We are full for the 2012 Season.
We cultivate soil, fostering healthy dirt that yields healthy food. For those new to CSAs, joining one brings lots of advantages and a couple disadvantages. Advantages: you get to eat food as it is seasonally grown and at its best. You become an active supporter of local commerce, decrease your dependence on fossil fuel needed to grow and transport food in contemporary agribusiness, and you vote with your grocery dollars: that you value and want local, naturally grown produce, eggs and honey. And finally, you get to know your farmer and become as familiar as you want with natural farming practices. Two disadvantages are that someone else chooses your vegetables (though you will get to try some new ones this way!), and the produce you receive is more dependent on extraneous factors--like the weather. A cool June makes for a slower start for everything, an early freeze can shorten the tomato season. CSA members take some risk, though most members return--except those who start their own gardens (our favorite reason for not returning!), or those who find they get too much produce to use, or don’t like the variety because they prefer more standard fare.
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We
ended 2011 with an abundance of tomatoes, beans, squash, cucumbers,
broccoli, potatoes, beets, onions and leeks. We got a good apple crop,
and with the additional strawberries Mark planted last year, we
anticipate that we’ll fill early June crates with great berries in 2012.
We added some Preservation Shares this year, which will allow subscribers to go deeper with their food storage for the year. More information about those shares are available on the subscription form. Subscribers also have options to purchase free-range eggs from our hens, Fern Creek Honey, and to participate in cooperative buying of locally sourced and smoked bacon, direct trade coffee and fair trade cocoa.
Pick-up is at Fern Creek--which is 3 1/2 miles outside of Newberg on Hwy. 240. Coming to the farm to get your produce allows you to observe the fields and orchard, the hens, to meander in the woods, picnic at the tables in the woods, or swing in the hammock. Pick-ups occur on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 2-5 p.m.
