You know you’ve caught the spirit of a cooperative endeavor like the CSA when you find a way to share your share. We have an order from a group of close friends sharing a share in the 2008 harvest, and what a deal when the check comes in before January! Thanks guys! We sure appreciate you!
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28Nov
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19Nov
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Last October I attended Terra Madre, the international Slow Food convention in Torino, and heard Carlo Petrini speak about reconnecting growers and eaters for the benefit of both. Here is an excerpt from his latest editorial sent out with the current Terra Madre newsletter: Click this link to open a new window and see the whole newsletter.
Community Supported Agriculture, Farmers’ Markets, or Group Purchasing Organizations: call them what you will, but they are all new ways of backing a local economy and creating a food economy. Yes, that’s right: a food economy, because they aim to improve conditions for both producers and co-producers (see section on co-producers, Ed.). These two groups of people are separated at the two ends of a food chain which over the last 50 years has become progressively more depersonalized, lengthened, and opaque. The result is that those producing food and those eating it no longer know each other, talk to each other, see each other or shake each other’s hands.
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18Nov
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Surprising harvest of cilantro at this time and some nice arugula. It has been unusually mild weather this Fall.
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01Nov
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This is the covered bed next to the garlic. It is filled with sprouts that I hope will make it through the darkest, coldest weeks of December and January and produce a nice harvest of leafy things in February. The French technique of burying fresh manure below the bed is being used to keep the ground from freezing and the plants from dying, dormant, but alive and green. This worked for me several winters in other gardens around here, but we never know what to expect in a new place. Soil there is fortified with kelp meal for frost protection as well.
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01Nov
It was a big turnout to plant garlic today. Planting garlic in the fall is a strong statement of hope for a growing season that is still far off.
