Third Week of Spring Season
Our Online Marketplace opens this morning, March 14th, and closes at 5pm Sunday March 16th, for a Tuesday March 18th delivery. We plan to attend every week until December, weather and member-participation permitting.
What’s Up at Market
It looks like we can plan on another miraculous Tuesday with good weather, at least so far. It will be cold at market but the farmers are pretty hardy and have lots to sell. Last week nearly all the farmers came to market including Josh from Barking Moon, Mary from Whistling Duck, Nora and CJ from Runnymede, and a young helper from Fry Family Farm. We can hope for that again but no promises with the cold weather. We got all we wanted, and more, including Josh’s 5# carrot bags, which I have listed along with his baby kale leaves and dino kale tops. I also listed purple sprouting broccoli found at Runnymede. You’ll find a checkbox option for the 5# carrot bag at our carrot listing and I will stock them in here when Josh starts running out.
The RiseUp bread prices have been adjusted again after I was able to write them all down last week. Your revised bread orders from last week were adjusted to these prices. At the Co-op, I found watercress again so listed it though it may or may not be there. All the veggies there looked fresh though, again, radicchio and napa cabbage seem to be out of season.
Recycling
I wanted to update you on recycling options as they slowly slip away. The Siskiyou Opportunity Center at the South end of Mt Shasta Blvd, is taking glass, aluminum cans and the big crushable plastic milk containers. The dump may or may not have a knocked down cardboard collection truck. In Yreka, there is a recycling substation up Greenhorn Rd. They take cardboard, glass, aluminum and might take some kinds of plastic. You can check it out for other items, paper, lightweight cardboard etc.
I take my recycling to Ashland at a substation on Water St. just south of the railroad overpass. They are now restricting plastics to #1 and #2 plastics that are jugs or tubs. The tubs cannot be the cheap flexible clear plastic so often used for takeout and homemade dips etc. That is a severe retraction from previous allowable plastic. You can also recycle paper, lightweight cardboard, like cereal boxes, tin cans and aluminum. They also have a container for clear plastic bags only and another for knocked down cardboard.
Please use your empty box to return to me the TJ bags, egg cartons and tomato baskets etc for the farmers and my produce. I don’t take plastic bags back but you might find a bin inside Ray’s for them. What we are looking at is the inevitable cut-off of plastic that we have been shipping off to China for recycling that has been over-the-top polluting there. It’s time to quit buying things in such containers because it will all be going into landfills here.
At Jessie’s Cosmic Garden
Well, everything here is covered in snow except the hoard of eggs in the barn fridge and two buckets of them ready to wash in the house. I do have broccoli and salad mix microgreens and all the canned prepared food listed. The girls have become more agile in snow but, not unlike myself (the shoveler) would rather it vanished. It is pretty here in all the tall trees but, heck, the daffodils are blooming in Ashland! On the other hand, have fun on the slopes, folks.
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.