Abbe Hills Garden serves nearly 200 families in the Mount Vernon, Lisbon, and Cedar Rapids area with fresh, tasty, healthy vegetables for 20 weeks every summer and fall. Additionally, about 30 families had shares in the Late Fall CSA that began November, 2009.
Sign up now for the 2010 CSA garden season, or for volunteer opportunities. New shareholders welcome anytime.
In 2010,
about 13 acres of the 72-acre farm will be garden crops, and the
harvest of those crops will be divided into shares for about 200
area families. Laura and her team of college and high school
students will grow over 100 varieties of crops, and have vegetables
for shareholder families for 20 weeks from early June until the end
of October.
Open house and field day is Sunday, August 1, 4:00 until 6:00. Light dinner at 7:00. Everybody is welcome to come take a look at the gardens and the rest of the farm. Hosted with help from Practical Farmers of Iowa.
This week, we have onions, garlic, basil, cilantro, new potatoes, green beans, cabbage, collards, broccoli, kohlrabi, kale, cucumbers, summer squash, and beets.
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