For a quick look, check out the picture below. The green represents 119,000 acres of Agriculture (light green) and Forest (dk green)
That’s about 37% of Wake County land!
Download the pdf to see the full map and legend.
Month: February 2013
is another local CSA
from their website: http://www.theproducebox.com/
5 great reasons to join The Produce Box now!
- Guarantee your membership spot for next season! And this will help us to work with our local farmers in understanding the amount of produce we will need beginning in April.
- By joining now, it helps us provide grants to our farmers. Your $18 enrollment helps us provide provide grants for seed, equipment and other aids for our local growers. This past year we gave over $20,000 in grants!
- You’ll receive a monthly on-line newsletter complete with news from the farms, what’s new for the upcoming season, recipes, off-season events, pre-season specials and more.
- You’ll have MEMBERS ONLY access to our brand new on-line recipe library. Coming soon…want a yummy recipe for butternut squash that you can look up in seconds? Want to share one of your own delicious recipes with fellow members? Stay tuned for our upcoming member recipe contest beginning in February!
- Why wait to join the rest of us fans of the local food movement? Don’t miss out on another season of the delicious fresh, local food your friends and neighbors have been enjoying for years! (It’s our 6th!) You’ll be connected to a community of healthy-eating folks who are supporting good-for-the-earth sustainability and our local economy.
Turn on your TV!
Meteorologist Greg Fishel has selected 5 of our winning water cycle posters to spotlight this week!
These 5 posters will be shown on WRAL-TV 5’s 6 o’Clock News this week of Feb. 18-22.
Greg will present the weather forecast, then spotlight one poster each evening.
TV = channel 5
or
radio = MIX 101.5 FM
the schedule is attached below
Congratulations to our Top 5 on WRAL-TV 5!
Vollmer Farm has CSA membership available.
If you know another CSA you’d like to see listed here on the blog, post it in the replies and I’ll make sure to run a new blog post.
Vollmer Farm still has membership opportunities available for our 2013 CSA program. If you have considered joining, don’t delay, register today! Once our membership is full, we will begin a waiting list for 2014. We have plans for a wonderful garden this year and we so look forward to sharing it with our CSA members. The strawberries are growing and we are working daily to make sure the blooms stay warm and healthy. Our blue- and blackberry plants will be pruned in the coming weeks and we are excited for another good crop of these organic berries.
Registration for Vollmer Farm’s CSA program is easy. Just log on to our secure website at www.vollmerfarm.com/csaopen.html and click the box at the bottom of the page for the CSA Registration Area. We are accepting on-line payments, or you can download and print the forms and mail in with your payment. Our past members know what a good value our program is and we look forward to sharing this with you…it’s our seventh anniversary of CSA!
Memberships are available for a small share, large share, or market share. Details about these different shares are available on our website. Whatever share you select, your satisfaction is guaranteed!
If you have questions about our program, please email Debbie at csa.
Thank you for your support of our family farm.
Peas on Earth,
Farmer John
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