Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

Looks like the details are in for the season. Distribution will be on every Tuesday of the week with exception to the 4th of July.
Here is the schedule:
- Tuesday 6/6: Early season for us starts. This is the first distribution day. Early season will include strawberries and lots of spring greens.
- Tuesday 7/4 (July 4th): [...]

We just found out that our new distribution point for Hell Gate CSA will be at the Freeze Peach cafe, located at 22-00 29th Street in Astoria. This is just one short block from the Ditmars subway station, and right off Ditmars Blvd. More details are coming soon, such as the cost and size of [...]

A big thanks to the Joey in Astoria, and about.com crew that mentioned us in those blogs recently. We hope to have a better site up and running this weekend, but we’re glad to get the extra site visits in the meantime!
If you are wondering what in the world a CSA is and how it [...]

The core group is busy gearing up for the upcoming season! We’re working on website materials, the financial stuff, and getting organized to deal with all the veggies that we’ll be working with distrubuting to Astorians.
The season is scheduled to start sometime in the first week of June and run through Thanksgiving 2006. We’ll be [...]

After meeting last night our group decided to pick a name. We’re now the “Hell Gate CSA”.
Also, the group instructred me to put up a website which I’m in the process of doing. So far we have a blog and a calendar. Woo hoo.