How Much Food?
The 2011 season is slated to begin the week of May 24th. Of course this will depend on the weather and Mother Nature’s cooperation. Our produce pick-up season is eighteen weeks long and ends in October. By stretching your pick-ups over these months you will receive cool weather crops such as turnips, radishes, and mustard greens as well as the hot crops that everybody loves during the heat of the summer. These include such produce as watermelon, peppers, and the beloved tomato. The last pick-up of the season is on the farm at the Fall Harvest Festival.
Each week you will receive between six to eight different items. The quantity is a nice amount of produce. Every family eats differently so it is hard to say how much food this can feed. I would say it is a good amount for a family of 2 who love veggies or a family of 4 who have a veggie with every meal. The value is estimated at $22 or higher per week at farmer’s market prices. We grow about 80 types of veggies so the pick-up is always changing throughout the season. Whatever is ripe is what we bring. The harvest calendar will give you an idea when different items will be showing up in your weekly pick-ups.
Here are some examples of what you might find at your pick-up. A May share may have turnips, lettuce, spinach, green onions, bok choy, and red mustard greens. A June share may have carrots, peas, onions, lettuce, arugula, fava beans, and beets. A July share will have potatoes, basil, summer squash, cucumbers, kale, chard, and cherries. An August share may have tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, beans, peaches, cabbage, melon, and lettuce.
You will pick up your veggies at a pick-up point. We have 4 points in town and you can choose from any of them – one in the north end, one in the east end, Hidden Springs and one off Hill Road. Once you choose a pick-up location this will be your pick-up spot for the whole season and it is your job to pick up your produce every week (or have someone pick it up for you).
A CSA is not for everybody. We as farmers will be choosing what veggies you will receive every week based on what can grow in our climate. This presents a challenge that many CSA members love and many can never overcome.
Harvest Calendar
| Crop | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apricots | x | |||||
| Arugula | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Basil | x | x | x | |||
| Beans | x | x | x | |||
| Beets | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Bok Choy | x | x | x | x | ||
| Carrots | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Chard | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Collards | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Corn | x | x | ||||
| Cucumbers | x | x | x | |||
| Eggplant | x | x | x | |||
| Garlic | x | x | ||||
| Herbs | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Kale | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Leeks | x | x | x | |||
| Lettuce | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Musk Mellon | x | x | ||||
| Mustard Greens | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Onion | x | x | x | x | ||
| Peaches | x | |||||
| Peas | x | x | ||||
| Peppers | x | x | ||||
| Potatoes | x | x | x | |||
| Pumpkin | x | |||||
| Radishes | x | x | x | x | ||
| Raspberries | x | x | ||||
| Spinach | x | x | x | x | ||
| Strawberries | x | |||||
| Summer Squash | x | x | x | |||
| Tomatoes | x | x | ||||
| Turnips | x | x | x | x | ||
| Winter Squash | x | |||||
| Watermelon | x | x |
