Week 24 It's a Wrap

Hi Everybody,

As we come to the end of this year's CSA, Vicky and I want to say thank you to all of you for joining with us in making our little piece of the world a little more natural, healthier, and less dependent on industrial food. I have to say that I looked forward to seeing you every Wednesday and especially being Farmer Steve to the kids! It is so cool to see them so into all the stuff around the farm, the pool (farm pond) doesn't count. Our, what became, regular Wednesday evening happy hours weren't bad either! We hope we met your expectations. It's so interesting, in each of the three years we have done this, how different each year has been. If you like to have control of your business this is not the business for you. We are totally at the mercy of the weather, pests and disease and if you're not into farming it's impossible to realize the affect it all can have. I never did.

We're suggesting that you bring a bag or two for your produce this week, so you won't have to worry about bringing a crate back. Speaking of crates, please make sure you bring back all the crates you have. There are a few members that have two out.

Along with your regular produce in your share this week, we will have a few extra things as we harvest most everything left in the fields that we didn't lose over the wintry weekend. Some of these items will have a limited quantity so it will have to be a first come, first serve situation. I will have them on the list below.

Please email us back if you want to continue your egg delivery and for those that didn't have egg delivery let us know if you want to get on the list. We deliver every other week. Also remember we have a freezer full of chicken that is all natural, free range chicken that along with their range diet get an all vegetarian feed with no antibiotics, hormones, steroids, arsenic or animal by-products at all.

We will be harvesting Cauliflower in a week or two. If you want to drop by and grab one, it's on the house.

We want to thank the members and actually one non member, for your reviews you posted on www.localharvest.org Very nice, we appreciate it.

Let us know if you ever used any of the United Harvest Newsletter recipes. We really haven't heard anyone mention it and won't subscribe again if no one found it useful.

As far as next year, we're not sure exactly what lies ahead. There are many options that we are looking at right now, but you folks will be the first on the list to have first choice on joining next year's CSA or any off-shoot we may come up with. We have a huge waiting list for next year. I hope there's a way we can accommodate most of them as well.

I think that's all the business to take care of and now.... in your crates this week:

Carrots
Radishes
Turnips
Spicy Salad greens
Mild Salad greens
Sweet Peppers
Hot Peppers
Garlic
Kale
Chives
Basil
Green Cabbage

Limited quantities of:

Bok Choi
Napa Cabbage
Broccoli
Butternut Squash
Kabocha Squash
Butter Top Squash
Baby Eggplant

See you Wednesday (sniff sniff)

Steve and Vicky