder, taking responsibility for all payments to the farm. Each partner must note his/her name, address, and phone number on the contract. If you are splitting a share, the first person to arrive on site must pick up a full share and leave the split share bagged and labeled for his/her partner.
Address: Isham Park at the Park Terrace East entrance
Riverdale, NY
By joining the Riverdale CSA, you become part of a unique long-term partnership that connects members and Riverdale's urban community to ecologically-produced food, regional family farmers, and each other. Riverdale CSA community events, such as an annual spring gathering, offer members opportunities to learn more about the CSA and these connections. The CSA reaches further into the community through a project that it created and is committed to sustaining in partnership with the Riverdale Neighborhood House Teen Program. The program introduces local young people to nutritious fresh produce, provides cooking instruction, and, when possible, includes a visit to the farm.
Pick-up times: Thursdays, 3:30 to 6:45 pm. Please bring a bag, basket, or box to carry produce home. At 6:45 p.m. sharp, any items not picked up are delivered to "Part of the Solution" (POTS), a Bronx emergency food program.
Pricing (Riverdale): The cost of a vegetable share at Riverdale is $590. The cost of a vegetable and fruit share is $760. The cost of a vegetable and two fruit shares is $930.
Volunteering: The Riverdale CSA depends on its members for the site to run well and so requires all shareholders to volunteer approximately five hours per season at the distribution site on pick up days. Shifts are: 2 to 4:45 pm, 4:30 to 7:15 pm, and 6:30 to 8 pm (this last shift requires a car).
Core committee: Help lead and chart the future direction of the Riverdale Site by participating as a member of the Core Committee. Joining this group, which manages the CSA’s operations, plans special events, and collaborates with the farm, also fulfills the volunteer requirement.
Half shares: Officially, Hawthorne Valley Farm does not sell half shares. However, you may make your own arrangements by finding a partner to unofficially split your share. If you choose to share, one person must be designated as primary shareholder, taking responsibility for all payments to the farm. Each partner must note his/her name, address, and phone number on the contract. For two households splitting one share, each household agrees to fulfill the volunteer obligation of at least five (5) hours at the site. If you are splitting a share, the first person to arrive on site must pick up a full share and leave the split share bagged and labeled for his/her partner.
More info: For more info about Riverdale CSA, please visit Riverdale CSA on facebook or email the site coordinator.
Address: Riverdale Neighborhood House, 5521 Mosholu Avenue, Riverdale, NY
Fruit Share
The Fruit Share is an additional, pre-paid share that provides fresh organic or ecologically-grown fruit in season. It is offered through the cooperation of 3 farms to provide a greater variety of fruits. Fruit is distributed as it ripens which means you may not receive fruit each week; however, by the end of the season, you will receive the expected total quantity. If shortfalls occur in one fruit variety during the season, a different type of fruit from one of the three contributing farms may be substituted.
Varieties: Delivery begins with strawberries in June and ends with apples and pears. This year’s Fruit Share consists of an assortment of the following fruits: strawberries, blueberries, nectarines and/or peaches, pears and apples.
Partner farms: Thompson-Finch Farm in Ancram, NY is a small family-run farm specializing in organically grown fruit including strawberries and apples. Hepworth Farm is a 7th-generation family farm in Milton, NY providing peaches and nectarines or plums using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices. Grindstone Farm is located Pulaski, NY and provides certified-organic blueberries for the Fruit Share.
Partner Farms
We are proud to be partnering with numerous farms in the area to provide our members with a full basket of diverse products each week. For Hawthorne Valley Farm's Growing Season Vegetable Shares, Markristo Farm grows our organic green beans, Thompson Finch Farm grows our organic potatoes and some organic carrots, Rememberance Farm grows our Biodynamic carrots, Kinderhook Creek Farm grows our CSA sweet corn. While this corn is not organic, the farm is conventional but does NOT use genetically modified (GM) seed. Kinderhook Creek Farm is also a multi-generational family farm dedicated to local food systems.
Pricing
The price of the vegetables themselves does not vary from site to site. Varying transportation and administrative fees are added depending on which site you join (see site information above). The Fruit Share is a fixed price and can only be purchased by those also buying a Vegetable Share.
Signing-up
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