Schoolhouse Farms, in NY, Offers CSA This Year

Schoolhouse Farms will be offering a CSA this year. We will be offering only 20 shares so don’t delay. These shares will be made up of Schoolhouse Farms produce. Produce that is grown without the use of pesticides at our eco-ganic micro farm near Skaneateles, New York. We will also include some other unique items as the season and harvest progresses. Items we believe will enhance what we have included in the weekly share. All the information you need to know about this limited offer are available at our Schoolhouse Farms LocalHarvest site or you can paste this in your browser http://www.localharvest.org/csa/M15378

We are excitedly planning your shares this winter in anticipation of our best growing season ever.

A CSA is a joint venture between Farmer (us) and the Partner (you)! You can feel good about supporting an aspect of farming that receives no local state or federal subsidies. The sweat is all ours but the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is ours to share with you. It is a win win situation that really keeps things local. A CSA has some assumed risk on both our parts as we have no control over mother nature. Last year was a perfect storm of conditions that almost completely wiped out our tomato harvest. We learned a lot from this and reacted as quickly as possible by planting alternative crops in an attempt to stave off the huge hole in the harvest. Read more

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The fall season and the threat of excessive priced heating oil prompted us to look at measures we could take to mitigate some of our excessive energy usage. The windows on the north side of our early 1800’s small farm house became this year’s project.

Well it is now mid November and the windows we ordered in September just arrived. The good news is that the price of fuel has dropped significantly so if, and we hope this is not the case, we can’t finish the window installations this fall we won’t be completely crushed by the oppressive heating bills.

The interesting part of what I have described is the delivery portion of our story. The windows came to us Read more

Late season finds

Preparing the farm for winter is a continuous process of tilling, raking, digging and transplanting as well as major league pick-up and storage. Odd items that had been dropped as markers begin to emerge from the dense cover as the annual foliage begins to disappear in the field and the decomposition of organics begins in earnest. The once beautiful mosaic of colorful tomatoes slowly is being reduced to a grey and then nearly colorless mass. The cycle of the season that held so much promise in the early spring has come to its normal fitting conclusion. Read more

Re-tooling for the Fall

Re-tooling the schedule for the school day has its own special challenges. The days of free wheeling out the door off to the bean patch and tomato field consumed in thoughts related to agriculture and the harvest Read more

The sweetness of summer

The sweetness of summer culminates all too quickly over Labor Day weekend. The best sunsets the best produce, the perfect sleeping temperature and the copious sunshine. Read more

Sporetaneous

The sunny perfect days of August have been a little less plentiful then in years past, and the days leading up to the first day of school are quickly being reduced to a handful. Read more

Rubber Boots & Flip Flops

Ordinarily the knee high rubber boots have long been stored away in exchange for flips flops and clogs, but then began the great rains of 2008. A significant pile of mud covered boots Read more

Tribulations

The air and soil were so dry and compacted in June 2008 that the rototiller simply bounced off the ground and refused to break the surface. A shovel was equally challenged to penetrate the rock harden earth Read more

Stealing sunshine

The Northeast is blessed with numerous natural assets; our ample supply of clean water, the mile upon mile of green lush forests, acres of corn, wheat, apples and those big fields of healthy livestock. Read more

Color me purple!

For the Schoolhouse farmers and farmers in training one of summer’s biggest delights is blackberry season. Blackberries one of Mother Nature’s power fruits, Read more

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