Here's a list of what was in our CSA boxes last week and some pictures too.  The basket contains the produce of the regular produce package.  The second picture is carrots and daikon that Relinda grows at Walker Farms.  They are the sweetest carrots you are ever going to taste.  The tomatoes are grown at Aiken Hydroponics in By Jeff McDaniel in Aiken, SC.
Below is another informational and funny newsletter by Samantha.

In the veggies boxes this week...

Individual
Tomatoes - Aiken Hydroponics, SC
Spinach - Walker Farms, GA
Daikon Radish - Walker Farms, GA
Spring Onions - Walker Farms, GA
Bibb Lettuce - BJ's Produce, GA
Green Bell Pepper - Alderman Farms, FL

Regular
Tomatoes - Aiken Hydroponics, SC
Spinach - Walker Farms, GA
Daikon Radish - Walker Farms, GA
Spring Onions - Walker Farms, GA
Beets - Walker Farms, GA
Bibb Lettuce - BJ's Produce, GA
Watercress - Neva Hydroponics, GA
Red Kale - C&B Farms, FL

Large
Tomatoes - Aiken Hydroponics, SC
Spinach - Walker Farms, GA
Daikon Radish - Walker Farms, GA
Spring Onions - Walker Farms, GA
Bibb Lettuce - BJ's Produce, GA
Watercress - Neva Hydroponics, GA
Red Kale - C&B Farms, FL
Red Swiss Chard - C&B Farms, FL
Green Bell Pepper - Alderman Farms, FL

Protein
Ground Beef - Grove Creek Farms, GA
Pumpkin Seeds - Pure Bliss, GA
Whole Milk - Hickory Hill Milk, SC  (For the whole milk drinkers.  I'll have milk for the 2%-ers next week:-)

Specialty
Raw Cashews - Pure Bliss, GA
Granola - Mitera, GA
Honey - Empire Honey, GA
  Pota

CSA Newsletter 3/4/10

Potato

Spring Supplies

We now have McEnroe Potting Soil back in stock for you seed starters and container growers out there.  We got a whole host of other products in like Azomite, Cover Crop Seeds and More!

We are ordering ingredients for the square foot gardening mix this week and also will have a whole new line of fertilizers in by the end of the week.

CSA Just topped 50 for the first time!!!!  Thanks to everyone for your continued support!

CSA Newsletter

Blueberries

Some Pictures From the 2010 Georgia Organics Conference in Athens GA

Social Networking at Georgia Organics

I am currently attending a seminar at the GA Organics Conference on using social networking to share the word of what we do and think. James Harris of Harris and Clark at Serenbe is sharing info on googling, blogging, facebooking and twittering. Wow. I am sending this as my first blogger post via blackberry. This is a new age for farmers indeed.

Horticuture Defined

The term Horticulture has many meanings to many people.  This definition is one that covers it most accurately.

HORTICULTURE is a broad inclusive term covering the making and care of home gardens, market-gardens, orchards, nurseries, greenhouses, as well as the plant-raising phase of parks, estates and botanic gardens.  It comprises whatever has to do with the growing of ornamentals, of vegetables, of fruits, and of plants prized for their general interest.  It may constitute the way of earning a living and developing a business at the same moment that in the fuller sense its subjects are embedded in the emotional assets of life.
It follows that horticulture cannot be measured or defined by its organized and commercial aspects alone or its importance be represented in statistics.  The amateur and personal practice of it determine the extent of the trade development: and this fact will be increasingly apparent as home-making rises to higher satisfactions.
The main departments of horticulture as defined by the plant subjects, are pomology or fruit-growing, floriculture or flower-growing, olericulture or vegetable-growing, landscape practice.
To grow the vast range of plants successfully and to defend them against insect and disease requires experience and definite knowledge.  The plant resources of the earth are largely within the purview of the horticulturist, involving conceptions of plant geography, climate, adaptations.  These resources afford endless opportunities in plant-breeding.  It follows that the exact identification of a species and varieties is an indispensable part of this field of knowledge.  Horticultural subjects have been put into pedagogical form and are now effective means of elementary and higher education.  Personal skill in cultivation and in techniques is essential to success and real satisfactions; yet horticulture and gardening are much more than the growing of plants. See Garden

from

HORTUS SECOND
A Concise Dictionary of Gardening and General Horticulture
compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey