Third Week of Winter Season
Our Online Marketplace opens this morning, January 2nd, and closes at 5pm Sunday, January 4th for a Tuesday January 6th delivery.
Happy New Year!
Shopping Expedition to Ashland and Medford
We can find some of our farmer’s produce, like Pat’s carrots, at the co-op but mostly we’re shopping typical produce for this time of year with a lot of it coming from organic co-operatives in Mexico, like tomatoes. Red tomatoes are on sale now but you’ll notice our favorite cherry tomato packages have added tariff charges. Leafy greens will be CA picked if they have pickers. I think there will be a great variety of our favorite veggies and fruits. I will try for Pomegranates elsewhere if the Co-op is still out of them.
We have the Co-op, TJs and Market of Choice to choose from plus Shop n Cart as possibly a good place to find RiseUp bread. I just contacted them about a popup location and they will announce it online if they find one by Tuesday. Otherwise Market of Choice has some of their bread and Shop n Cart quite a bit. I am unsure of finding baguettes so give me options. The weather looks safe for traveling up there and back this Tuesday and I’m in favor of every other week over the winter months and possibly into spring when the market really picks up. Hoa is on for spring rolls too.
At Jessie’s Cosmic Garden
I have a few herbs and could pick a bunch of small dino kale heads to whoever asks first. There’s some very short cilantro in the garden too. I have this years sauerkraut jarred up and in my fridge in the house since the barn fridges freeze produce in the winter. I will hold off washing any eggs until Monday nights to have them at their best for you. The eggs are few and far between but we can do a wait list and and offer to get you a local dozen from the Co-op. The Working Girls do not like winter! However the return of the sun will hit them one of these days and start them up again.
Link to order form:
https://www.heartofthesun.com/csamarketplace.html
Cheers!
Jessie
Important Information (leaving this up for awhile)
I don’t like rules but prefer to suggest some guidelines for the successful running of our CSA. Anyone joining in the last few years has probably not received or been reminded of them. The Old-Timers are quite good about them but we had reminders on the old website that I didn’t include on this one so here goes (and I will leave this up here for a few weeks to catch everyone as well as including it in the link notice email).
Please…
- Watch your statements and leave a payment in your box for pickup when you are not going to cover the cost of what’s being delivered – or make a paypal payment, or stop by with it. Especially during Winter and early Spring Season, our bank balance can get pretty low if we don’t keep accounts topped up. If I use the debit card (often) the transaction is immediate.
- If you are not going to order, tell me well ahead – earlier in the week if its a recent decision and at least two weeks ahead if you are going on a trip or are going to be out for a week or more. I shouldn’t find this out when reminding you to order mid-day Sunday. This is especially desired if you are a regular microgreen customer as I seed them around 12-10 days ahead of harvest. The seed is expensive – making needless chicken treats something to avoid. With a heads up in time, I can plan to grow less.
- Put your boxes out ahead of delivery (will often be later in winter when we drive to Grants Pass). Leave payments taped in them or with a rock on top of them. And please return all my canning jars so I have something to put the next batch of whatever it is in them. Thank You, Very Very Much. I love you all and so do our farmers!
- Microgreens I’ve been thinking about microgreen parameters for some time since it’s heartbreaking to feed them to the chickens who like garbage with equal gusto. Most of my microgreen members have the same order every time they order. I would like to call these subscriptions that I can always fill. When folks order every once in a while I never know its coming and may or may not have seeded enough to cover their orders, though always have some for small orders. I’m trying not to waste pretty expensive seed. So here’s the new rulIf any ‘subscriber’ is going to be gone, give me a heads up 10 days ahead, when you get your Sunday order to check the week before your absence. I will tag all the order emails with a reminder. If you are planning to place a special order or you don’t order very often and want them when you’re planning to order, give me a heads up the same 10 days ahead so I can seed more. You’ll notice I am now using a different sunflower seed (the striped ones from the big sunflowers) so if you’ve drifted away from them in the past, please try again.
- Minimum Orders: ‘Back in the Day’ when we started the CSA, we had structured box prices and an 8-week period in which to spend your box value. Now we are all over the place and it only works well when an X number of people order and a Y number of people have orders over $100. In the old days the minimum order was $35 for the small box if ordering every week. I’m going to make that the minimum order for doorstep delivery. You can place smaller orders to pick up here on order day between 3:30 and 6:00.