Winter is a time for reflection, planning, repair, and preparation here on the farm. In that mindset, we are stepping up and showing our support for like minded organizations that we believe in.

This week we became members of Slow Food West Michigan. In case you haven’t heard of the organization here is a little bit about them (from their website): “Slow Food West Michigan is the West Michigan chapter of Slow Food, a non-profit, member-supported organization founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life. We stand against the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.”

Please take a moment to check out their website and see what is going on: www.slowfoodwestmichigan.org/

Right on schedule the last of our seed orders have arrived.

It’s always a bit nerve racking waiting for all the orders to arrive. You can never tell what will be out of stock and back ordered, or worse yet totally sold out for the season. And since we don’t allow substitutions (don’t want to get treated seeds or a variety we don’t like) we would be forced to order from another source which is always iffy this late. I know, most of you wouldn’t consider this late to order seeds, but when your livelihood depends on getting the seeds you want (at the price you want) this is late to reorder. But enough of the potential woes of a CSA farmer.

So you might wonder – how many seeds does it take to grow vegetables for 100 families for the season? A lot! And that’s not all of them – the picture below doesn’t include the seeds we save from the open pollinated and heirloom varieties that we grow every year.