Community Supported Agriculture - Still Time To Join

[mik3cap]

The Heirloom Harvest CSA farm in Westborough still has around 50 shares available. For $550.00, you can get 22+ weeks of fresh, organically grown local and heirloom produce (white carrots, million-dollar muskmelon, and so on). I drove out to St. Lukes cemetary last night to attend orientation and to put in my first installment payment for a share that I'm splitting with a friend.

I'm really, really excited. The farmer, John Mitchell, is a great guy - he's very professional and extremely organized. He showed us his equipment (a bunch of old tractors from the 40s, very cool stuff) and his greenhouse (where he was already growing higher temperature plants, and was giving away leftover transplants) and explained all the details of work, safety, and distribution. I am totally going to go out and work on the farm every Sunday when I go to pick up my stuff.

I found out they're also selling "chicken and egg" shares - I don't have the exact costs yet, but I know they come in two sizes: with the small share, you get a 3-6 lb. chicken every other week, and a dozen eggs every other week. The large share gets you a dozen eggs and a chicken every week!! Wow.

I think I'm very likely going to start pot luck night again in the summer... but I think I may have to change the name to "please eat my food night" as the condition of splitting my share with meerkitty is that I cook the food for her. I get the feeling though that there is going to be a metric ton of food, so there should be plenty to share. I may just ask people to bring drinks and desserts instead of entrees, or maybe even small cash donations.

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[mentia999.livejournal.com]

The chicken and eggs shares are two separate things. I believe that a dozen eggs every other week is $23. I can't find the info again, though.