ALL VEGES are grown by CRICKET SONG FARM

My booth August of 2011

(photo used by permission)

Just to let you know, ALL the produce we take to market is grown by us and governed by our own HIGH standards. 

This year is a bit scrambled, I will be attend the Market closest to where I am at..... at the moment.  For instance if I am down at the farm and pick on a Friday, I will hit the Friday night and Saturday Markets on my way back up north.  Look for me at the Provo Park or at the Town Center in Spanish Fork.  If I happen to stay at the farm for the Weekend you will find me at Cedar City in the IFA parking lot.  And of course when I am in Roosevelt look for me at the City Park.

Sorry, it is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack!

Summer CSA deliveries in Roosevelt will begin in mid July. 

Radish Report

This year has been a mixed-up, don't know which end is up, I am ready to give-up, kind of year.  The bugs have all been worked out now, and here is the final, ......well maybe-not....... decision.

*CSA deliveries will only be available in Roosevelt.

FARMER'S MARKETS

I WILL BE ATTENDING

*  St. George, sporadically..... I will be sending my produce down for my sister Shelly to sell,

 check out her booth on the north/east corner of the square

*Cedar City, will attend when we are at the farm on a Saturday or Wednesday evening

*Thursday afternoons in Roosevelt at the old city park

*Saturday mornings in Vernal on Main Street

crops that I have available now for market:

beans:  yellow wax, Cherokee, purple, and green

carrots

cabbage

chard

fennel

lettuce: red oak, green bib, black seeded simson, mesclum mix

onions 

peppers: green bell, sweet banana, big jim's

tomatoes: roma, heirloom, cherry,

cucumbers: boston pickling, Armenian, European, 

radish: cherry belle, french breakfast, watermelon, and pods

summer squash: green bennings, yellow straight neck, zucchini, and golden

Summer CSA Shares Available

We have several openings for our summer shares.  Deliveries are to St. George on Wednesday evenings at the Real Food Health Food store on 700 south, Thursday mornings in Cedar City, and farm pick-up Thursday evenings.  Our farm stand will be opening soon.

Our spring shares have been filled with a good variety of produce

delicious, beautiful,broccoli has been

 in the share for the past 3 deliveries

green beans and several varieties of summer squash from

my Sister Shelly's garden

the best, deep yellow yolked EGGS from my

very spoiled hens

herbs:  sage, thyme, cilantro

tomatoes, cucumbers, rhubarb,

lots of greens:  mixed lettuce, spinach, chard, arugula,

mustard, broccoli leaf

Sweet Sugar Snap peas

and shell peas

several varities of radishes

and MORE

the SUMMER season is filled with a large variety of produce,

 all your summer favorites

season starts July 3rd

our first delivery for the spring season

To join just give me a call

a monthly pay schedule is available

info is in the orange box to the right

RHUBARB is available for delivery to St. George

 $3.00 a one pound bundle

CSA season 2013

A new season is always a celebration for us.  We have made it through another cold winter, everyone is healthy, the new baby lambs and goats are scampering around the field, and the ground is waking up from it's long winter nap.  I wake every morning giddy with excitement of what the day will bring.  Will it be so windy I can't stand straight and the dust is so thick I can't see, or will I be able to work all morning listening to the birds sing, and preparing the ground for seed?  Every day is an adventure and a joy.

Deliveries are as follows:

Wednesday, May 15th

 in St. George at the REAL FOOD health food store

 on 700 South just off of Bluff Street.

5:00p.m. -7:00p.m.

 Mesquite Nevada
Wednesday evenings 7:00p.m.
(if we get enough interest so contact me soon) 

Thursday, May 16th

Cedar City

10:00 a.m.

FARM PICK-UP

Thursday evening 7:00p.m.

Full Share delivery on:

May 15th
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1 large or 2 small spaghetti squash
1 Turk's Turban squash
2 pounds of potatoes

green garlic

1 pound of Rhubarb

Romaine lettuce
10 oz. bag of mixed greens

1 1/2 pounds of Spinach

onions
radishes
wild greens(dandy lions, and lamb quarters)
3 European cucumbers

1/2 pint local honey


Full Share delivery May, 22nd
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Chard
Spinach
Red leaf lettuce
Green leaf lettuce
Snow peas
Shell peas
Golden Zucchini
Green Zucchini
Crook-neck
Pecans

In our Spring Green Share you will receive a bounty of greens,

root crops and winter squash I  hold over from last fall,

and as Shelly's garden in sunny Leeds begin to produce

her vegetables will be added to the share.
As the season progresses I will be adding many new items to your delivery.
We are anticipating a very bounteous harvest this year.
Our Greenhouses are producing well and
our 5 acre vegetable garden is well under way.

If you are interested in a FRUIT share for the season

 Shelly has a 3 acre orchard and grows all kinds of fruits
( apples, apricots, cherries, pears, nectarines, plums, pomegranates, and grapes).

We are looking forward to a beautiful and bountiful season.
If knowing who grows your food, and how it is grown is important to you,

Please call me if you are interested in a share of our farm's produce.

Contact me now to reserve your share of the tastiest, healthiest,
 freshest fruits and vegetables available.
  Thanks so much for your support.

Payment schedule can be negotiated if needed.

What's a CSA

My Great-Grandfather's on both sides of my mother's family peddled vegetables.  Back then you would save money to buy seed thus the expression of "seed money" and then plant, hoping the crops would grow to harvest without pestilence, floods, frost, or other natural disasters.  After tending the plants for months and months the wagons would be loaded and hauled to town with the hopes that someone would buy your produce enabling you have the means to survive the rest of the year.  Every year the process was the same, invest time and money and hope to be able to sell. When I was young my family planted and harvested corn, potatoes, and winter squash to sell.

The concept of a CSA or Community Supported Agriculture supports the farmer up front.  You invest in the farmer and his/her harvest even before the planting process begins.  This  allows the farmer to gage the amount of crops to plant and guarantees that all the time, effort, and produce will not go to waste, because the harvest is divided among the members.  As a member in a CSA you share the risks and rewards of the farm.  If there is a bumber crop of radishes or spinach, that is passed along to the members, and if the chipmunks dig out all the blue pumpkin seed just after they germinate, there won't be any blue pumpkins in your share. in the fall.

CSA's come in different forms, each as individual as the grower or farmer.  The basis of a CSA is to support  local growers who deliver to a pre-determined location and disperse what is ready to harvest that week.  Most  CSA's grow all their own fruits and vegetables, some CSA's procure the fruit and vegetables from smaller growers, acting as a vegetable broker or co-op.  However the initial concept was for people to support a local farm and farmer.  My sister and I work together in our CSA.  Shelly lives in Leeds and has a warmer climate.  She plants, and has vegetables ready early in the spring.  Her fruit share spans the whole season.  I farm in a colder climate and provide the bulk of the vegetables during the peak summer months and through the fall.

A CSA connects you with the farmer or grower, you know how your produce was grown and the methods used.  Most CSA use organic methods, but many choose not to be "certified organic".
On our farm we only farm using organic methods, but we are not certified.

If you are interested in our CSA please contact me 

DELIVERY STARTS MAY 15TH

in St. George and Mesquite

MAY 16TH

Cedar city and farm pick-up

A payment program can be fit to your individual needs

WELCOME TO THE FARM!

OUR GUARANTEE

                     IF  YOU JOIN OUR CSA AND EAT OUR YUMMY FRUITS AND VEGES

                                you will notice a transformation within days, maybe even minutes

my own children were used in this research,
 no innocent neighborhood children were
forced to eat Brussels sprouts

                                                         
                                            you may no longer need your Clark Kent glasses

 

 

you will become efficient at Math, Algebra, Physics, Spelinng, Calculus,

Science...............

my straight A,  4.0 Senior
but because he eats his fruits and veges,
 the girls think he's a 10.0



disclaimer:   you may not have the same results
 

 no more broccoli for you son

 

 

 

O.K. maybe we can't quite guarantee these results, but I will guarantee.........

 

  But wait.......I have to start at the beginning.

 

It all began when I had an appointment to get a broken tooth fixed.  My dentist lives in Price and in order to get to Price you have to go over the notorious Indian Canyon Pass.  (remember the broken down Burbanator).  Well, we had had the most beautiful spring weather for the past two week and then Monday night the blizzard blew in.  My appointment was at 10:00 a.m.  Tuesday morning.  In order to make it on time I would have to leave the house by 8:00 on a good day.  I waited till just a little after 8:00 hoping the weather would warm up so we (me and good ole Wilma, the car) might not have snow and ice covered roads to travel.  Well by the time I hit Duchesne, there was a good 10 inches of snow.  I thought about turning around and heading back home right then and there, I am either really, really brave or really, really, stupid and

I decided to pursue onward.  I stopped to fill up with gas because if I was going to slide off the cliff as I went over the pass I wanted to be able to at least keep warm until someone found me.  Handing the clerk $25.00 for gas I asked her if she knew how the road conditions were going over Indian Canyon.  She asked what gas pump I was on and glanced out the window when I answered #3.

"Are you in that car?' she asked giving me a look of disbelief.  "I wouldn't go over that pass unless I had a good 4 wheel drive, actually I wouldn't go over that pass at all today."

She also said all the roads are iced up and snowy.

Walked back out to where Wilma was waiting, filled her up with gas and asked her if she was up for the challenge.

Her dented door screeched as I opened it, and unhesitatingly, she said "YOU BETCHA-YA!" 

 

So off we went, Wilma and I,  slip slidin through snow and slush.   I drive in the snow a lot and thought the roads weren't that bad, but when I came upon the flashing lights that said to chain-up I got a little apprehensive.  Do I turn around now, I've been on the road over an hour.  No, I'm half way there we'll keep going.  You see, I had to go to Walmart and pick up some thing for my boys' Prom Dates.  They had tracked down a couple of second-hand, black tail-tuxs' to wear and scored some nice slacks at the thrift store.  They wanted a stripe of glossy ribbon sewn down the outside pant-leg that would match the color of the dress their date was wearing and the purchased vest and bow-tie they had ordered to match the dress.  Blue and Pink.  I also needed to pick up some co2 tanks and paint for the paint ball guns for their day dates before the Prom.  I really needed to forge onto Price because I needed the items by Saturday, and if I didn't go today, I would have to take another day and travel to Vernal in an entirely different direction to pick up the items.  So Wilma and I pressed on.  Not very much traffic on the roads, everyone had sense enough to stay home........

 

We finally made it to the top and started the descent down.  This is where it gets kinda tricky.  I shifted into low gear and would apply the brakes to try not to go down the steep grade too fast, but with those anti lock brakes, they wouldn't let me slow down much and I would just keep sliding closer and closer to the edge and long drop-off. At this point I know that I'm not brave, just plain don't have a lick of sense in my head.  We crawled down the mountain and finally made it to Price.  Dr. Olsen, giving me a look of disbelief said, "Why did you go over the canyon, you should of called and rescheduled." 

Well, I needed fancy blue and pink ribbon, co2 cartridges, and paint balls, just didn't seemed like a good enough answer to risk my life for so I just smiled, or tried too with one half of my face numb. 

Got the tooth fixed.......

Hit the thrift store and then on to Walmart to get the fancy blue and pink ribbon and the co2 cartridges for the paint ball guns.

Found just the right colors to match their vests, bought 3 yard of each color so I would have enough and not have to run to town to buy more.  Bought supplies needed to feed 2 teenage boys, loaded the sacks in my cart, unloaded the cart into the car and headed home.  The roads were clear and I made it home without a hitch.  Unloaded the car and began to put things away.  After the sacks were empty, there wasn't a pretty blue or pink ribbon and co2cartdgriges to be found anywhere!!!!!  I went back out to the car, nope, NO sack filled with ribbon or cartridges.

Called Walmart and asked if my bag of ribbon was still at the store.  YEP, it sure was.  I said,  " I live 2 hours away (3 if it's snowing) and need the ribbon by Saturday, " can you load a credit on a card for the tanks (they are very costly), stick the glossy blue and pink ribbon and card  in an envelope and send it to me?  It is too far away to travel back to get them".  " NO," they replied,"  we will hold the bag for you and if you will bring your receipt back you can pick it up, BUT NOT without the receipt  even if you just called and we found the bag, you have to have your receipt in order to pick up the items.".......Hum  I think I have it somewhere.  But it got me to thinking about how I want to treat my customers.

 

So here is OUR GUARANTEE

If you purchase anything from us and are dissatisfied we will kindly replace it.  If you feel the Arugula is too spicy we can trade it for an item of equal value, but lesser flavor.  If the cucumber is bitter, throw it in the compost heap and let me know, I'll gladly replace it with another one.

 

If you leave your purchase with us to put in the cooler while you visit other booths and you forget to pick it up when you leave, we will not make you drive all the way out to the farm to pick it up.  Just get a new bag of produce from us the next week and you don't need a receipt,

 but you do need to remember what you bought,

 cause I never will.

 

Happy customers eating delicious veges is our goal.

 

 

 

 

 

2013 CSA Season

picked and delivered within hours

It's that time of year again!  When the Rhubarb begins to break through the ground I know summer is on it's way.  The green house is planted and Shelly's garden in Leeds is coming along nicely. 

sugar snap peas

  I will be planting various Cole crops over the next few weeks and my 5 acre garden will be in by June.  There have been some changes this year for delivery days and sites.


                              DELIVERIES FOR THE SPRING GREEN SHARE
                                                    BEGIN MAY 15th


ST. GEORGE------  WEDNESDAYS EVENINGS  5:00 - 7:00p.m.

                                 the good folks' at   REAL FOOD
                     on 700 South are letting  us deliver to their parking lot.

MESQUITE---------WEDNESDAY EVENINGS


CEDAR CITY------- THURSDAY MORNINGS  10:00 a.m.


FARM PICK UP ---- THURSDAY EVENINGS  7:00 p.m.


WE ARE ACCEPTING NEW MEMBERS FOR THE SEASON.  PRICING IS POSTED IN THE RIGHT COLUMN.  IF YOU ARE A RETURNING CUSTOMER, WE LOOK FORWARD TO ANOTHER GREAT YEAR AND REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. 

PLEASE CONTACT US TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.  WE OPERATE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED

let our family grow your families food

Why join  our CSA?   Knowing how your food is grown is one of the best rewards for joining a CSA.  You receive produce picked and delivered within hours thus maximizing the optimum nutritional benefits.  We do not use fertilizers, pesticides or other harmful chemicals.  Our soil has been nurtured for years with compost and beneficial natural ingredients from our beautiful spoiled chickens and goats.  All this creates a superior product that is healthier and tastier than anything mass produced by larger producers.  I am a painter and compare my veges to that of a work of art. We provide you with original, hand-grown, hand-cultivated vegetables and fruits , that are beautiful and delicious compared to the mass produced, chemical ridden, hybrid that is bred to withstand miles of shipping and has lost all it's flavor and nutrition in the process.
We look forward to growing your families' food.  Please let us now if you have some suggestions of produce you would like us to grow.  Thanks, and WELCOME TO THE FARM!

cabbage