T-minus One Week and Counting
One week to go before the home opener! Must be time to send out some valuable information! So lets get started. Last chance to purchase fruit, and cheese. Last chance to talk someone into joining or joining yourself if you haven’t already, though we could prorate all our different shares if you still can’t make […]
Farm “News”
What’s “news” on the farm this week? You’ll have to read through the announcements first before you find out! Announcements We are still taking orders. We had a few new customers join this past week – YAY! – but we could still use more. We’ll load up your account with $25 for every new member […]
No Risk, Lots of Reward
Lots of stuff happening on the farm. But before I get into it please read the following important announcements to learn how you can lower your risk. One aspect of community supported agriculture is the concept of “shared risk”. By purchasing a share of the vegetables the farm grows you share in the risk if […]
Farm & Garden: SVU
You may recall that last week’s episode was a cliff-hanger, specifically an issue with our irrigation lines. Will we learn the culprit this week? Stay tuned after these brief messages. We could use some help selling the remaining shares for this season. After a robust start to the selling season we’ve slowed considerably. Please, please, […]
Farming by the Numbers
The refurbished hoop house is complete. This story and more after these messages from our sponsors. We’re still taking orders for vegetables, fruit, cheese, flower, winter, coffee and meat shares. Spread the word and order more! That is all of today’s messages. Now back to our story. Farm News As mentioned above we have completed […]
Happy Earth Day!
Lots happening on the farm but first a few announcements. Our past supplier for MeatShare, Ritscher Family Farm, is no longer selling smaller quantities of meat. They are moving to a quarter beef/half hog style of sales. As such we needed to find another meat supplier and I think we found a great match: TC […]
Farm of Stones
When you work the farm of stones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. But first a few announcement before I fill you in on farm news. We are still selling shares. Spread the word or order a few more for yourself and your friends. We are still selling add-on shares like […]
Just This Week’s Newsletter
I must not be feeling very creative today so here are a few announcements followed by an update on farm stuff. Plants Many years ago we started selling a few herb plants to our members. Seems like some of you like to get dirty by having a garden. As the years passed a few people […]
Oooo That Smell
Sometimes the problems in farming have nothing to do with farming but with living in the country. I suppose the same problems exist in the city but the solution may be different living here in the country. A good example is one problem we solved this week.