Dear Fellow Community Member:
This year is the start of our third year in the community as your local, sustainable, family farm. We appreciate all of you who have supported us in our first two years. This is an important year for La Buena Vida Farm and one that we’re excited about.
Our success this year will mean that we will be able to plant again next year. We strive to support local economic sustainability, as well as to be a valuable local food source for our community.
In 2010, we will be offering some different buying options and adding some new products. We are raising heritage breed Navajo Churro sheep, Black Spanish turkeys, and Barred Rock chickens. Our natural, pasture raised meats will be available soon.
Our farm stand in Portal will be open every Saturday beginning this week on March 6, and we will continue to offer Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) baskets. If you are not familiar with CSA, it is one way for community members to participate in a small farm like ours by paying at the beginning of the growing season for weekly baskets of freshly harvested produce. This provides farmers like us with some predictable revenue so that we can concentrate on providing a valuable local food source.
This year we are offering full shares and half shares (both weekly) and are offering a new 6 week subscription at a LOWER cost.
The information here tells more about CSA, what you might expect from it, and how you can participate. Note that the deadline for this round is March 19.
We appreciate your continued interest in the viability of La Buena Vida Farm. Visit our new web site at www.labuenavidafarm.com. You can reach us at 520-558-0036 or info@labuenavidafarm.com.
We hope to see you at the Portal farm stand beginning this Saturday.
Thank you for your time and support.
Warmly,
Jerry and Jennifer Racicot