SIGN UP FOR A 2010 MEMBERSHIP

To sign up for a 2010 CSA share with little flower farm email us:
littleflowerfarmcsa@gmail.com

We'll send you an application. Your application and check secures your spot.
Shares fill up fast!

Outside the box

Your share in little flower farm costs $500 dollars. That's for 18 weeks of fresh local (aren't they synonyms?) chemical-free vegetables during the growing season. How can we put that in perspective?
If you make $52,000 a year that's a whole season's worth of veggies for just a couple of days of work. I know what you are thinking! WOAH NELLY! THAT IS SO WORTH IT! SIGN ME UP!
If you make $30,000 a year it's more like four day's worth of work for a season's worth of vegetables. Still a great deal.
And here's why:
When you sign up for a CSA share you are signing up for more than just good food for your family. You are supporting a sustainable farmer in your area. You are supporting local jobs, sustainable agriculture, family life, health of wildlife, land and water conservation, and also, National security. There's alot more in your CSA share than what fits in the box!

Resident Mole Catcher

Beatrice, cat of class and character has taught herself to open the front door and sing with the birds.

Baby Chicks

Next year's new laying flock has arrived. New Hampshire Reds, Rhode Island Reds, and Silver Laced Wyandottes. Soon to be pampered on pasture out with the sheep!

Butchering Days

We've been busy at Little Flower Farm. Sausagina and Bacon have given their lives over for the greater cause, and we've been turning them into hams and bacon, pork chops and soap. It is an amazing experience, growing your own food, especially growing your own meat. We find our respect for the common sausage is exponentially increased. Our appreciation for the fine animals that pigs are will never diminish.

Letting Nature take its course

INTRODUCING SIR WILHELM, our visiting buck.

Its breeding time for the sheep and goats...time to ensure some milk production (and cute kids and lambs) come spring. Sir Wilhem arrived to meet our ladies, Ginger and Dixie a couple weeks ago. This was after our first choice, a Nubian buck, failed spectacularly. We were excited about crossing Ginger with a Nubian for big meat kids and for richer (higher butterfat) milk since she is part Nubian...but looking back we should have thought twice when his owner said (and I quote:) "well....maybe you'll need a hill to make it work." The fellow was beautiful, he was purebread Nubian, he had all the goods....and he stood about two hands tall. Next to Ginger he would have needed a crane to hoist him into position. He also cried alot for his Mammy. We took the milk baby back and exchanged him for a "raring to go" Alpine. His Sire was named "Chaotic". That's why he looks the way he does. A buck only a mother could love. BUT he didn't need a hill! Here is his picture:

He is named after my brother William. Evidently they share the same stylist.

If you know anything about goats, you know that they get right down to it. Artificial Insemination with goats is a farce: they do just fine by themselves, and very quickly too. No mood lighting, no smooth jazz, nothing. When he saw Dixie, he locked eyes with her right away.

Later on I would catch him snuggling with Ginger in the hay pile. They are a happy family now, and we are looking forward to Springtime at Little Flower Farm!

Taters, precious!

Harvesting potatoes with small children is like a treasure hunt. Potatoes do well in our soil here on the farm. Next year we will be planting plenty of varieties. There is nothing like a potato to turn a smiling grateful face heavenward and thank the Lord for the bliss of carbohydrates coursing through the veins!