Shares include a wide array of fresh, organic, high quality local produce over the 22-week season. Per week, the vegetable share averages:

• 2-1/4 pounds of leafy greens
• 6-1/4 pounds of "hard" veggies (squash, carrots, potatoes, onions, turnips)
• in peak summer, lots of wonderful sweet corn!
• herbs, chili peppers, tomatoes, garlic

At the distribution site, bins are labeled with instructions on how much food each member can take - for example, you may get 2lbs of potatoes, 4 tomatoes, and 1 head of lettuce. The CSA provides scales for measuring out your share. Remember to bring your own plastic bags!

More Good Things

FRUIT SHARE: An optional add-on in your contract. Ted partners with local growers to supply fresh, generally non-organic but minimally treated fruit. Shares begin in the early summer with strawberries, cherries, blueberries and raspberries, progress in mid-summer to include peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots, and conclude in the fall with assorted apples, pears, and cider.

FLOWERS: An optional add-on in your contract. We offer a 5 or 10 week share of organic cut flowers grown by Jan Blomgren. Flowers vary by season but have included sunflowers, gladiolas, campanullas, lilies, cosmos, and cockscombs (or "brain flowers" as one young CSA member calls them). Bouquets may be an arrangement of several flowers or a large bunch of one kind of flower.

EGG SHARE: Elihu Farms offers egg shares to members who want a steady supply of fresh, tasty eggs.

Choices are:
a half dozen per week
a dozen eggs per week
two dozen per week
three dozen per week
a dozen every other week

EGGS & MEAT: CSA Lewis Waite Farm is a consortium of purveyors and artisanal food producers. The group permits you to order anything (or nothing) every other week during the season and once a month off-season. Some of what is offered includes a variety of cuts and products from sustainably raised beef, lamb, pork (smoked and unsmoked), chicken, turkey (special order your Thanksgiving turkey!), eggs, and items like maple syrup, honey, bread, cheese, yogurt and jams. Check out LewisWaiteFarm.com to see what is offered, costs, and some description of the farms and processors involved. You must be a member of the PSCSA (with either a full or every-other-week veggie share) to order these items.

BREAD SHARE: Hot Bread Kitchen offers a regular bread share or special orders. See hotbreadkitchen.org for a description of kinds of breads offered and the special training program run by HBK.

How it Works

Each week Farmer Ted harvests our produce and loads up his truck for deliveries to our distribution site at the Garden of Union. The only way to get fresher produce is to pick it yourself.

Our distribution site is the Garden of Union on Union Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn. This is where you come to pick up your share during the distribution hours for your share’s dates.