Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

Vegetable Share
watermelon
acorn squash
carrots
beans
tomato
basil share!
tomato share!

Herb Share
thyme
arugula
Fruit Share TBD 

News from Lewis Waite Farm

Farm Update
The haying is finally done! The last bale put in the barn. It is ironic that the season began quite late when the early summer rains would not quit, and now we wind up the last of the haying in a drought. The ground is very dry. The grass on [...]

Summer is coming to a close and fall is on the way.  Our pumpkin picking farm tour is scheduled for Saturday, October 13th, rain or shine.  It’s a riding tour on a trailer pulled by a tractor through some of our fields and farm yard, where we’ll be viewing some animals and farm equipment, seeing [...]

The Institute for Culinary Education (ICE) is offering some courses related to eating seasonally and/or locally. Below are the details:
The Food Shed: Cooking Local and Seasonal
ID: LOCAL
Tuition: $110
Sun 12/2/2007 06:00PM-10:30PM
The food shed is a principle that calls for eating food that is raised or grown sustainably and that comes from as local a [...]

From Just Food:
Did you ever wonder how your farmer has a supply of some vegetables all summer long? Or how they grow so much food on so little land? Farmers who practice small-scale sustainable agriculture use a method called succession planting to increase the amount of produce they can grow on their land.
There are four [...]