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Yesterday we sorted through our seeds and took a list and a whole bunch of packages to seeds to Barb Quandt of Barb’s Greenhouse just north of GI.  If you need plants definitely  check out Barb’s Greenhouse.  She does both veggies and beautiful flowers.  Barb will be starting 4 packs of plants for us.

16 cucumber plants we will direct seed 7 more varieties

3 varieties of okra (4 plants each)

5 varieties of Eggplant (4 plants each)

40 Celery Plants (this is new for us this year.  Wish us luck)

2 Varieties of Brocolini (Hopefully 24 plants of each.)

3 Varieties of Cabbage (24 plants each)

All of the Fennel Seed we have (40 plants?)

8 Varieties of Sweet Peppers (8 plants each)

9 Varieties of Hot Peppers (8 plants each)

29 Varieties of Tomatoes (4 plants each of 15 varieties and 8 plants each of 14 varieties)

We will have some extra Tomato and Pepper Plants that will be available for our CSA members if they want to plant their own garden.

Here is a picture of the seed that we bought this year.  Almost $350 worth of seed in the little pile.

It is less than 2 weeks until Good Friday.  I plan to plant potatoes on Good Friday so then it will truly have begun.

As of today we do still have 3 full shares and 4 short season shares available.  If you are interested we would love to talk to you about our CSA, how it works, what the expectations are and how we can help you have healthier meals all summer long.

You can sign up at http://giacres.csasignup.com/members/types

Friday this week is CSA day.  CSA day is designed to promote the CSA concept and help all of us that are involved celebrate the communities we create and share in.  The Event is becoming a world wide phenomena. Check this out on Facebook.  https://www.facebook.com/UrgenciCommunitySupportedAgricultureAroundTheWorld/

Right now we have 3 regular shares available and 5 short season shares.  When these are gone we are done selling veggies for the year!

Don’t miss out.

You can sign up here and either pay with paypal or send us a check.  http://giacres.csasignup.com/members/types

Friday the 23rd is officially CSA day.  We get started way before that. Today we got our first new seed packets for the year.  Last week we ordered more than $330 of seeds and plants for the upcoming year and we aren’t done.  

If you are interested in what we think we will be growing this year take a look at this document.

Complete Seed List for 2018 w/perennials

We are not sure that we are planting everything on this list but it will give you a good idea of what we are considering.  We will be planting things from every category even if we only plant 5 kinds of carrots instead of all of them.  If we run out of space we may save some seed for next year.

We still have several shares available including at least 2 full shares and 5 short season shares.

You can find more info on the cost and what is available here.

Join us for the 2018 Season we are getting excited about it.

We have shares available for the 2018 season.  Both regular and short season shares.  You can sign up here.  Buying a share in the CSA will cut out the middle man, give you fresh local food and support a local producer.

This year we are offering 2 share choices, Full Season (end of May through September) and Short Season (6 week between July and early September).   We are offering our Full Season Shares to our 2107 members first.  We will have 10 Full Season shares available   We also will offer 6 Short Season shares.  Check out our GI Acres CSA page for more details and to find out which shares are still available.

GI Acres CSA

If you are interested in a share you can sign up here.

Full Season shares are $400 for new members and Short Season shares are $150.