October 25th, 2012Say what? Yep baby pigs and green manure are the headlines at the farm this week. One of our mama pigs, had eleven piggies last Thursday night. One did not make it, but the other ten are doing just great. Squeal they will! Shown in one of the pics below, the mama seems to be doing a great job tolerating her young'ens, as well as the hot weather. Green Manure you say? Yes, we cut down the sudan grass cover crop that we planted on part of the "back 40" earlier in July. By incorporating this abundance of fiber back into the soil, while it is still green, organic matter will be provided from which soil microbes, earthworm, and such, to nourish. Hopefully in a few weeks, the residue will have decomposed to the degree that we can begin more plantings of winter hardy veggies such as beets, carrots, broccoli etc.
 Shown above, our brush hog cutting a swath through the sudan grass cover crop. Some of this grass grew to be nine feet tall.
 "Mamma Pig" nursing her ten offspring.
These guys were tiny when born, but they knew just what to do.
Starbucks In West Univ., Now A CSA Drop Site. We're excited to announce that the Starbucks at Buffalo Speedway and Westpark is our newest pick up location for the West University side of town. Deliveries will be on Wednesday's, 330-730, beginning this coming week.
New Seabrook Location. We're also happy to announce that the Seabrook Waffle Company has joined our list of Pick Up Locations. Our CSA shares can be found there on Thursday's 330-700. A link to their website can be found at Seabrook Waffle Company Farm Dinner Set For Saturday December 1st. We've heard about how great Justin Turner is as a chef and now we're ecstatic that he will be joining us in hosting another one of our farm dinners. It will likely be a little chilly by then, so we will probably begin early afternoon. For those that will like to stay into the evening, a nice campfire may be inviting. This will be an adult oriented event. More details to come. Desire Some Local Pork? No we're not talking politics here! We're talking the real deal, as in oink oink! Yep. we've got some piggies that are ready for processing. Don't worry if you don't want a whole pig, you can have quarter or half as well. If interested just let me know by email and we can visit. On a similar note, we will be providing details about our upcoming pork/poultry program in the near future. (For those that have already contacted me, we will be in touch with this coming week.) Whole Foods Houston? WDF is now a "bona fide Whole Food produce vendor." The WF locations that we are currently servicing are the following: - Kirby
- Bellaire
- Woodway
- Montrose
Fall CSA Program This week our shares should include our first cutting of radicchio, green beans, cherry tomatoes, baby greens, butternut squash, leeks, and more. Our first delivery was three weeks ago, but not to worry as 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.
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.
CSA Referral Program? We are providing a referral program whereby you can get credit for CSA subscription, referred by you, paid between now and Sunday evening 10/28/19. The credit can be in a form of future CSA program purchases or as cash back. Details - This program is good for paid CSA registrations until this coming Sunday midnight, 10/28/12.
- Referrals are for new customers only.
- Customers can not refer themselves.
- Customers referred must give the referrers full name and email at time of purchase. If this information is not available at time of purchase, the referred customer can email the information to csa@woodduckfarm.com with-in seven days.
- The referrer will receive an email from Wood Duck Farm informing them of their credit and thanking them for their referral.
Referrals will receive the following Credit/Cash Back - Paid Full Shares: a $30 credit per referral
- Paid Partial Shares: a $20 credit per referral
- Paid Alternating Week Shares: a $20 credit per referral
These credits apply for Paid Woodlands Home Delivery Shares as well. Should you have any questions, please contact me via email or by telephone.
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.
Thanks for reading, 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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