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It’s Not Too Late to Sign Up for a CSA Share

July 1, 2011

Grant Farms is still accepting members, and if you sign up now, you’ll get 4 weeks of eggs free with your order. CSAs are a great way to eat local and healthy. You can even sign up for a preserving share and eat local all winter long. As always, please put Cheryl Spencer in the [...]

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Preserving Green Beans

August 18, 2010

I received my first preserving-share item last week: 21 pounds of organic green beans. Here’s a couple of pictures of the little beauties: -Sorry about the quality of the photos, I had to use my phone to take them, so they’re not so great. How I processed the green beans: I blanched and froze all [...]

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CSA SNAFU & Great Customer Service

July 30, 2010
Great customer service from Grant Farms

This week, my Grant Farms veggie and egg CSA-shares went missing. I showed up at the pick-up sight, and the only thing left were two fruit shares — no eggs or veggies! — Some CSA member took the wrong shares. This wasn’t the first time this happened, two weeks ago, my fruit share was not there. I [...]

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This Week’s CSA Shares: July 28, 2010

July 28, 2010

Here is what we received in this week’s share, and how we used it: 1 dozen eggs: went into various baked goods, and made hard-boiled eggs (egg-salad sandwiches) 1 bag salad greens: washed and bagged. Ate these quickly, as they do not last long. Used in salads. 1 bag English peas: shelled and froze the [...]

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CSA Preserving Share: Drying, Freezing and Canning 2010-Part 2

July 20, 2010
canning and preserving, making pickles

Planning and Preparations If you read my recent post on preserving for 2010, you know that I’ve signed up for a preserving-share from Grant Family Farms. I really want this endeavor to be a success, so I am planning everything as much in advance as possible. I have canned before, so I have most of [...]

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What To Do With the Kohlrabi You Got in Your CSA Share

July 18, 2010
kohlrabi from our csa share

We got a small kohlrabi in our CSA share last week. It weighed about 6 oz. This can be the challenge of your CSA share – getting one lone vegetable, and an unusual one like kohlrabi. As I considered the options, I thought it might make a good cold salad, if it was shredded. As [...]

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CSA Preserving Share: Drying, Freezing and Canning 2010

July 8, 2010
canning

I have signed up for a “canning share” from Grant Family Farms. I plan to dry, freeze and can a lot of food for the winter. The way it works is you sign up for a share that allows you to pick so many items off the canning-share list. I signed up for the 15-item [...]

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What Is it Like to Run Colorado’s Largest CSA?

April 20, 2010
Grant Family Farms

LocalHarvest just sent out an e-mail with a link to an interview they did with Grant Family Farms CSA, which is one of the largest CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) in the country. (That’s right, Colorado has one of the biggest CSAs!) As you may be aware, I am a customer. I love the weekly deliveries, [...]

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Our Grant Farms CSA Subscription

October 27, 2009
CSA fruits and vegetables

My husband and I subscribe to the Grant Family Farms CSA. We get the vegetable, egg and fruit shares. Each week we’re getting quite a lot of food, sometimes more than we can eat, so we’re freezing a lot of what is left over. I think that is one area where people can get into [...]

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