Seeding Stress (Stessfilmeupis toinsanitius)

Here it is again, the greenhouse days, the planning, the ordering, the spending of obscene amounnts of money. Savings gone, loans rapidly being depleted, no inflow only outflow. Will everything arrive in time?, Is my tractor going to make it another year? What about my piece of crap truck that I've put way more money into fixing up than what I bought it for? Where is my labor going to come from and and how are they going to perform for me? What about any one of the three pumps that I am reliant on for irrigation? or the three different landowners that I have to deal with that I lease from. These are the days of worry no doubt about it. Once everything is up and running and plants are in the ground and growing and selling begin it starts to level out and the brain can settle into a routine of sorts again. But right now Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

2010 CSA Season

Meadowlark Family Farm in partnership and solidarity with two other Ashland farms - Village Farm and Happy Dirt Veggie Patch - is now accepting members for its 2010 CSA season. We are offering two options; the usual model of a box of produce every week delivered or available for pick-up and also a newer model involving a early purchase of a packet of "farmbucks" exchangable for veggies at participating growers farm stands. The cost of a full share box is $560 and half shares are $360. There is a $5 per box delivery charge. Farmbucks come in bundles of 50 with a - 15% discount through Feb. 2010($42.50 per bundle of 50)

- 10% of through March and April 2010($45.00 for 50)

- %5 off May through remainder of season (47.50 for 50)

*Farmbucks are good only for the 2010 season only.

For more info or to receive a brochoure by mail e-mail Quinnbarker@hotmail.com. Thanks -Quinn of Meadowlark Family Farm.

Ashland Farmer's Market Summer 2009