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Below is a compilation of CSA offering notices that came out on the Local Food Coalition email list recently:
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This is just a short summary! For a complete picture of the Local Food scene, visit Nevada County Grown where you can download a copy of the Nevada County Farm Guide.
Also keep in mind that there is a LOT of local food information that comes across the Local Food Coalition email list - CSA's, plant starts, farm supply needs and offers, and much more. Click Here to sign up for the LFC email list and search their archives.
Four Frog Farm
January 12, 2010
Hello everyone,
We are happy to announce Four Frog Farm's 2010 CSA Membership Shares are now available! With our Membership Shares you will receive a weekly box of fresh veggies for 24 weeks--from May through October.
We provide two different box sizes from which can choose and a variety of locations, days, and times to pick up, including pick-ups at the farm and at some farmers' markets for those of you who are doing your shopping there anyway. Also, we are offering a new "Farmers' Market Share," which means each week you receive credit of equal value to the share for which you signed up, and which is good at any of our farmers' markets. This means you can choose exactly what goes in your box each week. Finally, when you become a member of the farm you receive a host of benefits, including 20% off any additional produce you buy from us at a farmers' market.
Pay in full and receive one box free. Sign up now and receive an additional box free. Visit www.fourfrogfarm.com to sign up and for more information. If you have further questions feel free to contact Farmer Logan and Farmer Andrew at info@apple-nc.org.
Take care,
Logan Egan and Andrew Meyers
SunSmile Farms
January 18, 2010
Hey Everyone,
We're now taking sign ups for our 2010 CSA Fruit and Vegetable Shares.
Last year was a success and we're gearing up for another bountiful year!
Details about the share can be found on our website at http://www.sunsmilefarms.com.
We look forward to seeing at the farm!
George Loftus
SunSmile Farms
Grass Valley, CA
info@apple-nc.org
Riverhill Farm
January 15, 2010
Dear Friends:
Attached (at the bottom) is our 2010 CSA announcement. Details about the share can be found on our website at http://www.riverhillfarm.com. We will also have add-on shares of fruit, meat, grains and eggs from regional producers.
We look forward to serving our community for another season.
Best wishes to all in the new year,
Alan and Jo
Riverhill Farm
info@apple-nc.org
Mooney Flat Farm
"The CSA that delivers to you!"
January 15, 2010
Mooney Flat Farm is now accepting CSA memberships for the 2010 season. Sign up for local, fresh, organically grown produce delivered right to your home or business!
We grow for you... in the foothills of Western Nevada County. Please see our attached brochure (at the bottom) for all the details. For this year we’re adding more crops, variety, and value.
Thank you for supporting local, small growers and helping spread the word about CSA ...a better way to provide for your family and community.
Yours, Drew Horwath & Kimberly Ewing
info@apple-nc.org
Colfax Hill Family Farm
February 1, 2010
Hey all,
Colfax Hill Family Farm is now accepting new CSA members for the 2010 season. We are offering a 22 week CSA begining at the end of May. Pick up locations will be in Colfax and Chicago Park. We may add another pick up location in Auburn if there is enough interest.
If you would like a brochure on who we are, what we do, and more information about our CSA please call the APPLE Center at 530-478-1700 or email info@apple-nc.org.
We look forward to the upcoming season and look forward to serving our community.
Thank-you
The Gardemeyer Family
Soil Sisters Farm: A Women’s Farming and Art Collective
―a part of Living Lands Agrarian Network
February 15, 2010
Welcome to Our 2010 CSA Family!
The Dream of Two Women…
This year Willow Hein of Honey in the Heart Farm and Maisie Ganz of Living Lands Agrarian Network are partnering to bring about a new agricultural project for Nevada County. We are a women's collective devoted to creating sustainable lifestyles for ourselves, our communities and the earth. The idea arose out of a need that we saw for women to have a safe space and support system within the context of sustainable farming in order to cultivate a deeper trust in their own capabilities and skills. We are committed to cultivating good food, healthy soil, and happy people. We are still a part of the Living Lands network, continuing to grow a diversity of vegetables and flowers, and will be hosting a variety of women’s workshops and community programs. We hope to be a source of inspiration and empowerment for the women in our community and beyond. We are offering a small CSA program, and will also be at the downtown farmer’s market on Saturdays starting in June.
What is a CSA?
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Members purchase a share of our harvest in the beginning of the season, which allows them to receive a fresh, local, organic selection of food from our farm every week for the duration of the season. The benefits to both farmer and eater are numerous – we, as farmers, receive a stable income in the spring as well as a clear sense of our market – allowing us to plan our season accordingly. Our members in turn become an intimate part of our farming community – experiencing the bounty each week, sharing in the risks of their local agriculture, watching the farm change during the summer, participating in potlucks and farm celebrations throughout the season, and benefiting from the close care we take to produce and pick the most healthy, delicious food possible.
When do we get to start?
With the right combination of rain, sun, soil temperatures, foresight, faith, and luck, we should begin the CSA June 1st, 2010 and continue through to the
first week of November, at a total of 23 weeks. With the right conditions, we could start earlier or go later. We’ll be as surprised as you to see what happens!
How does it work?
Harvest and Pick Up of your share will be every Tuesday, starting June 1st. Make sure we have an email address that you will be checking with some frequency, as we will be sending our weekly newsletter which will include recipes and important announcements for the week. Pick up will be between 4pm and 6pm on Tuesday, at one of the farm locations in Nevada City (specific site to be announced). We will be waiting with washed and shiny vegetables for you to take home! We do not pre-box our produce, instead allowing you to choose among the variety of the week, always with a set list, and also occasionally including “free choice” items. Please bring your own bags and a box or basket!
How much does a share cost? Do I have to pay in full?
The beauty of the CSA model, from a financial standpoint, is that it accounts for the natural fluctuations of the season and allows us to not be so money-focused, calculating the “value” of the food we pick each week. We know, and we hope you know, that the summer will be abundant, beyond abundant, with food and we will share it generously with our members, often at a “value” above that of $26. In the early spring and as the first fall frost slow down our harvest, the share will be less impressive, but still plenty to keep you happy. We all know that the food prices in the supermarket do not reflect the price to the farmer or the cost to the environment. By choosing to support a CSA, you are choosing to put all of your money in the farmers’ hands, farmers you know and trust to be taking care of the soil, saving seed, and caring for your local community. You are also getting the benefit of not only truly organic food (not the industrial-organic that has become the new standard) but truly fresh, nutritionally dense, food, picked the very day you eat it. Being a part of a CSA gives us all a deeper understanding of the seasonality of agriculture, the real value of food, and the best foundation for health there is!
We are offering one share size this year: The “Regular” share of last year. We feel that this is much too bland a name for such an impressive product, and so we are renaming it “The Magnificent” share
A Magnificent-Sized Share is $575 for the entire season.
$575 for 23 weeks = $25/wk
You can pay in full, or three payments. Just write us three checks for $200 (incentive to pay in full) made out to Honey in the Heart Farm (still our business name technically) dated March, April, May (or starting the series in the month you first sign up) and we will deposit them each month.
We are also offering a flower share this season! Bouquets will be ready for pickup along with the vegetable share on Tuesdays. This will be a shorter season (10 weeks in the summer) at $10 per week = $100 total. We will be growing a variety of stunning flowers, including zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers, and much more! We will also occasionally be offering eggs from our happy chickens, sauerkraut, milk and dairy products, pickles, and other farmer-made delights at pick-up, which you may purchase when available.
Great! How do I sign up?
Send us an email to info@apple-nc.org with the header “Attention CSA”. Fill out the CSA registration form (on our website www.livinglandsagrariannetwork.org), save the document under “Your Name – CSA registration 2009” and send us an email with the document attached. When we confirm your email, we will ask you to send in your form (please print it so we have a hard copy for our records) and check (made out to Honey in the Heart Farm) to P.O. Box 2066, Nevada City, 95959 and your space will be saved.
We are sorry if we fill up before you have a chance to sign up, but we will be at farmer’s market on Saturday, will be offering to do local flowers for events this summer (tell your friends who are getting married!), will be continuing to host our wildly popular “soup nights” to raise money for various agricultural non-profits and our “young-farmer” internship program, are always open to willing volunteers, and encourage you to join us at our Thursday night potlucks, open to everyone in the community. If you are interested in being on our email list, in order to receive a weekly update of events at the farm as well as a newsletter, it would be my pleasure to put you on. Our vision of a food community is inclusive and dynamic, we can find a way to get you involved, just ask! You can always request to be taken off the list, though I doubt you will be able to resist our witty writing skills, drool-inducing recipes, and barn-dancin’ announcements.
We are looking forward to meeting you and sharing in the bounty!
Mountain Bounty Farm
March 17, 2010
Sign ups for Mountain Bounty Farm’s summer CSA shares are now open! Our greenhouse is filling up, we're dreaming of spring asparagus, and we're really getting excited about this year's summer vegetable and fruit shares. We hope you are too! You can find the full details in the attached brochure [bottom of the page] or on our website here http://mountainbountyfarm.com/shares.html. This year you can even sign up online here http://mountainbountyfarm.com/signup.cfm.
Our favorite member comment from last season was from Ron Gajar who wrote “Our kids (ages 5 and 2) love the boxes too, they call the beets, squashes and other veggies ‘candy,’ they can be that sweet.”
This year we are able to offer our delicious fruit share at an even lower price than last year, so be sure to check it out. But the biggest news is that NEW this summer, we will be offering a Flower Share in partnership with The Flower Project, run by Mountain Bounty Farm's own Angie Tomey. The full details are on our website here http://mountainbountyfarm.com/shares.html.
As always, feel free to call us if you have any questions, via the APPLE Center at 478-1700.
Happy spring!
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