2011 CSA

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. This is a model in which community members support a farmer by committing to pay the farmer up front to help with costs of production in exchange for a share in the season's harvest. It is one of the most direct ways you can support your local food system and your local economy. It is an opportunity to develop a relationship with the person, or people, that grow your food, see where it is grown, and participate in the process.

How does a CSA work? Members pay for their shares in advance, usually between February and April. Each week from June 8th through November 9th (skip July 27th) you will pick up your bag of produce either on farm, or at our delivery location. In your bag, you will also find delicious recipes for both your familiar and maybe not so familiar vegetables.

CSA members receive other benefits besides the first pick of all our fresh produce. You will receive the first notifications on any excess produce we have for sale throughout the season, you will be invited to our annual farm fest and member pot-lucks, and you are welcome to tour the farm and participate in any U-pick opportunities as they arise.

We are excited to be offering egg, meat, bread and cut flower shares as well! We have teamed up with some other local farms to make it as convenient as possible for you to eat local.

CLICK HERE for detailed 2011 CSA information including pricing and sign-up instructions.

Check out our Local Harvest page!

Yellow Bird by Linda Johnson

On sale now at Barns & Noble HERE! We will also bring copies to market. Be sure to ask for a copy!

Yellow Bird, a novel by Linda Johnson, examines the thin and fragile line drawn between what excites our faith and breaks our hearts. Shortly after a head injury leaves her struggling with debilitating nightmares, defiant 17-year-old Amanda Abernathy moves to the Yellow Bird, the rundown bookstore and farm she inherits from her overbearing grandmother. Cody Stone, after a brief stint in the army, returns stateside with acute combat stress, and, broken and lost, wanders from the foothills of his mountain home to the hollows along the Chalahume River. Amanda and Cody first discover one another through a series ethereal encounters. Their unlikely communion intensifies as they struggle to find their place among the eccentric people of Appalachia's South Mountain, where music, friendship, and hardship bind them to century-old traditions. But, with the increasing neglect and gross mismanagement of the mines upriver, Amanda, Cody, and the people they come to love are forced to confront the greedy Winston Coal and Fuel Company and the disaster that follows.