MimoMex Farm Shares | Southside CSA

Still time to get it on the 2015 Harvest season

Posted on April 28, 2015 by ryan la chica

Our 2015 season kicks off on Monday May 4th with Week 1 of Berry, Egg, Meat, & Chicken shares. However, don’t fret if you still want to join because it is not too late… Availability of shares — especially half shares — varies but we will do our best to get you lined up with the shares of your dreams. Email [email protected] to get signed up. Below is the general pricing for remaining shares:

(Mostly)Berry Share – 24 weeks – May 4 – Oct 12 (Full – $475; Half – $237.50)
- Berry shares ARE NOT pro-rated for late starts. Norm throws in the asparagus - which is what comes in the share during May- as a bonus and therefore it is not calculated into the share $$ total
(Late start) Egg Share – 18 weeks – June 15 – Oct 12 (Full- $99; Half – $49.50)
Vegetable Share – 24 weeks- June 15 to Nov 23 (Full- $600; Half- $300)
Orchard Share – 20 weeks – July 13 to Nov 23 (Full- $260 Half – $130)
(Late start) Chicken Share – 18 weeks – (Full – $432 Half – $216)
Meat Shares–
- 18 weeks Package 1 (5-8lbs per distro) -$990 -Every week from June 15th to Oct 12th
- 18 weeks Package 2 (8-10lbs per distro) -$1170 -Every week from June 15th to Oct 12th
- 9 weeks Package 1 ($495) Bi -weekly from June 15th to Oct 12th
- 9 weeks Package 2 ($585) Bi-weekly from June 15th to Oct 12th
Circle C Maple – One time distributions several times during the season. Lots of Maple! Lots of sizes! Lots of Grades! Availability depends on the season; Order early to be sure to get your stash of local maple syrup. Prices and sized linked here…

Want to sign up but need someone to share with?

WE HAVE A NEW FORM FOR PEOPLE LOOKING TO FIND NEW SHARE PARTNERS – http://goo.gl/forms/10ESjBRMK1

Hopefully we can match up anyone in need of a share partner.

Payment & Deposits

The whole purpose of a CSA is to get $$ to farmers in these lean Winter months, therefore the bigger a deposit you put down now, the better it is for our farmers. In order to encourage people to pay in full, we offer reduced admin fee to those who pay in full at sign-up. It makes life easier for the farmers and the volunteer organizers. However, we also offer several types of extended payment plans so that the CSA is open to all families despite income.

$30 – Early Bird – Payment in Full at sign up
$35 – Regular – 2 payments; Deposit at sign up + Pay in full by June 30.
$40 – 4 Payments – Deposit in May, June, July & Aug. Balance due by Aug 31
$45 – 5 payments – Deposit in May, June, July, Aug, & Sept. Balance due by Sept 31

Please note, there will be a $5 late fee for every late payment. There will also be a $30 fee for bouncing checks.

INFO ON Whole & Half SHARES LINKED HERE

Detailed info on our farmers and share types can be found on the following linked pages:

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Online Sign up….

Posted on April 14, 2015 by ryan la chica

Would you like to sign up for the Southside CSA for the 2015 Harvest season?

Between now and April 27th, you can sign up via this online google form: http://goo.gl/forms/Oz8H3RjTVq

Basic dates for the shares: SUMMER 2015

You will choose your share types:

You will choose your size: Whole or half shares Right now the sign ups for A week are closed. We are severely lopsided and need to boost up B week. However, if you are looking to do a full veg + alternating half shares of orchard & berry, let us know and we will work something out.

You will choose your payment plan: Early bird, regular & extended payment plans

You will choose your volunteer shifts. This year the amount has been reduced from 10 to six hours - each share family will do one distribution shift and 1 community shift. You will pick your distribution shift and the type of community shift you want. Once we receive the form, we will contact you within a few days, clarifying any questions, totaling the balance, and choose community shift dates. Once volunteer shifts are penciled into the calendar, we will fill out a receipt, scan and email it to you with your share and volunteer calendar as well as the 2015 Membership agreement. Seems like it could be slightly complicated but we hope it will be easy and smooth….

If you have questions about share sizes, check out the tag - WEEKLY SHARE AMOUNTS. We record the shares each week and post them to the blog so there is an official record of our past seasons. Actually, tons of info on the blog and lots of pictures on the facebook page

ON SALE!

Posted on March 4, 2015 by ryan la chica

Get in on local, farm fresh food!

It might seem like Spring will never come but the season of farm fresh vegetables and fruit is right around the corner. So NOW is the time to sign up and become a member of the Southside CSA. Lots of options available for every household size and eating habits. This blog is filled with lots of information about our shares, our farmers, our distribution, our volunteer shifts. Check it all out and then come on down to a SIGN UP EVENT to get in on eating local! What is the Southside CSA? How does it work? How much does it cost? All the answers to all your questions are located on our blog.

How to sign up: Returning members have the option of signing up online. If you are a returning member, email us for the online sign up form. New members must come to a sign up event. It takes about 15-30 minutes to sign up, depending on how many questions you have.

March & April Sign Up Events

~~Mon March 9~~

~~Mon March 16~~

~~Tues March 17: 5-730pm @ Cafee Biba (101 Kent Ave - corber of N8th) Event will take place during our Winter Share distribution~~

~~Mon March 23~~

~~Mon March 30~~

~~Mon April 6~~

Mon April 13 - THE WOODS WILL BE CLOSED MON APRIL 13TH FOR A PRIVATE EVENT. PLEASE EMAIL FOR AN APPOINTMENT, LOCATION tbd.

Tues April 21: 5-730pm @ Cafe Biba (101 Kent Ave - corner of N8th) Event will take place during our Winter Share distribution

Mon April 27

Unless noted, sign up events are from 630-8pm at the Woods (48 S 4th btwn Kent & Wythe). Look for the Southside CSA sign. Events are open house, people are served in the order they arrived. Please note, if none of these dates/times work, please email for a private appointment. These appointments will take place at either our loft or at cafe biba depending on the date and time.

SEE SIGN UP PAGE FOR MORE INFO ON WHAT TO BRING TO SIGN UP All pics below: Southside CSA distro at the Woods in Brooklyn, NY, on Monday, July 28, 2014. Photograph by Andrew Hinderaker © 2014 Andrew Hinderaker

Filed under: Broken Stove Beer Share, Circle C Maple Share, Greig Farm Berry Share, MimoMex Farm Shares, Northwind Farm Meat Share, NY Orchard Share, Sign-Ups, Yellow Bell CHicken Share, Yellow Bell Egg Share | Tagged: eat local, Membership | Leave a comment »

COUGAR Member Diary

Posted on November 3, 2014 by ryan la chica

In the five years we’ve been Southside CSA members, we’ve frequently planned a fall dinner party in order to share some of our haul and try out some more ambitious dishes to share in our blog post. This year we did have a party, but one of an entirely different sort. Since we welcomed Elias, our seven month old, into our family, our meals need to be fast and ideally sharable with a baby. We still like to entertain, though, so our recipes this week will feature two meals from the beginning of the weak meant to take us through a few days, a few lightning fast meals, baby friendly treats, and some party food from the Halloween bash we threw for Elias’s buddies and their parents.

This week’s share

We pick up bi-weekly, and we have the veggie, orchard, berry, egg, and meat shares. We began the week with several (still fresh!) leftover items from our previous week’s pickup due to some busy schedules, stomach viruses, and time spent out of town with our families. So, some items featured in this week’s meals are from the prior week.

Included in this week’s pickup: Apples, apple cider, red and yellow onions, decorative gourds (‘tis the season), popping corn, Swiss chard, two bunches of spinach, mustard greens, and a head of cabbage.

Beginning of the week meals

We began each of the last two weeks with soups.

Last week, we used up some of our CSA veggies with a corn chowder.

For this chowder we used:

Olive Oil
3 strips of bacon
2 onions (CSA)
6 cups of chicken stock (we used a stock made from the scraps of a Northwind Farm chicken, veggie scraps, and some CSA lemongrass for kick)
4 ears of corn, kernels off the cob, and two ears reserved for the soup
3 waxy potatoes (store bought)
2 Cups of Cream
Salt and Pepper

We cooked the bacon in a bit of olive oil, then took it out of the pan.
Then, we sautéed up a few small onions
When those were soft, we added the stock and the corn. We threw in the cobs for extra flavor
Then we added the potatoes. When everything was cooked through, we added cream and salt and pepper to taste.

This lasted us through three dinners! Continue reading →

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Stephanie Member Diary

Posted on October 27, 2014 by ryan la chica

Holy greens this week! This is what my partner, Brian, and I got in our MimoMex Veggie and Orchard half shares: mustard greens, red mustard greens, arugula, mizuna, spinach, broccoli, cilantro, onions, baby pumpkins, a Sugar Baby pumpkin, Empire apples, apple cider.

Monday:

Usually I try to clear out the fridge before my pickup so that there’s room for CSA goods and we don’t have any leftovers to eat (which would discourage us from cooking). That didn’t happen this weekend…we had guests over and ordered a ton of takeout one night instead of cooking, so not only did we have all those leftovers, we had a bunch of veggies that I’d been planning to cook. No room in the fridge!

Steps I took to clear out the fridge and store the share goods:

1. Drank the last of some white wine to get rid of the bottle. Need to start somewhere!

2. Finished up some takeout for dinner. No cooking tonight; clearing/storing only.

3. Cut our losses and traded some wilting cilantro for this week’s lively cilantro. Put the new cilantro in a glass with water (like a bouquet of flowers) and with a small plastic bag over the top. Old cilantro went in a bin for composting.

4. To help the rest of the greens last longer and reduce their bulk: picked out the wilted ones, trimmed off the stems, washed and spun the leaves, and packed them in plastic containers lined and layered with paper towels. Way laborious but worth it.

5. Consolidated carrots and celery with some radishes from a previous share in a FoodSaver container since they’re all supposed to be stored the same way anyway (with moisture and the air vents closed) and none of them produce ethylene.

Continue reading →

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