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Like your organic food? Pennsylvania's young farmers are growing it - Philly.com

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Like your organic food? Pennsylvania's young farmers are growing it
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We don't have enough people to catch that, to take over that land and continue to steward it in a sustainable way,” said Kurylo, who with his business partner owns Kimberton CSA, a 10-acre certified organic produce farm in Phoenixville. Kurylo, who ...

Your guide to 7 local Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs - Tucson Foodie

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Your guide to 7 local Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs
Tucson Foodie
One of the best ways to take advantage of the season is to sign up for a local CSA. CSA, or Community-Supported Agriculture, is a system that helps to reduce risk for farmers because consumers pay for their produce up front. Those consumers then pick ...

Is Community Supported Agriculture 'the wave of the future'? - Terre Haute Tribune Star

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Is Community Supported Agriculture 'the wave of the future'?
Terre Haute Tribune Star
Scott Foster, owner and president of Providence Farms LLC, says he truly believes that Community Supported Agriculture — also known as CSA — is "the wave of the future." "People are starting to develop an awareness that good, ... and done, it ...

Farmer-to-farmer: How is climate-smart agriculture being communicated in climate-vulnerable communities? - ReliefWeb

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Farmer-to-farmer: How is climate-smart agriculture being communicated in climate-vulnerable communities?
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During a one-day roving workshop, farmers from My Loi Climate-Smart Village (CSV) in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam demonstrated several climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices to visiting local leaders, agricultural extension workers, and fellow farmers ...

Happy 4th of July from Valley Flora!

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Happy 4th of July from Valley Flora!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' on the Farm...
  • Long-Awaited!
  • Farmstand is Open 4th of July
  • Flower Shares Begin this Week!
  • Tamales Next Week!
It might just be the year of the carrot!
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What's In Your Share This Week:*
  • Collard Greens
  • Hakurei Turnips
  • Snap Peas
  • Head Lettuce
  • Strawberries
  • Broccoli
  • Bunch Carrots
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Arugula
  • Spinach
  • Basil
  • Parsley
  • Cauliflower
  • Broccolini
*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What Might be in your Share Next Week...
  • Broccoli and/or broccolini
  • Beets?
  • Lettuce
  • Carrots
  • Fennel
  • Purplette Onions?
  • Kale?
  • Sugar Snap Peas
  • Zucchini?
  • Cauliflower?
  • Strawberries
Long Awaited!
They're here, the strawberries you've all been waiting for - a few weeks later than usual, but big, red and worth eating! What was the delay all about this year, you wonder? Wildlife, I'm pretty sure. The strawberries were the first thing we planted into the New Nine field across the road last fall. We had just gotten our water right approved from the state, which meant green light on bringing the new field into production. We'd been cover cropping the new ground for two seasons to prepare for cash crops, but hadn't bitten the bullet yet and invested in any infrastructure like deer fencing and irrigation. The field was in farming limbo while we waited on the water.

But with water rights in hand we took the leap and planted our new strawberry crop into a lovely, loamy half acre of the new field. That was November/December. Under the crush of major infrastructure projects this winter - building a new greenhouse and putting in a new irrigation mainline - we didn't get our new deer fence up until March. Well, it turns out that deer have quite the palate for strawberry plants. They nibbled them hard and even uprooted a bunch in those couple of fence-free months - enough to set the plants back a few weeks this summer.

The good news is that the deer fence is doing its job and the strawberry patch looks better than ever now. As it ramps up into full production we'll be turning over at least half of the new beds to u-pick and harvesting the remainder for weekly Harvest Baskets, farmstand, stores and restaurants. If you've u-picked at the farm before, you'll notice that we've switched to a new strawberry production system with "living" paths. I love the way it looks and the bees love the white clover blossoms.

Enjoy this first pint of berries - it feels like a fitting way to celebrate the New Nine!
Long rows of new strawberries inter-planted with white clover in the New Nine.
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Farmstand is Open 4th of July
Yup, we are! Usual hours, 9 am to 2 pm. Come up the creek and escape the howling north wind! You might just have the strawberry patch to yourself if you time it right during the parades and dinghy races :).
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Amelia's Flower Shares Begin This Week
If you are signed up for a flower share, your first bouquet of seasonal blooms will be delivered to your pickup site this week! Help yourself to one of the beautiful bouquets and please leave the bucket at the pickup site. Amelia is growing an extraordinary array of flowers for you this summer and this week you're in luck because her sweet peas are in bloom. They might just be the best smelling little antique flower you ever did sniff. Enjoy!
Tamales Shares NEXT Week!
Just in case you didn't mark your calendar with the tamale delivery dates, tamales will be going out NEXT week!
The Farmstand is Open for Summer Hours!
Every Wednesday and Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, rain or shine!

Fresh Produce
U-pick Strawberries
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags!

Please note our hours are slightly changed from year's past, closing at 2 pm instead of 3 pm

 
For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:
 
Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.
 
Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients
 
Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.
 
Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.
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As 'menacing' County Fire burns, Capay Valley farmers brace for smoke — and uncertainty - Sacramento Bee (blog)

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As 'menacing' County Fire burns, Capay Valley farmers brace for smoke — and uncertainty
Sacramento Bee (blog)
Farmer Judith Redmond said the atmosphere was intense Monday afternoon in the Capay Valley, where her certified organic farm sits off Highway 16 in Yolo County. There was ash falling from ... top news by email. The local news you need to start your day ...

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From the Ground Up: Clean, organic produce the pride of Grindstone Farm - Syracuse New Times

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From the Ground Up: Clean, organic produce the pride of Grindstone Farm
Syracuse New Times
Richard and Victoria de Graff walk into the kitchen of a local restaurant carrying a “Mystery Box” of organic produce from Grindstone Farm. A chef pulls out onions, carrots, acorn squash, butternut squash, beets, turnips, watermelon, radishes and more ...

Your Vegetable Shopping in Bengaluru Can Directly Help Farmers. Here's How! - The Better India

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Your Vegetable Shopping in Bengaluru Can Directly Help Farmers. Here's How!
The Better India
The atmosphere on Sunday morning at the Canara Union Community Hall in Malleswaram, Bengaluru, is relaxed and friendly, as people trickle in to pick up their vegetable baskets from the Navadarshanam Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme. Some ...

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