Full Share Quantities
Chinese Cabbage – 1 head

Garlic Scapes – 6

Bright Lights Swiss Chard – 1 bunch

Summer Spinach – 1 bunch

Romaine – 2 heads

Boston Lettuce – 1 head

Red Tide Lettuce – 1 head

Summer Savory – 1 bunch – also known as Summer Thyme or Annual Thyme

This week’s newsletter includes recipes for lettuce and orange salad and garlic scape pesto.

Carnegie Hill CSA Newsletter-2

Dear CSA Member,

Pete and I have been full time farmers for about 20 years now.  When we started our kids were so young and we really didn’t have much.  We rented land, borrowed machinery, worked and worked and as each year passed, we were able to move further towards owning a farm of our own.  About 10 years ago we were able to purchase farm land with two barns.  Over the years we have purchased machinery, equipment and greenhouses.  The land that we were able to purchase was a smaller acreage than we really needed but we were so happy to have ownership.

Over the last 4 years the CSA has been growing and we have felt the urgent need to be able to expand our land base and have ownership of the land.  Our son now works on the farm full time along with two other young farmers, Jen and Arliss. We have the help and the energy, the knowledge and ability but we needed more land to farm.  Finally after years of negotiation, sleepless nights and persistence, Pete and I closed on the farm that borders our current farm.  We now own an additional 100 acres of beautiful agricultural soils that have been beckoning to us for years.  It also has two barns, a house and three cats.  We are grateful to the Suttmeier family for allowing us to purchase their farm that has been in their family for 5 generations.

We can’t wait for the Farm Visit this year to be able to show everyone around.  I am also working on a schedule for farm work visits and will try to get that on the calendar next week.  You can check out the dates for work visits and also the Farm Visit on the farm website under the Calendar and also the Upcoming Events links.

So, thanks to everyone that has been with us over these last 15 years, thanks to new members, thanks to organizations, churches, community centers that have opened your doors to the CSA members for distribution.  Your membership in the CSA has an immediate benefit in the bag of organic, fresh vegetables that we grow for you each week.  It also has a long term and much longer lasting benefit of allowing our family to farm.

Enjoy the Vegetables – Deb for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

Members asked for more lettuce this week-so we listened!   Red Leaf Lettuces are very different when you take a look at them side by side.  What beautiful salads this week.

Full Vegetable Share
Red Sails Lettuce – 1 head

Red Tide Lettuce – 1 head

Buttercrunch Green Lettuce – 1 head

Solix Lettuce (a dark red, oak leaf type) – 1 head

Chinese Cabbage – 1 head

Button Radishes – 1 bunch

Garlic Scapes – 4  – these are the seed head that the garlic plant produces.  We remove it so the bulbs are larger.  Use it like you would garlic.  Same flavor-delicious

Rhubarb-1 bunch-a tart spring time favorite.  Really needs sweetener.

Sage-1 bunch

This week is also the first Coffee Share delivery.  If you would like to add a Coffee Share, please go to the farm website and download the form.  If we do not receive the form by the first delivery, we will deliver the next week.

The Upper East Side green markets open next weekend.

St. Stephen’s
Saturday, June 19th at St. Stephen of Hungary churchyard, 82nd Street between First and York, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Stanley Isaacs Houses
Sunday, June 20th at 92nd Street and First Avenue (east side of First), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Not only will there will great, local produce, but our friends at Upper Green Side are expanding their recycling drop off program.  Eligible items include:

Batteries
CFLs
#5 Plastic
Printer Cartridges
Corks

For a complete list of NYC green market locations, visit http://www.cenyc.org/greenmarket.