We are happy to have turned the page to 2012.  We are busy entering the 2012 enrollment information into our computer.  If you haven't sent in your form please do so ASAP.  New members can find the enrollment forms online on February 1st.  

You can order lamb and chicken to be delivered the week of January 16 on your regular pick up day at your regular pick up location.  We also have frozen green beans and winter squash puree available for ordering.  The green beans and Kabocha squash were grown on Roxbury Farm and processed at Farm to Table Processing Company in Kingston, NY.  Farm to Table processes vegetables, jams, and sauces for farmers in the Hudson Valley to give farmers the opportunity to have products available for sale year round.  To order meat click on Our Products at the top of the page and then click on Meat Orders.  To order frozen vegetables click on Our Products and then on Frozen Vegetables.  We will send you an invoice with your order and then you send in your payment.  Thank you!

REMINDER TO CSA MEMBERS:  SEND IN YOUR 2012 ENROLLMENT FORMS BY FEBRUARY 1ST.  IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A FORM PLEASE CONTACT THE FARM AT 518-758-8558 OR info@roxburyfarm.com.  New members can begin enrolling on February 1st.

We're busy caring for the livestock, fixing equipment, and preparing for the 2012 season.  The cows have access to pasture but spend quite a bit of time in their new barn eating hay.  They have a deep bedding pack of straw that we will add clean straw to each week.  In the spring we will compost the manure/straw pack and spread it on our hay fields.  The cows are on the left side of the barn and the calves are on the right.

In a few of our newsletter we wrote about how we planned on implementing some draft animal power on the farm.  Donn Hewes and Maryrose Livingston from Northland Sheep Dairy near Cortland, NY are mentoring Keri, Matt, and I with this endeavor.  They found us a 9 year-old Haflinger draft pony, Milt.  Milt arrived at Roxbury Farm just before Thanksgiving. 

We have begun the enrollment for the 2012 season for our present CSA members.  If you did not receive a 2012 enrollment form by email or regular mail please contact the farm at info@roxburyfarm.com or 518-758-8558.  New members can find our enrollment forms online on Feb. 1st. 

For the 2012 season besides our 23 week vegetable share we will also offer a 20 week fruit share, a winter share, beef, chicken, lamb, and pork shares. 

Happy Thanksgiving from the Roxbury Farm Crew!

The last delivery for the 2011 season will be next week, the week of Oct. 31 on your regular day and time.  We lost 50,000-60,000 lbs of produce due to the flooding and excessive rain.  We thank you for your support during this difficult and season and we are looking forward to an abundant harvest in 2012. 

Thank you to everyone who celebrated our 20th year as a Community Supported Farm on Sunday.  Around 300 people enjoyed a day of walking the farm, great food, facing painting, caricature drawing, music, a bonfire, and good conversation.  It was a day to remind all of us of the importance of community and creating a connection to the land and people who grow our food.

Click on the link to listen to the Roxbury Farm song that was played as part of the celebration.  Lyrics by Enid Futterman / Music by Mindy Jostyn.    Roxbury Farm Song

The crops are loving this weather; warm days and nights with about and inch of water (either rain or irrigation) each week.  Our days have turned to harvesting and we spend most of each morning picking and washing.  The cool early mornings are the perfect time to harvest head lettuce (when the deer haven't taken a bite out of each head), salad mix, cooking greens, broccoli, and herbs.  Later in the morning we harvest sweet corn, cucumbers, cantaloupes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and of course summer squash & zucchini.  It has been quite a season for the squash.

The greenhouse work is almost done for the season, there are only a few plantings of head lettuce left.  The greenhouses are now full of onions.  We cure the onions for a few weeks and then we will put most of them in cold storage until later this fall and for the winter shares.  The crew labored for days to harvest about 30% more onions than we grew last season.  

As a reminder we have chicken, pork, and lamb available for ordering.  Go to Our Products and click on Meat Orders.

We are finally starting to harvest our summer crops with a few eggplant this week and then some bell peppers next week.   It is a bit later than normal but it looks like there is going to be a great crop of peppers and eggplant.  We ate the first tomatoes on Saturday during the Member Garlic Harvest, there may be a few in the delivery next week.  The 1st cantaloupe should be ripe next week, too.

We have some new cuts of lamb available for ordering along with whole chickens.  Go to Our Products and then Meat Orders to place an order.  Pork shares are going to be delivered this week (July 19-22) and lamb shares next week (July 23-26). 

Our fruit grower is also having a difficult season.  The late cherries split and the early peaches aren't ripe yet.  Unfortunately we won't be able to deliver your fruit shares this week.  Thank you for your understanding.  

The weather is starting to be more cooperative so we will  have a chance to catch up on cultivating, weeding, and transplanting this week.  Here is the crew planting celeriac with our Lannen Transplanter.

We hope you all enjoyed the first delivery of the season.  We are very excited that the harvest season is finally here.  The weather continues to be difficult so the deliveries will vary in quantity for awhile because we couldn't get in the ground to plant our successions of salad mix, cooking greens, herbs, etc.  Once we get to tomato and pepper season we will deliver the full bounty of the season again.

We have pork, lamb, and a few cuts of beef available for purchasing.  Visit the Meat Order section to place your order.  We sold out of beef and pork shares but we still have lamb shares available, click here for more information.

Fruit shares will start the week of June 29.

Have a great week!