Southside CSA

Want to add more Summer color to your Winter stew? Made a resolution to cook more meals at home, eat more food from local farms, support sustainable projects in our region? A share from Winter Sun makes cooking in Winter brighter and more local! And guess what? We still have shares for sale. Get 3 months of local veg & fruit, frozen at the height of the Summer season, delivered monthly to the Southside.  (Sorry. No more Egg shares available) Email southsidecsa@gmail.com for pricing & to sign up.

Think it’s important to support food security in NYC? Want to make sure that our Greenpoint Soup Kitchen serves up local vegetables and fruit as often as possible? Donate $100 to our soup kitchen project and provide Winter Shares to Greenpoint’s neediest!!

Local veg being prepped for weekly soup kitchen meal in Greenpoint

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Have  you signed up for  your share of local veg?

The dark days of Winter are almost here with their long nights filled with warm soups. Stoke out your winter cooking with the sweetness of the bountiful Hudson Valley harvest. Buy a Winter Share with the Southside CSA and support this really cool project - Winter Sun Farms.

Our winter share is not made up of the produce you will find at the markets through out the Winter. You will have to go to McCarren Park to get your apples and potatoes. In contrast, our share is made up of things like sweet corn & heirloom tomatoes frozen and canned at their height of sweetness. They arrived packaged — either frozen or canned — with the name of the Hudson Valley farm where the produce was grown and harvested. For more information about the sustainable mission, the participating farms, and the produce check out the blog post from our first year- “Winter Share”.

Cost:

$165 for 5 months of produce

+ $28.75 for 5 months of eggs.  1 dozen per share.

Volunteer: 1 shift per share family. There is a variety of shifts available, ranging from manning distribution, writing blog posts, driving leftovers to the soup kitchen, to helping host a potluck at our Beer Share distributions.

Distribution dates: Tues Dec 18, Jan 8, Feb 12, Mar 12, & Apr 16th

Location & Time: 630-830pm @ 140 Metropolitan Ave (Loftspace @ Metro/Berry next to Nitehawk Theatre)

What is in a Winter Share? A share typically consists of 7 items. 6 of these items tend to be frozen or canned; 1 item is a bag of fresh micro-greens. There are 5 monthly distributions — Dec, Jan, Feb, March & April. Each month the share items vary, rotating between the various crops frozen from the farms of NY. Each package comes labeled with the name of the fruit or vegetable & name of the farm. Things that will fill your share: heirloom tomatoes, mixes of diced red, green, & yellow peppers, whole raspberries, whole blueberries, whole blackberries,  broccoli florets, cauliflower, sweet corn, green beans, butternut squash puree, fall greens mix & edamame to name a few.

To sign up, email southsidecsa@gmail.com today. Deadline is 12/16. (There will be sign up event at our Beer Share Distribution & Potluck)

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Our Winter Share is ON SALE NOW!! 

We are super excited to be partnering with Winter Sun Farms again this Winter, bringing us a taste of the Hudson Summer during our cold Brooklyn Winter!!

Each monthly distribution contains 6 items put up at the height of the season and one bag of fresh pea shoot. New this year is canned tomatoes. Ooooh la la!!

Also, due to logistics and whatnot we will be distributing at our unofficial headquarters– 140 Metropolitan Ave. Distributions will be on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from Dec to April.

All the dirty details are located on our info page, WINTER SHARE. You can sign up starting today at distribution (or via appointment) and keep the local produce flowing all Winter long…

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