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on friday, after completing our first harvest for the CSA season, we celebrated sasha’s 15th birthday. the anniversary of the birth of my first born is something like no other, for i delight in the...
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there are many things i adore about operating a community supported farm. i appreciate the financial stability this model offers to our small family farm. i enjoy the diversity that this structure...
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in my 15 years of CSA farming i have sat in on countless market development meetings. whether it be a new farmer’s market initiative or attempts to revitalize an existing venue, the question is almost...
View Articlethe start of a day
Paul has made friends with the owner of a convenience store near the Nashville Farmers Market. Over the years of taking the children on walks in the adjacent Bicentennial Mall, he found this little...
View Articleswitching it up
I do the lion’s share of the cooking around here you know, the day to day job of keeping my people fed. Paul comes in for the glamour: the legs of lamb, the roast turkeys and gravy, but it is me...
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we actually started our 16th CSA delivery season last saturday, may 9th. that happened to be the sixteenth birthday of my oldest, ’twas also my middle dear’s annual dance recital. i did mentally...
View Articlethere is always a first time
each and every saturday since that dramatic first delivery for Hill and Hollow CSA in 2000, we have loaded every member of our family into the vehicle in the still night for the now so familiar 100...
View Articleundocumented fun
there are no photos. when two farmwives meet for a saturday morning coffee, heck, you really shouldn’t even talk about it. but friends, desperate times call for desperate measures and so it came to...
View Articleweek 20
we completed the main season of our csa this past saturday and golly do we feel great. there are about as many csa structures as there are csa farms. our’s is divided into a 20 week main season and an...
View Articlewool to wood
i am back from SAFF the experience that lasted 5 days including travel was full beyond description: educational, informational, inspirational, overwhelming, delightful and exhausting depending on the...
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