YORKVILLE — Irving Farm Coffee Roasters is taking its name literally.
The Third Avenue coffee shop will feature food culled from local farms, including fresh honey, hand-picked veggies, antibiotic-free cheeses and meats, for members starting in June.
Local Roots NYC — a community-supported agriculture organization with 22 marketplaces across the city — is returning to the shop 1424 Third Ave., at East 81st Street, after an initial stint there during the winter.
Those who sign up for the summer CSA program will be able to pick up organic groceries weekly starting June 6, between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m., through Aug. 22.
The produce comes from farms within 250 miles of the city, including New Jersey, upstate Pennsylvania and Connecticut, the CSA's website says.
The grocery menu includes veggies like kale, eggplant and tomatoes from Pennsylvania's Taproot Farm, and New York's Roxbury and Sun Sprout farms; berries and sweet peaches from Wilklow Orchards in New York; and pasture-raised meat from Fleisher's Craft Butchery, which has locations in the tri-state area, among other goods.
Those who sign up will be given what is available at the farms that week, but patrons will sometimes be able to choose between items when there's a bounty, the website says.
Until then, on certain Tuesday and Friday mornings, Local Roots will bring samples and information to share with the community at the coffee shop.
"We love being a part of the neighborhood we are in, and we have a wonderful relationship with Local Roots," said Maura Hehir, a spokeswoman for Irving Farm. "We love supporting local goods, be that through our pastry vendors, our beer and wine, or our offering our cafés as pickup centers for a Farm Share and Community Supported Fishery (Fulton Fish Market, who we also work with)."
All of Irving Farm's dishes, which are made in-house, use ingredients from companies in the Northeast. Its coffee, which is roasted at Irving Farm’s upstate roastery and then shipped to its five Manhattan stores, comes from farms in Ethiopia, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Costs for the CSA range from $252 for the whole summer (or $21 per pickup) for vegetables only to $330 for the summer (or $55 per pickup) for meats.
