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Sign up for 2013!

Abbe Hills Farm CSA near Mt. Vernon, Iowa, opened the 2013 season on Monday, June 3 and Thursday, June 6.  Shares are still available.  If you want to join, take off $17 for each week missed since the start.  Here is the 2013 CSA registration form.  Please print and mail to Laura to reserve your share.

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To get timely updates about what's going on at the farm and see farm photos, check out Abbe Hills Farm Facebook page.

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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Community Supported Agriculture

Squash for sale at Abbe Hills Farm CSA

  • Direct support of family farms
    by the consumer
  • Access to fresh, high quality
    food in season
  • Encourages sustainable
    agricultural practices
  • Builds a sense of community
    and land stewardship
Eggs for Sale

 

There are lots of lovely eggs, $3 per dozen.  Eggs are in the walk-in cooler in the big shed.  Email Laura first to make sure the doors are open when you want to come.

Can I bring the family?

Your whole family is welcome to come for a visit each week, especially children and grandchildren. If your children are young (5 years or under), please keep them with you or within sight while you are at the farm. Although I try to keep the farm as kid-safe as possible, there are still a number of ways that toddlers find to get into a predicament with an animal or a machine. Also, please, no pets. Kids, chickens, and kitties mixed with pets, even the ones on a leash or inside your car, almost always cause more excitement than I can stand!

Laura loves to have children visit the farm and they are welcome every time you come to pick up your vegetables. While there are lots of fun things to do – like running in big circles around the shed (which seems to be one of their most favorite things to do here), petting kitties, picking cherry tomatoes, “driving” a tractor, helping to weigh your vegetables, or yakking with friends – there are also lots of ways to get in trouble, especially for the littlest kids. I try to keep the most dangerous farm equipment hidden from children, but they are pretty good at finding the one thing I never thought would interest them. For this reason, please keep children 5 years and under with you or within your line of sight while you are at the farm.

Older children can be left to play alone, but please remind them to be careful. They should not climb on any farm machinery without permission from either you or me. I try to show all the older children a line in the floor of the shed that will keep them away from the tools if they stay on the right side of it. The chickens might sometimes be out when you arrive, and if they are, children should never chase them and NEVER hassle a rooster. The roosters we have now are incredibly docile, but they will fight if they feel threatened or if somebody starts chasing their girlfriends. Kitties sometimes scratch, but it’s usually not life-threatening. I keep peroxide and band aids in the shed, so let me know if you need them. Thanks to your supervision in the past, we’ve had very few injuries, and with your help, I want to keep it that way this season.