Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

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 [...]

Summer is coming to a close and our summer bounty will soon be giving way to our fall crops. We still have plenty of tomatoes, eggplant, scallions, and carrots. More squash and bean plantings are still coming on. We hope to have winter squash happening as well. Our fall greens will [...]

August is half-way through and the produce is happening!  Tomatoes of all types are in full swing:  large red, yellow, orange, and heirlooms; Italian paste in multiple varieties of red, yellow, and purple; mini tomatoes; yellow with red stripes, and grape tomatoes of both red and yellow.
Eggplants are plentiful as well.  We’ll be bringing in [...]

August is here and so is the hot dry weather. No rain in the last two weeks has begun to stress out some of our crops, especially the greens - lettuces, chards, beets, and herbs. With our wide selection of crops, many are still starting so we should have plenty for the next [...]

July is upon us and it’s amazing what some rain and warm weather can do.  Crops seem to be coming in in abundance, summer squash is moving along, as well as beans of all types, carrots, and scallions. Cucumbers are starting, too.
After the birds ate out first planting of peas, they seem to [...]