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Autumn Season Pre-Harvest Weeding Gathering at the Farm

Saturday, October 10th, 9am to 1pm
We invite you to come visit us and the farm, meet your farmer, meet current members, get introduced to the newly planted crops planned for members' shares, and put your good energy into the land by lending a hand in their cultivation. We will happily provide you with a hoe!
Children welcome! Refreshments will be provided.
Contact Shyryn at 602.214.9502 or WholeEarthCSA@gmail.com for more info & directions.
11805 N Cotton Lane, Waddell, AZ 85355

WE WISH YOU PEACE & ABUNDANCE THESE HOLIDAYS!

Delivery Schedule Update:
Due to slow growing vegetables (brrrr!), we will not be able to harvest or deliver vegetables over the holidays as planned. Please enjoy your just delivered beautiful roots and greens while the slower to mature crops come more fully into their own sometime in January.
Rest assured, we are walking the field regularly willing our crops to grow, and fertilizing in a gentle and balanced way. The good news is, as Matt's Grandpa, a lifelong farmer, reminds us, the longer the crops take to grow, the more nutritious they become. As always, we will email you a week in advance of our next delivery (9 weeks left in the season!) as soon as we observe the proper amount of growth in the plants.
Meanwhile please enjoy safe, joyful and warm holidays!
Sharon, Matt & Carrie

New Veggie Releases on the Farm - Now Growing Near You

We are embarking on yet another planting cycle and thought you'd be interested in what's coming up for next season. Today was a great day for planting Green Calabres Sprouting Broccoli, Romanesco Broccoli, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Rapini, Podding Radish, and Artichokes. We chose this day in the week to plant these because according to biodynamic research, the astronomical influences present today created conditions that help these particular types of plants develop to their fullest potential. What do these vegetables have in common? Well, though it may not be obvious, we eat each of these for their "fruit" or seed. Maria Thun, a biodynamicist, conducted exhaustive detailed planting trials that indicated a strong correlation between the constellation the moon was in and the part of the plant that developed during those astronomic influences. Yesterday for example, the moon was in the constellation of a water sign, influencing the water aspect of plants which corresponds to the leafy parts. Cauliflower and cabbage among others, so we planted Violetta Italia Cauliflower and Snowball Cauliflower and Nero di Toscano Cabbage. Over the next week or so, we will be planting

• Siamese Dragon Stir-Fry asian greens
• Lacinato (a.k.a. Toscano or Dinosaur) Kale
• Lettuce Heads
• Hon Tsai Chinese Broccoli
• Deep Purple Bunching Onions
• Fingerling Potatoes
• Purple Dragon Carrots
• Easter Egg Radishes
• Shunkyo Radishes
• Daikon Radishes
• Purple Top Turnips
• Hakurei Japanese Turnips
• Golden Beets
• More Beets...

We'll plant these vegetables and herbs during the astronomical conditions that will nurture the particular aspect of their growth that we all enjoy so much as food. In order to create a continous harvest, we plant crops every month or so. This agricultural technique is referred to as "succession planting" and we plan according to this schedule so you may reap delicious veggies continually throughout the season. As with all things, we plan and nature decides. In this case, while we successively planted since October, the low temperatures have stunted the growth of many of our crops leaving them at about the same size they were a over month ago! In fact, our last planting had such low germination that we need to replant just about everything. Meanwhile, you are getting to enjoy the beautifully developed vegetables that matured just before the cold snap, like bok choi's, kale's, rapini, different types of scallions and of course, citrus!

Happy New Year!

Congratulations Whole Earth CSA Members!

You are all the co-parents of 30 healthy vegetable crops!
With several veggies now ready for eating and several more maturing more fully over the next couple weeks, we plan to deliver you our first harvest the week of January 20th for Saturday deliveries, and Tuesday deliveries will start January 23rd. Though this is later than we originally planned, it now seems perfect to be expecting our first CSA harvest for the beginning of a new year. New initiatives, new creations, new connections - a fresh start.

Whenever we refer to "our CSA", we intend a collective "our" so please read it as "your CSA" because this, as any CSA, is truly a collaborative effort. In fact, I hesitate to use the acronym, prefering to use the extra breath to express the reality of this endeavor, which is no less than community - supported - agriculture. It is because of you and all of Whole Earth CSA's members, that we are able to participate as farmers and sharers of this little corner of the Earth's bounty and nourishment. We are honored to join you.

May the intentions you cultivate for the New Year bear sweet and abundant fruit.

Your Farmers, Sharon, Carrie & Matt

Whole Earth CSA Share Still Available For You

We continue to be open for memberships for the 12 week 2007 Winter Harvest Season.

We'd love to hear from you!
...If you have received our information packet and not reserved your share yet.
...If you have any questions or hesitations that remain unanswered.
...If you have received info but decided to not join Whole Earth CSA for any reason.

Especially as this is our first season, any feedback you would be so kind to offer helps us to learn how to co-create this CSA with you as members of our local community. Please share with us your thoughts on delivery locations, times or days, share cost, CSA philosophy or logistics, all natural and sustainable growing, Heirloom vegetables, the benefits of CSA versus farmer's markets versus grocery retail, or any other topic that will connect us with you as a member of this community we intend to serve. We could even talk about the weather - we realize it's not just a farmer thing.

For a personalized conversation, call us at 602.214.9502 or email us at WholeEarthCSA@gmail.com. THANKS!