April 29, 2012

Join Our CSA



The seeds are planted and we are excited to start our CSA this June! 

 CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. In short, members pay for a "subscription" to a farm and receive a box of produce each week.  By paying up front, subscribers provide capital for seeds, labor, fuel and soil amendments in the spring, which is when a farm incurs its greatest expense.  In our model, customers will receive a weekly box of local, fresh produce straight from our farm for 20 weeks for $500.  Membership supports a small business and local family and ensures a supply of seasonal organically grown vegetables beginning in spring, through the summer and into fall.   

We would love for you to join us in our adventure. We'll do the growing (including weeding, planting, weeding, harvesting and did I mention weeding?) and you serve and enjoy vegetables on your table.  In order to secure your share, click on the membership form above to download a form.  Send it back with your payment and you're all signed up! We'll be in contact to let you know when to expect to pick up your first week's supply of crisp, fresh veggies beginning the last weeks of June.

We want to thank all of our members ahead of time.  We truly believe in the food we eat and grow and are so thankful that we can share it with you.  It is one of our goals for Farmer Vince to be able to have his hands in the soil full time.  Your membership gets us closer to that goal.  Oh yeah- Pieter and Julia thank you too.  They hope you enjoy fresh veggies as much as they do!

April 24, 2012

Marking Rows

What a beautiful weekend - the third in a row and we have planted up most of the prepared seedbeds. The Allis Chalmers G never fails to start.  Even if the battery is dead, I can grab the hand crank, spin the engine over and away it goes to mark rows. Up to this point I have been keeping up with the weeds using a wheel hoe but I will need to mount the cultivators soon.

April 9, 2012

Happy Easter


We had beautiful weather over the Easter weekend and I was able to seed about a 1/4 acre of vegetables.

We tilled the beds Thursday night and marked the rows using the cultivating tractor. After the beds are made, I follow the marked rows with the Jang seeder. I mark each row 1 foot apart and 3 rows to a bed.

We seeded all of our spring crops, some of which should have been planted 4 weeks ago.