How Teaming Up With Local is The Way To Grow!

Our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) has gone through big changes this season and for many reasons. We would like a chance to share with you how and why we are making these changes because there is a lot of thought that goes into it!

The main change is teaming up with WFM2go (Wolfville Farmers' Market Online Ordering Service). This service really focuses on the distribution side of things (something very much needed in Nova Scotia) but with a local point of view. As a small-farm business we would never feel confident in teaming up with a larger distributor because there is so much nuance even in delivering. You need people who know your product, your business, your values and the people at the hubs, because without that a lot of things can go wrong! Over the years we have built a very strong relationship with staff and vendors at the Wolfville Farmers' Market and share a lot of the same values and visions for the future.  So for us, it seemed like a no-brainer to team up with WFM2go and have them help us get our CSA shares to the city each week!

Three Sisters Planting: Squash, Beans, Corn with a border of sunflowers

So how does this help us? This frees up nearly an entire day that can now be dedicated to farming which is the backbone of our business. Last season there were many unexpected curveballs that mother nature threw our way and it added on lots of extra work to an already very full schedule. For instance when we got our early frost we had to spend extra time covering what we could, seeding extra transplants to replace what we lost and re-planting out those transplants. The reality of farming is that you'll never have enough time to get everything done but you can always get more done each year if you plan it a little better, so that's what we're doing. 

There are also many added benefits to our CSA members, the main one being that they can now add-on many more local products and with much more ease.  Some of these local products include free-range eggs, milk, free-range meats, ferments, grains, breads, tonics, teas, etc. Before we use to handle collecting these orders and payments ourselves, which was a whole other job we simply don't have time for, but we knew this was of great value to our customers so we are glad we were able to come up with a better solution!

The other benefit CSA members will get is building their relationships with local producers outside of our farm. We have always strived to share and support other producers whenever we could and we know our members would love the opportunity to grow their local food family! 

Find Out More About Our CSA Here

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​What Makes Our CSA Special

• You can opt-out of veggies
• You can put veggies on hold
• You can make payments
• You can switch locations
• You can add-on over 250 different local products every week. Some of these include: ferments, flowers, meats, eggs, grains, tonics, wine, etc
• You can participate in our awesome thanksgiving share
• You can come have a feast at our farm on July 6th @ 3pm