Hellgate CSA

Vegetable Share
red leaf lettuce
white russian kale
carrots
broccoli
string beans
eggplant
winter radishes (masato, black spanish)

Herb Share
curly cress
arugula

Fruit Share
honey crisp apples
Fuji apples
Concord grapes

Dried beans, flour, and cornmeal shares, too.

Vegetable Share:
lettuce
scallions
sweet potatoes
peppers (sweet and hot)
string beans
 
Fruit Share:
Mutsu apples
Red Delicious apples
Concord grapes
 
Meat and Dairy this week, too.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is October 22nd at midnight, and delivery is on October 27th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved.

The season change has gone from a late warmish trend with our first frost up here on the hill just 2 days ago. Now all of a sudden, it's in the 30's each night and downright chilly and damp each day! Working in the walk-in freezer has been a real thrill with the heat not yet turned on in our north barn where all the packing activity happens. I was able to harvest the last of the basil  before the frost and had a giant pesto project the other morning with me furiously picking leaves off the stalks and the blender whirring and a wonderful aroma enveloping the house.  The garden clean up is looming soon. The kale, Swiss chard, leeks, broccoli and parsley are very happy to be chilled but now that the root cellar is chilled, they'll soon be sleeping in the dark waiting for the comfort food meals of cold weather. 

LATE ORDER POLICY

Farm Tour!
Saturday, October 24
(Rescheduled due to weather)

We are organizing group transportation departing promptly at 10:00 a.m. from Astoria Park parking lot (just northwest of 19th Street/23rd Avenue). Returning between 4:00 and 4:30 p.m.

Bring children, friends, family
and a sack lunch

RSVP by Tuesday, October 20 with your name and the number of people you're bringing to Sara Holliday at 347-924-1194 or TheIridescentOne@gmail.com or Caroline Scimone at cscimone@gmail.com

Vegetable Share
fennel
radicchio
frisée
radishes
arugula
string beans
sweet potatoes
 
Herb Share
dill
cilantro
 
Fruit Share:  TBD, but likely apples and pears.

Due to the impending heavy rains our Fall Farm Tour - pumpkin picking has been postponed until Saturday, October 24th.

It’s Time to order your Thanksgiving Turkey!

Please place your special bird order by November 11 – to give us time to coordinate the delivery between our Farms and You.

Vegetable Share

red leaf lettuce
husk tomatoes (aka ground cherries)
scallions
string beans
peppers
winter squash
meiquing choi
japanese daikon

More Profits, More Hunger: Neoliberalism and the Corporate Control of Food Lessons from India and the US
Tuesday, October 13th 7-9pm
BRECHT FORUM (451 West St (between Banks & Bethune Sts, New York, NY)

Description

Often called the “Green Chomsky”, Devinder Sharma will discuss how US-sponsored neoliberal policies have willfully marginalized farming communities, damaging rural livelihoods and aggravating food insecurity in India and the world over. Accompanied by Arun Gupta, reporter and an editor at the Indypendent, Nancy Romer, leading Organizer of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, and other leading US food justice activists, this event will highlight the role that US agribusiness corporations have played, and continue to play, in shaping policies that have exacerbated hunger and poverty, and driven us into a global food crisis.

The event will map the network of powerful corporations, institutions, and interest groups who are driving US policies; and begin a dialogue on how to build strategic alliances between anti-corporate struggles in India and organizations and individuals in the US who are committed to stopping the global expansion of US-led agricultural neoliberalism.