**Summer 2008 CSA Sign-ups now
available! Hurry as the 2007 season quickly
sold out, call
or
email
Eat Local Sudbury today to sign up.
Join Chantal and Dave at Dalew Farms for
a very rewarding food experience. Feast on
the bounty of summer with a wide array of
fresh and delicious produce and meats. Enjoy farm tours with hayrides
to see the animals, and other special
events. Take pleasure in knowing that your
families’ food was produced without
chemicals and artificial fertilizers, by
your own personal farmer, in a safe and
environmentally friendly fashion. Receive
the regular Dalew Farms newsletter with
updates about the farm, as well as a special
once a week email bulletin for CSA
subscribers.
We are nearly organic, but not certified
organic. We use absolutely no chemicals or
artificial fertilizers, and all of our
animals are raised on pasture during the
spring summer and fall. Why aren’t we
certified organic? Our farm has been free of
chemicals and fertilizers for more than the
3 required years for transition to organic
certification, but sometimes we use non
organic seeds to get varieties that perform
well and are disease resistant, allowing us
to avoid using chemical fungicides. We use plastic row covers to get
vegetables ready earlier in the season, but
don't use the biodegradable kind,
because we don’t want to leave any unnatural
residues in the soil. We will attempt to
either re-use the non biodegradable plastic,
or recycle it.
More info on the 2008 CSA will be
posted soon, but here are DALEW FARMS
CSA 2007 Subscription Details...
Cost: $550 per
season
Delivery started the first Wednesday in July,
and ended the last Wednesday
in October, except for one final week in
November, which was a delivery of some
storage items like carrots, potatoes,
cabbage, onions etc. Produce was
delivered to the Sudbury Farmers market on
Wednesday evenings. Notification was
sent by email on Monday
evenings of the vegetables that will make up
the box for that week, and subscribers had
until Tuesday evening to place orders for
additional Dalew Farms items like meat,
eggs, etc
In addition to the vegetables offered in the
CSA subscription, Dalew Farms also has meats
available. Chicken, pork, beef, lamb, and
eggs. When available, these products can be
purchased and delivered at the same
Wednesday evening time as your CSA delivery
at no extra delivery cost, or through the
Eat
Local Sudbury Buying Club. Also, we have
additional locally produced items (e.g.:
Fresh ground flour) at our farm store
available for delivery at the same time as
our vegetable subscriptions. We also have
monthly open houses at the farm to see the
garden, animals etc, and of course you are
more than welcome to come out for those.
We were able fill the 20 subscriptions in Sudbury
we needed to
justify the traveling cost. A $50 deposit reserved
the subscription and the
subscriptions were taken on a first come,
first serve basis.
Our Vegetable List for 2007 included:
Beans, green and yellow
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage, red, green, savoy
Carrots
Cauliflower
Cucumbers, slicing and pickling
Kale
Lettuce (and other salad greens)
Onions, green and cooking
Peas
Potatoes red and white
Pumpkins
Red beets
Spaghetti Squash
Sweet corn
Sweet potatoes
Swiss chard
Tomatillos
Tomatoes
Zucchini, green and yellow
And More!
We are always adding new vegetables to the
garden here at Dalew Farms so there was an extra surprise or two of new
items to test taste buds
throughout last season.
We enjoyed connecting
with our subscribers over the course of the summer, and
learning more about what we can do to even
further improve the taste and nutrition of
our produce. Please don’t hesitate to call
or
email
us if you have any further questions!