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Just a few more weeks!
We have reached May, and (finally) the sun is shining! We still have a few more weeks until the season starts, but it’s coming up fast, and boy are we excited! We cannot wait to see what the season will bring, and we’re so glad to be joining you on this food journey. We’re so happy to have you with us this season! The 2022 CSA Season will begin the first week of June! We have five different share options: Standard Full Share (19 weeks), Extended Full Share (24 weeks), Standard Half Share (10 weeks), Extended Half Share (12 weeks), Read more
2022 CSA Season Week Twenty-Four
Welcome to the last week of the 2022 CSA Season! It’s been such a pleasure to join all of you on your food journey this year, and we’ve loved sharing the farm’s healthy harvest with you! We hope this last box will be just as exciting for all of you as it is for us. Special Announcements: We’ve made it to the last week! As you pick up your shares this week, please make sure you return all bins or anything you’ve borrowed from the pickup site. We will come around to all the residential sites early next week before Read more
The 2022 CSA Season Starts Next Week!
June is finally here, and you know what that means! The 2022 CSA Season is right around the corner! That’s right, we start our CSA season next week! We are so excited to get this food journey going for yet another year, and we can’t even tell you how much we appreciate you letting us tag along. Quick Note of Clarification: Last week, I sent out a mailing with hard-copy information, including delivery site info and a delivery schedule. Those mailings took a few weeks of preparation, so if you’ve changed details to your account in the last few weeks, Read more
Welcome to 2023!
Well, the new year is here, and we hope each and every one of you had a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year! It’s a little wet and rainy here, but we’re still out there plugging along and getting the season going. We’re so excited to gear up for the 2023 CSA Season, and we hope you are, too! The 2023 CSA Season Signups are now open! The 2023 CSA Season officially opened on January 2, 2023. If you’re a new member, hop on over to our website and signup for a share! HOWEVER, if you were a Read more
We Say Goodbye to Hollywood Market
To all our supporters, staff, and friends at the Hollywood Farmers Market, As some of you may be aware, over the past several months, we have been struggling to find and employ staff to run the booth at the Hollywood Market. With increasing fuel costs, and an overall increase in expenses (labor, supplies, etc.), we sadly feel that we can no longer service this market. We started our booth at the Hollywood Farmers Market eighteen years ago, and it has been a great experience! Many relationships were formed over the years, and thousands of people enjoyed eating our organic, biodynamic Read more
Winter is Well Underway!
Can you believe it’s February already? The weather has been all over the place–rainy, warm, then cold again–but it’s not stopping us for gearing up for the upcoming season! We are so excited to get you as many veggies as we can this year, and it’s already shaping up to be a great year! We hope your winter is going well. Don’t forget to sign up for the 2023 CSA Season! The 2023 CSA Season will be here before you know it, and we can’t wait to get you our delicious Winter Green veggies every week again! If you’ve already Read more
2022 CSA Season Week 10
Welcome to Week 10 of the 2022 CSA Season! We are so excited to have you with us, especially as we are now officially halfway through the Standard Season! The sun is shine, the energy is buzzing, and the boxes keep getting more colorful each week! Special Announcements: We’re still having a lot of issues with veggies going missing. Full boxes are going missing, pints are being pilfered from flats, and veggies are being taken from peoples’ boxes. Please, please, please, do not take any veggies you haven’t paid for. We only pack enough boxes for those names that are Read more
Welcome to March!
With just a few more months to go before the CSA season begins, 2023 is going fast! We hope you’re all looking forward to warmer weather and delicious veggies as much as we are! We cannot wait to go on this food journey with you this summer. Our mission is to feed as many people as we can, and each and every one of you contribute to that! Would you like to join us for the 2023 CSA Season? The 2023 CSA Season officially opened on January 2, 2023. If you’re a new member, hop on over to our website Read more
2022 CSA Season Week 11
We’ve made it to mid-August! We are officially halfway through the Standard CSA Season, and the sunflowers are peeking out to say hello! We hope you’re all enjoying this beautiful summer as much as we are! Special Announcements We are deep in the heart of summer, and we know this is when people go on vacation. We are happy to accommodate! However, we do need at least seven days notice to change even the pick up site, due to our own schedules this season. Because we’re also juggling schedules and trying not to drop the ball, we aren’t able to Read more
We’re only a month away!
This spring has been a weird one, but now that the sun is finally out, June is coming up fast! Our greenhouses are overflowing, the ground is being tilled, and our crew is working hard to get everything ready for the 2023 CSA Season. We hope you’re as excited as we are for this upcoming season! We still have shares available for the 2023 CSA Season! The 2023 CSA Season officially opened on January 2, 2023. If you’re a new member, hop on over to our website and signup for a share! HOWEVER, if you were a member in 2022 and Read more
2022 CSA Season Week 12
Summer is beginning to wind down, and fall is in the air, but the sun isn’t done shining yet! The corn is growing tall, the sunflowers are popping out to say hi, and the energy here at the farm is buzzing! We hope you’re all having a wonderful week and enjoying the (slightly) cooler weather. Special Announcements As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m getting married this week! Because of that, I’m taking some time out of the office beginning this afternoon, and I won’t be back until next Tuesday after we pack boxes for Week 13. Chris will check emails and Read more
We’ve reached the middle of May!
Spring is in full gear, and the beginning of the CSA season is right around the corner! The energy here at the farm is buzzing as we continue to work hard to get everything in the ground and ready to go home with you! We hope you’re all out there enjoying this beautiful weather on our way to summer! Share information is on its way to you! With the first delivery right around the corner, share information is on its way to you through email. Keep an eye out for it! It will have your account info, your delivery schedule Read more
Welcome to Winter!
The days have gotten colder, and for some of us, that means snow! We got some here at the farm, and boy was it beautiful. We hope you’re all able to stay safe, stay warm, and enjoy some wonderful food with your loved ones as winter sets in. Winter Begins, and Yule Approaches! While we’ve gotten a bit of snow, winter isn’t actually here yet. The first day of winter falls on the Winter Solstice this year, which will arrive on December 21, 2021. This day will be the shortest day of the year, with it getting dark here in Read more
2022 CSA Season Week Thirteen
Can you believe we’re in the last few days of August?! This summer has just flown by. Kiddos are going back to school, the evenings are getting cooler, and we’re gearing up to harvest our autumn veggies, even if they are a little late this year. We hope you’re all able to enjoy the last of our summer weather and find ways to keep cool this week. Special Announcements We’re getting closer and closer to end of the season, and we know how vacation days can pop up on you. Let us know so we can help! We are more Read more
The 2023 CSA Season is almost here!
Can you believe this year has gone so fast! We begin deliveries next week, and we hope you’re as excited for the start of the season as we are! We start next week! June has snuck up fast this year, and with that, the beginning of the 2023 CSA Season! Share information did get emailed out last week, but due to an email glitch, it looks like a lot of them did not go through. That said, I’m the majority of the way through getting those email packages out (again!), so if you don’t receive yours by the end of Read more
Welcome to the New Year!
2022 has arrived with snow, rain, and lots of wind here in the Pacifc Northwest, and we hope you all had a wonderful holiday break and managed to keep safe. We had lots of snow here at the farm, close to 16 inches! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get up here with my camera in my little car, so I don’t have actual pictures of the snow. The farm is still gorgeous, though! Sign Ups are Open for Current Members! It’s finally here! After lots of research and many hours figuring out the logistics for development on our new sign-up Read more
2022 CSA Season Week Fourteen
We’ve reached September! Can you believe it? The afternoons might still be saying “summer,” but these crisp, cool mornings are whispering “fall.” We’re so excited to see our late summer crops get harvested, and we can’t wait for our fall veggies to say hello! We hope you’re all enjoying these last few days of summer and cooking up some delicious meals! Special Announcements: We are in the last five weeks of the Standard Season, and the Extended Season is almost upon us! If you’re joining us for those five weeks between October and November, please make a note that pickup Read more
2022, Here We Come!
January is well under way and 2022 signups are chugging right along! The weather has brightened up, too. If you missed it this weekend, the coast was gorgeous! But even the mist coating the valley has dissipated as the week has gone by, and the farm is absolutely gorgeous! Sign up for the 2022 CSA Season! We’re on the second week of preorder signups for the 2022 season, and right now, we’re offering shares to current members only. We’ll send out emails to our Wait List next week to give them access as well, then open signups to the public Read more
2022 CSA Season Week Fifteen
We’ve made it to Week Fifteen of the 2022 CSA Season! We are so excited to be able to share the bounty of the farm with you this year. We hope everyone’s been staying safe with the fires and the smoke this past week. Our thoughts go out to any effected by this year’s fire season. We’re filling up your box this week! This has been a bit of a strange season, weather wise. The late spring and colder days put us a few weeks behind with the harvest. Add regular issues from animals and heat, and there have been Read more
January is Moving Right Along!
The weather has been beautiful, if not a little wet, and we hope you’ve all been enjoying it as much as we have. Things have been busy here at Winter Green Farm, and we can’t wait to tell you about it! 2022 Signups are Up and Going! If you’re interested in the 2022 CSA season, preorders are still open! We are opening them up to the Wait List today, so the spots may be limited when we open full signups beginning of February. If you’d like to reserve a preorder spot, hop on over to the website, choose your share Read more
2022 CSA Season Week Sixteen
Welcome to Week Sixteen, everyone! Can you believe we’re already in the middle of September? We sure can’t. We’re so excited to share this week’s healthy harvest with you all, and the boxes this week are huge! We hope you’re all enjoying the veggies this season as much as we are. Let us know if you’re going on vacation! As we head into fall, we know some people are still going on vacation, myself included. Let us know! Our policy for rescheduling deliveries or delivery sites is that we need at least 7 days notice to make the changes, and Read more
February is here Already!
This year has started off with a bang, what with all the snow and ice January gave us. Now, we’ve reached February and 2022 is well under way! We hope your year is shaping up to be a good one, and we’re so glad you’ve chosen to let us be part of it. Winter Green Farm is Hiring! We’ve got quite a few openings for employment here on the farm this season, including Production Assistant Manager, Crew Member, Delivery Driver, and Farmers Market Vendor. If you or someone you know is interested in working with us here at the farm, Read more
2022 CSA Season Week Seventeen
We’ve made it to Week Seventeen of the 2022 CSA Season! We’re so glad you’ve joined us this year, and we can’t wait to be on this food journey with you this week. The sun is shining, the weather is great, and the box this week is beautiful! Special Announcements: As we head into fall, we know some people are still going on vacation, myself included. Let us know! Our policy for rescheduling deliveries or delivery sites is that we need at least 7 days notice to make the changes, and that is especially true for the next few weeks. I’m going Read more
Winter is Almost Over!
We’ve reached the middle of February, and winter is almost over, which means spring is right around the corner and the 2022 CSA Season will be here before we know it! Signups for the upcoming season are well underway, and we’ve been busy here at the farm. Missing those delicious farm veggies? Come see us at the Winter Market in Eugene! You can find us on 5th Street at the Lane County Farmers Market in Eugene every Saturday, where you can get your fill of our winter veggies. We got a bit of a break around the holidays, but once Read more
2022 CSA Season Week Eighteen
We’re almost there! We’ve reached the last two weeks of the Standard Season, and we cannot tell you how appreciative we are that you’ve been with us this year! It’s been a year of transitions with the new website and office system, plus this was my first season without Linda in the office. I so appreciate all the kindness and understanding as we work out technical glitches with these two systems, and I navigate the season’s unforeseen complications. You all have been amazing! Special Announcements I will be out of the country for the rest of this week, so if Read more