Some more important announcements.
Payment Due
Final payment for vegetable shares was due at the end of March. If you haven’t made arrangements for a payment plan and haven’t sent in your final payment please do so at your earliest convenience.
2013 Shares
We are still taking orders for all our shares. Please spread the word! If you’d like to add fruit, cheese, meat, coffee, salmon, winter or herbs to your order you can just send me an email with what you want and I will put it on your account. Follow-up with payment when you can but no later than the end of May.
EggShare
We found a supplier for EggShare. And we didn’t have to look very far. Castle Rock Organic Farms, the supplier of our CheeseShare also sells eggs. Who knew? And why didn’t they tell me? Well, now I know and now you know and now you can start ordering EggShare.
Castle Rock raises their hens on pasture. They free-range up to a quarter mile from their home eating grass, bugs and anything else they can find. They are also fed organic feed and organic hay in the winter. They are not certified organic but are raised to organic standards (actually beyond organic since they get to run around outside a whole bunch).
Since Castle Rock delivers every other week we are selling an every other week EggShare. Of course it you want a dozen eggs every week you can always buy two EggShares. The price is $45 for nine weeks of a dozen eggs/week. We will deliver them with your veggie shares for our drop site members.
I will put this information on our web site and the order form shortly but no need for you to print more paper. If you want EggShare just send me an email with the quantity and follow it up with payment. Contact me if you have any questions.
Pinterest Recipe Boards
The farm Pinterest page is off to a good start. Our SOP (standard operating procedure) is if you “follow” us we will invite you to post on all of the recipe boards. Feel free to ignore the invite if you want to just lurk or even better, accept the invite and share some of your favorite recipes with other farm members. If there are other recipe categories/boards you’d like to suggest please send a request my way and I will add them. And if anyone knows how to make this all much easier (I have to invite each person to each board individually 12 people, nine boards = 108 individual invites so far – Yuck!) please let me know.
First Annual Fresh Earth Farms Fall Film Fest
Just a reminder to send in your videos or links to videos you’ve found on the internet. No need to wait until the last minute. So far we have two submissions – both are videos found on the net. Don’t be shy. The only criteria are: 1 – Must be suitable for viewing by children, 2 – Must not be longer than six minutes in duration. It would be nice to have a lot of the videos – at least those found on the net – sent in before things get overly busy here at the farm. That way we can start organizing them now.
Spring Potato Planting Event
We are still planning on an April 20th potato planting and pot luck event. Hopefully the snow will be gone by then. This is a great opportunity to see the farm, do a little work and get a little dirty, followed by delightful conversation and delicious food. Many hands make light work. And it is a great event for the kids – little hands can easily grasp potatoes. Please RSVP with the number of people who will be attending.
What is happening on the farm?
For the most part we are just sitting around watching the snow slowly melt. This seems to fill an enormous amount of time these days. We are also ordering more stuff, planting more seeds in the greenhouse and planning activities and events. I purchased a few more herbs this season; these are herbs that are grown from cuttings or divisions. The plan is to grow them larger and over-winter them so we can offer plants next season. Depending on how quickly they grow we could include some of them in the shares this season. Only time will tell. We ordered French tarragon, spearmint, peppermint, lemon thyme and lemongrass. All wonderful and flavorful!
Speaking of ordering, our three new bee hives will be arriving April 13th. Hopefully we can get them off to a great start so we can have honey this fall. I will try to take pictures or video of the installation of the bees. And of course if anything funny should happen during the installation of the bees, and it is caught on film (film?), you can be sure it will be one of the films shown at this year’s film fest.
That is all for now. Send in your comments, questions, jokes, films, etc.