CSA sign up bulletin 3/11/09

CSA Sign up Bulletin

March 11, 2009

Hello there

Life on the farm has begun, albeit a bit slowly. This time of year, the beginning of the end of winter, I feel a bit as a turtle must, unsure if sticking my neck out of my shell is prudent just yet. The buzzards of march are somewhat unforgiving, to be sure, but the heat, the springtime winds, and oh, the rain, is so divine and tempting, that every so often, i take the chance.

Updates on worker shares and general subscriptions

This last weekend brought the CSA open house to the urban ecology center in Milwaukee. As always, this is a very fun, fast, and exciting time. We've made many new friends, signed up a few folks for another year of the freshest food possible, and expanded our labor force significantly, with the commitment of many many many worker shares.

We do still have worker, full, and half shares available. I've promised to hold returning member's space with us, and will honor that promise for the coming weeks. Soon though, I will need to back off of that commitment, to ensure that I have enough produce for the number of shares I'm providing. If you are a returning member, and wish to renew your membership, please let me know that as soon as you can. We're happy to take payment in installments right up until May 20th, and perhaps beyond if that's necessary.

If you're not a returning CSA member, but wish to sign up, contact me directly at 262-951-0794, or email tim@lotfotl.com. We anticipate being full by May 1st, and starting a waiting list in mid April. For more details about LotFotL's CSA program, or anyting else we sell, check us out at www.lotfotl.com.

Our onions are all planted and some are coming up in the greenhouse. The hoophouse (new this year) is beginning to sprout the first turnip, spinach, and scallion crops of the year, and baby bok choy goes in today. Things are thawing swiftly here, and we expect a bit earlier of a spring than last year.

The excitement out here is contagious, and we hope that for your own little tribe, family, group of friends, pets, and squirrels clinging to your birdfeeders, that the sentiments are echoed all throughoutthe land. Spring is just around the corner. May the foxes of Bayview, the Sandhill Cranes of East Troy, the wild turkeys of Waukesha land, and all other beings, small and tall, winged and weighted, bi or quadraped, brace for another joyous spring.

Oh yeah, if you'd like to meet Charlie and Meghan, they should be at Beans and Barley next Tuesday, from 10am to 2pm. They will be handing out flyers, kissing babies, hugging crying grandpas, fixing lightbulbs, and many other things. Charlies a high energied, bearded chap, and Meghan's short, and has beautiful dreadlocks. What a couple! You won't forget meeting them. Stop in and say hi!

Thanks again for your past, present, and future support. We need it, appreciate it, and steward it as we should.

Cheers to the spring!

Tim Huth
LotFotL Community Farm
3037 Main St. Upper
East Troy, Wisconsin 53120