! MARY AND NOAH - 76 Bell Lane - Hamilton - 240-1050
Join us this summer for SweetRoot Farm’s Peak-Season
CSA! SweetRoot’s 16-week CSA farmshare program will run from June 9 to
September 22, providing fresh local vegetables for pick-up at the farm in
Hamilton or in Missoula each Tuesday. Your support through purchase of
a CSA share helps build our growing farm, and provides you with a
reliable, convenient source of fresh local vegetables throughout the
season.
Large Shares: $450 (Household of 3-4 vegetable eaters)
Sma% Shares: $320 (1-2 or households that don’t eat at home &equently)
Add-ons for eggs and farm-roasted coﬀee are available too:
1 dozen e's/ week for the season: add $70
1 pounde of coﬀee/ week for the season: $190
To sign up, call 240-1050, email [email protected] or call 240-1050.
Pickups will be on Tuesdays, at our farm in Hamilton or at the X’s in
Missoula. In our second year farm, we are oﬀering this for 12 families. We
are grateful for your support.
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Our CSA oﬀers you a way to support our farm and to
secure a weekly source of abundant, fresh, sustainably
grown local vegetables through the peak growing season
of our Montana summer. We hope CSA members will
feel a special connection to the farm and participate in
farm tours and special events; though still in startup and
rough around the edges, we welcome supporters to visit us and tour the farm. We
want you to know where the food comes from!
Your risks are relatively low—if the cabbage moths descend on the fields, you won’t
loose your home, but you may see more carrots and peas than kale that week. And
when something does unexpectedly well, you may find a week with an extra bundle of
eggplant and a recipe for a freezable baba ganoush (we do try to help with recipes and
ideas of how to use the produce). The benefits to our farm are substantial—instead of
relying so heavily on the farmers market, where sales one week may be low because
of weather or another event in town, we can grow some portion of our crops
knowing for sure they are sold and will be used. Advanced payment also helps us pay
back some of our early season expenses—seeds, starting equipment, irrigation repairs
—that had to happen in order to grow any food at all. Our main risk and worry in
running a CSA is that shareholders might not be satisfied. We ask that members
please do provide feedback through the season on how we do, so we can best
continue to grow, improve, and feed you well!
Growing food for ourselves and our community is hard work, a huge responsibility,
and also an honor and a joy, when all goes well. We hope you’ll consider joining us in
all of those facets by becoming a part of SweetRoot Farm as a 2015 CSA shareholder.