Apartment Therapy Tagged: CSA

Summer in Review: How Was Your CSA?

Most CSAs and farm-shares have sent their last boxes of winter vegetables and closed up shop for the season. Now that we've had a chance to catch our breath (and finish eating our leafy greens!), we t...

MyFarm - Urban Gardening and CSA From Your Backyard
San Francisco

MyFarm is a group in San Francisco that is interested in turning residential backyards (and frontyards) into a collection of urban farms. If you want to have some vegetables grown in your yard, but d...

Good Question: How Can I Tell When Figs Are Ripe?

Here's a good question from reader Betsy. She writes: I was very happy to receive some gorgeous figs in my CSA this week. How do I know when they're ripe? They're a light purple color with light-col...

Tomatoes in January! Winter CSA Shares from Winter Sun Farms

We mentioned Winter Sun Farms after meeting them at the Let Us Eat Local event a couple of weeks ago. At the time, we thought they only delivered in New Paltz and Poughkeepsie, but we were wrong! They...

Farm to Folk: A CSA Connection In Ames, Iowa

For those of you living in or around Ames, Iowa and looking for a CSA, here's one option: Farm to Folk....

Mariquita Farms Mystery Box

Every other Thursday, Mariquita Farm in Watsonville delivers preordered produce to San Francisco. They park at a different restaurant each time, and the contents of the box are unknown. ...

Escaping New York: Have You Visited Your CSA Farm?

It's easy to forget that the CSA share you pick up every week in the city comes from a rural, grassy, no-taxis-in-sight farm. In some cases, it's just an hour or two away... ...

Meat CSA's in the San Francisco Bay Area

We love CSA's because we believe in supporting our local farmers and we love getting fresh produce delivered to us direct from the farmer. Now, those of us in most Bay Area locations can have local m...

NYC: Still Time to Join a CSA in Chelsea

Was joining a CSA on your to-do list this spring? As we head toward August, most CSA slots in New York City have been sold out for months, but we have a find for you this afternoon. If you didn't fi...

Help! Ways to Use Lettuce Besides Salads and Sandwiches?

We wanted to bring you a Top 5 for this post, but we weren't having a lot of success finding inventive recipes for using lettuce amidst the typical ones for salads and sandwiches. So we thought we'd ...

Weekend Projects: Seven Tips for Managing Your CSA

Now that summer is in full swing, our CSAs are finally starting to fill out with more than just kale and arugula. Not that we're complaining, but it's actually getting hard to keep up with all the pr...

Hey, New York! Has Your CSA Started Yet?

We've heard the cool spring has made for slim pickins early on, so some CSAs have delayed their first delivery. Ours starts next week. So, what are we looking forward to the most?...

Weekend Meditation: Harvesting Heaven

A couple of evenings ago you could have found me at home on my living room floor, peeling fava beans with my dinner guests. I had spontaneously invited them in only to discover there was nothing much...

NYC CSA News: Has Anyone Tried Farm Share?

If you want the benefit of CSA produce but don't have time to pick it up every week, Farm Share may be your solution. We had never heard of it and are curious if anyone in the New York Kitchn communit...

Look! Radishes and Buttered Bread in Bon Appétit

We couldn't help but notice this beautiful photo of thin-sliced radishes on buttered bread in the April issue of Bon Appétit, since it reminded us of a favorite snack we've shared with you befo...

NY Times Sunday Styles: Farming's in Fashion

Lo and behold... There were farmers in flannel shirts and coveralls on the front page of The New York Times Sunday Styles section yesterday. Turns out there's a crop (yep) of young city dwellers leav...

NYC Event: CSA Conference March 29th

We're big fans of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) here at the Kitchn. So big that it seems like a lifetime to wait until the first delivery from our local farms arrives in June. Until then, we'r...

How to Start a New CSA: Interview with Paula Lukats of Just Food

For many of us here in New York City, or in other urban areas, joining a CSA gives us a sense of belonging to the sustainable agricultural movement in a tangible way. It’s more than just trying to s...

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