If anyone wants to buy something for storage - I get some customers that want 40 pounds of zucchini to make zucchini bread, for example - CSA customers are always welcome to check in for more. I try to get dill the same time as cucumber, so if someone wanted to make a batch of pickles, they could. ![]() I also do dill, cilantro, basil, and oregano, and they’re just offered in season. You’ll get lettuce and a lot of the cold crops: broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage, plus carrots, radishes, early turnips and beets, kale and chard, and sugar snap peas.Ī bit later, you’ll have peppers, eggplant, sweet corn, beans, and tomatoes, and then a little bit later, onions, okra and then we’ll swing back into the later crops, going back to turnips and beets. Usually at the beginning of the season, they’re going to get honey to start with from one of our beehives (Dustin notes that the honey is not certified organic). What can people expect in the full and half shares of your CSA? It sets up on the second highest point in Daviess County, so I don’t have to worry about runoff from a conventional farm. The area that I have certified organic is 8.5 acres of that 140 acres. For the past 20 years it’s sat fallow, there was nothing. That was the only crop we grew out there. And then the fields, we used to harvest alfalfa and put up hay when I was in high school. We converted part of it into a fish farm that my dad had when I was in high school and college. It was an old dairy farm/conventional farm when we bought it in 1997. The farm itself is 140 acres, and we’re about 35 miles southwest of Bloomington. My parents bought the property in 1997, next to the house I grew up in. It’s nice this time of year to be able to walk into the greenhouse and see what most people don’t see until April or May. I get to watch everything grow and progress. ![]() All my neighbors probably thought I was crazy. Then, I converted all my flower boxes into more garden space, so I had corn growing by my front door and tomatoes by my sidewalk. ![]() I had my small garden in my backyard (in Indianapolis). I wanted to start my own business, and I always enjoyed gardening as a hobby no matter what my career was. Dustin, what made you decide to start farming?
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