Tenth Week Of Our CSA’s Fall Season
Our Online Marketplace opens this morning, December 13th, and closes at 5pm Tuesday December 17th, for a Thursday December 19th delivery.
What’s Up at Market
We’ve seen the last of the Ashland Market for the year. However, there is one more Medford Market where we can get what we need and pick up a nice order from Tina at Easy Valley Farm, our winter farmer – along with her partner Cos.
Make a note that all that they are offering us is listed in the usual way but in bold print.This will be our last market until whatever looks doable after Jan 7th. Then we will buy from Easy Valley, Fry Farm Store, Coquette, and the stores we frequent. I advise stocking up and freezing RiseUp Bread and pastries now, though they do sell at most the stores, deliveries can be later than when I have to head home. If I do run across it, your stash will be good for another time. I can tell you choices at the stores will be limited to the two sliced loaves, Levain, plain ciabatta maybe Sesame and probably Focaccia. Coquette is only taking the the two holiday weeks off since their shop/cafe in Central Point is a big hit.
This is your holiday order for the CSA and I’m taking a mid-sized cooler with ice for fish and seafood stock up and holiday treats. Those who like frozen berries be assured, I will have plenty of room for all you need. The wharf will stock in lobster, giant scallops, prawns and many kinds of fish most of which I can get still flash frozen so they last for you.They also have fresh oysters in shell. I can find every pie on the pie rainbow, some cakes and lots of cookies too. Just ask.
At Jessie’s Cosmic Garden
There’s no way to get a chicken to like snow or even show some bravery dealing with it. Last night’s snow was just some slush so no need to shovel them out and they can still access the old smaller greenhouse for dry playtime and pruning feathers. When that is blocked and trails are needed extreme boredom sets in , poor dears. But the eggs continue to pile up and sunny days are darn exciting.
I have one, maybe two boxes of Mountain Magics this week but otherwise a pile of cayenne peppers , microgreens, and the prepared food listed starting with the eggs. I’m working on getting seed packets out, counted and culled, then new ordered for next year. All this week. The dogs are playful in the snow , then take nice long naps by the fire – one of the charming aspects of winter.
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.