Community Supported Agriculture: Veggies by subscription
No CSA? No hog shares? Are we even still here? Yep. We are here and working on improvements around the farm. A CSA is a labor of love as much as one of economy, and while we still love the farm we both work off the farm to make ends meet. Ellie is a GIS …
Welcome to the 4th week of the spring CSA! State of the Garden Every year is different. This year we have plenty of kale and cabbage (the cabbage is just starting to come in) but some of our old friends have suffered from too much rain at exactly the wrong times. Our first two plantings …
Here we go! Welcome to the Spring 2016 CSA. Here at Oak Hill, we love this time of year. The world has exploded in greenery and growth and we’re starting to see the results of planning and hard work that started back at the beginning of the year. Reminder: We wash your veggies each week …
Our Spring 2016 CSA is right around the corner! We will start in mid- to late-April, depending on the weather, with salad greens, kale, turnips, spinach, onions, garlic, and more. This year we are adding several new varieties to the CSA, including Lacinato Kale (also known as black kale or Tuscan kale). CSA shares will be delivered …
Welcome to the Spring 2015 CSA! Here is what we have in the box this week: As usual, we rinse our veggies before they come to you–but they do come right out of the garden. We don’t use herbicides or pesticides, but bugs and dirt do occasionally come along for the ride. We recommend washing …
It takes a village to fill a box. With the strange weather this spring, we’ve had to replant some things and others are either gone or off schedule. Enter two other farms: Tim and Betty at Oleo Acres and Michael at the farm-formerly-known-as Cluck-N-Neigh. Tim provided the sweet potato, basil, and oregano; their farm has …
Finally, a sunny day (even though it rained again in the evening) for our Thursday CSA delivery. This spring has been both unusually cool and ridiculously wet–and because of that we have lost crops. The CSA rolls on, but our summer crops that we should have been starting to pick (squash, beans, chard, etc.) are either …
Two years ago, we were covered up in beets. CSA members complained–too many beets! This year, we planted and replanted and the beets are just now coming in. This is a great example of how crops can vary from year to year, depending on the climate and other factors. Never fear, though! Thursday boxes contain …
Reminder! Please return your empty CSA boxes! We have 2 boxes per CSA share, and each week we fill one and hope to get one empty back. I love the spring rain. One of my favorite outdoor activities is running in the rain, but I also like picking veggies in the rain. Shoes become useless …
Spring 2014–Week 1! Spinach, Mustard/turnip greens, Lettuce, Green Onions, Collards, Arugula, baby beet greens. Welcome to the Oak Hill Farm Spring 2014 CSA! A few opening notes: Now, on to the contents! This week we are heavy on leafy greens: Look for more veggies next week!
