Veggie Shares

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About 120 Golden Comet hens live in mobile henhouses that rotate around our hay fields. They produce tasty, healthy brown eggs, plus wonderful chicken manure for the compost pile.  Until we run out, you can purchase eggs when you come to pick up your vegetables at the farm. $4.00 per dozen.

Watch this funny little video to see how the hens spend their days - on yummy pastures.  

That's not all!  On pickup days we've got a bread baker, apple shares from Buffalo Ridge Orchard, and beef from farmer neighbors.

While you're here getting your veggies, take a walk to the garden to pick your own cherry tomatoes and herbs.  Kids love it.

And of course, you get to pet Sadie, the red heeler, and Floppy, the fairly useless - but completely happy - cat.

We LOVE kids at the farm.  Your whole family is welcome to come for a visit each week, especially children and grandchildren.  Although we try to keep the farm as kid-safe  as possible, there are still a number of ways that toddlers can get into a predicament, so please keep them with you.  Also, please, no pets.  With everything going on during pickup, even the pets on a leash or inside your car almost always cause more excitement than Laura can stand!  

We try to wash as few of the vegetables as possible.  For one thing, it takes a lot of time and it's messy!  But more importantly, washing  sometimes decreases the storage life of certain vegetables.  So, you  will find some things washed, some still with a little field dirt on  them - but please remember that EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE WASHED AT HOME BEFORE YOU EAT IT!!!   Make Laura's insurance agent happy.  Wash your vegetables.
 

Remember, you get two weeks during the season when you don't have to come for your veggies, any time that works well for you.  Veggies for 20 weeks, you pick up 18 times.

If you know you're not going to make it and you still want your veggies for that week, the very best thing to do is to find a neighbor or relative to pick up for you.  

We like to donate food to those who need it. Planting extra is pretty easy, but sometimes we need help with weeding, harvesting, and  delivering food donations.  If you want to help, please let Laura know  what you would like to contribute.  We don't need lots of help, but when  we need you, we really NEED you.  Sunday school groups, college organizations, 4-H clubs and other groups can volunteer, too, to help  with projects that fit your schedules.