In the fall of 2011, my father and gardener extraordinaire, Ken Meier, passed away. This is an image of him in his spring garden. He is leaning on the posts that hold up his early climbing peas that will later become his trellised beans. He is overlooking his raised beds of lettuces and other greens. A couple of the farm's greenhouses are in the background.
Dad loved his gardens and would have loved to know we are keeping them growing.
After many friends helped pick Dad's crops last year to help fill up his freezers for the winter, the idea of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with harvest boxes full of produce to help support his "Shady Maple Farm" came to mind . While he loved gardening along with sharing the bounty he grew, keeping his spirit alive while continuing his garden seemed a natural.
We plan on starting from seed and growing the vegetables he has grown in the past, along with a few new ones as was his bent. There are many existing fruit and veggie plantings we will also be adding to our harvest boxes. All produced at Shady Maple Farm.
We plan on starting from seed and growing the vegetables he has grown in the past, along with a few new ones as was his bent. There are many existing fruit and veggie plantings we will also be adding to our harvest boxes. All produced at Shady Maple Farm.
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