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From: Cynthia Dettman (cyndettmanmsn.com) | |
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:10:04 -0700 (PDT) |
Thanks Kathy and Maraiah- wonderful links and ideas! I will share with my folks here in Portland! Cynthia On Aug 19, 2014, at 3:16 AM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote: > Send Cohousing-L mailing list submissions to > cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.cohousing.org/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > cohousing-l-owner [at] cohousing.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Cohousing-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: a gardening and produce-handling question (Kathy Icenogle) > 2. Re: gardening and produce-handling question > (Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:11:16 -0600 > From: "Kathy Icenogle" <kathy.icenogle [at] gmail.com> > To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> > Subject: Re: [C-L]_ a gardening and produce-handling question > Message-ID: <0a3501cfba2d$7e890f80$7b9b2e80$@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Cynthia, > > Wow! Congratulations on having such a successful farming operation. > You might consider creating a CSA to share (rather than preserve) the > bounty. It could get you a few more hands in the fields and/or some income > for the community, which could go towards purchasing groceries for less > bountiful times of year. > > Nyland Cohousing (www.nylandcohousing.org) has some kind of cooperative > arrangement with Northfield Farm CSA (www.northfieldfarm.org/) > > I'm not a member of that community, but I pay close attention to them, > because they seem to have a lot of stuff figured out about Cohousing that > our newly forming community (http://washington-village.com/ ) can learn > from. > > Kathy Icenogle > Washington Village Coho Community, Boulder > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:53:28 -0700 > From: Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah <welcome [at] olympus.net> > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > Subject: Re: [C-L]_ gardening and produce-handling question > Message-ID: <40F086FF-D97F-4055-B2ED-260AD0A30DF7 [at] olympus.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > At RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA, we've long had both perennial and > annual food production-- not at a "farm" level, but maybe an acre of > cultivation. > > Perennials - our modest orchards, abundant rhubarb, some artichokes, > asparagus, berries, honey-- are the domain of the Agriculture committee, and > the food produced is available to all members equally. > > The annual vegetables, needing more work and money, are mostly handled by a > Garden Coop which is like an internal CSA: members who wish to, pay a monthly > fee, work when they can at the twice- weekly garden-work times. The money > mostly goes to pay a well-loved neighbor who is our garden manager, > contributing not only her expertise, but a lot of physical work and > cheerleading. > We also buy mulch and soil amendments, Remay fabric, watering tape. The > Monday-night-meals have two of the CSA shares, paid for out of community > assessments, so those cooks can use whatever is available from the garden at > no cost to their shopping budget. (Last Monday's meal included from the > garden beets, carrots, onions, beans, salad greens, eidble flower garnishes, > and potatoes. > > A few households have personal patches in the community garden and/or > greenhouse, instead of or in addition to the garden-coop joint beds. > > Perennial distribution is either you-pick ("the Liberty apples are ready to > pick, tree is marked with blue ribbons, take 8") or sometimes brought to a > common meal, or to the common house porch, with a sign indicating what to > take. > > Annual vegetables go first to the CSA members--- take home from garden work > parties, or go pick what you want for lunch, or in the case of harvest crops > like onions/garlic/winter squash there is a designated share distributed (10 > large onions, 2 bundles of garlic....). When there is more than enough for > the garden-coop/CSA members, it's brought to the common house, and what isn't > adopted by the membership at large is taken to the local Food Bank. (Also > when harvest is super abundant: we gave over a hundred pounds of rhubarb to > the Food Bank in the course of the summer.) > > Our problem isn't so much a matter of more than we eat, as it is a problem of > more than we have volunteer energy to take care of growing. The garden coop > has ongoing conversations about how much of what we should plant, and it's > never exact. But it works out fairly well. > > We have a freezer in the Common House for common-meal food. Presently there > are many parcels of frozen diced rhubarb. Last night I chopped 56 cups of > non-keeper fresh onions and bagged and froze them for Monday cooks. > > I always imagined we'd have lots of communal canning and such, but it's only > happened a few times. Many of us do can, dry, freeze, pickle at home. > > As is typical of our community, all the agricultural work is volunteer. Which > reminds me, it's garden time and I'm not there-- gotta go! > > Maraiah Lynn Nadeau > www.rosewind.org > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 127, Issue 20 > ******************************************** >
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