About Us
Learn more about the Washington Square CSA, our volunteers, and our farm.
Founded in 2009, Washington Square CSA is an entirely volunteer-run community committed to providing sustainable and local produce and products to our NYC community, and creating a community around our shared food values.
By joining our CSA, you get more than just fresh produce from our farm - you get a whole community in the East Village!
Our CSA is a great way to get to know your neighbors through the weekly pickups and events. We host happy hours, cooking demos, and Market Days every season. We also plan farmer visits, and members love our annual CSA Smackdown cooking competition!
The Core Committee
We are a dynamic group of members with a shared passion for local produce and sustainability.
We are always looking for new Core Committee members to offer their skills to help lead the CSA. Please contact us if you are interested in joining us!
Michael Blau
Site CoordinatorMike is the “Chief Burro” for the farm deliveries each week. He was introduced to the CSA by his wife Sharon who was told about it from a work colleague. A vegetarian who loves to eat, Mike is retired (which gives him plenty of time to kill) so it seemed like a good fit.
Anh Nguyen
Newsletter editor, Volunteer coordinatorAnh grew up in Connecticut and moved to New York in 2013. She got her Doctorate of Pharmacy and worked as a pharmacy manager at Duane Reade. She then went back to school and got a Masters in Egyptology. When she’s not helping organize the CSA, she leads product and content strategy at Brick Underground, and works on a conservation site in Luxor, Egypt. Tuesday pickups always lead to family cooking time with her two Pomeranians, Pom Pom and Toby.Daniel Miron
Site CoordinatorDan was born and raised in a town of less than a thousand people in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and fondly remembers many visits to pick-your-own strawberry and tomato farms in order to put up the flavors of summer for the interminable winters. He is interested in local/sustainable/ethical agriculture and husbandry, common-sense nutrition unmediated by ridiculous lobbyist-designed food charts, and egalitarian cooking featuring dishes suited for all diets, from omnivorous to pure juicing. He joined the WSCSA in 2013 and serves as a Site Coordinator.
Josh Spodek
Site coordinatorJosh Spodek is one of the site coordinators. He joined the CSA out of curiosity because people told him CSAs offered more variety and better taste at a lower cost, which sounded too good to be true. He found it a huge understatement: he describes our CSA produce as the best he's tasted. The CSA changed his views and practices on food, even his connection to nature and local community.
Justin DeMaris
Webmaster, administrator, TREASURERJustin grew up on a small farm in northern Maine, went to school in Connecticut and moved to New York in 2011. He’s an engineer by trade, a breakdancer at weddings, and a co-founder of a digital media technology startup unironically called Organic. He and his wife make the CSA part of their weekly ritual of food storage, wine drinking, and cookingNorwich meadows farm
Norwich Meadows Farm supplies the majority of our produce and additional products. Our farmers Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh are located in Norwich, New York, near the center of the triangle that can be drawn connecting the cities of Syracuse, Albany and Binghamton, a four hour drive (188 miles) from the city.
“Realizing the condition and health of Earth’s resources is paramount in the production of food, and as keepers of the earth, we promise to strive to preserve and not damage agricultural land, and to use it in a manner that is economically, ecologically and ethically sound.”
Read about their profile in the New York Times from July 2019. Our farmer Zaid was also featured in Grub Street for his work during the Coronavirus Pandemic in April 2020.
Lastly, Be sure to follow Zaid and the farm on social media!
︎ @Norwichmeadowsfarm
︎ Norwich Meadows on Facebook
Read about their profile in the New York Times from July 2019. Our farmer Zaid was also featured in Grub Street for his work during the Coronavirus Pandemic in April 2020.
Lastly, Be sure to follow Zaid and the farm on social media!
︎ @Norwichmeadowsfarm
︎ Norwich Meadows on Facebook