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I 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, ( what was included for the fruit share 2006. )
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, ( what was included for the fruit share 2006. )
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.