Hello Everyone! We hope you have found some time for relaxation this winter. We've managed to sneak in a few days off here and there, but it's been mostly go-go-go distributing our winter shares, continuing to make infrastructure improvements and doing the regular work of crop planning, hiring, plotting the field maps, analyzing soil tests and making a fertility plan . . . the list really does go on and on. It's making me excited for the upcoming season!
It's CSA Week, and I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has signed up for their CSA shares already, and encourage those of you who plan to sign up to join now.
Spring Shares are sold out, but you can still sign up for Summer!
Last year was a tough growing season - new land with low fertility and so much rain, but we still had long-time members telling us it was their favorite season yet. That's because on our farm, our CSA is our priority. You get the best of what we can offer because your upfront commitment to us is essential to our existence - therefore we are committed to you. We are working on improving your experience every year. We already offer a lot of choice in our CSA, and we are able track what is popular and adjust our crop plan to grow more of what's popular, and less of what isn't. We are investing in improving our farm's fertility through soil testing, composting and mineral amendments which means more, healthier, tastier vegetables on your table.
We want to make your experience the best it can be while upholding our values of using sustainable growing methods, providing our employees with fair wages and a positive work environment and striving to make our CSA shares accessible to all members of our community.
It's not logical for me to be present at every distribution. There is so much else I should be doing as a manager and I have an amazing team to help me distribute vegetables - but my cup is filled up by talking to CSA members, learning what vegetables you are excited about, even just connecting about topics completely unrelated to produce. It's the whole point. I do this because I love growing and cooking great produce and I want to share that passion with my community. I want to be part of community, I want to create community.
We are so grateful that you are willing to eat seasonally with us - it's good for you, it's good for us, it's good for our environment and it's good for our community.
As always, thanks for being on this journey with us.
Your Farmer,
Brittany (And Kevin and the rest of the team!)
