Seventh Week of Winter Season
Our Online Marketplace opens this morning, January 30th, and closes at 5pm Sunday, February 1st for a Tuesday February 2nd delivery.
Shopping Expedition to Ashland and Medford
We’re on for Tuesday, and have beautiful weather for the trip north. It will be another 2-week stock-up opportunity. It’s also the first trip in February and marks a month before the outdoor market opens for 2026. If this weather continues, our farmers will have a big menu to offer us. On the other hand, March is always anything goes.
For now, we have RiseUp Bakery ‘s Pop-up out on Rt 99, a lot offered at the Co-op, Trader Joe’s usuals plus or minus in or out of stock items. I also plan to shop at Market of Choice, Shop and Cart and Bi-Mart for a few household items and am happy to look for things you might need.
At Jessie’s Cosmic Garden
I’ve planted the first seeds of 2026 – all flowers for the patio, decks and front garden and porch. I do have garden and greenhouse plans in place and the seed is all here. During the upcoming “heat wave”, I’ll have some help getting all the old plants to compost and chicken coop floors to add to in situ composting.
The girls are having good days and bad days for laying but seem on the edge of returning to it seriously. I’ll clean their coop out this week and see if that makes a difference. They need to lay their eggs and get on their way but a few are hovering to no good end. Such is the painful part of chicken raising. One dozen at most this next week.
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.