A letter from farmer Chris Blanchard 

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Good food is like fine music or fine wine: to be enjoyed, savored, looked forward to, and remembered, with rhythm and timing and all of the senses engaged. With this in mind, we are pleased to introduce our Four Seasons Vegetable Share, designed to provide culinary excitement and satisfaction throughout the course of the year. Plus, as a way of showing our appreciation to the members who support us year ‘round’, we are offering a substantial discount to members who sign up all Four Seasons. Of course, we are continuing to offer our individual seasonal shares, as well.  

The new Four Seasons Vegetable Share includes the following Individual Seasonal Shares:  Spring (April – May – 4 boxes), Summer (June – September – 17 boxes), Autumn (October – December - 5 boxes) and Deep Winter (January – March - 6 boxes). 

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At times like these, with so much work to do, and limited resources with which to accomplish it, each of us needs  to pay as much attention as possible to getting the most bang for our buck, whether it’s making multiple stops on a trip to town or buying products from companies that do good deeds in their communities. Purchasing a Rock Spring Farm CSA share provides a great way to get the most out of your investment: 

·  Good Food  means more than just delicious things to eat, although we provide plenty of that. It means food that is convenient and clean, with a diverse selection, and information on how to prepare it in ways that don’t take all day. At Rock Spring Farm, we take great pride in the quality of our vegetables, we keep the dirt on the farm, and we provide you with information and recipes every week that make it easy to enjoy your CSA share. 

·  Organic   means more than just what farmers don’t put on their fields. It means an active system of crop rotation; soil building cover crops, minerals, detailed crop rotation schedules, and compost; and farming methods that support an increase in biodiversity. At Rock Spring Farm, we not only take care of our fields, we have actively worked to increase biodiversity through the use of field edges, tree plantings, and stream-bank buffer strips. 

·  Local   means more than just buying things locally, it means spending your food-dollars where they go to support farmers, not expensive distribution and warehousing systems that take a little bit out at each step along the way. With the Rock Spring Farm CSA, the fresh, local food goes directly from our farm to your plate. 

·  Value  means more than just good food on your plate, it means putting those food dollars to work. Rock Spring Farm plays an extensive role in educating new and organic farmers throughout the Midwest, from teaching classes, to serving on the boards of educational organizations, to organizing the presentations at the MOSES Organic Farming Conference. 

We hope that you will join us in 2010 for another year of great vegetables. We also hope that you will act soon. In the past several years, shares have often sold out by late April, and we are seeing a continued increase in the interest in CSA and local foods. Please don’t wait! 

Your Farmer, 

Chris Blanchard 

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