Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

From the press release I received:
After its critically acclaimed tour of festival around the world, Screening Liberally is teaming up with Eating Liberally to bring Black Gold back to New York.
This riveting documentary examines how multinational coffee companies became the rulers our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion.  Coffee [...]

Fill up the gas tank and let’s get over to our farm!
Saturday, June 23 at 10:30am and 1pm we are all set for our summer strawberry picking farm visit. It’s a walking tour open to CSA members and their families. We’ll get to check out the farm and pick our very own free quart of [...]

Shares should be available for pickup after 2pm today. If you are picking up in the afternoon when volunteers are not on site, please mark yourself off on the sign in sheet and follow the chalkboard instructions when building your share.
Volunteers are on site from 5:30-7:30pm.
Please bring your own bags!

From Chez Panisse Desserts
1/2 cup walnuts
7/8 cup flour
1/3 cup brown sugar
4 tsp granulated sugar
1/8 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup softened salted butter
1 1/2 to 2 pounds rhubarb
1/2 pint ripe strawberries, washed, hulled, and sliced
3/4 sugar
3 tbs flour
Toast the walnuts in a preheated 375 degree oven for 4-6 minutes, or until they smell nutty, then cool them. [...]

It is or was common for a crowd of extras in acting to shout the word “rhubarb” repeatedly and out of step with each other, to cause the effect of general hubbub. As a result, the word “rhubarb” sometimes is used to mean “length of superfluous text in speaking or writing”, or a general term [...]