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CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)

2/24/2010 2:26pm by Mark Boen

As our "old" customers have gathered, we are reaching out to the new frontier of CSA.  We will continue to serve our great customers at our stands, but we have also had a lot of requests in the past years to start a CSA.  What is CSA?  Briefly, a customer decides this time of year to purchase a share of our farm.  In return, they will get at least twenty boxes, one per week, of produce from us.  It is delivered to their place of work, their neighborhood, or even to their house.  This box will include our pasture-fed chickens!  We will use our thirty two years of experience to stock the boxes with the favorite vegetables.  The CSA section of our website tells all about it.

I want this blog to be for you.  You are requested to communicate with us right here.  What are your questions?  What do you wonder about CSA?  Do you like our new website?  What could we addto it that would help you?  Just click on "add a comment" below and fire away. 

Next week, in the blog, I will add some pictures of the tomatoes.  Last week, they gave me the first rich scent of tomato...a sure sign of SPRING!!  I didn't breathe a word to the tomatoes that it was way below zero outside!!  I thought what they don't know won't hurt them!!

Dillon and I are leaving early this morning to attend the Moses Organic Conference in LaCrosse.  We will be there Thursday through Saturday.  It is always an awesome conference!

6 Comments »
Nicole said,
3/6/2010 @ 11:40 am
I just found out that you'll be offering CSA this year! I'm so excited, what wonderful news for the Lake Country.
Mark Boen said,
3/6/2010 @ 11:50 am
Dear Nicole,
I am glad you are excited about that!! We are too!! The combination of the CSA and farm events will connect us more to the awesome people we serve!! Thanks for being the FIRST person to add a comment to the blog! Everyone, this is a great place to raise your questions or make comments. It is YOURS!!
Ellen said,
3/6/2010 @ 1:18 pm
Let me be the second to Nicole's comments. This truly is a wonderful opportunity for this region.
mark said,
3/6/2010 @ 5:08 pm
THANKS, Ellen, for your comments as well!! You are the second to add a comment!! That's exactly what our mission is to do!!If anyone has a question, this is a great place to ask it. If you have a question, most likely others have it as well. There is no such thing as a stupid question!!
Ellen said,
3/6/2010 @ 9:56 pm
I look forward to reading the blog posts.

Do you plan to include suggested recipes/uses for vegetables in the boxes? When there are less familiar veggies I would welcome those suggestions either in the box or posted to the blog.
Mark said,
3/7/2010 @ 3:58 am
Great points, Ellen!! I am hoping the blog becomes the glue that holds us all together. I am going to put the blog section so it is more noticeable for many to use, if they choose.
The day before the CSA box delivery, shareholders will get an email from me reminding of the delivery but also saying what will be in the box so the customer can begin planning the week's eating. But we will also include suggestions for each vegetable. That is where everyone comes in. If we had many customers taking part in this blog, think how many unique recipes we could collect for each vegetable. For example, last summer, Diane was making onion rings. As an experiment, she tried deep frying zucchini and green beans. (They were dipped in a batter first.) They were both amazing. I can't wait for the flavor of deep fried green beans. So if all our customers join in this sharing on the blog...just imagine the fun we can have!!
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