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Sign up for 2013!

Abbe Hills Farm CSA near Mt. Vernon, Iowa, will likely open the 2013 season on Monday, June 3 and Thursday, June 6.  Here is the 2013 CSA registration form.  Please print and mail to Laura to reserve your share.

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Read the Newsletter

To find out what's happening at Abbe Hills Farm CSA, or what it was like at this time last year, read the Newsletters. Here are newsletters from previous years.

Summer Jobs for Students

Abbe Hills Farm CSA, near Mt. Vernon, Iowa, has hired all of the workers we think we will need for the 2013 season.  However, you may still submit an application for the worker file.  If we get very busy, we may need to hire more.  Job announcements for college age workers and high school age workers explain the application process.  

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News at Abbe Hills

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We're making our own markets May 25 and May 27 at the farm

We've got lovely spinach, radishes, chard from the hoophouse.  Also eggs.  10:00 until noon at the farm on Saturday.  4:00 until 6:00 Memorial Day evening.

Eggs for Sale

 

There are lots of lovely eggs, $3 per dozen.  Eggs are at the house for the winter.  Contact me first to make sure I'm here when you want to stop.

Welcome to Abbe Hills Farm

Abbe Hills Farm CSA has served families in the Mount Vernon, Lisbon, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, area with fresh, tasty, healthy vegetables since 1996. In 2013, Laura Krouse and her team will grow vegetables for about 200 shareholder families for 20 weeks from early June until the end of October.

Members are the priority

Growing for the CSA is Laura's primary responsibility. The CSA always gets first harvest of everything grown, and nearly everything that the gardens produce. Not every CSA has this philosophy. You help Laura by committing to a share and absorbing the financial risk of farming, and she helps you by providing the very best food she can – food that keeps you healthy, produced in a manner that is environmentally sustainable, by workers who are fairly paid, and at an affordable price to you. 

Open Pollinated Seed Corn

Abbe Hills Farm is also the home of Abbe Hill Open Pollinated Seed Corn.  The heirloom yellow dent corn has been grown on this eastern Iowa farm since 1903.  Open pollination (OP) is an ancient technique for making improvements in our food crops.  The wind is responsible for moving pollen around the field each July, while Laura is responsible for selecting the best ears to save for seed for the following year.  Seed for Abbe Hills OP is sold all over the upper Midwest to farmers who want the best quality feed for their livestock.