Welcome to the 11th season of Verde Valley CSA! To our new members, welcome and thank you for supporting local farmers. We are so excited to serve you this season. And to all our returning shareholders, thank you for your continued support of our growers!
This week we are lucky to enjoy produce from four local farms. We have greenhouse hydroponic cucumbers from Tickaboo Ranch in Camp Verde, marking the end of the greenhouse growing season. Zopilote Produce has sweet, delicious carrots from Page Springs. We have garlic scapes and pea shoots from Willowbrook Farm in Camp Verde, some delicious early crops that will transform later into garlic and peas. And Whipstone Farm in Paulden, which grows year round, is providing a range of variety spring crops.
Please remember to bring your reusable bags to take home your share. If you are unsure of where exactly to pick up your share, contact me at verdevalleycsa@yahoo.com or (928) 300-8623. For those of you picking up your shares in Camp Verde, if you are unable to make it to the farm during the listed distribution time your share will be left in a cooler with your name on it.
If you haven’t already, please follow Verde Valley CSA on Facebook and Instagram. I will be sharing photos and bits of information throughout the season and hope to offer you a closer look at the workings of the farms growing your food.
Thank you all for being members of Verde Valley CSA! We look forward to another great year providing the freshest local produce, flowers, and eggs.
What’s in your basket – May 17th
Carrots – Zopilote Produce
Garlic scapes – Willowbrook Farm
Head lettuce – Whipstone Farm
Pea shoots – Willowbrook Farm
Spinach – Whipstone Farm
15,000 pepper plants will be headed out of the greenhouse and into the ground at Whipstone Farm soon!
These little lettuces were planted at Willowbrook Farm last week and will be in your baskets over the coming weeks.
Potatoes at Sanders’ Farm have sprouted.
It doesn’t hurt to have 70,000 ladybugs to help with organic pest control!