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Share the Harvest 2015

9/23/2015

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It's time for Share the Harvest! Each year, NOFA-VT holds this fundraiser on the first Thursday of October to benefit the Vermont Farm Share Program. Farm Share helps to make local & organic food available to everyone in our community, regardless of income, by supporting the cost of CSA shares for limited-income families. We are proud to take part in this program and we encourage you to participate in Share the Harvest. All you have to do is enjoy some great food at a participating local business on October 1, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Share the Harvest.

Local businesses include:
American Flatbread Middlebury Hearth
Courtyard Marriott 
Fire and Ice
Green Peppers
Middlebury Natural Foods Coop
Otter Creek Bakery
Stone Leaf Teahouse
Rutland Area Food Coop

Learn more and check out the whole list on NOFA-VT's site.


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Stick Season a-coming!

9/16/2015

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The past few days have been gloriously fall, crisp and clear and warming up in the afternoons. The goldenrod is out and the pumpkins are in. We got some good rain earlier in the week and are glad for the change of season. A funny thing about farming is that while we are outside in this moment's weather, we are also always thinking ahead -- right now, we're wondering when the first frost will come. Not too far after that will be the end of the main farming season. We have just over a month left in our summer CSA, which means that right now is the perfect time to sign up for the Stick Season share!

Stick season is the time after the end of fall, when the leaves are down, and before winter really takes hold. The most prominent landscape feature is the bare branches of the trees: sticks. It can be a dark and dreary time; let us brighten it up for you with fresh greens, colorful squash, and tasty root vegetables! We have one share size, just $200 for seven weeks of local produce. We are offering on-farm pickup as well as delivery to our drop sites in Middlebury and Rutland. Please get in touch if you would like to talk about delivery directly to your place of business!
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A Plenitude of Onions

9/1/2015

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The big harvest is underway, starting with onions. This has been a killer year for onions for us, for reasons we are trying to figure out. Our sweet onions have been just huge -- some over two pounds and about the size of Sonora's head. Those are nearly unsaleably big, though we are selling some to Cattails restaurant, just down the road, for their onion rings. The storage onions are coming in strong as well. We've set up our oldest, smallest greenhouse for onion curing by draping black plastic inside and creating racks with a ginormous fan blowing at one end to keep the air moving. Those silver racks are 8x12 feet and probably hold about a thousand pounds of onions a piece. So far we have about a third of the storage onions harvested. After they dry down, we'll cut the tops off and move them to cold storage for the winter. Last year we were still pulling good onions out of the cooler in April, when we ran out -- looking forward to seeing how long these will last!
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