Greetings from Dancing Hen Farm!
It's here! No not
spring! 2019 Dancing Hen Farm CSA
details and Sign Ups!
Soooo............
New for 2019. We are
implementing an Online Market Share.
This share is a pay as you go, order when you want share. This share is only available for on farm
pickups and deliveries to a central pick up site. The will be no home deliveries for the Online
Market. Online Market Shares will require
a non-refundable deposit of 100 dollars to get started. The deposit will act as a bank account and
your purchases will be deducted from this balance. All purchases will be at farm market prices,
including eggs and chicken. You will
need to deposit additional money into your account when your balance gets low. Add on chicken and egg shares are not
available to Online Market Share holders.
Your items will be delivered with our CSA share boxes.
Details for our 2019 CSA.
We will continue to be a full choice CSA, meaning each week you will be
able to pick the items you receive in your box each week. You will have your choice of a full (10 items
each week) or part (6 items each week) share and you can add an egg (9 dozen
eggs) or chicken share (5 deliveries) to your CSA share. Our early bird sign up is back and will run
through February. We will also, again,
be offering a returning member discount.
New for our 2019 CSA:
Our drop sites have been consolidated, resulting in fewer drop
sites. We have shortened the CSA by eliminating
a few weeks of deliveries at the end of the season, resulting in an 18 week
season. In 2019, deliveries will be on Wednesdays. In addition we are downsizing the size of our
CSA by cutting the number of shares available by half. Shares will be reserved by order in which
payment is received. At this time we
only accept cash (in person) or checks for payment, although we have begun
exploring a system to take plastic.
After many family and farm meeting and more heartfelt talks
then we can even count, we feel it is necessary to implement these changes due
to family needs, health and transportation costs. Thank you for your support and understanding
as we move Dancing Hen Farm into 2019, our 12th year of growing for you, our
community!
As we have indicated in past newsletters, 2018 was a very
difficult year for us. Like most farmers
in Pennsylvania, we battled Mother Nature with all we had and She fought back
hard! Our washed out road serves as a
constant reminder to us, how torrential and downright scary the rains were this
year! Farmer Don asked me to be sure to
say a special "Thank you" in this newsletter to all of our farm
workers and volunteers during the 2018 season.
Perseverance was the name of the game for our workers last season. I think almost every week's harvest was
completed in the rain last season!
Farmer Don also asked me to again thank you, our farm members and
friends for your continued support of our farm.
Your kind emails, notes and words of encouragement at market go a long
way to keep Farmer Don farming!
On a more personal level, my goal is to stay out of the
hospital in 2019. 2018 found me spending
many, many, way too many, nights in the hospital and many more nights and days
recovering at home. I am still
recovering, but getting stronger all the time and doing my best to stay as
healthy as I can. I want to also thank
everyone for their kind words, notes and prayers. It brings me comfort to know I have the
Dancing Hen Farm community behind me. So
here is to health and strength in 2019!
So, on that emotional note,
let's get back to the 2019 CSA!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate
to contact us.
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