Farmer boy delivers wildflowers to the new baby and her mama!
TIME TO SIGN UP FOR WINTER CSA!
Either reply to this email or go online to sign up!
It’s time to plan and prepare for winter! We’ve been doing this for months already! We’ve got pigs, chickens and beef cows growing. We’ve worked with our local butcher shops to secure dates to make sure we can harvest the animals in a timely manner for you. We have been planting and preparing to have veggies for the whole winter. We just got another delivery of hay for the animals for the winter. This year more than any I feel like we are planning and preparing even further in advance. I’m a planner so I actually like it! Though at times it does make more work! Like getting a butcher date for animals that aren’t even born yet!
We have some baby piglets to pick up next week, just in time for a big load of grown up pigs to head off to the butcher. It’s certainly always a visible circle of life around here! Just like watching the greenhouses transform from spent summer crops and some weeds into a fresh clean bed ready for planting winter crops in! It’s never boring and never ending!
Speaking of never boring…..we are missing our guardian dog Ruth. Two nights ago we woke up to more than 20 laying hens lifeless in their field. Very disturbing! When the fox hunts, he takes only what he needs. When the possum or raccoon come they just kill everything they can and then eat one and leave the rest. We had to secure the fencing a bit and make sure the electric was hot. Then we waited to see who was going to come back for more “free” dinner. We like to coexist with nature and we love that possum’s eat ticks, BUT we have to draw the line somewhere. He won’t be eating our chickens again. Because of this, we won’t have extra eggs to sell besides the shares. Sorry, we may find some more chickens before too long, but it’s the wrong time of year for that.
We have the website up and ready to take payments for the CSA options. If you will be paying in full then you may go ahead and pay online. You may also fill out the online form and we will send you an invoice. Or you can reply to this email and just say what shares you want or tell us you want the same. We have tried to secure pricing for feed and butchering animals so that we don’t have to change pricing mid season, however prices will be subject to any major changes in the market. We would give you plenty of notice if we need to make changes during the next CSA season. Thanks for understanding.
Current CSA will end October 15th and 17th, we have 1 week off and resume for the winter on October 29th and 31st. We will keep you posted about when the meat pick up for October and November will be.
Thanks for allowing us to be your source for safe, local, organic food!
Blessings,
The Baker Team
