It Takes a Community to Build a Community Farm

It's here!  The CSA is starting next week!  The crew and I can hardly believe it's happening!

Things have changed so much around here since October.  None of the fields were plowed and there certainly weren't any tender spring vegetables growing.  There wasn't a single chicken let alone almost 300 laying hens!  And there was no greenhouse filled with all the plants that will produce the crops for the entire growing season.  But slowly things started to happen and now there are vegetables waiting to be picked in the fields and eggs ready to go home with you.  (I wish I had a photo of all the veggies growing in the fields right now, but it is pouring rain as I write this. So you will have to imagine bright green pea shoots, newly-hilled beds of potatoes, dark green onion plants, tender-looking greens like spinach and swiss chard, baby broccoli crowns, and bright green and red heads of lettuce to name a few.   Now imagine a freshly plowed field further up the hill waiting for all the summer crops like tomatoes and summer squash and peppers to be planted in.) 

There are so many people that need to be thanked for playing such an important role in starting up this farm.  It really has taken a community to get this farm going, which feels right.  I can't think of anything more communal than the act of agriculture and of eating.  Feeding our land while feeding our community. 

And so we begin another leg of this farm's journey together next week.  CSA members can come pick up on either Tuesday or Thursday from 1:30-6:30 or on Saturday from 1:30-5:30.  Eggs will be available for sale on all pick-up days.  Don't forget to bring your bags!  There will be no pick-your-own this week (maybe shelling peas by next week!) but we will be harvesting these items for you to take home: Lettuce, Spinach, Bok Choy, Kale, Scallions, Broccoli, herb seedlings, and maybe some arugula, radishes and turnips. 

Don't belong to the CSA?  We still have shares available!  CSA style not a good fit for you?  Try our farm stands!  We will have a farm stand open to the public on Thursdays, starting on June 27th from 1:30-6:30.  We will also open a farm stand at Bird Park in Walpole on Saturdays, starting on June 29th, from 9:00-12:00. Eggs will be available at both locations.  

Can't wait to see you at the farm!
Farmer Molly and the crew