September 29th, 2012
Wow, it has been a long time since I have been able to at stay home on a Saturday morning. Hence, the forecast of a rainy day, gave me reason to "play hooky" and sip on some coffee this morning. What a joy to relax a little and listen to the rain hit the tin roof. Speaking of rain, we desperately need some. It is so dry up here that our county has recently had a burn ban in place.
 | Above, Our Cherry Tomatoes Loving A Rain Shower This Morning.
Hopefully, we'll have these for the next several weeks! |
Whole Foods Houston? Back in about March, I was asked to participate in a "local farmer event" at the Whole Foods Kirby location. While there, I got to visit with the store produce manager, aka "Team Leader." One thing led to another and several months later, WDF is now a "bona fide Whole Food produce vendor." So now what? When i went to visit several of the Houston area WF stores this past week, they were all kinda' shocked, yet excited, to see some local produce become available to them direct. (That's right, grown right here just north of Houston. ) So now we need to prove to them that our stuff is as good, or better, than the "industrial organic" produce brought in from California. So this where you can help. Should you occasionally shop at WF, enjoy our produce, and/or like to support local farms, you can do us a favor by telling (or leaving a note for) the respective produce "team leaders or assistants" that you hope to see our "produce goodies" on their vegetable racks soon. Naturally, we (WDF) are limited to offering them items that are seasonal, and that we have excess of, such as butternut squash, eggplant,summer squash, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and jalapeno peppers. The WF locations that we are currently servicing are the following: - Kirby
- Bellaire
- Woodway
- Montrose
So please consider voicing to Whole Foods that you prefer to "Buy Local," hopefully WDF, when available; that is of course when it is of equal/better quality. By the way, our stuff is not grown from GMO seed either. As the seasons change, so will our variety with items such as kale, beets, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower etc  | |
The "Back 40" Progress Slow But Steady!
Pictured above, this Sudan Grass w/Milo was planted back in late July to be a cover crop for about five of our newly cleared acres. You can you see that the crop, that rests on a knoll, is a little stunted due to our late summer drought? When tilled under, the shredded residue will provide lots of organic matter for the depleted soil that was a pine forest just earlier this year. We'll likely be planting some of our 30,000 strawberries plants here come late October/early November. Hopefully the deer will not find this plot to be yet another "WDF salad bar!" |
Fall CSA Program Our first delivery was just this past week, but not to worry we still have share openings available and registration prices are prorated accordingly each week. Thus you can still join and pay for just the deliveries that remain in the program. (Ordering Cut off's are Sunday's at midnight. So to receive a delivery for this coming week, you need to register by tomorrow, Sunday night.) Items expected to be harvested within the Fall program include Cherry Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Green beans, Kale, Arugula , Basil, Peppers , Eggplant, Salad mix, Summer Squash, Dill, Zucchini, Bunching Onions, Winter Squash, Carrots, Beets, Micro Greens, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Spinach and more.. For more info and registration visit this link Fall CSA Program & Registration
For a short registration tutorial, consider reviewing the instructions located at the bottom of this update.
West Univ & Upper Kirby/Montrose PU Locations? Interested in picking up at one of these two locations? Unfortunately we are not able to announce these two specific locations at this time. While we have some locations under consideration, we cannot begin deliveries to them at this time. We recommend that you select either the St. Paul's Methodist Church/Museum District or the Dunn Bros. Coffee house. Once these other locations become available, you can switch to them if you like. (We are hoping that it will only be a few weeks.)
 | Baby Arugula Growing Under Poly w/Shade Cloth.
Ready For Harvest In A Few Days |
Like To Participate In Our CSA, But Will Be Gone Some This Fall? Consider our Alternating Week Share and/or splitting a share with a friend/relative. An easy way to split is for you take the whole share one week and defer it to your partner another week. Just include their email address when you register. Sorry, we don't have provisions for splitting credit card payments.
Woodlands Home Delivery For You? For those of you living in zip codes 77380,77381,77382,77384 consider, at a slightly higher coast, trying our home delivery service. Delivery days are Thursday's, normally after 3 pm. Just go to the CSA link at Fall CSA Program & Registration and select the Woodlands Home Delivery tab.
Local Eggs? The change in seasons has resulted in the hens becoming a little confused and consequently egg production is way way down. So egg availability is limited and requires that we source from farms other than just Dustin's Eggs. All of our eggs are local free range eggs and feed on rich non GMO grain diets.
Until Next Time, Van Cell 713 876 8645 www.woodduckfarm.com csa@woodduckfarm.com PS If you have moved or not interested in receiving our updates, please click the "unsubscribe" link above to "option out" of any future emails. CSA Online Registration Tutorial , i.e. the Heights etc. select continue, this will take you to our shopping cart. 2) Choose your desired share size where you select "add to order." 3) Place your mouse over the first available date, i.e. Sept. 26th etc.The date should turn yellow, left click your mouse and all the dates should light up green. 4) Select "CONTINUE" , and/or scroll down to add items to your CSA pick up order for any particular week, i.e. eggs, honey etc. (FYI not all locations can receive 100% of our "add on orders."
5) Once your selections are determined and dates highlighted in green, go to "check out."
6) This should take you to our registration page where existing customers can log in or new customers can provide info, i.e. name(s) email(s) etc.
7) Follow the prompts at the bottom of the page to complete your purchase via PayPal. FYI, your credit card payment is with PayPal on a secure PayPal server, not our website.
8) Should your payment be successful, you should receive a prompt email confirmation from PayPal.
9) Delivery reminders will be sent out a day or so prior to your scheduled delivery week-day. If you received a registration/pmt confirmation from PayPal, but do not get an weekly email pick up reminder, please contact us so we can insure your weekly notification.
FYI Sunday Midnight Is Our Typical Weekly Cut-off Time. With this in mind, please consider ordering by midnight Sunday; this will insure orders being delivered the immediate coming week. Reading this email too late? Not to worry, our prices are prorated each week to reflect correct prices; so orders and registrations received later will begin the following week.
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