Time to Plan for 2018 CSA

First day of summer almost upon us and as a CSA farmer I am getting the calls, "When will the deliveries start?"  I don't blame you as I can hardly wait for fresh strawberries and tomatoes and cucumbers off the vine.  Please be patient as this year we have had to pull every trick we could find to get going as fast as possible.  We have had many set backs but I truly believe that we will have a good year as soon as it get a good hold. I just recently shared a post of corn in Indiana being 6 feet

Spring is in the air!!!!!!   I wanted to share some insight that I recently had on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).  In explaining how a CSA works and how we are trying to adapt our CSA to be more customer service oriented, we have realized there are some ideas about CSA farms that are not true. Let's go over the main benefits of a CSA: 1.  As the consumer, you know exactly where your food is coming from, and how it is being produced.  With E-coli issues in the big industrial production

2019 CSA Pledge window is closing April 1st.  This is our fourth year and we have learned something new each year.  I had concern that I was becoming too analytical with supply and demand.  I would panic each year that I would not plant enough or that something would fail due to weather or other factors out of my hands.  I found that this was a common problem for CSA organizers.  We all care so much that we don't want to fail the customer.  Over the past year I talked with other CSA farms and

2019 CSA Membership Open We have room for a few more families this year.  Please visit our website yooperproduce.com and register through the CSA sign-up page. http://yooperproduce.com/csa-sign-up I will give you a call and go over how the process works to make sure it is a good fit for your family.   Thank you and look forward to feeding our families!

Dear CSA Members: We are about to order seed stock for this year and part of our planning process is to get your input on this year’s orders.  We have been looking at systems that do planning and have decided to start a small-scale program on our side to fulfill our CSA members desired produce. Anyone interested in being part of our CSA family, please go to our website and sign up on our CSA sign up page at www.yooperproduce.com. This will send me an email and I will give you a call to go over

Our 2018 CSA Registration is closed.  We have a very large CSA family this year and I have ordered reusable bags for all members as great big THANK YOU for all your support.  We have 22 families this year which is double from last year.  I am sure there will be plenty for all. All the same, we will be applying for another high tunnel with this great of a demand so we can continue to grow and serve the need of our neighbors.  Here is to a new season.  I hope we get plenty of berries and fruit

We are now taking pledges for 2018 Community Supported Agriculture shares for Yooper Produce. Our CSA is slightly different from others. Please visit our CSA Sign Up Page http://www.yooperproduce.com/csa-sign-up for more details and to register. We will contact each share request that registers to make sure our CSA is a good match for you and your family. We welcome any questions.

Wrapping up 2017 CSA and farm, with the rain I am already starting to plan for 2018.  Before doing that, I want to thank all the wonderful people that came out to the farm this year and participated in our CSA.

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