Fall Shares and Online Sales

FALL SHARES and ONLINE SALES for the end of the 2012 Season

I hope you have all enjoyed the spring and summer produce we have offered in 2012. It has been another season for Shannon and me to better understand the art and science of farming. So much to learn! That is one of the aspects we both love about it. We have had a bountiful harvest of storage crops (potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, winter squash, and pumpkins), and we are planting salad greens, lettuce heads, spinach, arugula, kale, chard, radishes, and turnips in the hoop houses for fresh produce this fall and winter.

We have decided to offer a 4 week FALL SHARE this November. We will have 15 shares available on a first come first serve basis. We will also be offering ONLINE SALES like we did last winter so Market Share members will have more opportunities to use the rest of your balances before the end of the year when they expire. We are also moving the pickups for the Fall Share and Online Sales to the farm on Musch Rd. I have included details about the Fall Shares and Online Sales below.

Here is how the FALL SHARE will be structured:

Cost: $100

Payment Deadline: $50 when you sign up, and the remaining $50 due by October 31^st.

Pick Up Dates: Wednesdays – November 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, 28^th

Time: 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Location: Stone Coop Farm – 9615 Musch Rd., Brighton, MI 48116

Number of Shares available: 15

What will be in the share? Here’s the items that may be provided each week. You will get 5 items, one from each category, and it will be at least $25 in value.

1. Root Crops – carrots, radishes, turnips, rutabaga, or beets

2. Potatoes or sweet potatoes

3. Pumpkin or Winter Squash

4. Leafy Greens – salad mix, spinach, kale, chard or lettuce head

5. Miscellaneous veggies – kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, onions, cabbage, celery or frozen tomatoes (from our wonderful abundance of tasty tomatoes this summer).

Here is how we will be offering the ONLINE SALES:
On Fridays we will send out an email listing the produce we have to offer and the price for each item. You will place your order via email by MONDAY at noon. Orders are filled by first come first served. We will harvest the produce and send you an email by the end of the day on Tuesday letting you know which items on your order we can provide and the total cost. You pick up your order on Wednesday at the farm on Musch Rd.

Location: Stone Coop Farm – 9615 Musch Rd., Brighton, MI 48116When: Wednesdays – November 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, 28^th

Pick Up Time: 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM

We may have some December online sales, but it will be weather dependent.

No need to sign up for the Online Sales, just let us know you want to be on our weekly email and you can pick and choose which weeks you want to purchase something.

If you are interested in purchasing a Fall Share, or are not yet on our email list and wish to be, please email me, joannee@stonecoopfarm.com, with your request. Thank you!

-Joannee

Winter Sales Begin Today

The hoop house is planted and all ready for our winter crops. If you'd like to see how we will be growing things this winter in our hoop house please let us know.  We'd love to give you a tour.  It's pretty amazing how these crops can survive our Michigan winters without any heat. Here is a photo showing how different the house looks for the winter: hoop house

It is time for us to start our online sales.  Please bear with us as we figure this out.  Your ideas, suggestions and input will be greatly appreciated to help us make this a smooth process for everyone. We will do one next week, one in December and we hope the plants grow enough by mid January to do at least 2 a month from January through April.  We will start our regular weekly markets again in May.

Here is how it will work this winter:  

1. We will email you on Friday letting you know what we have available. (if you're not on our email list and would like to be, send Joannee an email ASAP)

2. Email us your order no later than noon on Monday.  Orders will be taken on first come first serve basis.  

3. We will let you know by Monday night if we can fill your order and if not we will let you know what we can provide.  We will also let you know how much it will cost.

4. Pickup will be at Hamburg Fitness Center.  We will be near the front desk from 4:00PM to 6:30PM.  We will have your order pre-bagged so it is ready to go.  If we have extra items that have not been sold we will have them available too.

Market members - we will be honoring your remaining balances through the end of December.

Items available for Tuesday 11/22

Lettuce salad mix - $4 (5 oz bag, same size as Earthbound Organic container)

Spicy Salad Mix - $4 (5 oz)

Spinach - $4 (5 oz)

Radishes - $2 a bunch (D'Avignon - mild French breakfast radish, 8-12 in bunch)

Hakurei Turnips - $2 a bunch (small, sweet salad turnip, 5-6 in bunch)

Ripbor Kale (curly leaf) - $2 a bunch (8 oz)

Lacinato Kale (smooth leaf) - $2 a bunch (8 oz)

Swiss chard - $2 a bunch (8 oz)

Long Pie Pumpkins - $1.50 to $4.00 depending on size

Winter Squash (Confection, Burgess Buttercup, Spaghetti) - $2.00 to $4.00

Mini Gourmet Beets - $4 a quart

Onions (yellow and purple) - $0.50 each

Kossack Kohlrabi - $2.00 each

Green Tomatoes - $1 a quart

-Joannee

Winter Produce Online Sales

Don't miss out on fresh produce from Stone Coop Farm after the farmer's market season has ended! Sign up now on our email list to receive weekly updates and ordering information on our winter produce. The only way to purchase our produce this winter is through our email/online sales. Just email Joannee to get signed up: joannee@stonecoopfarm.com Several of the produce items that will be available after farmer's market has ended:

Beets
Chard
Green Tomatoes
Kale
Kohlrabi
Onions
Pumpkins (sweet pie pumpkins)
Radishes
Salad Mix
Turnips
Winter Squash


We have three markets left before we begin online sales: Wednesday Oct 26 4:00-6:30 at Stone Coop Farm, Saturday Oct 29 8:00-1:00 at Brighton Farmers Market, and Saturday Nov 12 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church 9:00-3:00.