Dear Kimberton CSA community,
I am pleased to announce that our 2020 KCSA introduction packages have been sent to your email! All 2020 members please check your inbox as this document has some very important information in it. If you haven’t received it, and believe you should have, please contact me.
The Intro package is assigned to each member’s pick-up day and share type. These are as follows*:
Tuesday Full
Tuesday Partial Group A
Tuesday Partial Group B
Tuesday Box
Friday Full
Friday Partial Group A
Friday Partial Group B
Friday Box
*Lansdale Farmers’ Market Box share members will receive a separate email from Frank in due course.
Each member’s pick-up dates are set out in this document. This is particularly important if you are a Partial Share member because it gives you your biweekly schedule via your allocation of either Group A or B.
The package also reiterates the new COVID-19 pick up protocol. You can also read that on our blog here. We have added that face masks need to be worn by members when they pick up. Again, hopefully only a temporary measure!
And finally, one member per share needs to sign up via the link in the intro package for their allotted pick-up/u-pick time. This will be your allotted time for the season.
Tuesday members can pick either 1pm - 4pm or 4pm -7pm.
Friday members can pick either 1pm-4pm, 4pm-7pm, or 9am-12pm on Saturday.
Tuesday members, it would be helpful to shift a few of you over to Friday pick up, if possible. If you are flexible please let me know before picking a pick-up/u-pick time and I’ll resend you the corresponding Friday package. Thanks!
We are sold out for the 2020 season and the waitlist is now full.
Last week’s newsletter was an ode to local food production; this week I think we need an ode to the Wellington boot! We are hoping for a great harvest season and despite all the rain, the early Spring, and late frosts, we remain in high spirits (although there has been some frost damage to the blackberries—hopefully they will grow out of it).
Whatever mother nature throws at us, we try our best to adapt! Our raised bed system provides some extra drainage and we are trying our best to direct the water out of the growing spaces. Our Assistant manager Becky introduced us to “silo tarping” last year, which we are utilizing as a weed suppressor and protective cover. So, on that one day of sunshine we can transplant!
Frank and I were scrambling around in the dark the other week covering the carrot seeds from a 3.5” deluge. We are tarping the coldframe during downpours, and we are slowly piecing the wind beaten field tunnel back together. The indispensable crew—Sara, Mandi, and Sara—are experts at hooping and covering as they trudge through the mud! Trust me, dragging a wet row cover through puddles is…well, a drag!
Over these last 3 years of intermittent thunderstorms, we have learned some lessons! Unfortunately, with farming, learning lessons usually means adding more work! But lest us forget, that however clever we get and however much money we spend, nature bats last!
Stay safe,
Andrew
