FULL FOR 2010 Season!!

Our CSA will last for 22 weeks starting the last week in May and continuing through the 3^rd week in October.  Each week members will pick up their basket of produce at the distribution site.  All Members will be encouraged to spend one day at the farm to help with harvesting and distribution, weather you are a volunteer member or not.

There are different levels of membership.  The working membership is discounted to reflect how much time you work on the farm.  This could range anywhere from a fully paid working membership, or a price reduction (depending how much time a week we arrange for you on the farm). The general membership is for those of you who wish to simply receive your basket of fresh produce each week.

CSA Distributions

Canon City  4-6 pm Tuesday evenings at the farm.

Salida 9-10 Alpine Park Saturday mornings until the market starts.  Market starts on the 19th of June - distribution during market from 8 - 12:30.

Colorado Springs East Platte Wednesday evenings.

Colorado Springs North/Garden of the Gods 5-6 Wednesday evenings.

Colorado Spirngs Margarita 9-10 Saturday Mornings until the market starts.  Market starts on the 19th of June - distribution during market from 9 - 1:00 pm.

Common Questions

What produce can I expect, do I get to choose?

You will receive a pre packed box of produce each week.  It will contain seasonal produce that is ripe, ready to be picked that day on the farm!

If crops fail, how does it affect my share?

The produce that is planted at the farm has many variables.  Some crops will be abundant and you will receive more, where as some crops may fail or yield less than expected due to weather or other circumstances.

What else does Javernick family Farms CSA offer?

Community, reconnecting with the land, getting your food directly from the farm, better nutrition through fresh, chemical free produce and fun!  We invite you to stay a while when receiving your share, meet new people and share recipes! 

What can I expect a share to have in it?

Shares vary week to week, year to year, depending on the season.  Here are 3 examples from our shares last summer in the spring, summer, and fall.

Sample Basket from June 8, 2009: Swiss Chard, Lettuce, Bok Choy (2), Cilantro, Garlic Scapes, Onions, Radishes

Sample Basket from August 11, 2009 (Peak Season): Basil, Sweet Corn, Squash, Purple Majesty Potatoes, Cucumbers, Edamame, Cabbage, Tomatoes, Onions, Peppers (mix variety), and Garlic

Sample Basket from October 17, 2009: Sugar Pie Pumpkins (2), Spaghetti Squash, Potatoes, Garlic, Tatsoi, Red Russian Kale, Green Cabbage, Sunchokes

Shares can have any combination of the above as well as the many other vegetables that we grow in any given basket.

To sign up for your share today please go to CSA~member sign-up at the top of this page. 

The Peck Membership--$390

The Peck Membership provides enough vegetables to feed a family of 2 or a small family. _____________________________________________

The Pint membership--$250

(THERE ARE ONLY 20 OF THESE MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE)

This membership is designed for those of you who only need a share for one!

There will be about half of the produce in this share as there is in the Peck Membership.  (for example 1/2 of the June 8, 2009 basket would include Lettuce, bok choy (1), Cilantro, and radishes)

(If you have somebody to split a share with we still recommend splitting a Peck Membership {you'll get more food}, however we are not responsible for splitting, cutting, or dividing the shares for you.)

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The Harvester Membership--$290

Membership requires 3 hours of work every 2 weeks.

SPACE LIMITED PLEASE CALL FOR AVAILABILITY _________________________________________________________________

The Worker Bee--$0 

The worker bee is a full working membership. This requires 4 hours work time a week at specified times and dates.

NOTE

CSA shares are limited.  Previous shareholders get first preference. Members from the previous season have until March 1^st to hold their existing spot.  However we do open shares to our waiting list the first of February. 

If there is still space left after the 1^st of March, we will open it to everyone. 

 FULL PAYMENT BEFORE FEBRUARY 1^ST RECEIVES $20 DISCOUNT

Enter coupon code:  JANUARY20FULLPAYMENT

$100 deposit (non-refundable) will hold your spot

 Please make checks payable to:

 Javernick Family Farms

CSA shares are non-refundable.  We recommend if you can not continue with your share that you give it to a friend or find somebody to purchase the remainder of your share.

See you there!

The following is and excerpt from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle written by Barbara Kingsolver.

"April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy.  We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again.  I agree, and would further add: Who cares?  Every spring I go there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally.  I'm a soul on ice flung out on a rock in the sun, where the needles that pierced me bein to melt all as one

On the new edge of springtime when I stand on the front proch shading my eyes from the weak morning light, sniffing out a tinge of green on the hill and the scent of yawning earthworms, oh boy, then!  I roll like a bear out of hibernation.  The maple buds glow pink the forsythia breaks into its bright yellow aria.  These are the days when we can't keep ourselves indoors around here, any more than we believe what our eyes keep telling us about the surrounding land, i.e., that it is still a giant mud puddle, now lacking its protective covering of ice.  So it comes to pass that one pair of boots after another run outdoors and come back mud -caked- more shoes thatn we even knew we had in the house, proliferating like wild portobellos in a composty heap by the front door.  So what?  Noah's kids would have felt like this when the flood had almost dried up: muddy boots be hanged.  Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful.  Im nuts."   

This is rare.  Both my mom, Carolyn, and my dad, Carl, working in the greenhouse at the same time.  They got all of our lettuce planted for transplants.  As well as cilantro for eating!  

My Mom and dad are such a valuable part of our family farm.  They both have their roles and work very hard to make it succeed.  

My dad has been on the farm his whole life, he loves it.  It is his passion in life.  When I told him I was coming home to farm our usual 10 minute phone conversation quickly turned into an hour long conversation.  He has been a cattle rancher, running a traditional cow calf operation, as well as a hay farmer.  Of course he was also involved in the family's produce operation since he was a kid.  My grandparents grew up to about 50 acres of produce at a time including but not limited to cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, and broccoli.  We had to help when we were kids and yes it was torture.  His role at the farm is critical. He takes care of the cattle for the most part as well as does all of the maintenance on the tractors and all of the equipment.  He also gets the great job of spreading the manure.  We have really high-tec equipment for this.  The old truck in the photo below is our spreader.  Still runs like a champ, needs a little work now and then, but works great!  He also irrigates all of the pasture and hay fields as well as the produce when he is able to.  He can run the cultivator like no one else as well, but the trick is catching him do some of these things.  He also puts up about 250 acres of hay in Hillside in the summer and is in between places irrigating or moving cows or one of the many other little things he takes on in any given summer.

My mom.  My mom is a very special person.  She will do anything for anybody.  I dont know how she does it.  She is the person that if you tell her its someones birthday at 10 in the morning, she will have a cake ready to go for you by noon.  Im not sure when she actually makes it since she works full time at the college.  I think she has elves that help her do all the things she does.  She also does an amazing amount of work down at the farm.  When she is not giving Zia rides on the horse Nicky, she is busy watering, weeding, picking, planting, cooking, cleaning, working (at school), or doing any of the hundreds of things that happen on a farm.  I just cant say enough about her.  Where she finds the time or the energy to accomplish all the things she does is beyond me.  She is the most compassionate, loving, giving, caring, helpful person I know.  If you ever get a chance to come to the farm to meet her, it is worth every minute of your time.  She is an angel in disguise.  

Kiana my faithful helper was watching me plant our new beds in the greenhouse.  I havent worked with drip much and learned a lot from just these small beds of greens.  The baby spinach and salad mix have germinated nicely, only they only germinated in the circle around where the water comes out the drip.  Lesson learned...i need to hand water until germination.  It looks pretty cool though!

Production in the greenhouse is coming right along!  We are getting lots of vegetable seeds in the soil to start their long journey from seed to fruit.  It is always so amazing to me what grows from such a tiny, sometimes barley visible seed.  Or even the tomato seeds how that little fuzzy seed will produce so many pounds of food.  

One of my favorite times of the year is when plants start to germinate and there is just that bright green, fresh spring green carpet in the greenhouse.  It is also starting to green up outside.  Time to start preparing the fields, pruning the trees and berry bushes getting the herb beds cleaned out and ready for spring, and all the other tasks we can do now that the ground has thawed and the days are warming up.  I better get to work...

It is always fun to dig through the catalougs each spring.  Some of them are very entertaning and contain precarious information the items.  FedCo is the best for odd info about seed.  For instance there is a pepper called Beaver Dam.  The following is the description from the catalogue: "Drenched and desolate? Leave it to Beaver! The only pepper to produce for Emily Cates in this challenging season, Beaver Dam set several pendulous shiny horn-shaped 6" red-orange fruits per plant, 3" wide at the shoulders, tapering to a blunt point.  Early for its size and a heavy producer in more normal years.  With Beaver Dam you can have it both ways: sweet or with heat.  Most of its mild spice is in its seeds and ribs so you can excise those if you wish.  Or leave them in to enjoy its nice peppery flavor.  Heirloom brought to Beaver Dam, WI, in 1912 by the Joe Hussli family.  Emily's favorite for roasting over hot coals in the wood stove."  

Such a joy to learn so much about each item while getting the jist of what is to come from the seed.  Seed hunting can be quite time consuming.  I started taking my pile of catalogs with me to great-grandmas, the greenhouse, the car, for when the girls are sleeping or just playing for a few minutes, I can get some done.  Usually its about one or 2 items, but more than I would have if I hadn't brought it along.  Seize the moment! 

When thinking seed, I have to give thanks for our dedicated CSA members who sign up early.  You really are the glue that holds this operation together.  I would not be able to order seed if it wasn't for your early renewals!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!  

We grow for backyard gardeners as well as market farms. You can get our plants individually at Sonny's Ace Hardware here in Canon City, or give us a call and we will set up a time to meet you at the farm to select from our inventory.

  Our greenhouse during peak plant season.                                                  We grow custom orders for small farmers.  These can be grown in plugs, open flats, or bare root.  Please call for details and pricing.