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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
CSA Coming Soon!
For those of you that are interested, we are seriously considering having a CSA this year. A CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. The idea is that a group of families purchase "shares" in the CSA early in the season or before the growing season starts. This helps offset the costs that the farmer has at the beginning of the season in terms of seeds, plants, fuel, general farm upkeep. The families in return get local produce delivered to a predetermined location each week for the growing season. The families and the farmer share in the risks as well as the bounty of produce that comes with each growing season.
Most CSA's offer anywhere between 6 and 10 different items each week for about 24 weeks. Depending on the time of the season the variety may be more or less. For example, in early May a family might expect to get a delivery that is heavy on the cool season veggies like greens, lettuce, and radishes.
I plan on being able to offer a wide variety of produce that is organically raised (although we are not certified). More about certification in a future blog.
If you would like more information, feel free to send me an email at readcarrie@hotmail.com, or check back at the blog, where I will post some more details when it is more finalized.
Most CSA's offer anywhere between 6 and 10 different items each week for about 24 weeks. Depending on the time of the season the variety may be more or less. For example, in early May a family might expect to get a delivery that is heavy on the cool season veggies like greens, lettuce, and radishes.
I plan on being able to offer a wide variety of produce that is organically raised (although we are not certified). More about certification in a future blog.
If you would like more information, feel free to send me an email at readcarrie@hotmail.com, or check back at the blog, where I will post some more details when it is more finalized.
Back in the groove...or at least trying
We have had many things happen since the last post in November. We have harvested about 100 pounds of lettuce since November. Unfortunately our last harvest was a bust. I picked 20 pounds of lettuce and then we had a snow/ice storm that made it impossible to get the lettuce to it's destination in Columbia.
On December 17, we hosted and ran a workshop for University of Missouri Extension. It was a high tunnel workshop that was catered by a local caterer and farmer, Les Witte. Les and Beth Witte run Brush Creek Farms and Catering about 3 miles from us. The meal consisted of all locally produced foods. There was delicious pork, scalloped potatoes, salad (our lettuce), and a berry crisp. There were over 70 people in attendance and there is a wait list of about 30 more people that would like to come to repeat of it in the upcoming months.
At the workshop Andy explained the economics and engineering of the high tunnel, while I gave a tour and demonstration with the lettuce inside the tunnel. We got coverage from our local paper, The Gasconade County Republican, thanks to our friend Dave Marner. He put some great pictures in the paper the week after Christmas.
I am now working on getting the greenhouse up and growing again after the hard hard frost we had for the last week. Temperatures are supposed to be in the 40's, which is promising. The Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce is looking the worst of all varietiesout there with some rotting and burnt tips. I cut it back and it will hopefully get looking a little nicer.
I will post some pictures from the workshop next.
Enjoy the warm balmy weather everyone!! As my friend Cari would say "40 degrees....you never felt so good!"
On December 17, we hosted and ran a workshop for University of Missouri Extension. It was a high tunnel workshop that was catered by a local caterer and farmer, Les Witte. Les and Beth Witte run Brush Creek Farms and Catering about 3 miles from us. The meal consisted of all locally produced foods. There was delicious pork, scalloped potatoes, salad (our lettuce), and a berry crisp. There were over 70 people in attendance and there is a wait list of about 30 more people that would like to come to repeat of it in the upcoming months.
At the workshop Andy explained the economics and engineering of the high tunnel, while I gave a tour and demonstration with the lettuce inside the tunnel. We got coverage from our local paper, The Gasconade County Republican, thanks to our friend Dave Marner. He put some great pictures in the paper the week after Christmas.
I am now working on getting the greenhouse up and growing again after the hard hard frost we had for the last week. Temperatures are supposed to be in the 40's, which is promising. The Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce is looking the worst of all varietiesout there with some rotting and burnt tips. I cut it back and it will hopefully get looking a little nicer.
I will post some pictures from the workshop next.
Enjoy the warm balmy weather everyone!! As my friend Cari would say "40 degrees....you never felt so good!"
Monday, November 9, 2009
What a slacker!
Originally from November:
Wow, I haven't posted anything in a few weeks. Yes, I am a slacker, but there really wasn't much to report until now. Our flats of lettuce and greens that we had started were growing so slowly because of the lack of sunlight. I don't think we saw sunlight until this past week. One third of our greenhouse was too wet to plant into with all the rain we got (it seeps in on the one side). Then boom everything started really growing nicely. We got our starts of lettuce, pac choi, kale, broccoli, and broccoli rabe in the ground this past Saturday. It was a nice introduction back into the real world after fighting off sickness in our house for two weeks. Nearly the entire greenhouse is full of beautiful plants. We have one more small spot where we will put even more arugala in. We love it and so do the restaurants. We should be picking in a week or two. I'll let you know how that goes...
Wow, I haven't posted anything in a few weeks. Yes, I am a slacker, but there really wasn't much to report until now. Our flats of lettuce and greens that we had started were growing so slowly because of the lack of sunlight. I don't think we saw sunlight until this past week. One third of our greenhouse was too wet to plant into with all the rain we got (it seeps in on the one side). Then boom everything started really growing nicely. We got our starts of lettuce, pac choi, kale, broccoli, and broccoli rabe in the ground this past Saturday. It was a nice introduction back into the real world after fighting off sickness in our house for two weeks. Nearly the entire greenhouse is full of beautiful plants. We have one more small spot where we will put even more arugala in. We love it and so do the restaurants. We should be picking in a week or two. I'll let you know how that goes...
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