“For the summer boxes, all our expenses occur in the spring. The CSA also offers a share during the winter months.įor farmer Maggie Wood of Golden Earthworm Organic Farm, which supplies all the vegetables for the Flushing CSA along with 10 of the 15 CSAs in Queens, the upfront payment is crucial. In the case of Flushing CSA, members buy a “share,” that is, they pay up front in the spring for weekly boxes of produce from June 1 until the week before Thanksgiving. Their mother, Emily Sheahan, keeps an eye on them as she meets with the Flushing CSA Core Team to discuss the winter veggie lineup.īrought together by a shared love of food, Flushing Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is the very essence of an urban community: a diverse group of locals cooperating to provide their families with clean, healthy food and creating a close-knit network in the process.

The dark doesn’t stop 3-year-old twins Caroline and Josephine from playing happily between boxes and trestle tables under the lamp-lit canopy.

It’s 6:30 on a Thursday evening in late winter.

Golden earthworm organic farm