Conuco Farm Visit

                                                                 

                                                   

                                                   

                             

                                           

                                       

This past Sunday, I went to visit the Conuco Farm, which supplies to my Bed-Stuy CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. After a two hour drive to New Paltz in the Hudson Valley, we arrived and met Hector Tejada, Conuco's farmer-in-chief. After a tour of the farm, we picked cherry tomatoes, had lunch and then went on to an orchard nearby. I also managed to pick Hector's brains on the (slightly sorry) state of my farm/garden. More on that in another post. More pix: here.

Until the backyard harvest...

I am getting vegetables from my local CSA. 

For a bargain investment of circa $300 in Conuco, an upstate New York farm run by a farmer of color, I get a box of vegetables once every two weeks through October. Being away two Saturdays ago, I missed my first box and it went to good use at a food pantry. 

Today, I managed to get down to the Magnolia Tree Earth Center."It's very green today," said CSA adminstrator Lauren Melodia as she packed my box under a mural of Hattie Carthan, a Bed-Stuy tree champion and environmentalist from back in the day (b. 1901, d.1984). 

My monochromatic box included kale, broccoli, bok choi, kohlrabi (!? must google later) and sunflower sprouts.