Chatfield CSA E-news Oct. 6-10
Dear Shareholders,
Please remember that all York St. shareholders will pick up at St. John's for the rest of the season. We are having a Volunteer Appreciation Party in early December so please look for invitations soon!
visit pumpkin festival
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 10-12, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., at our Chatfield location. The 10-acre patch offers the perfect pumpkin for everyone. Families can enjoy live music, express face painting, pumpkin carving demonstrations and giant Jenga games. Kids can enjoy pony rides, carnival games, monster hand craft, a photo opportunity with a live bull, and much more. Pumpkin prices vary by size. Chatfield is at 8500 W Deer Creek Canyon Road Littleton, CO, 80128.
produce list for Oct. 6-10
*this list is tentative and subject to change
Dill or Cilantro
Carrot
Kale
Pie Pumpkin
Bok Choy
Arugula
Garlic
Red Onion
grower's perspective: sharing your voice
by Josie Hart
The experience of picking up food directly from a farmer or farm is only one aspect of community agriculture. There are other expereinces each shareholder and farmer go through together such as waiting before a frost night is over, the joy that's felt at a bumper crop of tomatoes or pride when we master a new recipe. There is also an aspect of this community that has to do with your voice.
Last Tuesday at St. John's distribution, I got the strong sense that we were all in this together and I hope some of you feel that too. I had a conversation with a shareholder about how we select our crops each year, how we decide how many shareholders to have or what the share size will be. A major contributing factor in crop selection and quantity process has been you. What you like, what you simply can't have more of or what you would have liked to see more of. How much you are willing to spend on food or how involved you want to be in the process. Of course we can't accomodate 250 individual voices, but your input is extremely important to us. We like discussing these topics with our community and asnwering questions about next year. If you are wondering about something - just ask!
Some of you recently sent 'thank you' emails! We appreciate even the simpliest forms of feedback and encourage all of you to let us know how we are doing. Next week, we will send an end-of-year survey and hope to hear back from everyone!
Thanks.
