2013 CSA Informational Sheet

If you are interested in buying into our harvest box shares from Shady Maple Farm, please  read through this page and then email Lorrie at: shadymaplefarmcsa@gmail.com. Last year we offered 15 harvest boxes a week and this year we will be offering 20. We will process new requests beginning March 17th in the order they appear in my email. New shareholders will be notified and emailed a contract as soon as possible.

Ken Meier started Shady Maple Farm in 1960 and ran it until his passing in 2011. We have continued our Dad’s love of gardening and good, healthy food through our Shady Maple Farm CSA. Shady Maple Farm is the home of a wide variety of fruit trees, berries, and perennial vegetables. Each week you will receive a harvest box filled with the latest bounty from our garden.

Below is a sample of what we intend to grow and provide this year:

Fruits

apples (crab, king, Granny Smith, red delicious)
black berries (Marion, Kotata, Sylvan, Siskiyous, Triple Crown, Waldo)
blueberries

melons (cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelons)

pears (Asian, Bartlett)

plums
raspberries
rhubarb

table grapes

Vegetables
artichokes

asparagus

beans (green, purple)

dried beans (end of the season)

beets (red, orange)

broccoli

cabbage (green, red)

carrots (orange, yellow, purple)

cauliflower (purple, white)

corn (several varieties)

cucumbers (slicing, lemon cucs)

eggplant

greens (kale, spinach, Swiss chard)

kohlrabi

lettuce (head, loose leaf, Romaine)

onions (Walla Walla Sweets, white, yellow, green onions)

peas (snap, snow)

peppers (hot, mild, many colored bells)

pumpkins

radishes

squash (acorn, butternut, patty pan, spaghetti, delicata, yellow crookneck, zucchini)

tomatillos (green, purple)

tomatoes (small, medium, large; Heirlooms; red, orange, yellow, green, purple)

Herbs basil, rosemary, oregano, thyme, French sorrel, lemon grass, lavender, cilantro, parsley

Cut Flowers a bouquet every week

Decorative Gourds at the end of the season

Tea 

Everything contained in our weekly harvest boxes is grown at Shady Maple Farm. All weekly boxes will contain the same items in roughly the same quantities, as the harvest provides. Your first “harvest box” for 2013 will be available for pick up on May 28^th. Your last on September 24^th. That’s 18 weeks of farm fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers.

                                 Ordering Information

Payment options:

Option 1: $450 if paid in full by May 1^st;

Option 2: $475 >> $160 by May 1^st with $315 due by June 1^st.

Option 3: $500 >> $200 by May 1^st with $100 due on June 1^st, July 1^st, and August 1^st.

If you are interested in quantities for canning, juicing, pickling, salsa making, or freezing, please contact us at the email listed above. We hope to have extra berries, pickling cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, peppers, grapes, apples, pears and plums for sale in addition to what is provided each week in your box.

Our pickup location is Shady Maple Farm – 8005 Portland Road NE, Salem, Or 97305 (northwest corner of Quinaby and Portland Road). Our weekly pick up time is Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00. We would be happy to discuss other options for pick up, just let us know.

Once you have been notified that you are one of our 20 shareholders, we will email you a contract to sign and return that in part, will include the following:

"By signing and returning this form you are committing to your chosen payment option and the terms and conditions of the Shady Maple Farm CSA.  Your signature also commits you to accepting the liability for the well being of yourself and any others that might come on to the property of Shady Maple Farm, also that you will not hold anyone associated with Shady Maple Farm liable in regard to this well being.  You also understand that gardening involves many things outside human control such as but not limited to: weather, disease, critters. Gardening annoyances vary greatly and add challenges to that which mother nature helps us grow. We will do our best to provide you with quality, variety, and abundance in your weekly harvest box from Shady Maple Farm’s garden."

We hope you consider joining our 2^nd season of healthy harvest boxes.

Shadymaplefarmcsa@gmail.com to communicate information

Week 17 Apples, Prunes, Grapes

Lisa made a wonderfully delicious
apple pie for us today. Awesome.

Enticing slice of pie.
Mouth watering...

Volunteer corn growing next to
the asparagus bed. Prolific, many ears per stalk.

Rose up close.

Roses and statice.

Cosmos. So cheery.

White gladiola. Lavender down the throat.

Reddish-orange gladiola. Male and female flower parts showing. The stripes help pollinators know where to head for their nectar snack.

Multicolored and ruffled gladiola.
Pleasing to the eye.

Purple and white statice with a two toned rose. Very showy.

Bumble bee on the white dahlia. "Where's my snack?"

Apples, Asian pears, Brooks prunes. 

Large and heavy Asian pears. These store well.

Some type of apple.
Wish we knew which kind. Bummer.
We sprayed twice for apple scab, some still appeared. It was an organic spray. We will be more diligent next spring. Spray is applied before the trees flower out over a period of weeks.

She likes grapes, too.
The shirt says it all.

Mmmmm. Yummy.

Medium and large red tomatoes.

Orange Wellington (round ones)
and Pineapple tomatoes.

A Pineapple tomato awaits "the knife".

Beautiful on the inside.
It is segmented like a cross cut pineapple.

The coloring is wonderful. So is the taste.

Bite sized for the taste testing crew.
They voted "YES" they liked them.
These look great sliced on a pizza.

First grape harvest. 3-4 kinds in each bag.

Top to bottom:
Sun Sugar, Yellow Pear, Mexico Midget.

A cart full of delicious things. Cantaloupe  watermelon, zucchini, tomatoes, patty pan, cucumbers,
beans, yellow straight necked squash.
She can't quite make the cart move. Maybe next year.

Like very large Romas, these "Pear Goliath" are dense
with less juice than most large tomatoes.
Great for salsas and sauces.

Lemon cucs, white eggplant, slicing cucs, tomatoes, straight necked summer squash and a cantaloupe.
Broccoli hides in the top left corner.

Green zebra tomatoes have a kick.
A couple of zucs share the box.

The rinds of the cantaloupe look different.
They are two varieties.

A balancing act of cantaloupe and watermelon.

Brooks prunes.
I wish their season was longer. Yum.

"All Blue",  "Red Pontiac",
and "Yukon Gold" potatoes.

Anna's lunch for us today.
We are so spoiled.

Who needs the spoon in the other hand?

Up close, strips of basil, multicolored tomatoes,
cheese, olives. Oh my gosh. Yumminess.

Tomatillos. Purple and green ones.
Cut up and make salsa.

Oregon State University's new tomato. "Indigo Rose".

Serrano peppers. Hot.

Chili peppers. Hot.

Hungarian wax peppers. Hot.

Chocolate bell peppers. Not hot.

Jalapeno peppers. Hot.

Dahlias, not hot!!!

Week 16

"Mom, let me come pick!"
(She hasn't figured out climbing just yet.)

"Please MOM!" As she jumps up and down.



"Bodacious"
sweet corn.



"Golden Jubilee"
sweet corn.

  

"Honey and Cream"
sweet corn.

Corn awaits boxing. 

This zucchini is almost waist high!

Weight lifting, zucchini style.

Florencio digs and washes the root crops. 
Such beautiful carrots.

Hat's off, phone is on, she plays a kidlet
game out in the tomato field. 
Amusement everywhere.

A new variety this year "Ananas Noire" tomato. These are ripe.



A wagonful of gladiolas (glads).
So many colors.

Zinnias growing out in the field.

Bi-color glads.

Love zinnias.

Glads are so regal.
 

Wheelbarrow full of color.

Skeleton and his sister
along for the ride.

Florencio picked the radishes. 
Cherubs await a trip to the field.

Yummy, a radish followed by grapes.

Pink, pinker, pinkest zinnias.
My fav.

The first watermelon taste testing has begun.

A few "empty" rinds. Returning tasters!

So many beautiful zinnias.
I couldn't decide which pictures to
put in and which to take out.
So here you go.
A plethora of zinnia photos.

And the last one (for this blog...).

And now on to large tomatoes. Many are heirlooms.

Ripe Ananas Noire tomatoes. So very big.

She wanted to rearrange that one. :)

"Look how tall I am!"