Thank you!

This week we’ll deliver the final boxes of the regular season. Thanksgiving week will be off and then we’ll start the biweekly winter deliveries the following week (December 2 and 3). Sarah has information below about the winter session logistics.

Our farmstand at Annieglass will be closed for Thanksgiving day, but will be open the day before (Wednesday, November 25^th from 10 am to 5 pm) for those of you who live close by and want to get last minute Thanksgiving vegetables! We will also be at the Mountain View Farmers Market Sunday November 22, as we are every Sunday.

I feel like we have a lot of thanks to dole out this year. First of all, thanks to our farm crew for all the hard hours they put in to get your vegetables seeded, planted, weeded, watered, picked, washed, packed, and driven to your pick-up sites–Abigail, Antonio, Aquileo, Esperanza, Faustino, Gabriel, Gereg, Jaime, Jonathan, Carmen, Mark, and Paulina. Thanks to Sarah for keeping the CSA running smooth as silk for another year, her hard work on the weekly newsletter, and for her leadership on making the switch to reusable crates a reality. Thanks to Andrew for all the great recipes and cooking tips week after week (and get well soon).

Thanks to Mike for his unflagging commitment to keeping our Farmstand open when we lost the Redman lease and for all the extra time and energy he put in helping move the farmstand to Annieglass. Thanks to Ryan, Lan, and Anna for helping out at the Farmers Market.

We’d also like to give thanks to Laura for her continued commitment to the habitat restoration area and to Clare for injecting her energy and muscle into the project over the summer. And thanks to Wetlands Watch for collaborations on various restoration related projects, and for asking us to host the Outstanding in the Field Dinner last Saturday which was quite lovely. We also owe thanks to the Thomas Farm for growing the beautiful organic flowers for the CSA each week.

Thanks to Annie of Annieglass for providing a home for our Farmstand at her Watsonville location and helping to promote us, and to Taylor for painting the pelicans on the Farmstand. Thanks to Beverlie for sharing her cooking expertise with chef’s demonstrations at the Farmstand using our produce.

Thanks to Tereza and the Live Oak Grange and Maria at Real Good Fish for the wonderful Wild Farms Wild Fish event at the grange and the donation of proceeds to our crate campaign.

Big thanks go to my mom for loaning us the money for drilling the new well, without which we’d be up a paddle without a creek. Instead we are now ready to launch into a new year of growing without the water worries and stresses we faced this year. Speaking of which, thanks to Frank at Reiter Berry Farms for allowing us to tap into their well so we could get through the season.

And of course thanks to all of you who are the Community part of our Community Supported Agriculture program. Thanks for your continued support of the CSA and for helping us purchase the reusable crates with your donations this year. Our farm could not survive without you. We hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving full of good food, family, and lots of love.