Red Hook Harvest Festival on Saturday!

Come visit the farm Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for this year’s Harvest Festival, featuring a supersized farmers’ market, music, food from four local restaurants, children’s activities, pumpkins, animals, and more!

As Kristen puts it: “Please come out to support us and bring all of your friends. Really, all 483 Facebook friends.”

In addition to the festivities, the distribution will be different. CSA members will receive a voucher to be spent at the  farmers market in the amount of your share value for this week. You will be able to spend that voucher on any Added Value or Phillips Farm produce.  The vouchers can ONLY be spent on produce — not on eggs, dairy, grains, fruit, or cheese.

The fruit and egg shares will also be available and will be set aside separate from the market just for CSA members to pick up. Please check in with Kristen or the CSA member managing the market to get your  voucher and also be directed towards the fruit/eggs/cheese if you have that share. To clarify, these vouchers may ONLY be spent on produce, and not eggs, dairy, grains, fruit, or cheese.

The last farmers’ market of the season will be Oct. 29, and the last egg-share make up vouchers will be distributed then.

Photo by Moriah Simmons.

2 Tasty Ways to Support the Farm


Thank you to everyone who was able to come out to the Harvest Festival last weekend. There was such amazing support from the entire community despite the hail damage that destroyed the crops earlier this month.

The Farm is still trying to rebuild and recoup from that freak storm. So for those of you who like to eat for charity, there are upcoming dinners at two of Brooklyn’s best restaurants: Ici and the Good Fork.

See you there!

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Red Hook Harvest Festival

5th Annual Red Hook Harvest Festival
Saturday, October 16th
At the Red Hook Community Farm

Come down to Red Hook Community Farm, meet up with your neighbors, celebrate the bounty of the season, eat delicious food, watch incredible performances, and learn how to build a stronger, healthier, more vibrant, just and sustainable city.

Of course we’ll have: Continue reading

Review: Week 2 in Photos

Marianne with her son at the potluck. Photo by Aaron Sedivy

A look back at the week in photos,  including great shots from last Saturday’s distribution and the first CSA potluck. Speaking of the potluck, we’re planning the next one.  And we have 2 questions.

1. Would you prefer a week night or a Sunday afternoon?

2. If it’s on a Sunday, it would need to be off the Farm. Does that change your answer to question1?

Leave a comment below with your thoughts.
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Truck Farm Benefit

How great that we live in a neighborhood with a truck farm. When I see it on Van Brunt Street, it always make smile.

Now Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, the “farmers” who started their garden in the back of a 1986 Dodge, are making a documentary out of it. (They have bonafides: They were co-creators of King Corn.)

But they need help raising funds. They’re trying to hit a $15,000 goal on kickstarter by June 10. So, on Sunday evening the lovely ladies of Home/Made cafe in Red Hook are hosting a fundraiser. Continue reading

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