Gazy Brothers Farm

I’ve been getting the Gazy CSA boxes for over a full year now and it’s not an exaggeration to say that it has transformed my life. My meals are nutritious and colorful, I’m cooking more and having more fun doing it, and I hardly ever have to go to the store. Plus I’m eating better than ever before.
I joined in the depths of winter, and even the winter boxes include a very nice mix of stuff (hardy greens, squashes, root vegetables, different varieties of apples). I’ve enjoyed making apple sauce, and just chopping up and roasting the vegetables as they come in and having them as is the first night and in soup or stir fry later in the week. Roasting vegetables with rosemary is a wonderful smell and warms up the kitchen nicely.
But it’s in spring and summer that things start to get really sublime. After the long winter it’s heaven to enter the season of bright above-​ground growing things: delicate lettuce and rainbow chard and scallions and spinach and mint and STRAWBERRIES. Spring is already such a blessed relief in New England and I don’t know if I’d appreciate it fully without my CSA.
Summer is just an embarrassment of riches with too much goodness to list. I don’t know if there’s anything better than summer tomato season, which seems to last forever. Week after week of the most flavorful, beautiful tomatoes you can imagine (plus all the other summertime lavishness). Last summer I was having sliced tomatoes two or three times a day and never got tired of them, and I even sometimes ate them whole like apples– so messy but ridiculously delicious and luxurious. There is absolutely no comparison between these things and what you buy at Stop n Shop. It’s as if they are from a different planet.
Then in the fall, leek and potato soup… mmmm
And besides the fact that they grow the best vegetables ever, the Gazy people are very nice and easy to reach on email or phone. And they bring everything right to your doorstep, a box of exciting surprises, like Christmas every week.

I’m a little surprised that Gazy had not been Unilocaled yet… nor was it even found when searched!
We have been using their CSA — Communuity Support Agriculture, for the last two years now and have just about fallen in love with this program. We heard about CSA through a coworker and decided to look up a few in our area and learn more about it. Gazy Brothers was one that looked appealing, the cost seemed most budget friendly, and they delivered to our area.
We missed the first summer CSA so hopped on the Fall ration. We enjoyed it; however, it consisted of a lot of greens that we weren’t sure what to do with. Also, they deliver on Thursdays in East Haven/​New Haven and because we are CT transplants, we travel MOST weekends out of the year so aren’t able to do anything with our fresh veggies until Monday. Anyway, our boxes were filled with squash of all types, huge ones… we would cut them up and freeze right away if we weren’t eating it. Kale and Spinach, root veggies too. We skipped Winter and Spring and signed up for Summer as this would give us the most goodies. Fact. We have 8 or 9 veggies in a typical week, plus we added the fruit CSA too so there is always a bag of fruit in there too. Because I stock up on meat throughout the year, our grocery trips during a CSA are minimal. If we don’t need yogurt/​dairy/​cold cuts… then I can skip 1 – 2 weeks of grocery shopping! imagine that. CSA costs for summer came to about $ 25-​$ 30/​week. I spend more than this at the store every week on JUST produce. Plus it forces us to try new things.
Along with the CSA box, Gazy sends out weekly emails with what may be in your box as well as recipes. They have a Facebook which is always updated with new recipes and their website as well has recipes, information and a veggie produce ID in case you have NO idea what is in your box.
There is a delivery fee, but if you are like us and enjoy fresh fruits and veggies, the cost is still minimum in the long run. If there is ever a problem that you won’t be home to receive your box, no problem, contact Gazy directly and they will deliver a different day with no issues. They are so helpful. We really enjoy this program and have gotten friends of ours involved as well. They don’t live as close to us, so they use a different farm, but it’s still a great thing to do to support your community.
I have posted pictures of past CSA boxes.