Summer CSA with Lee Davenport

If you take part in CSA shares (and you should), do you ever wonder how you’ll use everything in that weekly box? For those who don’t know, CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture where you subscribe in winter for spring, summer and fall produce from your favorite nearby farm.

In this class Lee Davenport partners with MX Morningstar Farm to celebrate vibrant summer cooking. Together, we’ll unpack this height-of-season CSA share and explore how to compose beautiful, nourishing dishes, including chilled soup and grain bowls that highlight whole grains, bright dressings, protein add-ins, and produce-driven toppings. Along the way Lee will explain how to make the most of every CSA share with techniques that use and preserve every stem, leaf, and peel to reduce waste and elevate flavor.

Once we’ve created an invented-on-the-spot menu, atendees will cook and eat together. Join us for this midsummer celebration (the second in a series). You’ll want to come back again as the rhythm of changing season offers new inspiration to your kitchen.

This hands-on workshop is limited to ten people and will be followed by lunch.

About Lee Davenport:

Lee Davenport left NY at the age of 23 and immediately connected her love of food with farming in the Midwest. Signing up to be a worker share member at a CSA farm in Madison sparked many culinary adventures: working farmers' markets and farm-to-table restaurants, delivering produce for a collective of organic farms to Chicago area restaurants, owning a food cart and a jam business, and serving as farm chef on two different CSA farms. After relocating to Portland, Oregon to live in an Ecovillage and try her hand at growing food in community, a cross-country road trip completed the circle with a move back to upstate NY. Here she is connecting with farmers and chefs again in her work at Zinnia's Dinette and HGS Home Chef. Lee is grateful for the opportunity to share her lifetime experience of creating tasty meals from the freshest local produce.

About MX Morningstar Farm:

MX Morningstar Farm, established in 2014, is a vegetable farm on 30 acres in the in the heart of Claverack, NY. They are dedicated to bringing the highest quality produce to local customers. Through their farm store, CSA and restaurant customers they serve the communities of Eastern New York, Western Connecticut, New York City, and the Berkshires with a wide variety of crops. MX Morningstar Farm believes that managing a farm in a holistic and balanced way improves the flavor and productivity of the food grown, benefitting the community and society as a whole.

Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets.

Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware purchases on class day.

HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce an annual festival of creative workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY - at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.