Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Miconian At Large | Tags: cobble hill, CSA | View Comments
I was out of town (in Seattle and Kansas City) for weeks 3 and 4. Week 3, I bequeathed my produce to a friend, but he flaked. Week 4, I bequeathed it to some random person I’ve never met, whom I found online on a discussion board about the procurement of local farm-fresh food of other sorts. She took the above picture of what she collected at my request. So that’s week 4. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: June 27th, 2009 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Miconian At Large | Tags: aliens, brooklyn, cobble hill, orange sky | View Comments
The aliens will be invading soon.
These photos have not been modified, other than that the resolution was reduced so they would fit here. This is really what the sky looked like over Cobble Hill last night. People everywhere were, like me, pointing their phones at the sky. To take pictures, or to attempt communication with our new friends from another world?
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Posted: June 10th, 2009 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Miconian At Large | Tags: cobble hill, cooking, CSA, food, rhubarb | View Comments
My iPhone was dead when I went to pick up the produce this week, so I have no photos to offer of the setup in the church. But it was very similar to last time, just a bit more food. And it wasn’t raining this time, so people were moving in and out a lot more rapidly.
Ostensibly, the choices were:
chives or artichokes
curly cress or mustard greens
strawberries(!)
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Posted: June 3rd, 2009 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Miconian At Large | Tags: burdock, cobble hill, cooking, CSA | View Comments
So I recently joined the Cobble Hill CSA. Basically, I paid about $500 so that, throughout the summer and autumn, I could get weekly shares of a local farmer’s harvest. Yesterday was the first pickup day of the season, so I headed to Christ Church, about a five minute walk for me. All the produce was in bins, arranged down one side of the sanctuary.
At the near end of the table was a note, explaining what was available. Read the rest of this entry »
