Our Friends at Astoria CSA Are Being Evicted!

Astoria CSA needs our help - they're being evicted by the Parks Department without notice! Hundreds of CSAers and other members of the community, including ARROW community center, the local farms supplying food, and Steinway Food Pantry, are in jeopardy as we speak! Please make your voice heard and sign the petition to stop this senseless eviction.

SIGN HERE!

In the meantime, they also have a team of folks scouting for a new home, just in case nothing works out with ARROW. We don't have solid contact info on the scouting team yet, but in the meantime, if you have any leads on a space, let us know in the comments!

Update on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 12:11PM by Pax

Great news! We have learned that Astoria CSA is going to be able to continue operating out of ARROW. Thanks for all of your leads and concern.

News From The Farm: Yields Lowering & Variety Shifting

As summer winds down, a quick blurb from the farm:

This has been a [bountiful] hot summer and as you probably have noticed we have been sending over the past weeks large amounts of produce. Crops like cucumber, squash, tomatoes or eggplant brought early and abundant yields. As we approach the fall, this will start going back and the amount of produce will be less and start changing to fall crops. We hope you enjoyed this gift from nature as we did and are ready for the fall. Thanks.

Harvest Astoria In The Community - Nate Gowtham Performs Live

On September 12, please stay a while and listen to the music of Harvest Astoria member Nate Gowtham, performing outside The Church of the Redeemer on Wednesday, September 12, 2012.

May 1st Farm Updates

The latest from Zaid:

We will be down in NJ putting up the last 4 of the high tunnels for this year. We put up 6 and have squash and Middle Eastern Cucumbers planted in two of them...we will be planting tomatoes in another today. We planted pole beans in one of our tunnels in upstate and of course we are going to have 3 days of 20 something low temps. We are about a week behind (after summer in March) because we don't want to plant until after the 20 somethings are behind us. We took a chance and planted okra in NJ. We have all but to of our Egyptian crew on the ground. One was not coming because his wife needed surgery and now he will come so he can pay for his wife's surgery (pray for them please). Another is stuck in the "administrative process" of the US Consul in Cairo. He got stuck last year and was not able to come even though he had been here 4 times thus far???

Haifa is slowly but surely getting better after last falls surgery and my son got a job in Dubai after interning at a company there while going to school. He graduated from SUNY Oswego in international business last December. Three new sites will be joining us this year Community Access, and Fordham (bronx), and Einstein. 

We will be down in NJ putting up the last 4 of the high tunnels for this year. We put up 6 and have squash and Middle Eastern Cucumbers planted in two of them...we will be planting tomatoes in another today. We planted pole beans in one of our tunnels in upstate and of course we are going to have 3 days of 20 something low temps. We are about a week behind (after summer in March) because we don't want to plant until after the 20 somethings are behind us. We took a chance and planted okra in NJ. We have all but to of our Egyptian crew on the ground. One was not coming because his wife needed surgery and now he will come so he can pay for his wife's surgery (pray for them please). Another is stuck in the "administrative process" of the US Consul in Cairo. He got stuck last year and was not able to come even though he had been here 4 times thus far???

Haifa is slowly but surely getting better after last falls surgery and my son got a job in Dubai after interning at a company there while going to school. He graduated from SUNY Oswego in international business last December. Three new sites will be joining us this year Community Access, and Fordham (bronx), and Einstein. 

Preliminary Winter 2012 Share Information

Many of you have asked about the Winter Share. We are checking to see if we can use the church's space this winter for that. If we get the go ahead, we will need to rapidly accept payments. Winter distribution would be once a month from December - April. More details about the winter share will be provided when we know it's a sure thing. In the mean time, you can look at what was included in the winter share last year by clicking here.

This year we have chosen to do 5 months rather than 6 at $40 per delivery rather than $50 for a total of $200 rather than $300. There will be a $10 administrative fee. The $210 needs to be paid in full upfront. We are doing this because we feel it will give more people the opportunity to participate in winter share. Also, we did not feel like the additional $10 per month last year was truly that value added.