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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.

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Meeshka Member Diary

Posted on August 11, 2014 by ryan la chica

We split a Half Monty Deluxe between three households. Two of us have been part of the Southside CSA, so we generally know that once the blueberries start, you are in blueberry heaven for a few weeks, so we use a quick recipe to make some easy breakfast muffins.

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Filed under: Greig Farm Berry Share, Member Diary, MimoMex Farm Shares, Recipes | Tagged: berries, blueberry, cilantro, garlic, middle eastern cooking, mint, muffins, parsley, peppers, potatoes, red pepper, Savory Ideas, Sweet Things, vegan | Leave a comment »

Package Spotlight - Just Jammin’

Posted on April 11, 2014 by ryan la chica

Greig Farm “Berry” Share 2011

We organize the shares offered at Southside CSA into packages. This helps us volunteers keep things organized while meeting our farmer’s sales needs. The earlier you sign up, the more likely you are to get whatever type of package your heart desires. We have crafted a big variety of packages — Full Share Packages & Mixed Full -Half Share Packages & Half Share Packages. We tried to make that list complete BUT if you don’t see the combo that fits your needs, let us know what you would like to purchase. At this point we can pretty much put together any type of combination.

Asparagus

Peas

Strawberries

Another great package for the person that likes to eat local fruit, especially berries, but can’t commit to cooking up all those vegetables. The Just Jammin’ Package is a Full Share of the Greig Farm Share which consists of mostly berries. Greig Farm is a pick your own farm in Red Hook. Norm grows asparagus, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, apples, and pumpkins. All are grown without any spraying of any sort of pesticides — not even the natural types approved under the organic moniker. He grows with the ideal that one can walk out into the field, pick the ripest, plumpest berry and pop it right into your mouth without worrying about washing anything off. This share is unlike our other shares in that it follows exactly the ebb and flow of the season, the amount arriving directly related to what is ripe on Monday morning, to the weather, the season, all the factors that can alter a local harvest.

Blueberries & Yellow Raspberries

Blackberries

Apple

With all these berries, you can top your morning cereal, bake up a slew of pies, and rock out jams that will make your grandma proud. Experiment with pickled asparagus, rock out strawberry chamomile jams & blueberry maple butters, make your friends swoon by bringing raspberry sorbet to those summer bbqs, stock your pantry with blackberry chutney, and master that apple pumpkin pie by the time the holidays roll around. This share is beyond perfect if you want to enjoy some of the local Hudson Valley harvest, be a part of the Southside CSA, improve your culinary skills, and upgrade your health with a weekly dose of nature’s candy.

Mo’s Strawberry Jam

Chutney

Apple Pie!

Filed under: Greig Farm Berry Share, Sign-Ups | Tagged: apple, asparagus, berries, blackberries, blueberry, eat local, Greig Farm, hudson valley farms, Jams & Jellies, Membership, no spray, peas, Pie!, pumpkin, raspberry, Red Hook, sugar snap peas, Sweet Things | 1 Comment »

Want to eat local this Winter?

Posted on September 23, 2013 by ryan la chica

Corn & Peppers from Winter Share. Ground Beef from Northwind Farm Meat SHare

Corn & Peppers from Winter Share. Sausage from Northwind Farm Meat Share

Eating local can be challenge during the snowy months as the produce available at farmer’s markets gets less numerous by the week.

And then this happens!

Feb 2013 Winter Share

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Filed under: Sign-Ups, Talking Sustainability, Winter Share | Tagged: berries, broccoli, canned tomatoes, carbon footprint, corn, eat local, Egg, frozen fun, green beans, Membership, pea shoots, pepper, tomato puree, tomatoes, Winter Sun farms | 2 Comments »

Dramalama Member Diary - Week #21

Posted on September 23, 2013 by ryan la chica

Veg + Berry + Orchard + Egg Shares - Week of Sept 16, 2013

Marla + Adam (aka Dramalama) — Our share family size is two, consisting of me and my husband Adam, and we’ve been members of the Southside CSA since 2010. Having just moved from California where the produce is known for being fresh, I was eager to join a local CSA. A long time friend of my husband shared stories about the easy pickups at the Woods, the amazing quality of the fruits and vegetables, and of course the chance to meet other folks interested in healthy farm-fresh cooking. We were sold. The ability to choose from a variety of share packages of different sizes and prices has been very helpful, since our food budget took a hit when we made the transition to New York. This year, we chose the ‘Woods Deluxe’ package, which includes a full vegetable share & berry share and one dozen eggs and orchard share bi-weekly .

Berry Share - July 1, 2013

The berry share kicks in at the beginning of the summer. Each week, we receive *buckets* of fresh blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. Due to the quantity of fresh berries we end up freezing a lot of them. But whenever we’re in the mood for a smoothie, we are ready to go. Continue reading →

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VLAD Member Diary - Week #20

Posted on September 17, 2013 by ryan la chica

VLAD’s CSA share of veggies and meat is split between Jenny, Laura Jo , Jordan, and Marc. Laura and Jordan lived together and split one half and Jenny & Marc split the other.

For the week of September 9^th, the CSA haul was tomatillos, swiss chard, green peppers, eggplant, mini purple eggplant, habanero peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, and lemongrass. The meat was a bone-in pork loin, a top sirloin steak, and a chicken.

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Cougar Member Diary Week #15

Posted on September 7, 2013 by ryan la chica

Here’s a picture of this week’s** pick up! We have almost all of the shares, we are only missing the chicken share. Included this week are:

Veggie share: cucumbers, potatoes, cabbage, red onions, radishes, corn, parsley, kale, zucchini, and garlic heads
Berry share: Blueberries and blackberries
Orchard share: three kinds of plums
Egg share (1 dozen)
Meat share: A chicken, chicken wings, filet steaks, and a choice of beef cut

(**This post is from Aug 5th share. Due to vacation & life craziness of blog editor it didnt get posted till now….)

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Filed under: Feather Ridge Farm Egg Share, Greig Farm Berry Share, MimoMex Farm Shares, Northwind Farm Meat Share, NY Orchard Share, Recipes | Tagged: basil, Beef - Top Round, berries, blueberry, carrot, celery, chicken wings, deviled eggs, Egg, Fun Fried Things, Ice Cream, kale, onion, pot roast, potatoes, Savory Ideas, slow cooking!, Sweet Things, weekly share info, zucchini | Leave a comment »

Novack Member Diary Week #12

Posted on July 31, 2013 by ryan la chica

This is our first year doing a CSA. I’d been wanting to join one for a long time and I guess the thing that finally got me to Ryan’s apartment to sign up was a longing to attach some kind of ritual to our ‘grocery shopping,’ ideally one that didn’t involve icy air conditioning or free delivery. Honestly, I was a little afraid my kids (4 and 5) were starting to think food grew in Fresh Direct trucks. We started small, with the Berry and Orchard shares. At the first distribution, we picked up only about eight spears of asparagus. But with good olive oil, some sea salt and about ten minutes in the oven they were delicious. And in a way, starting lean only reinforced the idea that it takes work (or, in our case, a three-block walk) to make food. This week, there was more to tote home. The NY Orchard Share was one box each of raspberries and cherries. The raspberries were especially beautiful, separated into small green boxes that were nestled together in a larger white box. They reminded me of puppies in a litter. How could you possibly pick one?

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Filed under: Circle C Maple Share, Greig Farm Berry Share, Member Diary, NY Orchard Share, Recipes | Tagged: berries, blueberry, breakfast fun, cooking with kids, Membership, pancakes, Southside Williamsburg, Sweet Things, weekly share info | Leave a comment »

RAINA Member Diary Week #10

Posted on July 30, 2013 by ryan la chica

Clockwise from top left:

strawberry and almond milk smoothies
our daughter supervising the monday CSA Pickup
Dal and bhaji
In production (yellow lentils, garlic and spinach with white onion)
peas and carrots, frozen and ready for some homemade baby food
roasted beets in situ
beet greens sauteeing with garlic
barley, beets, beet green salad
carrots (the better to see you with!)

With a new member of our family (above, supervising), two busy jobs, and a LOT of adjusting in the last year, we’ve struggled with eating well and sustainably. We were excited when one of our neighbors told us about the Southside CSA… Continue reading →

Filed under: Feather Ridge Farm Egg Share, Greig Farm Berry Share, Member Diary, MimoMex Farm Shares, Recipes, Share Care | Tagged: apple, baby food, beet, berries, carrot, Egg, garlic, Indian dishes, kohlrabi, onion, salad, Savory Ideas, smoothies, spinach | Leave a comment »

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