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We hope you enjoyed your first share this past week! What a wonderful start to the season. This week the weather is supposed to turn HOT — we might even break 100 degrees. Just last Wednesday, Whipstone Farm had a frost that … Continued

Welcome to the 14th 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 … Continued

It’s the last week of the CSA season and we are so grateful to all of you for joining us this year! It has been a very strange and challenging year for our growers, but as a shareholder this has … Continued

It’s our penultimate week of the 2019 season, and the fields are slowing down. Willowbrook Farm has a cover crop planted and will be putting next year’s garlic crop in the field in just a few weeks. Frost and rain have … Continued

Happy first day of Autumn! And what a beautiful day it is; I’m keeping my fingers crossed for rain at my house. On Friday night it sure felt like Autumn! I had to close some of our windows in the middle of the … Continued

Another beautiful week is under way! This is one of my favorite times of the year. Some days are still hot and summery, others are cool and breezy with a taste of autumn. The windows stay open all night long … Continued

It is only a hint, but I am starting to feel a bit of Fall in the air! The cooler weather these past few days feels absolutely amazing, but it signals a definite shift in the growing season. It’s hard … Continued

What a delicious share we have for you this week! Peaches from Gratitude Orchard, rainbow carrots, salad mix, and green chiles from Whipstone Farm, and figs, cucumbers, kale, garlic, and summer squash from Willowbrook Farm. I think there have only … Continued

Peppers, eggplant, and cucumbers are here at last! They haven’t had an easy path to get here, but they’re here! The dry, hot, rainless summer beats on and the produce is still in a combination of playing catchup from the … Continued

Summer beats on and so does this incredible year for fruit! This week we have “Apple Dandy” pluots from Willowbrook Farm and Gala apples from Marilyn’s Orchard. The vegetables might be having a hard time this year, but the fruit … Continued