Welcome to the 16th season of Verde Valley CSA! We are so excited to serve you and are so grateful for your support of our local growers. We have two main farms supplying your produce: Willowbrook Farm in Camp Verde, and Whipstone Farm in … Continued
Our last week of the season is here and what a wonderful season it has been! We are so grateful to all of you for supporting the local farms that supply our produce, especially our primary farms, Willowbrook and Whipstone. Without Hope and … Continued
It is our penultimate week of the 2021 season, and I am starting to think about how to feed my family this fall and winter. I love the CSA model because it takes the choice out of local food purchasing. … Continued
I can hardly believe we only have three more CSA distributions including this week! The season has flown by so quickly and I will miss this delicious produce when the season ends. Next week I will provide some local food … Continued
Happy Autumn! The first day of fall is on Wednesday and I have definitely been feeling it in the air. While it is nice to feel the weather cooling down and to see the monsoon greens fade to shades of … Continued
Did you know that a huge part of organic farming is building and maintaining healthy soil? Without the addition of chemical fertilizers, organic farmers rely on an array of methods to create and nurture a soil ecosystem that nourishes their … Continued
Happy Labor Day! I hope that most of you are enjoying a day off resting or enjoying time with family or friends. Of course, our growers are still out in the fields today. There is no rest for farmers though, … Continued
It is the first week in quite a while that we haven’t had tomatoes. We will still get more of them in the weeks to come, but they are beginning to slow down, along with some of the other peak-summer crops. … Continued
Happy Monday! This weekend sure was lovely. Did you all catch the lightning shows the past few nights? What an awe-inspiring display of nature’s beauty. It sure was a great reminder to enjoy a different kind of evening entertainment than … Continued
Kids are headed back to school, the days are getting a bit shorter, and the weather is alternating between hot and humid and monsoons. It looks like it must be the late summer indeed. Remember those early days in the … Continued