Last week for Early Bird CSA price!

We are really looking forward to this year's CSA. Based on feedback that we got from last year's participants, we will be adding some new things to our repertoire as well. Visit our website for the full contract and a list of some of the things that we grow. Also, if you backtrack in the blog, you will find old newsletters that will give you a list of the things that were received last year. We hope to be able to expand this year and already potentially may have a drop off spot in Westerville if we can get a few more people in that area interested. So, tell your mama... tell your friends!!

For the 2010 growing season the share price is $375.00, but we offer payment plans:

Early bird: $350.00 if paid by February 1st, 2010
Full price: $375.00 paid by May 1st, 2010
Installment plan: 3 installments of $130.00 paid by February 1st, March 1st, and April 1st

What your share will include:

This season will be a total of 18 weeks, beginning the week of June 16th and ending October 13th. Each week you will get an array of all natural, local, farm fresh vegetables depending on seasonality, enough to feed a family for a week. Understand that we answer to Mother Nature and that will determine crop availability. So, your share will include not only a variety of produce, but also fresh cut flowers, fruit, herbs, fresh baked bread, canned goods, homemade soap, etc. throughout the season.

***The fresh cut flower option***
***Should you want fresh cut flowers weekly, make sure to mark below and they will be substituted for some of the other products that will be offered in your share. We figured since we are a flower farm, that we should share this with our CSA members!
CSA newsletter:

With the vegetables that you may not be familiar with, will be a full description and recipes. There will be weekly updates via newsletter about the share that is to come. To be environmentally conscious we would prefer to have the newsletter online, but for those of you whom that will not work for will receive one when you pick up your share.
Half shares:

Since the demand was high last year for the shares to be split, this year we will be offering half shares. This will be good for those of you who either don’t have a lot of people in the household or don’t eat as many vegetables. This will consist of 3-5 things a week and/or smaller portions of what the larger shares are receiving.

Thank you for your support,
Gretel and Steve Adams

Sunny Meadows Flower Farm

Greenhouse is still growing...

This year was our first year to try winter gardening after doing some research on it recently. In the fall, instead of putting a cover crop and being done for the season, we planted cool weather crops in the greenhouse. We wanted to experiment to see exactly how long we could make our season. So, we planted salad greens and spinach, carrots, Swiss Chard, and Romaine lettuce and the science project began. We have found out that carrots are sweet as candy when they can stay in the ground longer, that Romaine doesn't tolerate the cold like some of the other crops, and that things grow REALLY SLOW in the winter. Overall, it has been very succesful with weekly harvests large enough to supply ourselves and our new restaurant that we are selling to... Black Creek Bistro.

By the way, if you have not tried, you are definitely missing out. This restaurant has got some of the best dishes in town and they are farmers too, so they support other local farmers. They also use their compost at home and are turning their oils into biodiesel for use at their farm. So remember, Black Creek Bistro at Broad and Parsons in Olde Towne East... be there or be square!