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CSA Pick-up points with mapsMore information: Summer Share Pickup
Abundantly Green Certified Organic Produce provides its CSA family with fresh, locally grown vegetables. You can join the family and claim your share of this year's harvest by subscribing to our Summer Share 2009 CSA. You will receive 20 weeks of fresh food. Our CSA families eat the best food on Earth. Our CSA is a single farm source model. Abundantly Green produce is grown by co-farmers Brad and Barb Green, Cliff Wind and Marilyn Holt. We choose varieties of vegetables that are more tender and succulent that what can be purchased in most supermarkets. Our seeds are also chosen for their ability to thrive in the Kitsap Peninsula maritime environment. Each week, Marilyn does a newsletter for CSA and farmers market customers. We are part of a burgeoning local agriculture movement in Kitsap County. It is a good adventure, and we encourage you to join us. Brief History of CSAsGetting food from the farm seems so sensible; most people are surprised to learn that the community supported agriculture (CSA), as a practice is about 24 years old. One story goes that the CSA has been an agricultural practice in Europe since the 1960s, and it was brought here from Switzerland. Another version says it came here in 1984 from Japan. The first recorded USA CSAs were the Indian Line Farm in Massachusetts and the Temple/Wilton Community Farm in New Hampshire. Both started in 1986 and still thrive. Poulsbo Feed and GrainCall 360-509-0595 for your feed and grain needs. Co-farmer Brad Green is your Excel Feeds distributor. He can get you horse, chicken, cattle, and many other types of grain. He also sells, orchard grass, timothy, alfalfa, and other hay. BeefWe sell a very limited number of beef by special arrangement only. Our Beef is naturally and lovingly raised Hereford beef. No hormones. No antibiotics. No pesticides. We have had our herd for over 30 years. Our cows, calves, and bulls live together as nature intended. Our animals eat a vegetarian diet, grazing in open pastures, munching on hay, and getting natural grain as a treat. To keep the cost of our beef as low as possible, it is not certified organic, but it is natural and healthy. Farm HistoryThe family farm began in 1892, when Marilyn's great grandfather, Frederick Walker bought the homestead land from Mr. and Mrs. Cooksey, the homesteaders. Frederick Walker died in 1896. This part of the property went to their son, Erford Walker and his wife Carrie. Their daughter, Mable Walker Holt and her husband Maynard Holt bought the ranch in 1960, and it was a Class A dairy until 1972. It is called "Holt Ranch" after Maynard Holt, who maintained that it is a ranch because he raised beef cattle after retiring from dairying. It came to Marilyn Holt in 2001. The Green and Walker/Holt families have been friends for generations. Brad and Maynard were good friends. Located on a salmon and trout stream, and situated next to a small forest, Abundantly Green works to maintain and preserve the land, water, and wildlife, and grow healthy produce and cattle while farming in a sustainable and natural way.
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