CSA CNY

Sign up forms can be downloaded from the “Join” page of the website.  Scroll down the “About” page for specific information about share types being offered this season.

Also available this season are organic cotton CSA-CNY tote bags, great for picking up your produce or using around town.  These can be purchased when you submit your sign-up form and will also be available throughout the season at our pod locations.

One behind-the-scenes change at CSA-CNY is that Jamie Edelstein of Wyllie Fox Farm will not be growing for us this year.  Our farmer, Dick de Graff of Grindstone Farm, will be working with other local, organic growers to supplement CSA shares as needed.

We have many events you’ll want to know about, but we don’t have exact dates for all of them yet. Those for which we have dates appear in the Events Calendar. But here’s an idea of what 2009 will look like:

June 1: Sign up deadline for Full Summer and Working Shares

June 14: Summer Kick-Off Potluck
Celebrate the beginning of the growing season with the farmer and other CSA-CNY shareholders, 5 – 7 PM at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 109 Waring Rd, DeWitt.

June 16 / 18: First Full Summer and Working Share delivery

July: Grindstone Farm Open House
Join us for a farm tour, picnic, swimming, and u-pick blueberries.  Specific date and time T.B.A.

Aug. 28: Sign up deadline for Late Summer Shares

Sept.: Grindstone Farm Harvest Dinner
Share a delicious organic meal at the 5th annual Harvest Dinner and Farm Fundraiser. Specific date and time T.B.A.

Sept. 15 / 17: First Late Summer Share delivery

Oct. 25: End-of-Season Potluck
Join the farmer and fellow shareholders in celebration of the bountiful season, 5 – 7 PM at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 109 Waring Rd, DeWitt.

Oct. 27 / 29: Last delivery for all Summer Shares

Planning group meeting tonight at 7:00 pm at the Friends Meeting House on Euclid Ave. Keep checking this site for more information as it becomes available.

CSA-CNY’s summer program for 2008 has come to a close. It always seems like the season goes by so quickly!  We want to extend our most heartfelt thank you to our farmers for their hard work and dedication.  A special thanks goes to Casey Maher and Matt Coombs, the growers at Grindstone Farm.  You guys did a great job and we’ll miss you next season!

CSA-CNY does not offer an off-season program, but you can receive Grindstone Farm produce throughout the rest of the year through the farm’s Healthy Box program.  This program is run through the farm’s website, which act essentially as an online farmer’s market.  Each week the farm creates a mixed box of fresh fruits and vegetables that you can have delivered right to your home.  Or, you can customize your own box.  The boxes include fruit and vegetables primarily from Grindstone Farm or other local organic farms when available.  During the non-growing season, the farm brings in produce from an organic distributor.

There is no time commitment for the Healthy Box program. You can receive a box once a week, every other week, once a month, etc.  You can start and stop the program as you wish as well.  Boxes are either delivered directly to your home for a $10 charge or to a group delivery site for $5.  Deliveries are every Thursday through November and every other Thursday after that.  The group sites are at the following locations:

• Syracuse University neighborhood
• Onondaga Valley
• Nottingham Area (DeWitt)
• East Syracuse
• Manlius
• Fayetteville
• DeWitt
• Liverpool
• Baldwinsville
• Central Square
• Cicero
• Marcellus / Skaneateles
• Oswego
• Cazenovia
• Pulaski

Please contact Grindstone Farm directly to sign up for this program (see contact information on their website).

We will be posting information about the 2009 season in late winter, so stay tuned!

As you browse the pages of our website, you will find information about the farms that supply CSA-CNY, how to join, links to other food-related organizations and websites, CSA activities and more.   And remember, you are the community in community supported agriculture, so please drop us a line if you have any suggestions or comments about CSA-CNY or if you have questions about any of the information you find here.

As always, please continue to:

• support local organic food
• communicate with the Planning Group
• visit the farms, touch the land, observe miracles, and celebrate sustainable life.

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