"There is anticipation every Friday when I pick up my share. Inside are the most gorgeous organic fruits and vegetables. Then my mind goes spinning on what delicious and healthy meals I can prepare for the week. It has challenged my culinary skills to use all the items in my weekly meal planning or freeze what I can't use. We will be looking forward to the same delicious veggies in our winter meals. Thanks for the newsletter and the preparation suggestions for your wonderful produce, Andrea!" Ruth Ann Ventura
Thank you, Ruth. It's our pleasure. I have to say...
Demand is increasing for Real. Good. Food. Yeah!
More organic farms are in the area than ever before. And, local organic produce and pastured meats are being offered from more of us farmers through out the year.
Is it an easy business to get into? Is it easy to avoid burn-out? Is it easy to make a living? No. No. & No. But that's where you come in.
Thank you. Thank you for buying local. Thanks for going out of your way to pick-up your share or visit us at the outdoor market, when you could do "one-stop shopping" out of the rain or wind or sleet...
Thank you for allowing us to pay more for organic seed & certification, hire quality people, buy tools, and make loan payments.
Thank you for enthusiastically spreading the word about CSA's Farm Shares like ours to friends who are new to the concept, so that eventually, small and medium-sized farms dot the landscape again, and grow food for their local communities like they used to.
Thanks for inspiring us to stay in the game, sacrifice, grow and grow better.
Thank you for your delicious potluck dishes, encouragement in notes, hugs and recipe sharing. Thanks for taking the time to know us, visit "your" farm, and learn about what we do and why we do it.
Thank you for understanding that farming, especially in this highly diversified way, is cost intensive, exhausting and worth it.
Gratefully yours,
Ryan & Andrea Romeyn
2016 CSA Garden Shares like the one above are still available. Head to our website to learn more or Click here to sign up for your delicious garden share, organic strawberries, or pastured pork share from Providence Farm this season.
Upcoming Providence Farm-Spiration Events
(We're passionate about living soil, thriving plants & healthy people!
Farm-Spiration gatherings are meant inform, inspire and connect us as we all strive for better health.)
Thursday, March 24th: 9:10 AM
"Winning The Mental Battle of Physical Fitness and Obesity"
This is the title of a fascinating and funny talk given by Ogie Shaw. "Physical Fitness does not have to be complicated. There are psychological aspects to staying motivated for fitness and then a few rules to adopt for success. The speaker presents his ideas on motivation, measuring your fitness level, and exercises to become fit." Discussion will be around HOW to GET MOTIVATED and STAY MOTIVATED for life, so that exercise is a priority, not a luxury... and "I'm too busy" is a phrase we don't use any more.
8:10 optional meet-up at Barnes County Park for a walk/hike along the lakeshore rain or shine, then meet 9:10, at our farm house. NO COST.
Please let me know if you ARE coming, so I'm ready for you healthy snack-wise. Thank you.
Saturday, April 23rd: 10:30 AM 
Meet at Barnes County Park to walk the beautiful lake shore or woods, then at 11:30
head to the farm house for a shared potluck meal, see the new lambs, Belties and unique beauty of Spring at Providence, along with viewing the short TED Talk "Exercise and the Brain" by Wendy Suzuki.
Please let me know if you are coming, so we are prepared for you!
Saturday, June 18th, 4:30
Summer Solstice Potluck, Party & Farm Tour! Since this is a special day, if it's terribly stormy weather, rain date is for June 25th, same time. The food is A-MAZE-ING. We'll have our old-fashioned tractor train, cloth sac races, paint-your-own organic rocks, a sheep-dog presentation, farm tours, our bevy of antique tractors (that we really use on the farm) and more. Bring appropriate footwear, a dish to pass, table service for your family and lawn chairs or a blanket. Here's a peek from last year's enchanting Summer Solstice party.
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Help Us Share The Harvest!
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Every season, Ryan and I make it a priority to share what we grow, and we've seen the need in northwest lower Michigan grow each year with us. We never want to turn a family away who'd love a CSA share, but can't afford it. So along with giving families full-season shares each year, we donate a wide variety of our organic vegetables to The Manna Food Project & more area food pantries, including Good Samaritan Family Services in Ellsworth, which serves over 700 families each month!
All totaling several thousand pounds of produce each year. It's really beautiful how it all works. We plant, grow, harvest and wash a lot of food. At sorting time, it's not all cosmetically beautiful, or the right "size" for store shelves, but otherwise fresh and healthy. Veggie farming generates extra nutrients that can nourish our community.
If you'd like to help us expand our reach, you can partner with us by donating any amount to go towards our "Sharing The Harvest Fund".
You may designate whether you want to add more to our food pantry donations or you can sponsor an individual family with a CSA share.
Each new 18-22 week CSA family is given a free From Asparagus to Zucchini - A Guide To Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal ProduceCookbook, invited to our CSA potlucks, tours and events, as well as sent helpful email newsletters with recipes and storage tips, just like all of our new CSA members!
Ready to commit, have questions or know a family who'd appreciate fresh, nutritious, local produce through our Sharing The Harvestprogram? Email us.
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