Food

Food for Sale

Buy local! The Hastings' CSA is a subscription vegetable delivery service from a certified organic farm in Cairo, NY, June-November. The Hastings Farmers' Market runs weekly spring-fall and bimonthly in winter in the Train Station Parking lot. Perfect Foods delivers fresh wheatgrass and microgreens grown in Orange County. And, there are several shops in Hastings that carry local and organic items.

Local & fresh wheatgrass & microgreens

Grow Your Own

Backyard Gardening

Growing your own food is profoundly satisfying. Planting Westchester, created by a task force of volunteers, provides great resources to help residents get started. There are many online and printed resources on backyard gardening. If you have a fave resource you'd like to see listed here, let us know!

Gardening in Community

Zinsser Community Gardens is a patchwork of thriving, resident-tended mini gardens next to the Zinsser ball field, between the Aqueduct, Broadway and Edgar's Lane. Here people are growing all kinds of vegetables and flowers.

To apply for a spot, contact Parks & Rec at 914-478-3400

Watch this Westchester County Department of Planning interview with Brooks Ballard and Mihai Cuibus!

Prezi by HHS student Aleksandra Sokolova

Zinsser Community Gardens has received a recent torrent of residential support and interest. Many thanks go to Brooks Ballard, Mihai Cuibus, and Patrick MacNeil (and some of their children!) for leading the garden's renovation, and the students who completed projects with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund. Check-out these pages for Zinsser-related (and other) YCAF projects, which were funded in 2024 and 2025.

Keeping Chickens

Yes, you can keep chickens in Hastings! Keeping them safe from predators is a challenge; Listen to the zoom recording of our 2022 Chicken Chat for more, and see this page on Roots & Wings to connect with area chicken keepers.

Backyard Composting

Backyard composting is fun and free! See more resources for a how-to at Hastings' Zero Waste Advisory Taskforce website, or the Village Conservation Commission page on composting. You can drop food scraps unsuitable for backyard composting, or if you don't have a backyard compost, at our town facility (more info at the links above).