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magidI got the form in the mail for getting a 2007 share in Red Fire Farm. I'm definitely re-upping; they've been the best fit of the farms I've tried. I still have to choose how much to pay (they offer a sliding scale, and anything more than the minimum suggested for non-low-income people will go to subsidize shares for people with less), which is also based on whether I get a main season share (20 weeks) or a full season share (24 distributions, with the four after the end of the main season being every other week)(I'm planning to get the longer one), and whether I want to get a fruit share on top of that as well.
I got the fruit share last year. It costs $180, and the fruit isn't necessarily organic, though if it isn't, it's low-spray, IPM, and so on. I'm not sure whether it would be more useful for me to use the many farmer's markets for fruit, though. For comparison, the list of what was in last summer's fruit share (it's only through the main season, whatever other share I get), by week.
I still haven't decided about the fruit share.
This year there will be three pick-up points locally, at the Cambridge and JP Harvest Co-ops and at an as-yet-undetermined location in Somerville, which will have longer hours (2:30-7 rather than Cambridge's 3-6:60 and JP's 4-7). Cool.
Longer term, the farm is also be looking to partner with a landowner and youth group or garden group somewhere around Boston to have a satellite growing location that would focus on the pick-your-own crops that most of the Boston members don't (really) get to take advantage of. This would be so incredibly cool; I wish I had some suggestions for them.
I got the fruit share last year. It costs $180, and the fruit isn't necessarily organic, though if it isn't, it's low-spray, IPM, and so on. I'm not sure whether it would be more useful for me to use the many farmer's markets for fruit, though. For comparison, the list of what was in last summer's fruit share (it's only through the main season, whatever other share I get), by week.
- a pint of strawberries
- a pint of strawberries
- a pint of strawberries and a small box of sugar snap peas
- a quart of strawberries and a half-pint (?) of peas
- a small box of peas
- a rounded pint of blueberries (not organic, but not sprayed, either)
- a pint of blueberries
- a pint of blueberries and a pound of beans (green or purple, except that only green were left by the time I got there)
- a pint of blueberries and five peaches
- a pint of cherry tomatoes (I got all Sungolds. Bliss!) and ten peaches
- a half-pint punnet of blueberries and four peaches
- six apples and three yellow plums
- six peaches
- twelve apples (possibly Paulas)
- eight Gala apples
- eight apples
- four pears
- eight Cortland apples
- five huge Cortland apples
- five yellow-green apples
I still haven't decided about the fruit share.
This year there will be three pick-up points locally, at the Cambridge and JP Harvest Co-ops and at an as-yet-undetermined location in Somerville, which will have longer hours (2:30-7 rather than Cambridge's 3-6:60 and JP's 4-7). Cool.
Longer term, the farm is also be looking to partner with a landowner and youth group or garden group somewhere around Boston to have a satellite growing location that would focus on the pick-your-own crops that most of the Boston members don't (really) get to take advantage of. This would be so incredibly cool; I wish I had some suggestions for them.