By John, on March 10th, 2011 |
 For the past three growing seasons we’ve been members of a wonderful CSA called Powisset Farm in Dover, Massachusetts. Over the years the CSA has grown from it’s initial 100 members to around 250 with an ever-lengthening waiting list. I used to tell my wife that getting a CSA membership was equivalent to getting season tickets to the Patriots.
Over those years our own gardening efforts have grown more organized and productive, so much so that last year we split our CSA membership with another family, alternating weekly pickups. This mostly worked out, though we missed a few of our scheduled weekly pickups due to our kids’ crazy dance schedules. Yet we still found it difficult to consume everything we were bringing home from the farm before …continue reading
By John, on November 27th, 2010 |
 One benefit of joining a local CSA is the network of suppliers it ties you in with. Our CSA, Powisset Farm, is very active in the local farming community and is constantly looking at ways to promote and support other small scale operations. This networking inures to everyone’s benefit. For the farmer, it offers free word-of-mouth advertising to a community of highly interested consumers. For the CSA members, it offers access to locally produced products and services beyond the offerings of the CSA. This was the case when our CSA manager, in one of her weekly email updates, informed us of Brambly Farms of Norfolk, Massachusetts, a local provider of meat and, in this case, heritage turkeys for Thanksgiving.
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By John, on June 18th, 2009 |
 Another lovely bunch of veg including cauliflower, broccoli, purple kohlrabi, beets, napa and cone cabbages, garlic scapes, radishes, scallions, spinach and two kinds of lettuce. Missing from this photo are two pints of strawberries I picked in the field. Perhaps next week they will last long enough for me to get a photo. …continue reading
By John, on June 10th, 2009 |
Another bountiful harvest. The crazy thing about the CSA is that you keep getting more food every week before you finish last week’s load. I’ve been eating huge salads all week and it looks like I get to keep doing it. I can’t with good conscience let food this fresh, healthful and delicous go to waste. It forces you to adapt your eating habits to the cycle of the farm. In the photo there are three types of lettuce, arugula, bok choi, kale, …continue reading
By John, on June 3rd, 2009 |
 This gorgeous pile of veggies is our first distribution of the season from our CSA Powisset Farm in Dover, Mass. There are white salad turnips which the kids finished off in 5 minutes, spicy hot radishes, arugula, bok choy, romaine and red leaf lettuces and broccoli. All in all, a very promising start to the season. …continue reading
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For the past three growing seasons we’ve been members of a wonderful CSA called Powisset Farm in Dover, Massachusetts. Over the years the CSA has grown from it’s initial 100 members to around 250 with an ever-lengthening waiting list. I used to tell my wife that getting a CSA membership was equivalent to getting season tickets to the Patriots.
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