Farm failures and successes

We're new to growing things on the scale we tried this Spring. In offering shares of our farm in a modified CSA (community supported agriculture project) through a local health food store (Green Thyme in Adams Center, NY). There are presently 14 subscribers to our joint venture. We sold "Boxes of Health" in small, medium and large boxes. The boxes include fresh veggies from our 3000' of row crops, veggies and 'certified natural meat & eggs' from my friend Steve Winkler's Lucki7 Farm and Livestock and products from Kelly Widrick's store. Typically, customers get two big bags of greens (cooking and salad), some herbs, garnishes and maybe some rhubarb from us at Woodhenge, a half chicken, a dozen eggs and a pound of some kind of ground meat from Lucki7, and a pound of steel cut oats (or something similar), a bag of organic snack chips from Green Thyme. Pick up is on Friday afternoons. Prices start at $30 per week for the small box.

We have some crops that are growing like crazy- broccoli, cauliflower, greens, onions, cabbage, carrotts, potatoes, sweet potatoes are all doing well...it is the viney stuff that is giving us trouble...wimpy cukes, non-existant mellons, and so-so squashes. I've been buying extra produce from Grindstone Farms in Pulaski to fill out the boxes, we want to keep our customers happy as we learn some of the more complex 'how tos' of the art of farming.

Feel free to contact me at jsjuczak@gisco.net for any questions or comments. Thanks, -Jim-