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Little Grasse is a garden project that feeds Canton area residents. Our CSA (community supported agriculture), encourages a meaningful connection with the foods you consume daily. This naturally grown food will be distributed weekly via an interactive share. Conveniently located a mile from downtown, we require member involvement in the garden during the growing season. Our base share is vegetables, but we also offer additional shares of meat (pork, chicken, lamb), and a sampler of various preserved foods. We welcome all people genuinely interested in gaining more knowledge of food issues and gardening skills.

This CSA project offers shareholders the experience of sharing in the bounty and risk of our efforts in and out of the garden. As members you are investing in the planting material (seeds, plants…), and if you opt for the livestock share, you’re investing in the animals that we raise.

10.24.2011

October Gleanings

Greetings Folks,

For many of us, fall is a time to get things done before the hard North Country weather settles in.
This is especially true in the garden. Even with 2-3 times more land in production over last year,
we find ourselves in much better shape going into winter.  Funny how things go.
Last years flooding threw a major wrench into our cover cropping plan.
Looking around the garden today, barely any open ground can be found, except for where we are harvesting the latest root crops.
Cover crops are an important tool in our soil management scheme.

On Saturday, a dozen or so of you helped in planting over 2,500 garlic and 1,250 shallots
all in a couple of hours. A tremendous effort, many thanks.

planting next to fall cabbage, which is undersown with a living mulch of clover
a few of the jubilant planting crew
Today, we were part of the National Youth Food Summit Day. Locally, GardenShare organized a day of workshops and events at SUNY Potsdam for over 230 high school students from across northern NY.
We gave two workshops on "farming by the foot, not the acre" to future producers and consumers from as far as Westport and Crown Point. My favorite comment from the day was "I wish we had a hands-on opportunity like this near us". Thanks to GS for organizing this event and for inviting us to share the philosophy behind our project.

That's it for now.
Thanks and stay in touch,
bob
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