Name: Denise Bolognino, She/Her
CSA Role: Director
Duties Include: Source food and manage relationships with farmers. Manage team of volunteers to deliver local food that is regenerative to the environment and to ourselves.
Day Job: Social worker
CSA Favorite(s): Cherries, gooseberries, leafy greens
Hobbies: Gardening, reading, biking, cooking
Member Since: 2006
Name: Helen Dwork
CSA Role: Communications Manager
Duties Include: Writing most of the emails you receive from the CSA
Day Job: Social Worker/Writer/Editor
CSA Favorite(s): Sage, Cherries, Kale
Hobbies: Reading, Cooking
Member Since: 2019
Name: Sebastian Geiger
CSA Role: Web Developer
Duties Include: Making sure the website is working
Day Job: Software Engineer at Stitch Fix
CSA Favorite(s): Strawberries, Tomatoes, Kohlrabi (as "Schnitzel")
Hobbies: Walks around the neighborhood with my son, wife and dog. Also coffee.
Member Since: 2021 Season
Name: Linnea Kickasola
CSA Role: Delivery of leftover CSA produce to the Hour Children Food Pantry
Duties include: picking up leftovers at the end of each distribution and taking them to the food pantry, or organizing other volunteers to do it when I'm not able to
Day job: professional singer and musician, church music director
CSA favorites: berries and stone fruit, chard and leeks
Hobbies: reading, cooking, gardening
Member since: a long time--2005?
Name: Patricia Silva (they/them)
CSA Role: Instagram Manager
Duties: Member engagement through photography
CSA favorites: all the little surprises that our farm throws in from time to time.
Hobbies: House plant therapies
Member Since: 2015?
Name: Stefano Bolognino
CSA Role: Head Site Manager
Duties Include: Receive deliveries, organize our site, buy supplies, training
Day Job: Artist
CSA Favorite(s): Cherries, herbs, onions, and all the greens .
Hobbies: Gardening
Member Since: 2007
Name: Antigone (Ann) Darmanin
CSA Role: Site Manager
Duties Include: Occasionally overseeing volunteer shifts and meeting the truck for pick up.
Day Job: Homemaker
CSA Favorites: Currants, strawberries, cherries, beets, fennel, leeks, & cabbage.
Hobbies: Volunteering, farming, gardening, cooking, fermenting, hiking.
Member Since: 2018
Name: Max Steiker
CSA Role: Site Manager
Duties Include: Loading and Unloading the Truck.
Day Job: I work at Trader Joe's.
CSA Favorite(s): Strawberries, Dandelion Greens.
Hobbies: I like to go on long walks
Member Since: 2022
Name: Marykate Collins (she/her)
CSA Role: Site Manager
Duties Include: greeting & checking in CSA pickups and organizing the site
Day Job: Finance office manager
CSA Favorite(s): Berries, stone fruits & butter lettuce
Hobbies: exploring Astoria with my Dalmatian, Meeko
Member Since: 2022
Name: Alexis Diaz (they, them)
CSA Role: Site Manager
Duties Include: unloading the truck
Day Job: Social worker
CSA Favorite(s): herbs!
Hobbies: Fermentation! I brew kombucha and make sourdough and pickles. I also like bike riding, hiking, cooking, and reading.
Member Since: pre-pandemic and now I'm back!
Name: Susan Robinson (She/Her/Hers)
CSA Role: Site Manager
Day Job: Speaker and Business Consultant
CSA Favorite(s): STRAWBERRIES!!!
Hobbies: tandem cycling (I am legally blind), yoga, travel, Argentine tango, exploring NYC
Member Since: 2022
Name: Sam Kraus (He/him/his)
CSA Role: Site Manager/Assistant to the Communications Manager
Duties Include: Managing the site and helping out.
Day Job: Works at NYC Health + Hospitals getting federal money for covid + other big disasters!
CSA Favorite(s): Peaches, plums, beets
Hobbies: playing bocce ball, making ice cream, making pizza, helping the csa, and going to the beach.
Member Since: 2019
Name: Jeannie Queen
CSA Role: Site Manager
Duties Include: Unloading and taking photos for social media
Day Job: Public Health Nutritionist
CSA Favorite(s): Gooseberries and heirloom tomatoes
Hobbies: Hiking, dancing, NYC food touring
Member Since: 2017