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Fresh Chicken? We had to take them up to FREE
BACKS! We are offering free chicken backs
to any of our members who have the freezer space. They come in 7-10 lb packages and are great
for making stock for the winter! Backs
are how we say thank you for being a co-producer of Castlemaine Farm. What’s
Happening on the Farm Wow…
so here we are 25 weeks later. It’s a bittersweet moment – while
I’m excited to get things going for next year, I’ve been having a
great time this year getting to know you all and providing you and your
families with farm-fresh produce. This was our first season having a CSA
program, and all in all, I think things went well. Of course, there is always
room for improvement, it’s a fun challenge, and I love every minute of
it! So as we wrap things up for this year, I will be interested in hearing
your comments and feedback (both positive and negative of course). The only
way to make this CSA program better is if I know how its
working for you all. And of course, we’d love to see every one of you
next year as well! We have
provided the sign up sheets for next year,
they’re in your bags (bags this week so you don’t have to store
those pesky wax boxes all winter!). Since you all have first priority, we
would like to know who is going to sign up for next year by November 15th.
(No payment is due until January, just your intention) that way we can start
advertising to others who may want to join. You can let me know by email,
phone, whatever works best. We are also offering a chicken CSA program
too… that info is also in your bag this week. All the information is
also on our website. 2008 Veggie CSA Info & Sign Up
PDF 2008 Chicken CSA Info & Sign Up
PDF So as we
wrap up for this season, we are still waiting for some rain. The rain will
help us get the fields ready for fall and winter cover crops, and will also
allow us to get more of the pasture turned over (at least another ½ acre) so
we have more garden area for next years veggies, which means more fun stuff!
Many of you know that we have planted 700 strawberry plants,
hopefully we will have plenty of the yummy fruits in late April/ early May
for everyone to enjoy! We also have plans for sweet potatoes, more melons,
and even sweet corn! As always, we will have more interesting varieties of
tomatoes (I always need to try at least 2 new varieties every year. The seed
catalogs can be
so tempting!!) There are few other ideas up my sleeve, so we’ll see if
Mother Nature can accommodate with plenty of gentle rain soon. I wish I
could provide more pictures of the farm for you all to see whats going on
(it’s a little brown and dry…) but our digital camera is out of
commission. Stay tuned this winter to our website,
we’ll get back into the groove of updating it with pictures! Again,
thanks so much for a great year. Have a wonderful holiday season, eat
heartily, and as always, eat locally! Questions or
comments? Contact us: Brian
and Joann Gallagher 336-376-1025 Past Newsletters: Weeks 24 22 21 20 19 18 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 |
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