Interested in the Enright Ridge CSA?

If you heard about the Enright Ridge CSA at the Civic Garden Center's "Flavors of the Gardens" event on Saturday, September 17, and you are interested in finding out more about this urban agriculture project in Price Hill, you've come to the right place. You can browse through the blog entries to see what we've been harvesting (and eating) this summer, or go to our web page in the Enright Ridge Eco-Village website, (or find out more about becoming a member, shares, and work hours by clicking here).

We're also on Facebook, where members share recipes, photos, and ideas for dealing with a plethora of squash, eggplant, basil, and more great, homegrown produce. If you still have questions or want an application, you can send an email to urbanfarmproject@enrightcsa.org.

Join Us at the Civic Garden Center

It's been harvest time at the Enright Ridge CSA since May, but most folks think of September as the harvest season--in fact, the Harvest Home Fair was just last weekend. This weekend there's another harvest festival that celebrates local gardens and farms--it's the Civic Garden Center's "Flavors of Community Gardens" party, from 4 pm to 6 pm on Saturday, September 17. A whole crew of folks from the Enright CSA will be there with some goodies made from the produce we've raised this year, and we've been told there will be other community gardens with samples to share, too.

The event follows the Civic Garden Center's first Fall Plant Sale, which is from noon until 3 pm, so you can even come early and see what they have to offer, too. The Civic Garden Center is at 2715 Reading Road, near Reading and Oak (just across from the old Bethesda Hospital, if you are looking for a landmark). It's supposed to be a lovely day, so there's no excuse not to come out to see (and taste) what other folks are growing in their gardens around Cincinnati.

Taste of the Gardens at Civic Garden Center

On Saturday, September 17, the Civic Garden Center on Reading Road is having a Fall plant sale, followed by a "Taste of the Gardens" event. Local community gardeners are invited to participate and share some tasty treats made from the bounty they are harvesting. We'd like to have the Enright CSA participate, to show off some of our delicious harvest and also to let people know what we have been doing with our urban agriculture project.

So we are asking Enright CSA members to donate some kind of easy-to-serve food (preferably something that is eaten at room temperature or cold, since we can't really keep things hot) for this event, which will be from 4 pm to 6 pm at the Civic Garden Center. You can drop off what you've made during pickup on September 17; someone will be there to collect the food. Maybe you have a jar of pickles to share, or you could make some delicious baba ganoush from our surfeit of eggplant, or you know a secret recipe for turning squash into a dessert treat . . . If you can't make something, we're also accepting donations of bottles of white wine, so Nancy Sullivan can make some of her delicious basil sangria for the event.

If you'd really like to get involved, we could use a couple of volunteers to help at our table at the Flavors of the Community Gardens party. If you are available during the afternoon of Saturday, September 17, to help us get the word out about the Enright CSA Urban Farm by sharing some of what we've grown, please contact us at farm@pricehill.org. For more information about Flavors of the Community Gardens and the Civic Garden Center, vist their website.