The Waitsfield Farmer’s market season has begun again! Saturdays from 9-1pm at the Village Green in downtown Waitsfield.
This week Dave will have lots of certified organic produce:
STRAWBERRIES
Lettuce Mix
Head Lettuce
European cucumbers
Baby Carrots
Spinach
Basil
Salad turnips
This new science reveals conventional agriculture’s true climate impact. Go organic! To read article, go here.
This is an 8 week Email course that will effortlessly land in your email inbox each week
• Thought about growing your own nutritious, organic food but need some guidance from someone who has done it for years?
• Concerned about the health and environmental impacts of petroleum, synthetic chemical and GMO-based conventional farming?
• Worried about maintaining your access to fresh, healthy food?
It’s time to save money, improve your food’s nutritional value, reconnect with nature, and increase your food security by growing your own. With the How to Grow Organic Food 8-Week Email Course, you’ll learn all you need to know about how to plant, maintain, harvest and prepare homegrown vegetables and herbs.
Get Growing Special offer: Save $10 if you buy before May 1st! (Price reduced: $29 instead of $39. I don’t want the price to stop you from growing your own food, it’s too important.)
It doesn’t really matter where you live or if you have a green thumb. Whether you prefer to grow vegetables in the ground, in pots on a sunny deck, or on your kitchen windowsill, we offer solutions for fledgling farmers of all types. This information packed, 8-week course is ideal for those who are creating their first garden or have had mixed success growing in the past. You’ll receive 8 weeks’ worth of detailed information, including how-to videos and pictures to get you growing in no-time!
TOPICS COVERED:
• Why organically grown and what that means
• Choosing the best site and garden design (in the ground, pots, windowsill, sprouts)
• What tools and materials you will need
• Preparing your soil
• What and when to plant for your area
• Choosing seeds or seedlings or both
• How to plant seeds and/or seedlings
• Companion plants that help repel pests
• Other pest-repelling techniques
• Simple composting tips
• Harvesting how-to
• Growing organic sprouts
• Eating your bounty (ways to prepare your harvest, including some recipes)
• Useful green living tips about food
Better Food Than Money Can Buy! (Most produce on the store shelves, organic or otherwise is approximately one week old-think of all of those lost nutrients).
The How to Grow Organic Food 8-Week Email Course will teach you more than just how to garden organically… you’ll also become more food-savvy in general. I offer bonus information based on my 20+ year green living background, to increase your understanding of organic food. Delight your senses, get some fresh air and vitamin D-producing sunshine. Impress your family and friends with your harvest as well as your new knowledge. And, have a lot of fun.
Learn As You Grow: What You Get from This Organic Gardening E-Course:
• A Garden of Inspiration. Each week, receive step-by-step “how to” organic gardening videos and photos to help you learn as you grow. Plus, get funny and inspiring garden quotes that I hand-picked myself.
• Real Gardening Practice. Put these organic gardening lessons into real-life use. We offer weekly homework assignments to help you implement the steps. (Imagine I’m sitting on your shoulder whispering into your ear what to do next!)
• Group Discussions for Gardeners. Find the answers to all your gardening questions! I’ve also included an online discussion group for all participants of this course. You’ll get free access when you sign up.
• Green Living Extras. Improve your food and gardening savvy with bonus tips on green living!
Planting the Seeds for Organic Gardening Success
Through the knowledge shared in this 8-week organic gardening e-course, you’ll also…
• Empower Yourself. Become self-reliant as you learn how to grow your own healthy food. This is a skill you can use for years to come and share with others, especially kids.
• Cultivate Connections. Invite family members to join you in your gardening pursuits. Pass along this amazing knowledge to your children. Kids who grow their own dinner really do learn to love eating vegetables!
• Increase Earth Awareness. Become more aware of weather patterns, and the magical cycle of growing living green things that you can eat.
• Find Time for Outdoor Pursuits! Spend some more time in nature, even if it’s just a sunny deck in the suburbs. Sunshine and fresh air do a body good; not to mention the exercise and relaxation you get from growing your own food.
Why Am I Teaching This Course?
In addition to my 20+ year background as a green living expert, three years ago I graduated from backyard organic gardener who grew on plots of land, sunny decks, and windowsills, to commercial grower on my boyfriend’s certified organic farm in the Mad River Valley of Vermont. Last season I started a successful cut flower business- Amy’s Organic Flowers. I sold creative, Vermont country style bouquets at the farmer’s market, farm stand, through a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), and for weddings and special events.
Sign Up in Time for the Spring Growing Season! 
To purchase, go here.
SPECIAL OFFER: Purchase before May 1st and save $10. $29 instead of $39.
Hartshorn’s Certified Organic Farm is looking for workers for the 2012 Season
Do you like to work outside and get into great shape working with plants and fun people? Get strong, eat healthy, and enjoy the outdoors from May through October. Planting, weeding and harvesting. Do everything from picking berries to harvesting watermelons. Trades and flexible hours are also options.
Call Dave at 279-8054 (cell) or 496-3081.
1. Purchase your Organic Flower CSA- 10 weeks of one bouquet per week- by March 1 and you will get one free bouquet, and 10% off of any extra bouquets you may want for friends and family or a special occasion. That’s 11 bouquets for the price of 10, and you save $20 off the retail price. These bouquets retail for $15 each. And you will have the added benefit of purchasing any extra bouquets at the discounted rate of $13 each instead of $15.
2. Purchase your Organic Flower CSA- 10 weeks of one bouquet per week- by April 1 and you will get one free bouquet. That’s 11 bouquets for the price of 10, and you save $20 off the retail price. These bouquets retail for $15 each.
Must live locally as pick up is each week at Hartshorn Farm on Route 100 in Waitsfield, next to the 1824 House Inn. Bouquets will be available starting around the end of May when the first Waitsfield Farmer’s Market begins.
For wedding flowers, please contact me directly and we can discuss what you are looking for, for when, and how much it will cost.
Organic tomato seedlings–a few days old.
One week later…
Back by popular demand!!
Sunday, November 20th from 10-2pm at the Round Barn Farm, approximately 40 vendors (local farms, food and gifts for the holidays vendors) will “set up shop” for 4 hours for Valley shoppers.
Purchase your Thanksgiving food needs (talk about fresh and local), gifts for the holidays, lovely items to decorate your home with, and more in a beautiful, warm, festive environment with live music and good food to eat while you shop.
If you’ve been to this market in the last two years, you know what I’m talking about. If not, you don’t want to miss it.
Are you a vendor and want to be included? Contact me.
See you there.
Amy
Hi all,
A number of vendors have contacted me about whether or not I am organizing this year’s Thanksgiving market at the Round Barn Farm. Though I’d like to, we still haven’t worked out the issue of my being covered with liability insurance as the organizer. As soon as that is resolved, I will post here again to let folks know, as time is ticking… Thanks for your patience.
The fresh flower season has come to a close.
What a great season it was. Now it’s time to refocus on my green living business (http://www.greenlivingnow.com),
my massage therapy and life coaching businesses.
I’ve also made some lovely healing gifts, such as home made bath salts with therapeutic grade essential oils, healing stone jewelry, and homemade apple crisp and squash breads, available at Hartshorn Farm Stand.
I’m thinking about creating my own line of vegetable based shampoos and soaps with the therapeutic essential oils. What do you think? Is there any interest in those kinds of products locally made?
Thanks for all of your support.
Amy
