Spring is here and the countdown to the start of the season is on. We are maxed out with 70 full shares (many of you have been assigned or chosen someone to alternate weeks with and considered a 1/2 share) and are adding to our waiting list. Our season opening potluck is slated for April 14th, rain or shine, from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. We will have farm tours, orientation to the farm, music and of course pizza making.
Please bring a dish to pass, a pizza topping of your choosing and dinnerware for your family. We continue to make steps towards less waste, so no paper products (well maybe paper cups) will be provided, please bring your own reuseable things.
If you pick-up on Mondays, you will be able to gather your share on the day of the potluck or pick it up on Monday the 15th. Those who pick up on Thursdays will collect their first harvest on April 18th. Please open the attachments and review the pick-up day you have either asked for or been assigned. If you are a half share please find your name next to a “/”. I will send out an email introducing you to your share partner so that you can communicate with one another about alternating pick-up weeks. Get back to us ASAP if you need to make a change. Also please read the “guide to the 2013” season, we will be happy to answer questions and will review the form at the potluck. Also take a look at the “rules of La Finquita”. We want you all to enjoy your time as members of our farms and want to help you all stay happy and healthy.
Baby goats are here! please visit our website for new photos of the farm and the baby goats at: We have 14 kids so far with 6 more does to deliver. At this point I have lost count on bucks and doelings but it has been a fairly even split. That may seem obvious but we have had years of 80% one sex or the other. They are all sired by the same buck, a Boar meat goat, so it is very hard to tell who belongs to whom. They are very playful and are prancing about the goat yard climbing the structures Luna has set up for them.
Your farm payments can be made anytime now. The total for 2013 is $840 for 29 weeks. You get a $20 discount if you pay by April 15. The deadline for paying 1/2 of your remaining balance is May 1. We have already bought many of the items we will need for the entire season: seeds, seed potatoes, equipment for irrigation etc. If you have questions about your balance please email us at lynjuve@msn.com .
We are trying something new this year. We are offering some add-ons for CSA members from other local farms. Diane and Bob own Sweetrock Farm here in Helvetia and offer the following:
“Finquita CSA Members!! Sweetrock Farm Swiss Bakery and Herbary is offering a bread add-on through our Breadbucks CSA program. If you have seen us at Farmers Markets, local stores, or visited our storefront, you know how tasty and healthy our bread is. If you haven’t, visit the website www.sweetrockfarm.com or come to the potluck on April 14th to try all the bread offerings and sign up. To participate, you need to buy Breadbucks directly from Sweetrock Farm (card or check) and indicate you are a Finquita CSA member and whether you are a Monday or Thursday customer. When you pick up your shares you will get one freshly baked loaf per share per week. You can always call/email and change the loaf type, order additional loaves or cancel your weekly loaf. We track your Breadbucks and the NEVER expire and are also good at our storefront and Farmers markets. Breadbucks will be available in $50 shares with one share per loaf per week. We will have a special 10% off at the potluck only where each $45 gets you a $50 Breadbucks share See you at the potluck!”
We look forward to seeing and meeting you all over the course of the next few weeks. Please do stop us and say hello if we have not met before. Sign-up for harvest help will be posted in the cooler come mid-May. We ask that each member help with 2 harvests over the course of the season. We need you more once peas are ready to harvest all the way through the end of October. If you can come on a Wednesday morning that is especially important as Juvencio harvests alone for much of the season.
Off to transplant tomatoes, seed the cucumbers and get those “purplette” onions in the ground!
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