No Affiliation

It has come to my attention that a local organization called "Neighbors of the Southern Humboldt Community Park" is promoting our CSA, and is offering coupons for free bottles of wine with a subscription.

Please be aware that we are not associated with this group and its questionable agenda, in any way. We were not consulted, nor would we have agreed to be on that site.

Also be aware that the PO Box listed on the coupon page is not ours, and any CSA subscriptions mailed to that address will not reach us.

Thank you.

The Garberville Community Farm would like express our appreciation for all of the community support that made this last season a success. Thanks to all of the CSA members, together with you we had our best season yet. Thanks also to Chautauqua Natural Foods, Shopsmart, Rays, Amelia's, House of B and Nacho Mama for your enthusiastic support for local agriculture, and to all the local businesses who helped in large and small ways.

We enjoyed the company of this year's community gardeners, the Southern Humboldt Home School group, Gary Cox and Karen Trotter, Rachel Adair and Sam Epperson, Rio Anderson and Mia. We feel blessed to have worked alongside the many volunteers who helped to transplant thousands of seedlings and to bring in the abundant harvest.

Special thanks to Star Faroen, Amy Conway and Joe Wolf for your generosity in helping us to move closer to our vision of farming using appropriate technologies. And to John LaBoyteaux for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and providing valuable farming advice, many thanks.

Thanks also to the good people of SHEL, for helping to sharpen our focus on issues related to economic localization. And great appreciation to the board of the Southern Humboldt Community Park for your steady support for this project. You make this possible.

We are looking forward to next year's garden and welcome your participation. If you would like to receive our spring newsletter, or have questions or comments please call us at 707-223-4996 or email at garbervillefarm@gmail.com.

Blessings of the season,
John Finley and Lisa Solaris

CSA This Week

All CSA pickups this week will be on Thursday, July 3, here at the farmhouse. We will not be at the farmer's market on Friday the 4th.

This week we will have bunched carrots, bunched beets, rainbow chard, lettuce, cabbage and snow peas.

Many thanks to WWOOFER's Amanda and Kent who spent a few days working with us. They just got married and are spending their honeymoon traveling and volunteering on farms.

latest photos

The heavy smoke in Garberville has us hunkered down indoors and hoping for a breeze.

Meanwhile a few pictures of how the garden is growing.


the 3 acre irrigated market garden


10 acre dryland farm field is growing


the alchemical work-or compost into cabbages

Planting

A need for tractor repairs and the spring full moon frost put planting our crops on hold for a few weeks, but we are now back in action on the farm.



John, Lisa and Sam Epperson-Jansen working the planters- April 28

Farmer's Market begins this Friday! We will be there with certified organic starts for your vegetable, flower, and medicinal herbs garden. See you there!

Rebecca Arcos planting onions 4/1

volunteer

One way to be involved with the farm is to drop in on Saturday mornings, from 9:30 'til 12.

Help out for a few hours, practice gardening techniques, share your own tips and observations. All volunteers are welcome to take home a bag of veggies from the spring garden.


Flats of lettuce in the greenhouse. march 30

In late March we are still in the midst of transplanting and are just beginning to set plants out in the field.