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It's Survey Time!


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The Winter of 2013-14…a warming trend?

Farm Where Life is Good

We could use your help figuring out what to plant!

We’ve put together brief surveys asking your likes and dislikes and your colorful opinions in general! And we are trying to make it easy by delivering it to you online. The data will be most useful if received in the next 7 days, (but it will always be useful for longterm planning if received later than that!)

If you were a Produce Subscription/CSA member, click here to take survey.
(Or if that doesn’t take you automatically, here is the weblink: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BTCZHV3 )

If you were an Online Market shopper, click here to take survey.
(Or if that doesn’t take you automatically, here is the weblink: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B333BNM )

(You may have been both, so add your thoughts to both if you’d like!)


A printable copy of the 2013 Year in Review can be found here,
if you need a refresher on what you actually ate (yes, you ate all of that healthy stuff)
OR
if you’d like to start drooling for next season!

Did You Know?

There are some very progressive companies out there who have signed the “Safe Seed Pledge” with the following goal:

“Created in 1999, the Safe Seed Pledge helps to connect non-GM seed sellers, distributors and traders to the growing market of concerned gardeners and agricultural consumers. The Pledge allows businesses and individuals to declare that they “do not knowingly buy, sell or trade genetically engineered seeds,” thus assuring consumers of their commitment."

You can find the list of companies who have signed on to deliver only non-genetically modified seeds HERE.

Give ’em your business!

Farm News

The farm is in a deep freeze as we speak. Even the high tunnel remained at 20F during the sunny day today (we were seeing 60s and 70s on sunny days in early Dec.) We have some hopes for the salad mix, spinach, carrots, leeks and herbs that are hanging tough inside. Maybe with some normal February weather, we will see them stick their heads out for harvest.

The deer are being well fed, worry not your little heads! The remaining kohlrabi, winter radish, turnips and boc choi are serving them well, and the compost pile is keeping them warm.

Seed ordering and planting schedules are on the agenda for the next couple of weeks. It is like kids in a candy store with all of these seed catalogs around.

Have a wonderful week, and enjoy the anticipation of vegetables come spring!

We hope to feed you soon!

Roger and Lara