News Flash for July 31
In this News Flash:
1) This Week’s Share
2) IMPORTANT Share Information
3) Kid’s Workshop: Growing Food/ Minimizing Waste- THIS Thursday
4) CSA Pasture Meat/ Dairy- Pick up THIS Thursday
5) Low-Carbon Beer- Available every week!
1) This Week’s Share:
See our newsletter, On The Table, for share contents, informative articles, food policy, and other great content. The newsletter is posted Wednesdays to the website, www.astoriacsa.com as a blog post. Email newsletter@astoriacsa.com to write an article. See our recipe page for cooking ideas and our storage tips page for ways to keep your veggies fresh! See our farmer’s newsletter for farm info.
2) IMPORTANT Share Information
Going out of town or missing a pick up? Having a friend or neighbor pick up for you? No need to let us know. Just inform whomever is picking up for you to provide the main shareholder’s name. It’s that easy! (You should also tell them if you have fruit or split a share and how to do that.) If you cannot get another person to pick up your share does not go to waste. We donate all extra shares at the end of the night to the Steinway Food Pantry.
Recycle Fruit Containers. NYC will not recycle those plastic pint and half pint fruit containers, but Briermere Farms will! Bring your clean fruit containers to distro and we’ll send them back to the farm for re-use.
Recipe Collection: Do you have tried and true recipes you love making with your weekly veggies? Submit your recipes to recipes@astoriacsa.com and see them on our recipe page! Please note whether the recipe is from a cookbook, adapted from another recipe, or if it’s your own and maybe one or two sentences about the recipe. Our goal is to assemble an Astoria CSA cookbook at some point down the road and we want our member recipes! Email recipes@astoriacsa.com if you have questions about what to do with any of your veggies too! Our member Michele is on hand to collect and answer your questions!
3) Kid’s Workshop: Growing Food & Minimizing Waste! THIS Thursday, July 31
Join us this Thursday, 2:30-3:30 PM for our first Kid’s Education Workshop! Let’s get our hands dirty and investigate plant life cycles! Kids will plant seeds in containers at ARROW which they can observe and care for throughout the summer. They will also plant seeds in recycled containers that they can bring home. We’ll set up a vermicompost bin and meet 1000 hard working worms while learning about compost.
4) CSA Pasture Meat/ Dairy- Pick up THIS Thursday, July 31
CSA Pastures, our grass-fed/ pastured meat, egg, cheese, jam, honey and organic bread co-op upstate is now delivering 2 times a month! Order deadline is always the Saturday before the pick up date. Check www.astoriacsa.com’s Upcoming Events for all drop dates. Next delivery is THIS Thursday, July 31st. Remember there is NO CASH on site. All payments must be made online by PayPal or by check on-site. Sign-in information and how to set up your personal account is on the membership page (use the main shareholder’s email address): http://www.astoriacsa.com/join.php.
5) Beer: Local & Low-Carbon- Order now!
Available every week! Please call your order in to Bierkraft. Orders are due Wednesdays by 8 PM. See their website (www.bierkraft.com) for what beers are available to fill a growler, note your top choices then place an order by calling: 718-230-7600. Provide the following information: (1) You are with Astoria CSA (2) Your name (3) Credit card info/ phone number (4) How many growlers you are ordering (5) Whether you NEED growlers or will EXCHANGE growlers (5) Your top beer choices. Remember that kegs are small artisanal batches and run out frequently, note a few extra beer choices in case your first choice beer(s) runs out. There is NO CASH exchange at ARROW. Your credit card will be charged after the delivery in case your bottle breaks en route or you do not return a growler from the previous week (growlers are a one-time $4 deposit plus cost of beer).