CSA Organic Produce Share - WINTER SEASON 2012 - Week 12

Thank You for Your Support!

ou helped us:

- to employ Jacob, Matt and Jess.

- repair farming equipment.

- buy tools.

- supply healthy and organic food.

- to execute our mission "Seeding beneficial relationships to inspire abundance, creativity, and joy"

Since this was our first round of CSA we would extremely appreciate your feedback (best via email) in order to offer you the service you deserve!

Your opinion is important to us!

Yes, Gargamela is supposed to look like that and we did not start to prepare her for the pot even though she seems to believe that.

Meet the Farmers...
chickens, full-time workers

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One of our fastest chickens wants to be part of a gift basket.

...She is not alone.

always looking for food..

Chickens are not only entertaining our guests as well as us and eating centipedes, no they are actually working much more. Aside from laying eggs, they cut grass and weeds, they they loosen the soil by scratching and they fertilize with their feces. All of these skills are made use of in the so-called chicken "tractors". 

Tractors basically are moveable coops without a floor and are used to manage our little workers' efforts. In the tractors they are able to apply their skills and do the work that usually is attributed to a modern farm tractor. 

This can lead to prepared soil and enhanced growth of later planted crops and trees.

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An insider view of one of our small tractors.

Alison in the potting shed

From the field...

Alison Gilbert arrived yesterday and will be part of our crew for the following 3 weeks. She has been participating in the Summer Youth Program at Ridge to Reef Farm in 2009 and found her way back to paradise.

The crew is planting and seeding for the next CSA season. A rain cover for seedling has been built.

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L-R: Johnson, Jacob, Patrick

Bold rooster Johnson had to listen to Patrick's reasoning and was sent back to his ladies behind the fence. 

~ Nadja, apprentice

PO Box 2903 - Frederiksted USVI 00841 - www.visfi.org - info@visfi.org - 340 220 0466
Ridge to Reef Farm @ the Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute

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The Week's Harvest

Beans or Cucumbers
Lettuce Heads
Kale or Collards or Swiss Chard
Carrots
Eggplants
Jalapeno Hot Peppers
Green Bananas
Green Papaya
Tomatoes
Cilantro
Basil

Farm Recipes

Papaya Noodles
by Nadja

You need:
Green Papaya (peeled)
Eggs
Vegetable Oil (for frying)
Whole Wheat Flour
Noodles
Soy Sauce
Milk
Olive Oil
Onions
Salt, Pepper
Chili

Directions:

1. Cut the peeled papayas in slices and boil in hot water until consistency softened. Bring water for noodles to a boil and cook acc. to package instructions.

2. Sift papayas. Heat vegetable oil in a pan. Put half of the slices of papaya first in mixed eggs (seasoned with salt and pepper), then in flour and then fry in pan from both sides.

3. Heat olive oil and stir-fry onions. Add battered papaya slices and heat for a moment.

4. Put soy sauce, a bit of milk, chili in a pot and thicken with a little flour. Then add noodles and rest of sliced papayas.

5. Serve noodle mix with battered papaya-onion mix on top. Enjoy.

THANK YOU HOSTS!

Pick-up times

Polly's at the Pier Frederiksted, St. Croix 
Wed 3:30-5:30pm

Barefoot Buddha Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas 
Thurs 11:30am-1:30 pm 

Miriam's Restaurant Christiansted, St. Croix 
Sun 4 -5:30pm


M2M (member to member)

We invite you to take part in the creation of our weekly newsletters.

Share your recipes and pictures, your experiences with the R2R Farm or your thoughts on sustainable farming matters.

We then will do our best to fit it in and share it in one of our upcoming newsletters.

We look forward to your responses!


Wishlist 

Got some things laying around we can re-use in the CSA

• egg cartons
  
• shallow, sturdy plastic trays for upcoming tomato harvest
  
• milk crates
  
• coolers
  
• zip-locks
  
• popsicle sticks
  
• tarps

• any working garden tools
  
• generator, chainsaw, weed-eater
  
• carpentry
  
• sign-making
  
• massages :)
  
• your CSA bags
  
• feedback

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