February 6, 2010
new beginnings
So this year we are switching things up in the CSA department. We have been mulling this over since we began our CSA three years ago. How do we give members choice? If we were to join a community supported agriculture program what would we want? So we came up with a new model that would give our members free choice as to when and where they wanted to pick up as well as which vegetables they wanted in their weeks' share. Having pickups happen at farmers' markets not only gives members choice as to what they want from our offerings, it enables them easy access to other producers who supply products we don't have, be it pork or corn (which we don't raise) or something that we might not have in abundance that particular week. Although abundance is the buzzword for this year. We are currently building multiple hoophouses (see above) which should translate into MORE awesome and consistent tomatoes and greens and earlier than ever before. It is exciting. Here's a picture of last week's full moon over a future field of potatoes.