Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

Thanks to Freeze Peach (yet again!) we are providing free iced tea tomorrow at distribution!  Be sure to stop in when you come to pick up your veggies and fruit, for a free cup of iced tea.   We hope to provide our members with free tea the first Tuesday of each month during the CSA [...]

Honeyed Beet Quinoa Summer Salad
from Fresh from the Farm and Garden by The Friends of the UCSC Farm and Garden
6 beets, roasted
1/4 cup honey
1 1/2 cups orange juice
juice of 1 lemon
1/2 cup fruity olive oil
3 cups cooked quinoa (or another grain such as brown rice, bulghur or couscous)
1 cup crumbled feta cheese, optional
1 cup toasted [...]

Flourless Chocolate Beet Cake
Note: this is a recipe from Stacey Ornstein, who helps run the Astoria CSA, Hellgate’s sister CSA in town.
Stacey: I found the original recipe on epicurious for a flourless chocolate cake and adapted it. I cut out some of the butter and cocoa powder and because beets contain natural sugars, I [...]

Summer is here and crops are growing well, with plenty of rain and enough heat and sun.
Our strawberry crop is done for the year.  Because of so many night time thundershowers, the quality of the berries was not as good as they could have been.  The berries we picked were very flavorful and delicious, but [...]

Here is the share information for July 1, 2008:
Veggie Share
beets
mizuna
lettuce
sugar snap peas
sorrel
Fruit Share
strawberries
cherries