Farmer’s Note — Week 13

Dear CSA Member

This coming Saturday is the Fall Farm Festival. I am including the information again this week and hope you will be able to attend.

This week is a Coffee Share week so please pick up your Coffee if you have a share. There are still Peaches, Tomatoes and Hot Peppers in bulk from the online CSA Marketplace.

The Fall Farm Festival is September 7, 2013 from 11:30-3. Please use the 145 Garcia Lane, Leeds, NY 12451 address. Come and meet your farmers, walk the fields where your vegetables are grown. Bring a dish to share and your own place setting. The farm will provide a barbecue, roast corn and portobello mushrooms, vegetarian chili, fresh fruit and coffee. Thank you to Paradise to Go, https://paradistogo.com/ for preparing the barbecue and chili.

There will be wagon rides, walks around the farm, freshly dug carrots to pick from the field to take home, help build a scarecrow, pick a bouquet of flowers. If you would like to take flowers home, please bring your own scissors and something that will keep the flowers until you get home. Wet paper towels or newspapers in a plastic bag will usually do the trick.

Other local farms and businesses will be in attendance and have products for sale.

Heather Ridge Farm www.Heather-ridge-farm.com or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heather-Ridge-Farm will have fiber items, socks from their own flock of Dorset & Icelandic sheep and llama wool, beeswax candles for sale. To view all of their products go to their website. If you are interested in placing a larger meat order, please contact Heather Ridge at
HeatherRidgeFarm@aol.com.
Eat local. Stock up on meat and poultry by ordering from Heather Ridge Farm and pick up your order at the farm visit.

Gary Wiltbank Farm with his beautiful Shiitake and Oyster Mushrooms. Gary is an avid Mushroom Farmer and will be happy to answer all of your Mushroom questions.

Banana Moon Baking Company, Arlene Deahl, bananamoonbaking@gmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/BananaMoonBakingCompany. Specialty Cookies, Cakes and Pies. Arlene is a CSA member and imaginative baker. Her cookies are delicious. Can’t wait to try the Dark Chocolate Chipotle XXL Cookie!

We will have all of our Marketplace items for sale as well: Honey, Maple Syrup, Coffee by the pound. We also have Stoneledge Farm shirts that we all wear for sale. Long sleeved, short sleeved and no sleeved. Dave Cammer, Maple Producer will be in attendance to answer your Maple Syrup questions.

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to the farm. Hope to see you at the farm.

Enjoy the Vegetables
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm