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For folks that can’t get enough fresh vegetables, Shady
Grove Gardens & Nursery is offering a Winter Vegetable CSA
(Community Supported Agriculture) program.
Shares will weigh approximately 55 lbs. and include apples,
large yellow storage onions, yellow and red potatoes, four to
five types of winter squash, and garlic. In addition, pumpkins
will be in the October package. Favorite recipes for soups,
delicious casseroles and pies will be included. The cost is
$90 a share.
The vegetables and fruit offer will store for at least two months,
and most will store even longer.
Boxes of winter storage vegetable shares will available for
pickup at the last Watauga County Farmers Market October 31
and just in time for Thanksgiving, Nov. 21.
Anyone interested in more details can call Susan Wright at Shady
Grove Gardens at (828) 297-4098 or sggarden@skybest.com.
Because of the length of time required to produce these crops,
signup must be completed by June 1.
Fresh flower CSA
This summer, Shady Grove Gardens will be offering a subscription
to its best fresh flower bouquets. Bouquets to be transported
home in their buckets will be delivered to the Wednesday Watauga
County Farmers’ Market in Boone.
This is everyone’s chance to get fresh locally grown flowers
without pesticides and without getting up early on Saturday
morning. Members will get $25’s worth of flowers for 10,
15 or 20 weeks. The late season bouquets will include orange
and red winterberry holly for the holidays.
These seasonal flowers will be different each week, as they
are all grown outdoors in Ashe and Watauga counties. Since 1986,
Shady Grove Gardens has produced perennials and cut flowers
without using any inorganic pesticides or herbicides.
Subscription members will be invited to join Susan Wright and
Brent Cochran for a farm tour, to see where their flowers are
grown and learn a little more about flower farming.
To get more information or sign up for the weekly bouquets contact
Wright at (828) 297-4098 or sggarden@skybest.com.
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