Week 1, June 4-9, 2012

Available for you:

• Baby Lettuce – 2-3 smaller heads - deer tongue - pointed leaf tips very sweet or black seeded simpson - a green leaf - bright green and also very sweet, magenta- our favorite a leaf & romaine cross red tip crisp (all in one bag)
• European Cucumber – one (from our greenhouse)
• Broccoli Raab - 1 bunch
• Green Garlic - 1 bunch
• Chives - choice up to a bunch
• A red TOMATO - 1st 1 of our own

Recipe of the week:
BroccoliRaab and Zukes

Welcome Members:

This is your first week of the season. We would like to welcome you to VALLEY DREAM FARM LLC and our certified Organic C.S.A. (Community Supported Agriculture).

It is a little warmer than our normal season and due to all this the greenhouses are growing well and are slightly ahead of schedule. Lettuce is looking nice and ready for another growth spurt. Before long, you won’t believe all of your veggies.

We enjoy bringing you the freshest and most delicious produce each week. As our member you will receive a new “Valley Dream Farm" shopping bag. Last year’s members really enjoyed them and used them when shopping at other establishments too. It is your bag to keep and reuse weekly, to collect your produce.

New this year is your newsletter will come by e-mail, let us know if you do not have an online account and we will have a paper copy for you.

PICKING UP AT THE FARMSTAND:

1. Highlight your name on your specific pick-up day list
2. Take a copy of this week’s newsletter to shop and we will send you an emailed copy. Please feel free to keep one if you do not have an e-mail address.
3. Shop for items on your list using your Valley Dream Shopping bag
4. Let us know if you have any concerns, or changes to your pick-up day for the following week.

DELIVERIES:

1. Please make sure your name is on your new bag. (there are different sizes please take yours)
2. Please return your clean bag the following week. You will receive another bag filled with your new items next week.

Our staff is available to assist you with any purchases or questions that you may have. Read about them below.

Thanks!

Anne

Thank-you for supporting local farmers.

We are looking forward to another successful growing season in 2012!

Here’s how we get all those vegetables to you every week. It takes a lot of preparation and a wonderful work crew to get all those vegetables to you each week. We are very fortunate to have both.

Our Crew includes: Shane (Field and Equipment Manager), Victor, Doris, Amy, Sally, and Mira and our Laraway high school students (harvest and weeding crew), Amy, Sally, and Mira (greenhouse and field crew) Heidi (CSA, farmers market and deliveries ), Jackie &Tommy O'Connor (married just last year), and Wendy (CSA and blog news editor, and most importantly the Book Keeper). In addition, The Tisbert Family (Joe – oversees all the land, equipment, wholesaling, and crop planning; Anne –marketing, CSA, deliveries, farmers markets and newsletters, Jay – our oldest son, Chief Consultant, supervisor of all varieties, head seeder, greenhouse designs and crop planning, also the CSA and farmers market welcoming committee. Becky- available occasionally now that she has a job in her interior design field of work at Smugglers Notch, Jon – our youngest son is employed at Smugglers Notch as a line cook part time, He loves the tractor work and creates amazing displays for our farmers markets (when available) and of course our dogs Zippy (now 10 yrs old-chow mix) and Bella (4yr old bouncy black lab).