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This list may change, but here's our best guess of what you'll be getting in your share this week.
Arugula Sunflower Sprouts
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KEEP US IN
THE LOOP!
Email is our primary means of communicating all CSA matters, so please
contact us if your address changes, or if you'd like a family member's address to be added to the CSA mailing list.
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WHEREABOUTS
Rushton Farm is located within the 85-acre Rushton Woods Preserve on Delchester Road, just south of Goshen Road in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
Address: 911 Delchester Road Newtown Square, PA |
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RECIPES WANTED!
10th Anniversary Cookbook
Recipes Wanted!
It's hard to believe that next year will mark 10 years since the CSA began at Rushton Farm. What a wonderful journey it has been. A cookbook is in the works to help celebrate the occasion. We have many recipes in our coffers but would like to have CSA members share a favorite recipe or two. Recipes that use the fruit or vegetables found in our shares are preferred. Please email recipes to Allyson McTear at amctear@verizon.net or place hard copies in the folder in the farmshed by September 2nd. Many thanks and stay tuned for cookbook updates.
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Fred de Long - Director of Community Farm
Noah Gress - Field Manager
Chelsea Allen - Field Manager
Eliza Gowen - Outreach Coordinator
Todd Alleger - Agroecology Project Coordinator
Molly Clark - Rushton Farm Apprentice
Fabien Richard - Student Research Apprentice
Katie Pflaumer - Student Research
Apprentice from the University of Pennsylvania
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Week of May 31, 2016 | Volume IX | Issue No. 2
IN THE BAG Tidbits from the staff
 Welcome! The cool, gray rainy days of spring have given way to hot and humid weather as we start our ninth season at Rushton Farm. It is hard to believe that eight years ago we were harvesting our first crops from the newly tilled fields. Each radish was a treasure and each head of lettuce was a prize for the hard work it took to get the farm up and running for the first season. Although the farming has become easier the Rushton Farm Staff still holds its collective breath each year with the hopes that all our crops will be successfully harvested for our loyal CSA members. In 2008 we counted 35 families as our first community members. This season we have grown to 125 families who are part of the Rushton community. Each week we look forward to our community coming out to spend time with each other and enjoy the seasonal share that makes up the bounty each week. We look forward to those of you who walk the flower fields and Farmshed garden harvesting flowers and herbs and to the children who run through the raspberry patch feasting on ripened (or not so ripened) berries. It is with much happiness that we celebrate the start of the season. As the weather warms and summer blossoms we are glad to be spending the next 24 weeks with our CSA community. I say it often but it is true; this farm is a community venture in mind, spirit and action and I hope that all of you will make the most of the opportunity to share in the beauty and bounty of a season at the farm.
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THE DIRT Notes from the field
This week represents the unofficial start of summer and with it the beginning of the harvest season at Rushton. Spring has been cold and rough with cool temperatures several deluges of rain slowing crop development. Because of this the share is limited this week but will increase greatly over the next two weeks.
We always encourage our members to pay attention to the seasonality of the vegetables being harvested. Spring offers us tasty greens, tender peas, robust beets and brasicas like broccoli and cabbage. Some of these vegetables will make only one or two appearances on our harvest list so enjoy them while they are here.
Throughout the season we will keep our members informed about the farm through our "In the Dirt" column in the Wild Carrot. Our writers will include Outreach Coordinator Eliza Gowen, Agroecology Project Coordinator Todd Alleger and Rushton Farm Apprentice Molly Clark. We will also feature the occasional guest writer too so look to this column each week to get the dirt on Rushton Farm.
-Rushton Farm Staff
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Save these dates for Beers at the Barn!
Friday, July 1st
Tuesday, July 19th
Friday, August 5th
Friday, September 9th
Back by popular demand! Come enjoy the sunset and listen to WCT's Eric Hetzel and his band, The Hetzel Brothers. Sit back and enjoy the farm with the farmers and fellow CSA members. Stay after your pick up or just stop by! We will have beer and refreshments. Hope to see you there!
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About Us
Rushton Farm is part of Willistown Conservation Trust's Community Farm Program.  Willistown Conservation Trust is a non-profit organization working to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities, and to share these unique resources with people of all ages and backgrounds to inspire, educate and develop a lifelong commitment to the land and the natural world.
To learn more or to find out how you can get involved visit
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