Monday, January 9, 2012

SAMPLE FULL SHARES - 2011

FULL SHARES are geared toward a slightly bigger family or a couple who love their vegetables or who enjoy putting up some food for the winter.  The share includes a weekly bouquet and Pick-your-own snap peas, beans, cherry and plum tomatoes.

20 - 24 weeks of organic produce and flowers.

Sliding scale: $600.00 - $675.00  $300 due by April 1, balance due by July 1. 



AN EARLY SEASON SHARE
Pea shoots, radishes, mesclun, kale spearmint


PEAK SEASON SHARE
Celery, tomatoes, squash, hot peppers, garlic, microgreens, eggplant, sweet peppers, cukes, beans, leeks, carrots, onions, greens


SUMMER SHARE
Garlic scapes, radishes, mesclun, kolrabi, turnip greens, scallions, arugula, mint



EARLY SUMMER FLOWERS
Peonies, pyrethrum, rocket, salvia

SAMPLE HALF SHARES 2011

HALF SHARES are intended to be a good amount for a couple who enjoy eating vegetables and occasionally like to preserve something for the winter. Or be about right for a small family. Or be for one person who likes to both eat and put up some food for the winter. A little larger than the MINIS but still quite manageable.

Like the Full Shares, Half Shares start as early as there are crops in the garden (mid May?) and last until mid fall (Halloween?).  Depending on the weather, they can last 20 - 24 weeks.  With the farm's new hoop house, I am hoping to get them started early and going late with plenty of variety.

The size and content of the shares vary with the season but most weeks will contain some sort of SALAD GREENS, like mesclun, head lettuce or arugula, some kind of COOKING GREENS like kale, chard, collards, mustard greens, turnip greens, spinach or New Zealand spinach, and whatever else is ready. I like to include some form of ONION whenever possible, scallions, leeks, onions, or garlic and ROOT VEGETABLES when they are available, carrots, beets, turnips, radishes, as the season changes.

Other items vary throughout the season from rhubarb in the spring, tomatoes in the summer, and winter squash in the fall. Everything is subject to the whim of Mother Nature, but there is always plenty of GOOD EATING! FLOWERS for Make-Your-Own bouquets are included with your share. 

Pick-your-own snap peas, beans, cherry tomatoes are part of your share.

20 - 24 weeks of organic produce and flowers.

Sliding scale: $300 - $350 for the season.  $200 due by April 1.  Balance due July 1.

                                     
                                          FLOWERS FOR BOUQUETS
                         Zinnias, dahlias, gladiolas, verbena, lisianthus, snapdragons



A REALLY BIG PEAK HARVEST SEASON HALF SHARE
Onions, eggplant, hot peppers, garlic, tomatoes, kale, carrots, leeks, cucumbers, celery, microgreens, squash


AN EARLY SEASON HALF SHARE
Rhubarb, lettuce, spearmint, violets




SAMPLE MINI SHARES - 2011

MINI SHARES consist of two items each week, plus a bouquet, for 16 weeks. Farm members can choose what they would like out of each week's available items or take Farmer's Choice. Just enough to enjoy. Not so much to be overwhelmed.

$100.00 for 16 weeks.  Payable by April 1.


                                                 BEANS AND KALE



                                          RADISHES AND MESCLUN



                                  SUMMER SQUASH AND TOMATOES



                             FLOWERS TO MAKE-YOUR-OWN BOUQUET