By Sasha Pezenik

Community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs allow cityfolk to buy produce and meat from nearby farmers, giving locals a steady supply of the most in-season food and supporting small farmers. Members sign up to receive a share of food at a spot close to their homes, and farmers drop off new food every week.

Check out 10 Upper West Side CSA’s below.

Cream of the Crop CSA (formerly Chubby Bunny CSA)

creamofthecropcsa.org

Contact: martine@creamofthecropcsa.org

Bernie DeLeo bernie@2behealthy.com

Pickup location: Church of St. Paul and Andrew – 540 West End Avenue (at 86th Street)

Pickup time: every Tuesday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Farm: Hepworth Farms in Milton, NY

Season begins: June 9^th, 2015

Season length: 24 weeks, ending on November 17^th, 2015

Cost: $660.00 for large vegetable share; $438.00 for a small share

Optional weekly shares for 2015 include:

– Fruit
– Eggs
– Raw Milk
– Pasteurized, Non-Homogenized, Kosher Milk
– Grass-fed Cheeses – goat and cow
– Greek and Regular Organic, Kosher Yogurt
– Artisan Pasta and Ravioli
– Speciality Mushrooms
– 100% Grass-fed Ground Beef
– 100% Grass-fed Beef and Pork
– 100% Grass-fed Beef and Lamb
– Kosher Boneless, Skinless Chicken Cutlets
– Chicken Legs/Thighs
– Ground Turkey
Every Other Week Shares:
– Broiler Chickens

B’Nai Jeshurun Hazorim CSA

www.bj.org/social-justice/taking-action-through-direct-service/csa

Contact: Larissa Wohl 212-787-7600

Pickup location: Pi B’nai Jeshurun, on 88th Street between Broadway & West End. In the event of rain, pick-up is inside the foyer.

Pickup time: Every Tuesday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; butter shares will be every other Tuesday throughout the season

Farm: Freebird Farm, Kriemhild Dairy (butter share only)

Season begins: pushed June 16^th due to weather complications – but typically the 2^nd week of June

Season length: 22 weeks vegetable share; 20-21 weeks fruit share; 11 weeks butter share

Cost: $510 for full vegetable share, $375 for partial vegetable share, $255 for half vegetable share; $95 for full egg share (one dozen eggs), $50 for half egg share; $160 for fruit share, $360 for double fruit share; $55 for full butter share, season is for 11 weeks

CSA at Ansche Chesed

Contact: Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht farmer@gardenofevefarm.com

Pickup location: UWS Manhattan Ansche Chesed – 251 West 100th Street (between Broadway and West End Avenue)

Pickup time: Wednesdays from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., every other Wednesday from 5:30p.m. – 7:30 p.m. for Biweekly (half) shares

Farm: The Garden of Eve in Riverhead, NY

Season begins: June 10

Season length: 24 weeks

Cost: $635, 12 for full vegetable share, $335 for half vegetable share; $275 for full fruit share, $150 for half fruit share; $155 for full flower share, $72 for half flower share; $78 for weekly egg share, $40 for half egg share; $1,095 for Mega-Combo (full shares of everything), $590 for Biweekly combo.

West Harlem CSA

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contact: Carrette Perkins cperkins@nyccah.org

Able to offer sliding scale because of 8 year partnership with nyc coalition against hunger

Pickup location: Broadway Community Inc. at the Broadway Presbyterian Church – 601 West 114th St. (corner of Broadway)

Pickup time: Every Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for full shares; every other week for half shares

Farm: Windflower Farm in Taconic Hill, NY

Season begins: June 9

Season length: 22 weeks

Cost: Sliding scale based on income; ranges from $554 to $150 for full vegetable share, $278 to $75 for half vegetable share; $718 to $200 for full vegetable and full fruit share, $361 to $100 for half vegetable and half fruit share

Central Park West CSA

www.centralparkwestcsa.org

Contact: Susan Zizmor susanpz@gmail.com

Pickup location: St. Matthew/St. Timothy’s Church – 26 West 84th Street (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)

Pickup time: Wednesdays from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Farm: Vegetables from Angel Family Farm in Goshen, NY; They aren’t doing fruit this season

Season begins: June 10^th

Season length: 21 weeks, ends November 4^th

Cost: A Full Share is $568.00, which is equivalent to $25.82/week, typically feeding 3-4 people. A Half Share is $304.00, equivalent to $13.82/week and can feed 1-2 people.

CSA at MSC

Season was supposed to begin today, but was canceled due to lack of interest.

Contact: Brian Kloss edelmanandkloss@yahoo.com

They are now directing interest to the CPW CSA instead, as they also partner with the Angel Family Farm.

Corbin Hills

Contact: Jovanna farmshare@corbinhillfarm.com

Stefanie Zaitz zaitz@corbinhillfarm.com

The Summer Farm Share comes in one size, which includes 8 -11 types of vegetables along with 1 or 2 types of fruit. New this season, the share will also feature a regular rotation between dried beans and multigrain tortillas.

There is also an optional egg share (comes by the dozen) through Handsome Brook Farm; farm-fresh NY state brown, antibiotic and hormone free, and an optional fruit share, for an additional cost.

Pickup Location#1: Escalera Head Start – 169 West 87^th St. (btw Columbus and Amsterdam Avenue)

Pickup Time: Wednesdays 2:30pm-6:30pm. The first distribution at this site will be on July 15^th.

Pickup Location#2: Open Door Child Care Center – 820 Columbus ave. (on 100^th st.)

Pickup Time: Tuesdays 2pm-6pm, first distribution on Tuesday July 14^th, ending November 17^th.

Farm: Corbin Hill Road Farm

Season begins: June 16^th

Season length: 23 weeks, ends November 18^th

Cost: $14/week for Summer Staple share, 19 distributions; additional Egg share $4.50/week, 19 distributions; Fruit share $8.50/week, 19 distributions.

Offering details:

Summer Staple Produce Share, $14.00 weekly, 19 distributions. (Season in full: $266 minus 2% discount)

Our Summer Staple Produce Share includes between 5 and 7 types of vegetables and fruit (most of the items are vegetables, includes one kind of fruit, and dried beans or multigrain tortillas might be available). Corbin Hill picks your produce based on what’s in season on our network of farms. All our produce is grown in New York State using sustainable farming methods.

Additional Egg Share, $4.50 weekly, 19 distributions. (Season in full: $85.50 minus 2% discount)

Our Dozen Egg Share is an extra share you can buy along with the purchase of a produce share. It will consist of one dozen brown eggs, delivered each week along with your regular produce share. The eggs come from our friends at Handsome Brook Farm. They are free of antibiotics and hormones, and are laid by pastured chickens.

Additional Fruit Share, $8.50 weekly, 19 distributions. (Season in full: $161.50 minus 2% discount)

Our Fruit Share is an extra share you can buy along with the purchase of a produce share. It will consist of two fruit items per week, delivered to your pick-up site along with your produce share. It is intended to give you variety in addition to the fruit in your produce share. The fruit is grown by New York State farmers in our network using sustainable farming methods.

Merchant’s Gate CSA

CSA website: https://merchantsgatecsa.org/

Pickup Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 860 11th Avenue (between W. 58th and 59th Streets)

Pickup Time: Wednesdays 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (not 3 p.m., as posted)
Farm: Farmer Zaid Kurdieh/Norwich Meadows Farm (Certified Organic)

Season Begins: Summer CSA — June 17, 2015 / Fall CSA — September 9, 2015

Registration for Summer/Fall CSA is closed.  Registration for the Fall CSA (with distributions beginning after Labor Day 2015) will open in the next few weeks.  Email us at merchantsgatecsa@gmail.com

for details!

Lancaster Farm

Pickup at Jewish Home Lifecare, 120 W. 106th Street, every Wednesday from 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Season Length: 22 weeks

Shares Available: Vegetable, Fruit, Flower, Herb

Vegetable Share Size: Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L)

Vegetable Share Cost: $300.40 (S), $444.24 (M), $676.08 (L)

Quantity of Vegetables: 4 (S), 6-7 (M), 11-12 (L)

Herb Share (1 size only): $115 and would begin June 10th for 21 weeks

Fruit Share (1 size only): $210 and would begin June 10th for 21 weeks

Flower Share (1 size only): $255 and would begin June 24th for 17 weeks

To sign-up, visit www.lancasterfarmfresh.com and click on the summer shares! Be sure to select Jewish Home Lifecare, Manhattan as your distribution site! Or contact Myles Scott (MScott@jewishhome.org) at  212-870-4704. Signup date has passed, but contact them to see if you can still get in.

Rutgers CSA- new for 2015

https://www.heartyroots.com/

Contact: Benjamin Shute benjamin@heartyroots.com ; farm@heartyroots.com

Pickup location: Rutgers Church (236 West 73rd Street at Broadway)

Pickup time: Wednesdays, 4:30 – 7:30 pm in the church lobby

Farm: Hearty Roots

Season Begins: June 17

Season Length: Season ends Wednesday, October 28^th

Cost: Joining for the season costs between $275 and $540, depending on frequency of pickup and location. A weekly vegetable share for the whole season is $545.45, designed for a ‘medium-sized household’. It includes 6-8 varieties of produce and a total of 5-14 lbs/week.

Roxbury CSA

www.roxburyfarm.com

Contact: Keri info@roxburyfarm.com

Pickup location: Church of St. Paul and Andrew – 540 West End Avenue (at 86th Street)

Pickup time: Thursdays from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Farm: Roxbury Farm in Kinderhook, NY

Season begins: June 12

Season length: 23 weeks

Cost: $642 for 23 weeks of vegetables; $75 for 20 weeks of fruit (starting July 16); $125 for a winter vegetable share (three deliveries of 30 pounds each); $145 for beef share; $110 for lamb share; $140 for pork share; $130 for chicken share.

Photo by Sharyn Morrow.