Shares include a wide array of fresh, organic, high quality local produce over the 22-week season. Per week, the vegetable share averages:

• 2-1/4 pounds of leafy greens
• 6-1/4 pounds of "hard" veggies (squash, carrots, potatoes, onions, turnips)
• in peak summer, lots of wonderful sweet corn!
• herbs, chili peppers, tomatoes, garlic

At the distribution site, bins are labeled with instructions on how much food each member can take - for example, you may get 2lbs of potatoes, 4 tomatoes, and 1 head of lettuce. The CSA provides scales for measuring out your share. Remember to bring your own plastic bags!

More Good Things

FRUIT SHARE: An optional add-on in your contract. Ted partners with local growers to supply fresh, generally non-organic but minimally treated fruit. Shares begin in the early summer with strawberries, cherries, blueberries and raspberries, progress in mid-summer to include peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots, and conclude in the fall with assorted apples, pears, and cider.

FLOWERS: An optional add-on in your contract. We offer a 5 or 10 week share of organic cut flowers grown by Jan Blomgren. Flowers vary by season but have included sunflowers, gladiolas, campanullas, lilies, cosmos, and cockscombs (or "brain flowers" as one young CSA member calls them). Bouquets may be an arrangement of several flowers or a large bunch of one kind of flower.

EGG SHARE: Elihu Farms offers egg shares to members who want a steady supply of fresh, tasty eggs. Payment for an egg share is made directly to Elihu Farm

Choices are:
a dozen eggs per week
two dozen per week
a half dozen per week
a dozen every other week

EGGS & MEAT: CSA Lewis Waite Farm is a consortium of purveyors and artisanal food producers. The group permits you to order anything (or nothing) every other week during the season and once a month off-season. Some of what is offered includes a variety of cuts and products from sustainably raised beef, lamb, pork (smoked and unsmoked), chicken, turkey (special order your Thanksgiving turkey!), eggs, and items like maple syrup, honey, bread, cheese, yogurt and jams. Check out LewisWaiteFarm.com to see what is offered, costs, and some description of the farms and processors involved. You must be a member of the PSCSA (with either a full or every-other-week veggie share) to order these items.

BREAD SHARE: Hot Bread Kitchen offers a regular bread share or special orders. See HBK.com for a description of kinds of breads offered and the special training program run by HBK.

How it Works

Each week Farmer Ted harvests our produce and loads up his truck for deliveries to our distribution site at the Garden of Union. The only way to get fresher produce is to pick it yourself.

Our distribution site is the Garden of Union on Union Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn. This is where you come to pick up your share during the distribution hours for your share’s dates.

What it Costs
FULL SHARE
Veggies (22 weeks)	$464
Fruit (20 weeks)	$180
Flowers (10 weeks)	$120
EVERY OTHER WEEK SHARE
Veggies (11 weeks)	$232
Fruit (10 weeks)	$90
Flowers (5 weeks)	$60

Discounted Shares and Food Stamps

Members with food stamps will use $11/week for veggies and $5/week for fruit. Please contact our Share-a-Share Coordinator for more information on a discount and payment plan that works for both you and the CSA. The number is 718-707-1023.

Financial Commitment 2010

You must purchase at least one Full or EOW vegetable share to join the Park Slope CSA. Optional fruit, flower and egg shares are also available and are delivered at the same time as your veggies. All members must pay a $25 membership fee. For those signing up after April 19th there is a late fee of $15.