Shady Maple Farm CSA

Shady Maple Farm began in the early 1960s when our dad, Ken Meier, moved our family to the Salem area. With his passing in October 2011, we wanted to mix his love of gardening and his love of our family (who can all cook and eat) by starting a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Dad grew many different fruits, veggies and flowers while trying new things each year. Our CSA plans to honor his memory by continuing to grow many things for our harvest boxes while offsetting the cost of the garden.

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We practice sustainability at the farm. Crop rotation, use of drip irrigation and re-using the flower water each week are some of the ways we are being kind to the earth.

We have two harvest boxes available for this coming 2019 season as of May 19th. If interested please email Lorrie at shadymaplefarmcsa@gmail.com and leave me a note. I will send you information. 18 weeks of fresh produce, herbs, berries and tree fruits when they are in season along with a weekly bouquet of beautiful flowers for $500.

We do have just flower subscriptions available.

A Full Flower Share is 18 weeks of gorgeous bouquets for $230 or a Half Share, every other week for a total of 9 weeks of flowers for $115.

Please email Lorrie at shadymaplefarmcsa@gmail.com if you are interested.

Pick up would be on Tuesdays between 4:00 - 6:00 pm at Shady Maple Farm, 8005 Portland Rd. N.E. Salem, Oregon. Our season lasts from May 28 to September 24, 2019.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Week 1 Greens, herbs, flowers

Beautiful flowers to start off our season.
Welcome to Shady Maple Farm CSA, 2017.

Damara and Angie harvesting spinach.

Lettuce almost ready for harvesting.

A visit to the piggies in the barn after picking today. Anna and Damara and their cherubs enjoying the day.

Bryan and his mom, Mary, organize the leeks.

Today's four varieties of kale await dividing and labeling.

Spinach in 3 orange bins soaking in cold water. Sweet Cicely and garlic chives in the blue buckets of cold water.

Swiss Chard and asparagus chilling.

Our bed of Sweet William.

Lavender buds in front of Sweet William.

Honeysuckle almost blooming.

Angie trimming rhubarb near the Sylvanberries.

Untrimmed rhubarb.

Radishes await their rubber bands.

A table full of radishes will go in the boxes after Anna's delicious lunch.

One of Lisa's creations.

Such a delicate rose colored bloom with a dark eye on this arching verbascum.

Peonies, Sweet William and foxglove.

Pale purple Canterbury Bells.

Lisa adding a bit here and a bit there to her bouquets.

A Golden beet and an Ace Beet.

The one with the striped greenish/red stem is a Chioggia beet. When cut across the beet it looks like a target. Red ring, white ring...

Today's harvest box contents.

A young visitor transports their family's bouquet to their car. Adorable!

A variety of Swiss Chard named "Rhubarb".

Another Swiss Chard, Neon Yellow.

Four varieties of kale are evenly distributed and bundled.

Today's two varieties of radishes.

Terry helps harvest Mammoth Leaf Basil. Boy are their leaves BIG!

Today's list.

Foxglove under the black walnut tree. Second year plants we seeded in winter of 2016 are blooming like crazy.

A white foxglove with tan "freckles".

White foxglove with maroon freckles.

This foxglove has two colors of flowers on one plant. Cool.

Today's newsletter":

Let's see if this works. Here is a video of the "flower house".

See you next time on the blog,
Lorrie

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