Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

This came through my email box earlier this month, and thought I’d pass it along to you:
More Reasons to Buy Local
Each year, the average American consumes 260 pounds of imported food.
98.7% of foods imported into the U.S. are NOT inspected by the FDA for safety.
Of the scant 1.3% of imported foods the FDA tests, over [...]

See it before it comes out on June 22, THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN. Hellgate CSA is offering two tickets to the first two CSA members who send us an email at info@hellgatecsa.com. Please specify a screening time in your email request.*
SCREENINGS
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A quick update that on May 2 we opened membership to previous members of the CSA. Sometime around May 10 we’ll be opening up membership to our waiting list, and then if there’s space we’ll open membership to the public. If you’re on the waiting list, you’ll get an email from us with an invitation [...]

Thought I’d post a little bit more info about what you’re likely to see in your fruit share!

Our Fruit Share comes from Hepworth Farms

Beginning of summer: strawberries, cherries, possibly rhubarb

Mid-summer: peaches (different varieties), plums (different varieties), nectarines, possibly apricots

End of summer into fall: apples (tydman, ginger gold, paula red, johnamac, empire, gala, macintosh, [...]