Local. Sustainable. Grown With Love.

Fall (Winter) At The Farm

2009-11-06T23:56:00.000-08:00

October 20, 2009: Hello, David Rauch blogging here, farm-sitter for the farm while Laurie is away.

So, we've still got summer's last tomatoes cluttering our tables, summer's last corn drying in the chicken coop, and just the beginning of fall's pumpkin seeds roasting up at our friend's house up the hill.

The farm is still very alive. Though, truly, the season has reduced the field to withered crops and given our rooster, Spot, steamy breath when he crows, the soil is still alive.

Laurie and I are already in the works to put a cover crop over the field to guard it from the long winter and prepare it for the coming spring, whatever it may bring. The acre isn't sitting idle, no, we're giving it alot of thought, using a lot of imagination, wrapping up a mile of irrigation, and we at the farm are excited to see what the winter brings.

Thanks for everyone checking out the post. Again, the weather may be inhospitable, but Locavore Farms is still active. Check back for more winter updates,

Warmly, from your farm winter-watcher,

david

Growing with Love

2009-08-25T18:05:00.000-07:00

Philip and Amanda showing Natalie the ropes

When WWOOFer Natalie (secret radio name: Awesome Turtle) came to the farm, she had just a few hours to learn so much about it before she took care of it single-handedly for four days. For a couple of weeks after that, she was the only WWOOFer in a place that is usually teeming with many people. Throughout, she was cheerful and positive. It was a joy to have her! Here are her thoughts about her time at the farm after being away for a while. Oh Natalie, it was a magical time with you!

Natalie rocking the Lakeview Farmer's Market

It’s been about two weeks since my departure from Locavore Farms and I can only look back on my time there with blissful memories and jealousy towards the WWOOFers who remain. Henrike, Eliván, Micaela and Noah - you lucky, lucky dogs. Our life at LoveJoyPeace was how it ought to be; waking up at dawn, hitting the sun’s snooze alarm until it blindingly beats through the mesh of the tent roof at 6am, working hard until the sizzle of the dirt burns the skin of our legs, dining on the unbelievable deliciousness provided by the combination of Laurie Wayne’s culinary genius and the miracle of what the farm can produce. Once the clothed dip in the creek was introduced to us the heat of the Surprise Valley afternoon was no longer a menace but instead a solar dryer. Our evenings filled with zucchini creations, hot spring visits, music and the company of fantastic neighbors rounded out eventful and fulfilling farm days. Surprise Valley’s name doesn’t disappoint. Not only was I surprised by the place’s physical beauty but the beauty of every person, plant and animal I met. People aged 0-90 with their fantastically designed gardens and incredible knowledge never ceased to amaze. And I am a much better person for having known the Peopletons and the Chickens Wayne, hugging their soft feathers, using the air-lock method for chicken retrieval and receiving nourishment from their adorably teeny tiny eggs. Coming back to New Jersey, the traffic, the chain stores, the plastic and Styrofoam wrapped zucchini, the parking lot farmer’s markets with boxes marked “California” (not kidding)…it’s all pretty shocking to the system. As I readjust myself to college time, staying up until 4am, sleeping until the late morning, I laugh when I realize I’m sleeping through what on the farm is the most productive part of the day. Thank you Laurie Wayne for opening up your home and land to us and sharing you luckiness with us. We are so lucky to know you and LoveJoyPeace! And thank you Fort Bidwell for opening up your beautiful corner of paradise to us WWOOFers.

Coyote, Killa, Chico, Awesome Turtle, Ladybug, and Li Tong

Harvest and Preparations

2009-08-18T06:03:00.001-07:00

We're not sure how it happened, but the wheel of the year has turned again, and life on the farm is about harvesting, watering, and creating the foundation of future years at the farm. The sun is rising later and setting earlier each day, and we've started to have cool evenings and a few cool days. We've got several weeks of harvest left, and we are delighted that every day we are able to welcome old friends and new guests into the U-Pick. The chickens are laying three or four eggs a day now, but the delight with which each egg is discovered has not diminished since that first small brown miracle was found on July 27. Tender Chicken has declared her independence from the current chicken enclosure and is usually found wandering near the house and supervising the construction of the greenhouse/chickenhouse.

We're at Farmer's Markets every Saturday, alternating between Lakeview and Cedarville, and preparing for the fair parade this weekend. Our wonderful WWOOFer crew now consists of Noah and Micaela, Elivan, and Henrike, and they are guardians over our bounty of beans, broccoli, cabbage, onions, beets, celery, peppers, leeks, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, corn, melons, lettuce, mustard greens, herbs, and more. This is an enchanted piece of land that inspires and and invites a close relationship with life in its many manifestations. Also, we eat really well, every single day.

Lovin' the Rancho life (a post from guest writer WWOOFer Ladybug)

2009-07-30T06:42:00.000-07:00

With the U-Pick garden up and running we have had many daily visits from supporting neighbors and friends gathering up big baskets of our fresh and tasty goodness grown with love. The garden resembles a rainbow of mouth watering delight with tons of bright leafy green lettuce, zukes and cukes bulging deep purple eggplant and onions, bright blue broccoli, and soon to be juicy red tomatoes! Now that the the garden is flourishing we will be hauling the goods to the Saturday Farmers Market, alternating between Lakeview (where we'll be this Saturday) and Cedarville each week. Meet us there to peruse the produce and chat about our Organic methods.

Sue, Natalie, and Micaela goofing around at last week's Farmer's Market in Cedarville.

This week has also been filled with "hello's" and "fare thee Wells" as Locavore Farm has received 4 new WWOOFers, just a few days shy of sending off our good friend Phoenix and his amazing mutt Abbey to venture onward. The new arrivals consist of Noah & Micaela visiting us from the East coast, as well as Joey & Libby coming up from the Bay Area to help out with the daily grind of weeding, planting, committing aphid homicide and dreaming up many exciting projects for the farm. As of today the new Chook house is drawn up and being pieced together, while a railing for the stairwell down to the U-Pick garden is also being constructed.

WWOOFers doing their thing in the field.

Noah and Phoenix

We are all enjoying the pattern of farm life here at Rancho Love Joy Peace. How refreshing to rise with the sun to the song of the babbling creek as it rambles by WWOOFer's Hollow, arriving at the Hornet's Nest to a hearty breakfast, then on to some good solid energy exertion in the mid morning heat (how good it is to break a sweat!), before breaking for a feast of delicious home grown goodness and a rejuvenating nap. Lazy afternoons of cooling off in the creek, strumming guitars and just enjoying the wonderful company of such dynamic and interesting personalities.
Winding down at dusk to the crickets singing their lullaby to the sleepy sun as she dips her head behind the sage brush covered terrain, watching as the stars wink their shining faces overhead. We love to walk across the dirt path to the hot springs by starlight and bathe in the soothing heat, washing away the dust of the day and letting our weary limbs soak in the mystical healing waters while gazing at the heavens and exchanging thoughts and dreams with people who were strangers only days ago but now seem like soul mates. How lucky we all are, how blessed to have such a place in existence, and such good people drawn to the powerful energy of such special land!

Let's Pick!

2009-07-15T19:37:00.000-07:00

Even though the U-Pick is not yet officially open, we've had a few visitors, and yesterday we actually had our first U-Pick sale - our new WWOOFer Natalie showed our neighbor Lili where the zucchini squash, cabbage, and onions were, and the long drive to Cedarville for dinner produce was avoided. We can hardly wait till more of our neighbors are coming to visit us when the U-Pick is officially open!

Natalie and Lili with the very first U-Pick bounty.

We said goodbye last week to our wonderful longer-term WWOOFers Amanda and Philip, who saw the field go from dirt and weeds to harvested and growing abundance. They helped to create this year's farm, laying irrigation, suffering with the pump and the no-see-ums, and helping to make spring at Locavore Farms a wonderful season. Thank you and safe travels to you!

Philip surveying the landscape from Bidwell Mountain

Goodbye, Philip and Amanda! Thank you for being part of our life at the farm!

Now the beans that Philip, Amanda, Kaitlin, and Rose planted are flowering and will soon be full of deliciousness, the cabbage and cauliflower are nearly ready to pick, the potatoes are producing babies, we have squash and chard to harvest every single day - and weeds for Natalie and Laurie to attack and vanquish! The thermometer is in the 80's every afternoon, and the afternoon breezes stir the stillness that takes over a world of animals hiding from the heat. These are precious days, like all days, and we're rooting for the melons and tomatoes to take advantage and do their things. Come on melons and beans! Come on onions, broccoli, and eggplant! Come on U-Pickers! It's summer again!

One of the many kinds of beans we have coming up at the farm!

Starting to See Delicious Results

2009-07-04T15:43:00.000-07:00

Amanda with some beautiful radishes

The summer weather pattern has finally set in - warm, sunny days with breezy afternoons (and sometimes the promise of a little thunder shower), early bright mornings and balmy evenings. The plants are loving it and we're starting to see the miracles happen every day right before our eyes.

Philip found the first baby squash.

This is a precious time in our very short growing season, and we're grateful to have the help of our wonderful volunteer WWOOFers. We were so lucky to have Claire and Chris visit us for 3 weeks while they were on holiday from their home in the UK - they were simply a joy. We wish them the very best and will make good on our promise to send them some of the produce they made possible by spending so many hours in the dirt weeding. Thank you, Claire and Chris, for your unending positivity and energy! You catapulted many projects forward in your short time at the farm! Plus, chocolate beetroot cake!

The Hugelkultur is planted and hosting squash, cucumbers, and many tomatoes that would otherwise have been doomed to the compost pile, along with volunteer squash and potatoes. The chickens will be laying before long, and they are enjoying their time in the chicken corral and Chez Poulet, the temporary predator-proof hutch, but it's almost time to build them a proper house. Lots to do as always. Today's activities are pretty typical, really, of a Modoc summer: up early to harvest, then to the Farmers' Market, a quick stop at the 4th of July parade in Lake City (and we snuck into the end of the parade, even though we didn't have the official parade Farm Truck), then home again for naps, a dip in the creek, and a quiet, lazy afternoon. Soon it will be cool enough to hit the weeds in the onion beds and to start the irrigation going. After a bit more work on the farm, it will be dinner made with love from local ingredients and maybe a stroll up the hill to look for fireworks, then to bed for an early start again tomorrow, filled with more friends, adventures, and lessons from nature.

We don't really need to say it, but we're really lucky to be here on the farm.

2009-06-26T09:19:00.000-07:00

(Nearly) the end of another fruitful week and today is our first day out of the field. A new generation of no see'ems has hatched, making outside work unappealing and frustration-filled. But our time isn't wasted. Instead we're working at making the 'living areas' a bit more liveable. The Hornets Nest will soon have a new, varnished wood floor to replace the cardboard we walked on and Wwoofer Hollow is pruned, trimmed and tidied ready for a new influx of wwoofers in a week or so. The sun came out this week after a Summer solstice deluge last Saturday night/Sunday morning. An inch of rain plus hailstones and high winds eventually gave way to clear skies and sunshine on Sunday evening.....oh, and a frost. 8.30pm on Sunday evening (the first day of summer!) found us unravelling lengths of row cover over the tomatoes, peppers, squash and whatever else was deemed too frail to survive the plummeting temperatures. And it was lucky we did as 5am on Monday morning saw a low of 30 degrees. brrrr.
But thereafter, it's been nothing but hot sunshine and blue skies and the field has flourished as a result. The beans have started to seek out their beanpoles, tiny melons have appeared, cabbages and cauliflowers have shot up and even a flower or two has poked its head above the ground in the spiral. We planted more herbs, corn, tomatoes, bok choi and of course the Hugelkultur. The Hugelkultur used to be two empty trenches filled with a bit of raggedy compost and is now two (admittedly wonky) mounds of earth underneath which is a carefully planned network of sticks, sage brush, plant matter and dirt. On top of the mounds are trenches in which we've planted long lines of tomatoes and squash, all doing their best to survive. Fingers crossed. Thank you Elsie for your help and Garrett for your tractor - without it we'd still be shovelling now.
What else.....we finished the Lake City Pumpkin patch and the chickens Wayne and peeps have settled into their new lodgings across the road. Locavore Farms and its inhabitants continue to thrive.

Summer Sneaking up

2009-06-14T09:50:00.000-07:00

The first Farmer's Market was yesterday, and despite the rainy weather we've been having, it was a beautiful and relaxed morning to see old friends and meet new ones.

The farm crew in sleepy Cedarville.

An early morning walk through the wet grass to the farm reveals rows of cabbage and broccoli that will be ready to pick in just a few weeks, lush potato plants working away at making little spuds of all kinds, and of course, weeds. New watering systems, the herb and flower gardens, and the future Lake City Harvest Festival pumpkin patch are making themselves at home here.

A beautiful cabbage.

Our newest WWOOFers, Claire and Chris, are fitting in beautifully, and somehow their focus and determination have inspired everyone to be just a little more creative. Good things are happening on the farm. Next Sunday we'll be sponsoring a potluck celebration of community and abundance on the first day of summer, and not too long after that, we'll open the U-Pick for the season - some time between the 4th of July and the middle of the month. We'll see how everything is growing. For now, we are starting to get delicious greens and radishes for the people who live here, and the cloudy mornings will soon give way to bright sunny days in the garden. There's so much work to be done and so much to be learned and discovered.

Grown With Love.

Hellos and Goodbyes

2009-06-13T06:23:00.000-07:00

The farm looks more farmy every day, and we're saying hello to new squash seedlings, corn starts, and tomatoes each morning. The magic is beginning! Our new WWOOFers, Claire and Chris, have arrived and made themselves at home and invaluable. What an amazing thing it is to have such interesting, kind, capable people coming to stay with us and help us create the farm.

This week we also bid a fond farewell to Kaitlin, our improvisational hip hop opera-singing expert chef WWOOFer. Oh Kaitlin, we are lucky to have had you visit! Thank you for your creativity and positive energy!
I’ve seen beautiful in many places. How surprised was I by this valley; it smuggled me away for two lucky weeks. And aren’t you lucky to inhabit that corner of paradise? I think I might happily enslave myself to the dirt, it be porous enough to absorb my meditations, if my legs were not so anxious, for whatever foolish reason, to ramble more dishonest terrain. Now my knees ache from the unforgiving asphalt. Locavore Farms is a gift; I played in the dirt and I toiled too, in that soil. I left begrudgingly. At the mercy of an artlessly crafted metaphor, I do truthfully say that my personal convictions are also sowed thanks to that cozy, happy, kind little experience. May I spare you further wilted tropes by simply saying thank you to Laurie Wayne and other hospitable Bidwellians. You did bid me well and I hope my legs ramble your direction again.

A Note from WWOOFer Rose

2009-06-04T19:19:00.000-07:00

Well, I’m sitting in the muggy Medford Greyhound Station next to a sweaty bearded man who keeps coughing on me, and all I can think about is how much I would give to be back in WWOOFer Hollow right now.

Locavore Farms is Paradise on a stick. Dipped in chocolate. With chopped peanuts on top. And some of Kaitlin’s orgasmically good cinnamon ice cream on the side. But all I have right now are the last of the Skittles that I bought with the very last dredges of my money. (Well, I have 3 cents left. Maybe I’ll ask the sweaty man if he wants a penny for his thoughts. Or maybe not.)

What can I say in my final farewell? I am honored to bear the title “First LJP WWOOFer of 2009”, because technically Laurie picked me up an hour and a half before Amanda :) Unfortunately I am also “First LJP WWOOFer to Leave in 2009”. So it goes.

I promised Laurie I’d throw in some iambic pentameter, so here it is. They’ll rhyme too, just for fun:

Philip, your music was simply superb
You always make me laugh and go “kaplurb!”
Kaitlin, perfessional photographer,
Or, no, should I say photograWWOOFer?
Amazingly generous Amanda
Nothing rhymes with you except “a panda”
Laurie, oh Laurie, you are the best… est
Sharing your home and your food and your wine and your hammocks and your time and your cots and your sunscreen and your shirts and your computers and your movies and your proctologist gloves and your books and your knowledge.

I’m soosososososososososososo riDICulously glad I was able to come to Ft. Bidwell, meet so many awesome people, and get my first taste of “farm livin”. After 2 and a half weeks at Locavore Farms, I do believe my City Girl feet have been toughened up a bit. (Thanks for pointing that out to me, Gerry. I’ll keep working on it.)

I’m sending happy thoughts to the plantlets and the peeps!!!

Love you all,

Rose

Farmin' Hard

2009-05-27T05:46:00.000-07:00

The weeks since the last post have flown by. Our wonderful WWOOFers have arrived - Rose, Philip, Amanda and Kaitlin, our drip irrigation system is in and functioning (though the pump threatens to quit working every single day), and life at the farm has settled into a steady rhythm of early mornings, hard work, mid day naps, and in the evening there may be music, meals, visits from friends, or more farming. The bright sun and warm temperatures are accompanied by mosquitoes, who attack some of us more than others, and there are hardly any goldfinches any more at the bird feeder. The Sand Hill Cranes have moves along as have the Canada Geese, and a white egret was spotted at the pond in th last few days. The roses in front of the Hornet's Nest are starting to bloom, as have the irises planted by Montez Bucher in the 60's (we think). The first batch of chickens have their feathers and look like official chickens. They spend each night outside - they are sweet and love people. The little peepletons - Reddy, Spot, Arrow, Rocket, Blackie, Buffy, Buffy, Buffy, and Buffy - are getting their tiny feathers and gradually getting used to the 20 seconds of affectionate human touch which is administered to them twice each day.

Our little acre of paradise is coming along nicely - the rocks and weeds who have had complete dominion are being moved out and aside for squash and cabbage and eggplant. The first block of corn goes in today, and the beans will probably get planted today too. Though we may still get a sold snap, it's looking like warm days with just a suggestion of thunderstorms in the afternoon as far as the forecast goes. There's still an awful lot to do to prepare for the season, but it's a wonderful time to be busy on the farm.

Bright Days

2009-05-10T07:13:00.001-07:00

The days of rain and clouds have given way to sunny bright spring days, perfect for planting and even more importantly, for growing! The creek water has made it up to the field, the onions have been planted, the tomatoes are stretching out their necks (they really want to be in the ground!). New chickens, and the chickens who will now probably be called "the old chickens" even though they are only a month or so old, lend an air of serenity and humor to the farm. This is a delicate time in Surprise Valley for gardeners and farmers. The daytime temperatures are in the 70's and at night it barely freezes, but conventional wisdom says it's going to turn cold again before it turns warm for good. When do we risk our tender seedlings to the elements? Maybe not quite yet. The first WWOOFers will be arriving in less than a week, and if the weather holds out, we'll be planting like crazy. In the meantime, the Hornet's Nest is experiencing its last moments of quiet before months of activity and good times begin.

There's so much to be done on the farm - planting, laying the irrigation, making WWOOFer Hollow cozy and comfy, designing the herb and flower gardens, digging, weeding, gazing at the sky, teaching and learning, meeting our new friends and customers, having parties. For now we're provisioning up and hoping for the best with every expectation that our summer will be full of love, joy, peace, and veggies.

Older Chickens, meet your new friends! Hope they are as nice as you!

Localer and Localer

2009-04-25T13:42:00.000-07:00

The amount of farm work seems to grow right along with the weeds, er, cover crops, but the days are growing longer and warmer which makes the world seem like a giant playground with a million toys called things like "pump" and "dirt" and "fence". The goldfinches (American and Lesser) have discovered the bird feeders, and the lovely song of the red wing blackbirds has (temporarily, we hope) taken the over robins' place as most common evening bird sound. The morning bird sound crown still belongs to the sand hill cranes by the creek and the pond.

A lot of work and talk (and soon, money) is going into a new irrigation scheme this year. It will be water-wise, crop-friendly, and should form the basis for an almost completely-passive irrigation system in the future. We are lucky to have some great advisors in the irrigation field (hardly any pun intended), and some wonderful WWOOFers coming in just a few weeks to help create what will be beautiful gardens on the property, and who knows what else they will come up with!

Today at lunch was the first double-year locavore-ish meal ever -- pasta with sofrito made from last year's onions, peppers, and tomatoes, and a delicious spicy herb salad made from clippings from the greenhouse. We are so lucky.

The robins have selected their nests for the year and are singing outside the window - is it a song of hope for the new lives that will hatch from their beautiful blue eggs? More chicken chicks are arriving in just a couple of days, and then a few days after that. Just as new life comes to the farm, some lives must end, and this week we said goodbye to our dear farm dog, a stout and somewhat curmudgeonly terrier who spent 18 years on this earth bringing laughter to humans and vengeance to mice. He has gone from chasing sticks into the creek to swimming back into the river of life, sent along his way by many loving friends.

Beginnings, Beginnings

2009-04-08T18:12:00.000-07:00

It's funny to think about how much of the farming year is "beginning". There's planning to do, and more planning, and scheming, and dreaming, ordering seed, and building the soil, and starting seeds and more. This has been going on for months, and it will go on for at least another month before the first bed is planted. Appreciating and being present with work that is focused on the future is a schizophrenic experience. This is a sweet and quiet time on the farm and it's easy to be alone. This morning the wet snow fell outside the window and the juniper burned fragrantly in the stove, keeping the chicks warm in their cardboard box home. Things seem to move slowly, but like the first big hill on a roller coaster, there's the anticipation that at some point the ride is going to get wild. The chicks, just a week old, have started sprouting feathers. The transition from peep to hen is magical, fast and slow at the same time.

We've proposed our first CSA this year. It looks like it's going to be quite doable. The farmers' markets meetings have started, and we're nearing the top of that roller coaster hill. There's going to be a lot of creativity and hard work around this summer, and this is what the beginning of it looks like.

Spring in Fits and Starts

2009-03-24T09:10:00.000-07:00

The veggie acre has had its first disc of the season, and the soil-building cover crops have been planted on the south end in preparation for fall planting. As the disc ran over the soil, it cut open a few leftover onions, and a delicious oniony smell infused the warm afternoon. A day after the t-shirt weather that accompanied the planting, we had a light spring snow, a perfect welcome for the seeds. Get tough, guys! You're living in the high desert now!

Inside, the flowers and veggies are happily growing and some are being transplanted and will end up in other gardens in Surprise Valley. The blueberries and other berries will be planted this week, and the herb and flower gardens mapped out. Slowly but surely, a bit at a time, the garden is waking up, and the wintry dreams of spirals and teepees and deliciousness and community are starting to make their first moves towards this reality as the length of our days stretches past the length of the nights. There's still so much to do and to dream, but the ground is soft and dark and its call is inescapable. Time for steps forward, even tentative ones.

Welcome, Spring!

Acts of Faith

2009-03-03T19:42:00.000-08:00

Today, after a week or so of springy rainy weather, it snowed. Not too much - there is about an inch or so of wet sticky snow on the ground, and it's already melted on the paved streets and other warm surfaces. We'll have more snow this week, and rain, though unless things change radically, not enough to make anyone feel comfortable with the water we've gotten this year. We hear that many people with water rights are having them revoked, that there are severe water restrictions in the cities, that big agriculture in the Central Valley is really going to be hurt.

So, at this time, with the snow falling and dire predictions of drought, with the world's economies in chaos and the future full of uncertainty, we plant seeds for the garden. We make plans for our WWOOFer guests. We create spaces for dreams to come true, though we know that creating the space doesn't guarantee success. The one thing we can be sure of is this: if we don't try, we will definitely not have a chance of getting what we hope for.

I got this in my email this morning. I think it's sweet and encouraging, like the marigold seedlings that started showing themselves after just 3 days. It gives me enough hope to think that the peppers might just germinate after all:

Until you dream, there isn't a mold.
Until you speak, there isn't a promise.
And until you move, there isn't a path.

Yet do these simple things, and you totally own me.

Friendsters forever,
The Universe

Organic vs Sustainable

2009-02-19T10:05:00.000-08:00

We love organic produce. It's good for the earth and other living things. Last year, our first year of farming, we went through the process of becoming USDA certified organic. This is a fairly expensive process even for a small farm like ours: it ended up costing about 20% of our gross sales for the whole year - it was a little more expensive in our first year because of the application fee, but it's expensive for a small operation regardless. We think it's important for our customers to know that we don't use harmful chemical fertilizers, genetically modified or chemically treated seeds, or toxic weed and bug controls. We want you to be able to come out to the garden and feel good about eating a bean right off the vine, and we want your kids to play among leeks that are as Mother Nature intended. In November we found out that the organization that certified us got its certification authority taken away by the USDA. This didn't affect our certification status, but we were supposed to find a new certifier and keep the paper trail going. Well. We're not going to do it. Instead, we're going to keep right on providing you with the best produce we can, grown with completely organic methods, but relying on our sincere promise rather than the government to assure you that your food is healthy and chemical-free.

This year is going to be a really interesting one on the farm. The new WWOOFer teams are starting to form up, and we are delighted to know that such wonderful people will come to be our guests and to work to provide you and your family with deliciousness. We know that we will learn a lot (again), we are really looking forward to seeing you at the farm. If you haven't joined our mailing list and you'd like to keep in the loop on a monthly (now) to weekly (in the summer) basis, please send a quick email to addme@locavorefarms.org of course we promise we'll never sell or divulge your address, and it's easy to unsubscribe any time. Of course, we'll also be keeping this blog updated regularly, so do come back and visit soon!