After a lot of work last season, we were ready for a break, planning to go somewhere with the family to get relax and charge batteries for next season, but what?, we didn't get to go anywhere. Francisco is been working at his roofing job all Summer and at the same time getting ready for the upcoming season, there is always a lot of things to plan and small projects to do.

Appreciated Members:

I would like to take sometime to communicate the happenings at the farm.

First of all I would like to give my deepest thanks to all of you guys that call or email us about the farm or if we need extra help. At this point is very little what we can do , last year after the frost that kill all my tomatoes I decide to beat the weather building new hoop houses, so we can enjoy tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers in the winter months, everything went according to plan and we start enjoying this crops until the mighty weather come back furious to teach me a lesson.

 The baskets will include seasonal vegetables.  If you are interested to join, you can reserve your space filling the membership form and sending the full payment.

 We still have space available for new members.

 *A Full Share will include in between 8-11 Kinds of vegetables in the basket, pick up or drop off every week.

 *A Half Share will include the same as above, but pick up or drop off every other week.

 Pick up & Drop off locations will be:

 Thursday at the farm (10:00am- 6:00pm)

 Guys ,after  months of planning, planting and cultivation  a bountifull harvest is here! I hope that everybody that picked their share feels satisfied with the quality and amount received. This our first harvest that look excellent.

We have posted pickup dates, time, and locations for the season to the Event Calendar. Please review the calendar for your dates and times.

Today we introduce a new feature to the KYV Farm website: Recipe Sharing. Any registered user on the site can post recipes to share among the farm community. The new recipes will appear in the site's overall News/RSS feed as well as on the main page. Happy Recipe sharing!

Everything is growing really fast; it's exciting to see how in couple of weeks everything changes. Our system of tying tomatoes requires constant attention; the peppers, cucumbers and squash are on their way. The greens field is have been worked with the chicken manure and is ready for planting lettuces, salad greens and spinach. It’s been awful hot for this time of the year, last year at this time we experience temperatures below the 60’s none so far this year. On the Weedman’s field we have planted a ton of onions, I mean red, white and multipliers, they are coming along fine.

University of Florida - IFAS Extension
Northeast Florida Small Farms Working Group Presents

Providing Local Food through Community Supported Agriculture

KYV FARMS, Switzerland, FL

Thursday, October 29, 2009 @ 5:00pm

Agenda:

5:00pm- Registration, Networking, and Light Refreshments

(Please bring a light hors d’oeuvre or dessert to share)

6:00pm- Educational Farm Tour

All Smal Farmers who are interested in learning about this topic are invited to attend.

We want to thank the 97 families that joined our CSA for this upcoming season; we appreciate your support in local farming.

This summer we have been very busy planning, seeding trays, building new hoop houses, fixing tractors and working the fields.  We will have lots of variety of crops; we are very excited with this season.

 For more pictures from the farm and also join our group; go to:

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