Windflower Farm CSA
The season will last 22 weeks – from Thursday, June 18th to Thursday, November 12th.
Plan A: Families with a total income over $30,000 pay $495
Plan B: Families with a total income under $30,000 pay $315
What’s new? We have purchased several pieces of equipment during the winter. One is a stone-burying bed shaper that will, we hope, enable us to better control our weeds with cultivating tractors. This should help us grow better carrots and other direct-seeded vegetables. Another is a larger, newer truck. And another is a small tractor for seeding and weeding. We found a tractor with a non-functioning engine, and my boys and I are restoring it by installing a new electric motor. This is local economics at work – taking some of the dollars you give us for our vegetables and spending them at local equipment dealers and suppliers (and reducing our carbon footprint a little bit in the process).
We are adding another greenhouse more field tunnel space in order to grow more tomatoes and other warm-loving crops. Our hope is to extend the tomato and cucumber season, and to add melons to the mix. We have been certified by Certified Naturally Grown, a farmer-to-farmer certification organization for growers who agree to farm in accordance with the National Organic Program. And, finally, we have been approved to accept food stamps, making our produce more accessible to low-income New Yorkers at all of our CSA pick-up sites.
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