Spring is just around the corner and the Strolling of the Heifers is gearing up to make more connections between farmers and the community with their first annual Spring Gardening and CSA Preview.
CSA’s are community-supported agricultural ventures. CSA members or subscribers pay at the onset of the growing season for a share of the anticipated harvest; once harvesting begins, they receive weekly shares of vegetables, fruit, meat, cheese, eggs or other products depending on the farm.
The following CSAs are among those exhibiting at the event:
- Wild Carrot CSA is a small, diversified and horse-powered farm raising over 180 varieties of vegetables, flowers, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb, and raw cow and goat’s milk using strict organic methods.
- Akaogi Farms is a certified organic family farm committed to supplying high-quality, safe food to members of the local community since 1985. The focus is on fresh greens and are guaranteed harvested within 24 hours of CSA delivery.
- Rambling Brook Farm produces the highest quality pork at reasonable prices for retail and wholesale customers in southern Vermont and beyond. The CSA will include meat as well as organic herbs and vegetables.
- Walker Farm CSA includes fruits, vegetables, perennials at harvest and on farm activities.
- New Leaf CSA offers 23 weeks of more than 100 different varieties of vegetables plus pick your own options, farmer supper, monthly newsletter, and visits to the farm to see the Nigerian goats.
Home gardeners will also find gardening-supply exhibitors of interest, including Vermont Cedar Goods, offering Vermont-made raised garden beds and gardening products. Vermont Victory Greenhouses will have information on small-scale and residential greenhouses and installation. =
David Schoales, of Brattleboro will showcase his White Cloud Garden chairs and locally-made cutting boards. Ben Goldberg will bring his Ben’s Bins home worm composting bins, along with supplies and knowledge — everything you could possibly want to know about vermicompost.
Lunch offerings will include crepes, lasagna, and hot soups by Luis Osorio of Seitanic Kitchen (a past competitor in the Stroll’s business plan competition). Varee, well-known to farmers’ market visitors, will also be on hand to fill empty stomachs with food from her Thai Hut kitchen.
The Spring Gardening and CSA Preview is the place to make connections with our local farms and get your growing season off to a great start. Parking is free on Sundays – stroll on in!
The event will be held on Sunday, March 9, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Stroll’s new headquarters, the Robert H. Gibson River Garden in downtown Brattleboro.
For more information please call or email Kristen Fledderjohn at the River Garden, 802.246.0982, kristen@strollingoftheheifers.com.
