West India Burr Gherkins (Maxixe)

So you got these in your share tonight and you are thinking what do I do with them? They are a cucumber so you can eat them raw. They are prickly so that might not be the best idea unless you peel them. And how do you say Maxixe anyway (Mashishi) Here are a couple […]

Past Frost Free, But Not Without Some Losses

May 17 was the official frost free date for our area. We are past it. On May 8 we planted our first Tomatoes (30) and on May 10 we lost more than 1/2 of them. There is a reason to wait. We aren’t expecting any more frost until at least September. If you want to […]

And Then There Were None

March 12, 2021 I received an email from out Google Form CSA Sign-Up. We just sold our last CSA share for the season. At this point we have sold 10 full season and 6 short season shares. That is all we can handle. Thank you everyone that has shared our social media posts and told […]

Short Season Shares Still Available

It is February 4th and we have sold out of all 10 of our full season shares. We do still have 5 short season shares available. Our short season is 6 pickups between mid-July and mid-September. You can expect tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, garlic, potatoes, eggplant, okra, green beans, summer squash and peppers. This is the […]

Welcome to 2021! We are now Accepting New Members

I know I want to join. Where do I sign up? Take Me To the Google Form GI Acres has been offering CSA (Consumer Support Agriculture) shares to people in the Grand Island, Nebraska area since 2015. We are beginning our sixth year and hoping to continue for many more. What is a CSA Share? […]

Hoping for More Efficient Planting This Year

We are starting to feel the pressure of cold rainy weather and to many activities that pull us away from the home over the weekends. We thought about buying a seeder for years but this year I broke down and bought an Earthway Seeder. They had one at Ace Hardware here in Grand Island. The […]

Week 3 June 20, 2018

The first new potatoes and onions were part of the share this week.  We had herbs and greens as well.  Also everyone got a share of edible pod peas.  The lettuce is doing well and we had enough for everyone. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”101″ gal_title=”All images”]

June 13, 2018 Week 2 CSA Share

We added a few choices this week with baby zucchini and edible pod peas.  If you weren’t here early though you did not get that choice we only had 2 of each. Everyone else got broccolini. Hopefully next week we will have enough for everyone.  Everyone got a nice Golden Acre Cabbage.  Kathy and I […]

June 6, 2018 First CSA Share of the Season

Sorry for the late post.  It has been a busy week.  I usually try to get this out the same day as the shares are picked up so that everyone can check to see what was in the share if you didn’t recognize it.  We had a variety of herbs, green garlic, garlic scapes, radishes, […]

Are you wondering what we are planting this year?

Well it was cold and wet this weekend.  We hoped to get the tomatoes and peppers and other plants that Barb (Barb’s Greenhouse) started for us into the ground.  That did not happen.  We did however get lots of the garden planned and took the cold frame out of the main garden. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”84″ gal_title=”Plants […]

And the Garden is a Go

We finally got to spend a day in the garden.  Between the weather, holidays and travelling it has been slow this year.  The weather this year has been frightful.  The first potatoes went in on Good Friday and we got snow for Easter.  Then we had snow or ice every weekend until the end of […]

It Is Starting To Get Real This Season

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 […]

One Week to CSA Day

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 […]

Three Weeks Until CSA Day

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.

2018 CSA Shares Available

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 […]

Welcome to 2018

New Year New Look We have a new logo thanks to our niece Katie’s brother-in-law, Douglas.  We are excited about the new year and we are starting to order seeds and get prepared for the new year. Check out the CSA Page to see what changes we have made to our membership structure. We are offering […]

Week 19 – October 18, 2017

Well we made it to 19 weeks of shares.  Thank you to all of our members and to everyone else that has helped and support us.  It was a very good year.  The last share included:  greens, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, peppers, tomatoes, winter squash, eggplant, basil, and mint.[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”33″ gal_title=”Week 19 Share October 18, 2017″] […]

Week 18, October 8, 2017

Our last share of the year should have been on September 27 with any bonus shares, because of good weather beginning in October.  But we needed a vacation and had the opportunity to visit Kathy’s sister in Atlanta at the end of September and beginning of October so we moved the final pickup from the […]

Week 16, September 13, 2017

Tomatoes, Potatoes, Green Beans and Herbs The season is almost done.  Just a couple of more weeks.  We had a nice share this week. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”30″ gal_title=”Week 16, September 30″] Thing have been a little tough this last week.  Chad had surgery last week to repair an umbilical hernia that he did not know that […]

Week 15, September 6, 2017

What do you think is the biggest advantage of growing your own food or supporting a local grower? For me, I think this picture sums it up. When you buy real food you know that it is real. It is obvious.  When your advertising hook for your food  is that it has real spices it […]

Week 13, August 23, 2017

Monday we celebrated the eclipse.  It was incredible to be in the path and we had 52 people at GI Acres celebrating with us.  Thank you to everyone that was able to be here.  Kathy and I also took our State Fair entries into the fair.  I entered dehydrated grated zucchini and dehydrated tomatoes,  Kathy […]