Hi Folks,

Please remember to read the labels on the boxes indicating the produce name and the quantity of veg for the sizes share that you purchased.  If your size box is not listed on the label of a box,  please don’t take any of that item.  

A couple small requests that will help a bit at pick up.  You can bring back any turquoise pulp pints that are clean to the pick up location and we will reuse them.  If you see others there, please stack them together.  If you get something out of the coolers, please zip the cooler closed!  If you are the last person to pick up your share, please close the cooler.  When rain gets into the coolers they get funky!!!

Canning or Stocking up time is here with bulk offers of Blueberries, Peaches and Basil.  Please look at our online market for these items and order on our Online Market.  If you have yet to buy anything on our online market.  We need you to register and create an account.  It’s pretty simple, you just need to select Traditional CSA as your Customer type, then please choose the same pick up location that you have with your Traditional CSA.  The site will require you to add credit card information.  This is the only way that we accept payments for online market orders.  Even if you have credit card info in your CSA account this info does not transfer into this different system.   If you have any troubles, please give me a call and I can put this order in for you!  Note: We may not have your peaches until the week after next!   Blueberries will definitely be coming in bulk this coming week.

WHY SUPPORT LOCAL AND ORGANIC?

When supporting a local organic farm, you are supporting a dynamic situation.  You are supporting the local business/people in the area,  the sustainability of your foodshed to ensure there are food growers in your region, encouraging your local biodiversity cause we don’t spray anything not certified organic, the health of all beings in the environment including all of us.

It’s taken us decades to discover the sad and scary effects of man made chemicals used across the board.. Annual plants in their short lifespan, although super vigorous, can’t hide their lack of disease and pest resistance.  Hence the chemical use to makeup for these shortcomings.  In our method of farming we feed the soil, not the plant.  The soil is the foundation of the plant.  The soil holds the nutrients and moisture that the plant needs to thrive.  If the soil has a super diverse biome full of fungi and bacteria and all sorts of critters, then the plant has a great foundation.  Like any structure, the foundation is paramount.  

So, by investing greatly in soil health, we can ensure a healthier plant that may be able to deal with both disease and pest pressure better than usual.  The same principle applies to us.  If we eat healthy, exercise, and get some sunshine in our eyes, we may be able to fend off disease.  The big difference is that the plant is only healthy if the soil is healthy.  

How do we invest in soil health?  We’ll have to leave that one for next time…but it's so freaking exciting!  I can’t wait to tell you!

A little note about slugs!  They are an every year pest on all farms!  They are a part of our environment and unfortunately they are the terminator of the vegetable field.  They can do serious damage quickly and there’s little to do about it.  They are hard to manage for all farmers both organic and conventional.  We want to apologize  if you have had any on your produce.  Sometimes those little dudes just hang on there.  Please just rinse your produce.  That should do the trick.

Your Farmers,

Chris, Aeros, and The Who Crew