With the season winding down, I wanted to give a special thanks to all of our shareholders for supporting us this year. This has been a wonderful learning experience for me, partly because of the opportunities I’ve been given to get to know several of you more personally. Several of you are certainly not afraid to give some good input and suggestions about the CSA, all of which is very helpful and certainly taken into consideration. Although there is only one week remaining, I would love to receive more suggestions about what we could grow more or less of next year, or any other ideas about the way distribution is run, what to include in the blog, etc…I have been in communication with one shareholder about holding a canning and pickling class next year for instance, and hopefully this project will hit the ground running when next year’s growing season comes around.
I would also like to provide a brief “shareholder spotlight” on Carol Fraser, who has been a shareholder for several years now. Almost every week Carol has provided unique and tasty recipes at distribution, and given great tips about how to cook and roast our produce. Carol also makes food pantry deliveries to Foxboro and Brockton, and clearly exhibits a certain joy in providing fresh food for lower-income families.
Carol, in addition to many shareholders, have helped make this community supported farming experience that much more enjoyable. Next week I would like to share the spotlight on a few other active and involved shareholders, as long as I can snap a photo of them. Although I won’t be able feature as many members as I would like to, I hope these posts can serve as a “shout out” to all of the members as a token of our appreciation. I can’t say enough about those of you who have given me some great ideas about ways to increase a sense of community; not to mention the people who volunteered to help spur of the moment when I was left to run distribution alone…Life savers!
Here is a quick shot I got of our farmhands and farm manager Mathew – the coolest cats this side of Sharon.