handling work on the land and produce and meals-
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


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> From: "Kathy Icenogle" <kathy.icenogle [at] gmail.com>
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> 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
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> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:53:28 -0700
> From: Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah <welcome [at] olympus.net>
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> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ gardening and produce-handling question
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> 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
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