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GEE CREEK FARM 2008 - WHAT'S NEW

We are very happy to announce the opening of our 2008 season. We are now taking applications for subscriptions to our farm's CSA program. If you are new to buying your veggies and fruit through a CSA and want to find out more please go to our CSA section to learn more about this innovative way to buy the fresh local organic produce while also helping local farm families stay in business on the land.

We plan to build on our successes and make this season even better! To the many of you who supported our farm last year, thank you! We are making some adjustments to our CSA program have learned some things during our first year offering direct shares in our farm and are making some adjustments to better serve our shareholders. We are grateful for all the feedback we received from our subscribers and plan to implement many of their suggestions. Shareholder input is crucial to the long term success of our CSA because, after all, we are here to serve our farm members.

Farming is challenging even in good years and 2007 started with its own share of tests. We are thankful to have thrived even in the face of these despite the challenges that afflicted us at the beginning of the growing season; primarily, the loss of key personnel due to death in the family, late spring frosts followed by unseasonably dry weather in late spring which forced us to focus on irrigation during the height of planting season. Nevertheless we had a good and productive season and many thanks are due to our diligent and hard working crew, our loyal commercial customers and to our CSA shareholder members for investing in our local family farm.

Good news to report for this season includes:

We are happy to have come through this winter with two dependable and skilled farm hands, Victor Toledo and Oscar Carapia. They will form the backbone of our production crew this year and we are fortunate to have them working with us. We are confident that with their assistance we will better be able to handle any challenges that Mother Nature sends our way. We are grateful to have them join our farm family.

Other good news is that we are ahead on our ground preparation schedule for this year's upcoming planting season. We have the orchard pruned and expect a good fruit harvest due to the good amount of cold weather we have had this winter. Sufficient cold weather is necessary to assure that fruit trees break dormancy. Since our ground is ready for plowing, we hope to take advantage of any unusually early dry spells to give us a jump on the planting season. And we have thousands of tomato, pepper and eggplants starts already growing in the greenhouse giving us a good jump on this upcoming growing season. It is shaping up to be a bountiful year on the farm, so come join in the harvest by becoming a shareholder member in your local CSA farm.

The Stanley family - Gee Creek Farm