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Dear CSA Member,

Beautiful sunny weather has ushered in this first week of picking and delivery for CSA shares. The first week is always full of activity.  Picking, packing, counting and re-counting to make sure all of the shares are delivered correctly.

Greens are plentiful and stir fry is a perfect fit. Mustard Greens are a spicy green that will cook quickly. Boc Choi and Chinese Cabbage, chopped thinly can be added to a salad or quickly cooked in a wok. White Russian Kale will make delicious Kale Chips or because it is still very tender, a great raw Kale Salad. Red Kohlrabi are just beautiful. Quite a few recipes can be found at https://www.yummly.com/recipes/red-kohlrabi. I have not tried them but they look good.

Rhubarb, a springtime favorite. The bunches are not large enough to make a pie, but just right for the Spring Rhubarb Cake featured on the farm website, Recipes section. It really is a delicious recipe.

CSA Marketplace is open and you can log into your CSA Member Account to order Organic Dark Chocolate, Honey, Maple Syrup, and Coffee. Mushrooms are also available in a bulk offering but orders need to be placed by Friday morning so we can give the Mushroom farm enough notice.

Optional Shares: Mushrooms this week are White Button.
Coffee Share delivery will be made this week.

Please remember to pick up your Optional Shares if you have ordered either Mushroom or Coffee Shares. Marketplace orders will also be delivered with the CSA shares.

Members will ask, where is the Fruit Share? Fruit Shares will start the 5th CSA delivery when local fruit is available.

Enjoy the vegetables.
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

May 2014
Dear CSA Member

We are nearing the end of the sign up period for CSA shares. If you have already purchased a Vegetable Share and would like to add an optional Fruit, Mushroom or Coffee Share, please do so by May 31. That will be the last day for ordering.  We need a bit of time to get our picking and packing schedules set and the Mushroom farm, Bulich Mushroom Farm, needs notice of the amount of mushrooms we will need each week.  If you know of someone that would like to join this season, they have until May 31 as well.

Information about the upcoming Farm Visit and also the dates of the first CSA distribution follow. We are looking forward to a wonderful CSA season.

For everyone at Stoneledge Farm
Deborah

SPRING FARM OPEN HOUSE  Come and visit the farm during the upcoming CSA Spring Farm Visit, May 31 from 11-3.  Please bring a picnic lunch and drinks.  Walk the fields, enjoy lunch together, visit with the farmers and crew at Stoneledge Farm that grow your produce.  There should also be an opportunity to help with a bit of transplanting.
We will have local mushrooms on the grill and Chili from Heather Ridge Farm along with our coffee to round out the lunch.  Heather Ridge Farm  https://heather-ridge-farm.com/ and Blue Banana Bakery https://www.facebook.com/BananaMoonBakingCompany will also be in attendance with their products for sale. We will have Honey, Maple Syrup, Coffee and new this season, Grenada Chocolate Factory Chocolate for sale as well.

Please use the 145 Garcia Lane, Leeds, NY 12451 address.  We will be by the big grey barns. Hope to see you on the 31st.  If you have any questions please send the farm an e-mail at info@stoneledge.farm

FIRST CSA DELIVERY
Tuesday: June 10, 2014

May 2014

Dear CSA Member

Spring has finally arrived and the fields are filling with transplants and new seedings. There are a multitude of jobs going on at once. Juan, Julian, Junior, Geo and Luis are planting onions, Peter is plowing, Tyson is discing, Pete Sr and I are moving transplants. It is a great time of year.

We hope that you will be able to come and visit the farm during the upcoming CSA Spring Farm Visit, May 31 from 11-3. Please bring a picnic lunch and drinks. Walk the fields, enjoy lunch together, visit with the farmers and crew at Stoneledge Farm that grow your produce. There should also be an opportunity to help with a bit of transplanting.

We will have local mushrooms on the grill and Chili from Heather Ridge Farm along with our coffee to round out the lunch. Blue Banana Bakery https://www.facebook.com/BananaMoonBakingCompany will also be in attendance with their products for sale. We will have Honey, Maple Syrup, Coffee and new this season, Grenada Chocolate Factory Chocolate for sale as well.

Please use the 145 Garcia Lane, Leeds, NY 12451 address. We will be by the big grey barns. Hope to see you on the 31st.

Deborah
for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

You may notice that we have a new address for both our website and e-mail. The old versions still work, the new one is fewer characters.
Website: www.stoneledge.farm
E-mail: info@stoneledge.farm

If you have not ordered your CSA share, please log into your member account and order soon. If you have a Vegetable Share and would like to add a Fruit, Mushroom or Coffee Share, log into your account and add the optional shares to your order. We will not be adding optional shares after the CSA delivery begins.

April 2014

Dear CSA Member

The greenhouses have been filled and now we are working to move the heartier seedlings into the hoop houses to make more room and are already starting on the second group of seedlings to go into the heated greenhouses. The warmer weather has finally settled in. Peter started plowing this morning and we will be transplanting the hearty spring seedlings by the end of the month. The never ending cycle of the farm.

It is also Maple season. New photos on the farm Face Book page https://www.facebook.com/StoneledgeFarm of the Bearkill Road Maple Products, Maple Syrup operation. Maple will be available for order by CSA members from the online CSA Marketplace once the delivery season has started.

The shares for the 2014 season are selling quickly. Some of the CSA sites are already full for the season. Why not pass on the news about CSA to your circle of friends, neighbors or fellow workers? If you have placed an order you will have received a confirmation e-mail once the order was completed. To check your CSA Membership log into your account from the farm website home page and click on “My Account”.

The SPRING FARM VISIT is scheduled for May 31 from 11-3, 145 Garcia Lane, Leeds NY 12451 address.Please bring your own picnic lunch and drinks. We will have Heather Ridge Chili and Bulich Farm Mushrooms on the grill. The visit is a great opportunity to meet all of us at Stoneledge Farm, see where and how your shares are grown and even have a chance to get your hands into the soil helping to transplant young seedlings. Heather Ridge Farm will have their products available for sale as well. Please go to the Heather Ridge Farm website for more product information www.Heather-ridge-farm.com.

As always, if you have any questions please send an e-mail to the farm at
info@stoneledgefarmny.org and we will be back in touch.

For everyone at Stoneledge Farm
Deborah

Winter 2014

Good Afternoon

What a winter. Really cold winter temperatures followed by days of snow.  The last snow fall was beautiful as it covered the farm.

As the winter moves along, our thoughts and plans are looking ahead to the upcoming 2014 season. Seeds are ordered and have been delivered. The seed packets line the bench. The potting soil sits high on pallets in the greenhouses and the seeding trays seem to be calling to us. We will start the first transplants in the greenhouses the last week of February. We can not wait to get started.

Thank you for your membership and your commitment to eating seasonally and locally. If you have not ordered your 2014 CSA shares, registration is now open. To order your CSA share log into your CSA Member Account from the farm website home page www.stoneledgefarmny.org. Click on the CSA Member Login. If you have friends, neighbors that might be interested in joining, why not pass the farm website along to them.

Looking forward to a great CSA season.

Deborah
for everyone at Stoneledge Farm

Dear CSA Member,

This week was cold. The Brussels Sprouts were covered with ice in the morning as the picking began. The sun finally reaches over the tree line and the fields warm.

This week is the last delivery of the 2013 season. It has been a great year and we thank you for your CSA membership. As our delivery season comes to an end we are thankful for your membership and support of local, organic agriculture. Thank you for being part of the Stoneledge Farm CSA. It has been a very good year and we look forward to next season with new plans and great expectations.

Very happy holiday season and a wonderful wintertime.
Deborah for everyone at Stoneledge Farm