Spider Web Gardens
What's New?
John Carroll presented Pastures of Plenty
Spider Web Float Wins Second Place in 4th of July Parade
Recent Pruning Workshop
Spider Web Participates in Earth Day Festivities
Spider Web joined many other organizations in celebrating Earth Day at Carpenter School. Seed displays and informational flyers were viewed by many in the community wide event. The booth was manned by Tyler Evans.
Bill Stockman gave a twilight tour of Spider Web and the neighboring Tuftonboro Community Garden. Visitors were given a tour of the greenhouses and farm and Bill dug up fresh parsnips for those interested. He also cut each person’s tulip preference as a special gift.
The Tent is up!
Over 100 rocks were removed from the fields and grounds recently.
CSA for Spider Web Gardens
New this year will be a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) vegetable program. CSAs are becoming more popular as customers desire to eat local, fresh food with delicious flavor and vitamin benefits. Consumers also learn new vegetables and new ways of cooking, get to visit the farm and see where and how the produce is grown and develop a relationship with the farmer who grows their food. The farmer receives benefits such as getting to spend time marketing the food early in the year and to receive payment early in the season, which helps with the farm's cash flow. The farmer also has an opportunity to get to know the people who eat the food they grow.
Due to high interest the vegetable CSA is closed for the 2010 season. CSA is an arrangement which enables consumers and farmers to share the risks and benefits of sustainable agriculture. Each growing season, members pay for a share up front and in return, receive 14 weekly harvests of produce in season. The first harvest will be in mid July, running through August and September and into the first two weeks of October. There will be two levels of shares; a small share for $200.00 and a large share for $400.00. Typically the large share will feed a family of four. Pick up will be at SWG one time per week ( Mondays) for small shares and two times per week (Mondays and Fridays) for the large shares. Vegetables will be displayed and a prescribed amount of each will be available to each share holder; there will a swap area where families may leave what produce they might not care for and exchange that for a preferred vegetable. We encourage the use of reusable bags for containers. It might take a while for some families to make a transition from eating whatever is at the grocery store (pretty much everything) to whatever is in your CSA basket (what's in season). The season starts off lighter than it finishes: In our area the first crops will be salad greens, green onions, radishes and the like. By the end of the season, the boxes should be much heavier, with things like winter squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, and corn. We will try to provide a list of vegetables and when they might be available, members need to remember that farming has no guarantees. Because this will be a joint venture options may be made to not pick up a share one week and to pick up two the next or to form some other arrangement. Flexibility is desirable for all involved.
We also offer a separate CSA opportunity with our cut flowers, there is membership space available. This will be cut your own flowers from the cut flower garden for 15 visits with up to 20 stems/visit. The cost of this will be $100.00/share