It’s time for the Lansing Home and Garden Show, at MSU pavilion from Thursday to Sunday! You can find all sorts of ideas and resources related to the home and garden… Everything from energy saving tactics and landscaping designs to how to preserve vegetables and home remodeling tips. I always loved walking through the sample [...]
All CSAs are not created equal and the more you know the happier you’ll be with your decision.
That’s why when we received the February copy of the LocalHarvest newsletter I was happy to find an article entitled “How to Choose a CSA“. There’s always interesting topics coming from the LocalHarvest idea mill!
So even if you’re [...]
Each year I try to save at least 15 heads of garlic for the winter. I know that will supply us for a reasonable time before the garlic goes bad. For some reason, at the market and at CSA, we didn’t have enough of the aromatic staple to go around. At the farmers market the [...]
Beware of serving sizes on your favorite processed foods… Here’s a video from the New York Times.
Serving Size Snafu
We didn’t like the way the old form was printing- so here’s the new form for the CSA:
CSA_MembershipForm_2010
Please try to fill out the form electronically if possible (although many people have wonderful handwriting, occassionally there are scribbles that cause confusion).
We’ll also have more informatino posted on the “chicken shares” and tree fruit shares in the [...]
We have opened up the 2010 CSA for membership.
If you were a 2009 member, we’ll save your spot until March 15, 2010.
If you’re new, then you have until April 1, 2010.
Here’s the form if you’re interested:CSA_Membership_Form 2010 Thanks!
Here is a lovely op-ed piece in the NYT sent to me by Marilyn, a long-time CSA member.
Return to the Land by Maira Kalman
Thanks to everyone who filled out the 2009 Survey, it will be closing in about 24 hours. If you haven’t had a chance yet, you should have at least one reminder in your inbox.
You can still claim your prize if I see you at market too!
So I haven’t had much opportunity to write very much this season Sorry about that, crappy internet access and long days don’t mix very well…
We finally had a freeze though… I even heard the weatherman say that the station would no longer issue frost-freeze advisories since all the vegetation is dead!
But today, our [...]
While Paul is much better at detecting a ripe watermelon in the field, it is still something that occasionally confounds me. This happens to be our first year also growing Honeydew melons, something that none of us on the farm have eaten very much. Growing up with muskmelon, it was also the first choice above [...]
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