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Sunday, May 13, 2012
FARM STORE AND NEXT TO LAST SPRING CSATwo pieces of BIG NEWS: First, the Farm Store
now can accept SNAP EBT. Please come by for some very good food. The Farm Store is full of nursery starts, great food, seed
potatoes -- Nicola, Yukon Gold, Banana Fingerlings --, and other good things. Second,
TWO NEW PICK UP LOCATIONS have been added: Wednesday at Blackjack Valley Farms south of Sedgewick Road, and Thursday at the
Bremerton Farmers Market. Shares will be at Blackjack Valley Farms, each CSA pick up day on Wednesday from 5:30 p.m.to sunset, and Thursday from sunrise to sunset. Shares will be at the Bremerton Farmers Market in Evergreen Park each CSA pick up day on Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., when the market is open.
Monday, May 7, 2012
IT'S A SUNNY DAYThe sun is out and so are we. We are planting today. Here is what is going in the ground
outdoors: Leeks, head lettuce, celery, two kinds of carrots, salad mix, two kinds
of beets, kolrabi, parsnips, and rutabaga. In the high tunnel, Kelly is transplanting
our sweet bell peppers. There is so much more to plant, but that looks like a
full day's work. We are planting for a 150 full share CSA season this year.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Our First Time Vending at the Bremerton Farmers MarketThe
Bremerton Farmers Market starts TODAY, Thursday May 3rd, at the Evergreen Park at 14th and Park Avenue from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Abundantly Green will be there with a cart full of veggies. This is the first time we have vended at Bremerton. This is a
so wonderful. We will be at the edge of the park in the parking lot with our bright yellow cart.
We will have
much of the same veggies that we had at the Farm Store there, plus ground round. See Monday's post for a list. Please come by and enjoy our harvest, and meet Cliff and Sarah.
Monday, April 30, 2012
CSA THIS WEEKThis week is the sixth CSA pick up for the Spring Season. We have a great variety of vegetables
this week:
potatoes
salad mix
mustard greens chard
fennel bulb radishes
beets
green onions
garlic greens Click here to see how much of each is in each CSA Share this week.
Until the next
slaughter, we have only ground round for sale in our Farm Store. We will have
fryers at the end of May, and we already have orders coming in. We are holding the price at $5 per pound (minus 10% for current
CSA members). This is hard to do because feed costs have gone up recently, as have the costs of everything else.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Approved for SNAPThe big news down on the farm is that we now take SNAP EBT at the Farm Store. The USDA approved us last month after sending out an inspector to make sure we were
really a farm store. He took pictures of our Farm Store area, our cash register (that seemed to be a big thing), and the vegetables,
chickens, and cattle. Last week the card reader arrived, and J.P Morgan, who has the banking contract gave Cliff instructions
on how to use it, with some practice runs. Some of our customers are foster
parents, and others have been out of work for a long time. We feel that this is a courtesy to everyone to accept SNAP. All
of the food stuffs we sell are SNAP eligible, SNAP cannot be used to purchase
nursery or other non-food items, Veggie Bucks, or CSA Shares. That's the rules. WE ask those using the SNAP EBT to be patient with us as we learn the new system and how to use the card reader.
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