Tell Us Why You Love Your CSA
1 comment | August 20, 2012 | By Amber Benham
The only downside of summer vacations (I know, I know…I shouldn’t complain) is that I’m often out of town come pick up day for my farmshare. What’s a vacationing locavore to do? I usually give my share to a friend who will be appropriately wowed by the organic edamame and sweet corn, but still, there’s just nothing sadder than knowing I’ve missed out on my week’s worth of peak season, local produce.
When my partner and I came home from Vermont last week to an empty fridge, we vowed to get up early come Saturday morning and see if we couldn’t at least get some decent heirloom tomatoes at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket (we were in luck, as you’ll see in the photo). But I’m curious, what do you do when you miss your farmshare? And what do you do if you pick it up and have to leave town the next day?
Also, I love, love, love my CSA. In the summer and fall I get organic veggies and eggs from Garden of Eve, a farm located on the East End of Long Island. In the winter I get frozen produce from Winter Sun Farms. What’s your CSA and why do you love it?
Categories: Farms & Foodshed
Hands down Winter Sun Farms. Kudo’s to Jim Hyland for overseeing this endeavor.
For the best vegetables and fruit in the Winter:
This year the tomato puree will be jarred instead of frozen. In the dead of
winter when I’m craving fresh corn, I can open my freezer pull out a bag of
locally grown Hudson Valley corn, that tastes as close to fresh as you can get.
Ditto with the raspberries and blueberries.
Fresh Pea Shoots also to boot!!!
Extraordinary Eggs.
Not to mention the link to Acorn Hill Farms for goat cheese, goat milk soap and goat milk fudge.