Wishing Stone Farm Newsletter

Winter CSA 2008 : September Update

noreply@blogger.com (skip) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:09:00 +0000

CSA Blog May 2008

noreply@blogger.com (skip) — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:40:00 +0000

Greetings CSA members! The farm is looking good these days. The onions are in and three plantings of peas are in and up. We are trying Fava beans again this season. We put them in a week earlier so they can beat the summer heat that make them explode. It is a very popular veg in England but there summers are much cooler than ours and the perfect environment for Favas. The greenhouse tomatoes have never looked better and our Dutch bumble bees are working over time to get them pollenated. Last year we grew cherry tomatoes in bucket from the greenhouse walls and could not believe the extra sugar they produced in such a nice growing climate. Needless to say they are locked and loaded and hanging once again from the rafters. We just put in another 1/4 acre of Rhubarb that will be on next years menu but will be fun to watch grow this season. The horse radish survived the winter so should be harvestable by july.... Other veggies in now are Spinach, Swiss Chard, Lettuce, Mesclun, Carrots, Beets and garlic.

For those of you interested we will be selling organic veggie seedlings, herbs, and patio planters infront of Whole Foods on Mondays and at the Blackstone Shopping Plaza in Fridays and Saturdays. For those who don't know that is the small plaza at the end of Hope Street and Blackstone Blvd.. It is the plaza that has the "Garden Grill Restaurant" in it. We will start their May 9th and 10th.

Dateline Barrington, RI....Great news the Barrington townhall gave us the thumbs up for doing our CSA debit card farmers market at the Ace Hardware on County Road....We are very excited about the location and the chance to get the people of Barrington up close and personal. Tell your friends they can signup as CSA members up to May 15th. Other wise they can just stop in for a fresh tomato or cheese when the mood strikes them..

Just a reminder: Remember that as CSA Debit card members you can shop at either location. We are looking forward to meeting so many new faces this year. Signups have been brisk thanks to some nice articles and some good word of mouth....all the Best Skip and Liz

Barrington Debit Card CSA: Latest News

noreply@blogger.com (skip) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:57:00 +0000

Seasons greeting to all who are reading our first Blog. It is quite exciting to be utilizing this new form of communication. I hope it has spell check!

Today was a good day for the Barrington CSA, we received permission from George Tanner of the Barrington ACE Hardware to hold the Farmers Market / Debit Card CSA in front of his beautiful store on corner of County Road where it turns to head into Warren. We will be there every Wednesday from June 18th to October 29th. It will function much like the Debit Card CSA on Wickenden Street has for the last five years. Members signup and receive a ten percent discount on any items they wish to purchase. This year we will allow members to flow back and forth between the two markets ( on Tuesday and Wednesday) if that works for them. In other words if you need some produce on Tuesday but miss the market for whatever reason you can now drop by the market in Barrington and carry through with your purchases as if you were at either one.

However, we are not out of the woods yet. We still need to go before the Barrington Town Counsel to get permission to carry on a business in the town of Barrington. This process may take a few weeks as it involves mailing letters out from the townhall to all the abuttors in the surrounding area. Baring any complaints we feel we are well on the way to having our first farmers market in Barrington.

All our box CSA shareholders from last year will have even more choice for amounts and variety of produce. We might send out a quick email to all old members and interested parties to help us out at our townhall hearing when that is scheduled.

Pumpkin Boat

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