1/12/08: 2008 MEMBERSHIPS ARE NOW FILLED. THANK YOU AND WELCOME TO ALL OUR NEW MEMBERS.
This year’s seed order:
- basil: sweet genovese
- bean: Louisiana purple pole, genuine cornfield pole, Cherokee cornfield, rodcor butter bean, provider, flagrano French bean
- bean, soup: Taylor’s dwarf, black valentine, sulphur
- beet: lutz, chioggia
- broccoli: di cicco
- carrot: Belgian white, purple dragon
- Chinese cabbage: bilko
- chives
- corn: double standard (old fashioned sweet, open pollinated), robust (popcorn—we tried “Tom thumb” and didn’t like it)
- cucumber: yamato, marketmore
- dandelion: clio
- eggplant: rosa bianca
- endive: totem, eros, rhodos
- escarole: pancalieri grado
- gourd: green apple, mixed small
- kale: vates
- kohlrabi: winner
- lettuce: dark lollo rossa, natividad (both reds)
- marjoram
- onions: cortland, redwing, purplette
- peppers: ace, sahuaro hot
- potatoes: red nordland, yukon gold, Russian banana
- radish: black Spanish, d’Avignon
- squash, summer: golden bush scallop, early prolific straightneck, costata romanesca,
- squash, winter: seminole pumpkin, cinderella pumpkin, sweet meat squash, winter luxury pie, table queen vine acorn, delicata, Waltham butternut, marina di chioggia
- swiss chard: rainbow
- tomato: Amish paste, Brandywine, striped German, green zebra, sweet olive, red grape, sun gold, gold nugget
- turnip: hakurei
- watermelon: Amish moon and stars, strawberry
2008 MEMBERSHIP DETAILS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT OUR WEBSITE
Visit our CSA page to learn more and to download our Seasonal and Annual membership forms, available in pdf format.
We will be accepting membership forms from our current members beginning the first week of December, from our waiting list beginning the second week of December, and all others beginning the third week of December until all slots are filled. Feel free to contact us with any questions or to find out whether memberships are still available.
This year we’re offering two different share sizes to accommodate larger and smaller families.
Membership numbers are limited to ensure quality and quantity for our CSA community.
Membership includes:
- weekly produce pick up: a market bag filled with choice, seasonal produce and free-range eggs (optional)
- one reusable market bag
- three sizes of reusable evert-fresh produce bags in S, M, and L
- member potlucks and picnics
- u-pick opportunities for berries, tomatoes and cut flowers
- regular newsletter filled with information and inspiring recipes
- priority choice for meat orders, including free-range heritage turkeys for the holidays
- occasional bonus items like goat’s milk soaps and baked goods as they become available
To learn more visit our CSA page at TouchtheEarthFarm.com
Seed order placed 1/18/07:
Many of the following varieties are heirlooms, though not all, and I ended up ordering from four different sources: Southern Exposure, Seed Savers, Johnny’s Seeds, and the horseradish from Gurney’s because it was unavailable from the other sources.
We’ll be featuring each variety on the main blog, together with occasional recipes, so check back often!
Veggies:
- artichoke, “imperial star”
- bean, “cherokee”
- bean, “louisiana” purple pole
- bean, “Isar” yellow french
- bean, “genuine cornfield” (also have “kentucky wonder” seed saved)
- bean, “royal burgandy”
- beet, “chioggia”
- beet, “lutz”
- broccoli, “calabrese”
- broccoli raab
- brussels sprout, “catskill”
- cabbage, “Jersey Wakefield”
- carrot, “oxheart
- carrot, “chantenay” red core
- celery, “conquistador”
- corn, super sweet bi-color
- cucumber, “diva” slicing
- cucumber, “boston” pickling
- eggplant, “black beauty”
- horseradish
- kale, “vates”
- kale, “hanover salad”
- kohlrabi, purple
- leek, “blue solaize”
- lettuce, “black seeded simpson”
- lettuce, “oakleaf”
- lettuce, “red salad bowl”
- lettuce, “yugoslavian red” butterhead
- lettuce, “speckled bibb”
- lettuce, “bunte forrellenschuss”
- lettuce, “winter density”
- melon, “hales best”
- melon, “old tennessee”
- onion, “new york early”
- onion, “ruby ring”
- pea, “little marvel”
- pea, “amish snap”
- pepper, “California wonder” red bell
- pepper, “Gourmet” orange bell
- pepper, hot serrano
- potato, “Russian Banana” fingerling (we have “red nordland” and “yukon gold” seed potatoes from last year’s harvest
- radish, “French breakfast”
- spinach, “bloomsdale”
- spinach, “america”
- summer squash, “costata”
- sweet potato, “beauregard”
- swiss chard, “brigh lights”
- tomato, “amish paste”
- tomato, “sun gold”
- tomato, “gold nugget”
- tomato, “sweet olive”
- tomato, “green zebra”
- tomato, “German red strawberry”
- tomato, “Brandywine”
- watermelon, “strawberry”
Herbs:
- basil, “Genovese” (have lemon basil seed saved)
- bee balm, multi
- borage, white
- borage, wild blue
- calendula, alpha
- catnip
- chamomile, “bodegold”
- chives, purly
- chives, garlic
- cilantro, “santo”
- dill, “Hercules”
- evening primrose
- lavendar, “munstead”
- motherwort
- mullein
- oregano, Greek
- parsley, “Italian dark green” curly
- sage, common
- sorrel
- tarragon, French
- white sage
- wild bergamot
- wormwood
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