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Feb 2, 2003
Feb 2, 2003
Local Harvest Newsletter -- February 2, 2003
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Hello, and welcome to our newsletter!
OK. I got lazy. I have to admit it. It took me almost 6 weeks to get
to writing this newsletter. But it's hard to "get inspired" when
things are so incredibly nice outside. Sorry east-coast people, but I
have to tell you that this January in Santa Cruz has felt more like
April. There are people tanning in bikinis at the beach, just a block
away from here as I write this, and it's very tempting to be outside
instead of in the office writing software, pursuing partnerships with
sustainable agriculture and farmer groups, or putting together newsletters.
(that's why you'll notice there's no "new partnership" featured in this
issue)
But I'm sure you'll forgive me this time...
Read on for more details on what we've been up to, to visit our featured
farm, and to learn about our new products and members.
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1) CSA Season is Here!
2) Featured Product: Asparagus
3) Featured Member: Olin-Fox Farm
4) New Products
5) New Members
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1) CSA SEASON IS HERE!
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(http://www.localharvest.org/descriptions.jsp)
The CSA subscription season is going on in full force. A good chunk
of the traffic we're seeing now in Local Harvest is CSA related, as
hundreds of people come every day to our Web site searching for their
local CSAs.
Some of our Member CSAs are already sold out for the year, but most are
not, so if you haven't found a local one, now is the time to search for
it in Local Harvest. Just search for "Family Farms" in your area by
entering your Zip code into our search engine. Your local farms offering
CSAs will say so in their listings.
Local Harvest lists 726 CSAs around the nation. There's likely to be
one serving *your* community. Find it through our search engine, and
support your local farmer while ensuring a plentiful supply of good,
healthy, local food for your family for 2003.
If you want to find out more about Community Supported Agriculture,
you can visit this page: http://www.localharvest.org/morecsa.jsp
2) FEATURED PRODUCT
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Asparagus
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(http://www.localharvest.org/asparagus.jsp)
Although it's not quite asparagus season in most of the country, I've
decided to make asparagus this month's featured product for the simple
reason that I had some great local asparagus a few days ago, sauteed
in butter and garlic, and with a dash of white wine. It was such an
exquisite experience, that I just *had* to return the veggie the favor.
So... I've put together an asparagus page for you, where you can
find which ones of the 186 asparagus growers listed in our Web site
are close to you, learn the answers to such life mysteries as "why
does asparagus make my pee smell funny?", and read about the not one,
but two asparagus festivals held in the USA every year. Check it out:
(http://www.localharvest.org/asparagus.jsp)
And if your farm or farmers' market offers asparagus, make sure you
say so on your listing! You don't want to miss out on all of our
visitors looking for those tender green shoots to steam, saute,
or make some other tasty dish wish.
3) FEATURED MEMBER OF THE WEEK
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Olin-Fox Farms
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(http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M3337)
Olin-Fox is a small, family-owned farm in Northumberland County, Virginia,
where they grow the finest heirloom and specialty fruits and vegetables,
as well as flowers and herbs. Their farm has practiced earth-friendly
principles for over 20 years, and they serve their local community via
U-Pick, CSA, and their local Farmers' Market.
The Olin-Fox CSA still has a few shares available, so if you are in their
area, hurry up and contact them, and you might still be able to sign up
for the tons of yummy veggies that they'll be distributing during the
Spring-to-Fall CSA season.
Here's a little excerpt from their listing:
"We are busy preparing for the 2003 season. We have overwintering greens
that are doing quite well and John has all the garlic planted; he has started
seedlings for peppers, eggplant, herbs, etc. for this summer. We have also
planted a lot of flowers for this year. Soon we will be planting our peas,
potatoes, lettuce, etc. for the first delivery of spring, 2003."
And if you happen to be in Virginia, don't miss visiting them on the
Chesapeake Bay or, starting in May, at their stand at the Irvington
Farmers' Market.
4) NEW PRODUCTS
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(http://www.localharvest.org/products.jsp)
We are constantly asked to add new products into our database. These
requests typically range from the "wow, how could we have left that one
out" (like limes) to the borderline bizarre (like Emu Eggs).
>From these requests, we add into our database the ones that are likely
to be offered by more than just a small group of our members, and we
ask the farms suggesting "strange" stuff to mention these products
in the "text" part of their listings instead. Some of the more interesting
recent additions to our products list are Worm Castings and Sheepskins.
We don't list too many farms offering these yet, since they are very
recent additions, but we do have a few, so I would recommend that you
do a search for them in our Web site anyway. Maybe the farms offering
these also happen to be close to you.
What follows is the entire list of recent additions. If you are a farmer
offering some of these, make sure you update your listing with this
information. If you are a member of the public searching for these, I'd suggest
you wait a few weeks before you search our Web site until we have more members
listing them.
Here is the list:
- currants
- kumquats
- pomelos
- mandarins
- limes
- bread
- baked goods
- fish / seafood
- angora
- wine
- beer
- spelt
- earthworms
- christmas trees
- firewood
- sodas
- pet food
- teas
- leather / sheepskins
- compost / manure
- plants (bedding, etc)
5) NEW MEMBERS
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Since our last newsletter on December 22, Local Harvest has grown by
120 new members, all of them direct additions into the Web site from
the Internet. We recently made an effort to spread the word about
our Web site among small-scale flower growers, and as a result, we've
had about 40 new flower growing farms creating listings on our site.
We now list 440 flowers growers. To find one close to you, just follow
this link:
http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?ty=0&nm=flowers
We end our newsletter with a list of the names, member numbers, and
locations of the latest additions to our Web site. (see below for all
120 of them...)
We encourage you to visit their Local Harvest listings. To do so,
just enter their member number (the number on the first column)
into the "Name/Description/Product" field in the Local Harvest search
form.
Thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
--Guillermo Payet
Executive Director
Local Harvest
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5039 E.A.T. Food for Life Farm (Yorkshire, Ohio)
5040 Earthscape / Full Circle (Hesperia, Michigan)
5041 Sunflower Fields Farm (Postville, Iowa)
5042 Hart's Back 2 Nature Farm (Wyalusing, Pennsylvania)
5043 Vital Zuman Organic Farm (Malibu, California)
5044 Larga Vista Ranch (Boone, Colorado)
5045 King's Hill Farm (Mineral Point, Illinois)
5046 EnergyShifters (Fallbrook, Pennsylvania)
5048 Ploughshare Farm (Parkers Prairie, Minnesota)
5049 Kirk Farm (Groton, Massachusetts)
5050 Jubilee Chocolates (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
5051 Skippack Farmers Market (Skippack, Pennsylvania)
5052 Marketplace Co-op (Franklin, Tennessee)
5053 Show Off Farm (Gresham, Oregon)
5054 Acacia (Richmond, Virginia)
5055 New Life Food Coop (Dayton, Ohio)
5056 Big Island Art Farm (Captain Cook, Hawaii)
5057 Le Farm (Germantown, New York)
5059 Gordon Skagit Farms (Mt. Vernon, Washington)
5060 Schafer Sheep Farm (Greenwich, New York)
5061 Alison Wines & Vineyards (Red Hook, New York)
5062 Organic Planet Farms (Fallbrook, California)
5063 VB Farms (Aromas, California)
5065 Crawford Farms (Lawtey, Florida)
5066 STP Farms (Reynolds, Indiana)
5067 Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm (Ottawa, Illinois)
5070 Ukiah Brewing Co. & Restaurant (Ukiah, California)
5071 Boann's Banks (Royston, Georgia)
5072 Long and Scott Farms (Mt. Dora, Florida)
5073 Dias Pomelos (Hanford, California)
5074 Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
5075 Lubbers Family Farm (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
5076 Pleasant Hill Farm (Fennville, Michigan)
5077 Seattle Tilth Association (Seattle, Washington)
5079 Finger Lakes Organic Growers Cooperative (North Rose, New York)
5080 Canvas Ranch (Petaluma, California)
5081 Maquoketa Valley Producers (Maquoketa, Iowa)
5082 Highland Orchards Farm Market (Wilmington, Delaware)
5083 Home Grown Kansas (Wichita, Kansas)
5084 Faithful Acres Farm (Munnsville, New York)
5086 Made In The Hudson Valley (Tarrytown, New York)
5087 Green Pastures Farm (Kirkwood, Pennsylvania)
5088 Skagitonians To Preseve Farmland (Mt. Vernon, Washington)
5089 Bayview Farmers Market (Bayview, Washington)
5090 Kittitas Valley Greenhouse (Ellensburg, Washington)
5092 Lake City Farmers Market (Seattle, Washington)
5093 Magnolia Farmers Market (Seattle, Washington)
5095 Elmwood Stock Farm (Georgetown, Kentucky)
5096 Maple Farm (Wantage, New Jersey)
5097 Willow Creek Farms (Willow Creek, California)
5098 pdcllamas/produce/soap CSA (Davisburg, Michigan)
5099 JuJo Acres Farm (Loysville, Pennsylvania)
5100 Durango Natural Foods (Durango, Colorado)
5101 Genesis Farm (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
5102 Bit By Bit Farms (Summerville, Oregon)
5103 Sweet Dream Mountain Farm (Hoosick Falls, New York)
5105 Clodhopper Farm (Springville, Pennsylvania)
5106 Maple City Market (Goshen, Indiana)
5107 Summer Creek Farm (Thurmont, Maryland)
5108 Anaheim Farmers Market (Anaheim, California)
5109 Manthei Hog Farm (Elk River, Minnesota)
5110 Grubshed Missoula (Missoula, Montana)
5112 L.T. Organic Farm Resturant and Market (Waukee, Iowa)
5113 Stott Farms (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
5115 Home At Last Farms (Winters, Texas)
5116 Nothin' Fancy (Burr Oak, Kansas)
5117 King's Crossing Farm (San Saba, Texas)
5118 Moore Farms (Bullard, Texas)
5119 Provident Farms (Liberty, Pennsylvania)
5120 Emery's Berry Patch (New Egypt, New Jersey)
5121 Ozark Natural Produce Farm (Pierce city, Missouri)
5123 Shaw Farms (Columbia , Maryland)
5125 Spiker Worm and Casting/Vermitechnology Unlimited (Wheeler, Illinois)
5127 Berryfields Farm (New Albany, Pennsylvania)
5129 Valley View Natural Beef (Edgerton, Minnesota)
5131 Maple Bank Farm (Roxbury, Connecticut)
5132 Herban Kitchen (New York, New York)
5133 The Organic Grill (New York, New York)
5134 Pe-R-Ly Meadows (Whitesville, New York)
5135 Avalon Farms Premium Homegrown (Climax, Michigan)
5136 Covenant Family Farm (Zolfo Springs, Florida)
5137 Fiddler Bee (Fulton, Missouri)
5138 Steve-N-Sons Sustenance (Coopersville, Michigan)
5139 Bamboo Grove Organic Farm (Homestead, Florida)
5140 Bloomingdale Farms (Akron, New York)
5141 BlueGrass Beef (Centre Hall, Pennsylvania)
5142 Ziegler Garden (Newport News, Virginia)
5143 Elysian Fields Farm (Cedar Grove, North Carolina)
5144 Neitzel's Cut Flowers (Seguin, Texas)
5146 Bindweed Farm (Blackfoot, Idaho)
5147 Flora Organica (McKinleyville, California)
5150 Lone Star Flower Farm (Nacogdoches, Texas)
5151 Texas Sown & Grown (Richmond, Texas)
5154 Harrison Flowers (Hood River, Oregon)
5155 Chattanooga's Homegrown Market (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
5157 plantmasters (bethesda, Maryland)
5158 Polly's Flower Farm and Polly's Prawns (Albany, Ohio)
5159 Dobie's Flowers & Produce (Durango, Iowa)
5160 WiseAcres (Huntingtown, Maryland)
5161 High Meadow Flower Farm (Warwick, New York)
5162 Sunborn Gardens (Mt Horeb, Wisconsin)
5163 Dorian Hill Flower Farm (West Chester, Pennsylvania)
5164 Country Garden & Farm Market (Roanoke, Indiana)
5165 Mossback Farm (Yamhill, Oregon)
5166 Dautoff Exotics (Watsonville, California)
5169 Howling Wolf Farm (Hope, New Jersey)
5170 Harmony Farm (Hartland, Vermont)
5171 My Garden Blooms (Emmaus, Pennsylvania)
5174 Lakewood Educational Farm (Bedford, New Hampshire)
5176 Sharritt Market Gardens (Fortville, Indiana)
5179 Island Flower Farm (Grand Isle, Vermont)
5180 Riverbend Farm (Delano, Minnesota)
5181 Shelton Farmers' Market (Shelton, Washington)
5182 Wells Family Farm (Williamsburg, Michigan)
5184 West Branch Flower Farm (Washington, Massachusetts)
5185 Carlson's Farm (Dresden, Maine)
5186 Double Decker Farm (Hillsdale, New York)
5187 Rock Farm (Marietta, Georgia)
5190 3DFarm Inc. (Menomonie, Wisconsin)
5191 Vollmecke Orchards CSA (Coatesville, Pennsylvania)
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