Hilltop Community Farm

 We will continue to offer our 20 week produce share that features over 50 species of high quality seasonal vegetables, herbs, and fruits. Additionally, we will offer monthly and seasonal flower share options for our local Reedsburg/La Valle area customers. We will continue to offer custom bouquets and bulk blooms for our special events wherever you reside.

For details on sign-up and information on our vegetable CSA share, link to our CSA page on our website.

For details on sign-up and information on our flower share options, link to our Flower/Herb page on our website. 

Learn more about ways to connect with our farm this season in our 2012 Winter Newsletter. From fruit, flowers, and CSA to workshops, design consult and collaborative flower art...we're getting set to transform the landscape, one saskatoon at a time. We hope you'll join us.

 It's October, and time to take stock. I wish that meant sitting in reverie on a sun-baked porch. But instead it involves hunkering down in front of my trusty old Monroe adding-machine. And the little green LEDs are telling me that you got an awful lot of squash this year. (Note: Erin will tell you more about where the sun and energy fits into our whole farm plan in our October Newsletter).  

We experienced our first frosts at the farm this past weekend (one would never know with the current 75 degree temps). This means time to shift from harvest mode into fall site prep and storage season at the farm. You learn more about prolonging the shelf life of your fall prodcue in our Fall Storage Produce Tips and Recipes Newsletter. While we pay tribute to alliums, horseradish root, potatoes, and popcorn, I wanted to highlight all things curcubid. Squash, a time honored and true producer and innovator (backup baseball bat or croquet mallet - i.e. the oversized zucchini, or biliard balls - the 8 ball summer squash).

In a pickle or a jam about what to give or stock your winter larder with? Let us help you. Farmer's Erin and Rob will be vending with others from Family Farm Defenders at the 15th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival at the Monona Terrace in Madison, WI.

Can't make the Fair? Check out our menu of Farm Products available and order directly from us. Enjoy the tastes and textures of our farm year round and thanks for your support of small-scale ecological agriculture and economic justice.

Sustainable faming is as much about what happens 'behind the desk' as it is in the field. In our September CSA newsletter, we wanted to offer perspectives from both. Indeed, both deal with building relationships, whether toward a healthy soil or a healty society. We wanted to share with you how the latter can facilitate the former.

 
 Enjoy the many colors, tastes, textures, and opportunities to enjoy our farm fresh, organic produce year round. All of our bulk produce and canned goods are organic, homemade, and processed on our farm, using our highest quality produce and ingredients. Check our ORDER FORM for a complete listing of our fresh fruits, storage vegetables, handmade holiday wreaths, salsas, sauces, jams, and pickles.

Thank you for supporting your small, local organic farmers and wishing you much abundance this fall and beyond.
 

Reflections on Food, Farming and Fair Trade in Nicaraguan Coffee Country...Toward Realizing a Grower Exchange Program.
 
Read more timely topics on relevant to food sovereignty and local food issues for family farmers in the summer 2011 issue of the Defender. 
 

We are small farmers of course, and Erin duly celebrates the fact in our July Newsletter. But the small I'm concerned with here has to do with the size of hte shares so far this year. If you're a regular, you know that they're running a bit behind where they've been in the recent years. 

 
The return of the woodchucks-as we've aggrievedly recounted in our weekly calls to our members - has something to do with it. They're certainly the reason that only a handful of you so far have gotten a taste of broccoli. (The beasts are single-minded in their pursuit of this crop).