[Sca-cooks] Re: Seasonal Produce

[iasmin at comcast.net]

Since my University time, I've been looking for good community supported agriculture program. They're not all that plentiful in the wilds of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan where it snows 9 months out of the year. But here in lower Michigan, I've finally found a program and can't say that I've ever been happier. My price for more produce than my husband and I can comfortably consume in a week is actually a bit higher, about 33$US each week for 16 weeks or so, but the produce is all certified organic, something not all farms are willing to guarantee.  I make a regular habit of posting the "week's haul" to our local baronial message boards in hopes of letting people in the area know what they can get. 

This year I also joined a pilot program with the farm so that I could extend my produce into the cold-weather season. About 40 members of the farm to which I belong are testing the program to see if we can help them get a viable delivery schedule and crop rotation going for cold weather crops for an additional number of weeks. Off the top of my head I can't remember the additional number of weeks, but the price is 300$US for the same quality of organic produce. 

For each of these programs, the regular and extended season, I don't actually get delivery to my house, but I get delivery to a home that's near my house (we all go for pickup to various locations in Southeast Michigan depedant on where we live). And the extended season pilot program is actually close enough to me that I'd be able to walk there and get my pickup if I wanted (though I doubt I could carry that many heads of cauliflower and squash....). ;)

If anyone in southeast Michigan is interested in more information, I'd be happy to send them the info privately. And if anyone is interested in last year's delivery lists, I could probably cob them together and mail that off too.

Iasmin