Bringing fresh organic produce to urban residents straight from the farmer
The Great Kills CSA (GKCSA) is an all-volunteer community run organization that partners with Farmer John Krueger from Circle Brook Farm in Andover, NJ to provide organic produce to the Staten Island residents who pay for a produce share. The GKCSA host site, Christ Lutheran Church, at 121 Cleveland Ave, offers a location for the GKCSA community to distribute the produce they receive from Circle Brook Farm. Distributions are every Thursday evening between 530 pm and 730 pm between June and November for a total of 24 weeks. The GKCSA is committed to providing fresh, organic produce to the Staten Island Community at a reasonable cost, to encourage healthy living, and to support both local farmers and the health of our planet.
When it is your turn to volunteer, please come to Christ Lutheran Church, 121 Cleveland Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308 by 4:45 pm, so we can set up the site for 5:30 pm
2024 Member Schedule (to be announced before first volunteer day of June 20, 2024)
Contact Roy Fischman, the GKCSA VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR by e-mailing GKCSA2019@gmail.com or (718) 887-1854 if you wish to make changes to your volunteer schedule. If you have an emergency and cannot work on your assigned evening, please let one of the core members know so a replacement can be found. We encourage members to find their own replacment. (It can be any adult)
Message from Farmer John, November 25, 2024
Hi Everyone, I wanted to give you the rundown on what you will encounter in your stock up shares.
Otherwise, I may be inundated with emails containing photos of strange, unknown vegetables. What is
it, and what the heck do I do with it? I can help with what it is and how it should be stored. As for how to
prepare it -that’s what Google is for, right? The share consists of a box and a bag. The box contains various winter squash- buttercup(kabocha), butternut, acorn, sweet dumpling, and carnival. There are bags of fingerling potatoes, redskin potatoes, and Purple Majesty (purple flesh). There are orange, white, and Japanese sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots. All the items in the box should be stored in a cool dry place, except for the garlic, which will keep best in the fridge. The bag consists of various bags of root vegetables, many with two types per bag- radishes with turnips, daikon with watermelon radishes, carrots with beets, parsnips, rutabaga, and sunchokes. There are Napa and red cabbages, Brussel’s sprouts, and cauliflower. For greens, you will find spinach, arugula, kale, radicchio, and cilantro. There is also a small head of celery with lots of nice leaves to flavor soups or your stuffing. The spinach was very muddy, due to the recent heavy rain, and had to be washed. It was bagged wet and will not keep this way- either use it quickly or try to dry it, perhaps in a salad spinner.
All the vegetables in the bag should be stored in the refrigerator in bags.
Thank you all for your support. I wish you all Happy Holidays and a safe and healthy winter.
Farmer John
Premium share- $1040 Share will contain, on average, 10-12 items and a larger quantity of most of the items in the basic share. Over the course of the season the premium share will include various less common vegetables, such as escarole, radicchio, fennel and frissee, not found in the basic or medium share.
Basic share- $860 Share will contain, on average, 9-10 items. It will be approximately 80% the size of the Premium share.
Pre-bagged medium share- $690 Share will contain, on average 9-10 items and half of the quantity of many of the items in the premium share. The share will be approximately 60% the size of the Premium share Share price includes the cost of bagging.
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And take a look at the video that was made at Circle Brook farm with Farmer John. "GreatKills CSA visits the Farm"
HOW TO JOIN
If you are interested in joining and have questions, email us at: GKCSA2019@gmail.com
When applying for membership you must PRINT, FILL OUT and SIGN the Application
Make your Check/Money Order payable to: Circle Brook Farm. Please mail that with your application to: Jacqueline Perine, 29 Adlai Circle, SI, NY, 10312
DO NOT SEND CASH!
I encourage everyone to ask others to join our group. Besides eating without pesticides, no more worries about contaminated produce when you go organic
Site Coordinator
Roy Fischman - GKCSA Volunteer Coordinator
Core Members
Jacquie Perine- Treasurer
Joanne Marzalik-Sanbeg - core member
Ed Vreeland - core member
For more information about each share below, please see the e-mail(s) about shares.
Please note that the following shares cannot be purchased without a vegetable share purchase
2024 Fruit Share
Fruit shares are payable before the first fruit delivery of the season. Fruit shares are delivered between July and September, for 14 weeks, offering 5-7 pounds of 2 types of fruit weekly.
COST: $250
2024 Egg Share
Egg shares must be paid before the start of the 24 week season. The cost per share is for one dozen eggs. $135 for one dozen eggs, $250 for two dozen $360 for three dozen, $480 for four dozen
2024 Flower
$100 Starting in July ending in October, 10 weeks
2024 Mushrooms
24 Weeks - $240.00
2024 Fall Extension
To be announced
