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Natures' Way Farms 
Your local source of 
Natural Quality Food

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Farmers Needed

Seed Order Deadlines Feb. 15 2008             ...Special bulk orders of produce due March 31            ... greenhouse upgrades    ... Farmers order your flats of vegetable plants now for April delivery cutoff date 3 Jan 2008.     ... Check for availability        May delivery - order by,  1 Feb. 2008        for Deliveries after, 1 June - order before, 1 March 2008
2008 Calendar

. 2008 CSA Shares Available

 Fresh "NWF" Food 

• Harvested Fresh - Most items are harvested only hours before you receive them. That's Fresh food!
  • Some days some items on farm pick ups may be only minutes Fresh of harvest 
    Now that's really Fresh food!
    

We call this Fresh Food

Fresh vs. Old 

• Harvested When? Days, maybe weeks ago
  • Harvested, packed, loaded, stored in a warehouse. Then re-loaded, transported, unloaded, stored in a local warehouse, then re-loaded, transported, unloaded at the store, stored at the store, finally culled, prepared, displayed and labeled Fresh. NOT!  This is Old Food

• The best food is the Freshest food off the vine
  • Harvested at peak quality & ripeness
  • Highest value and nutritional content

Other comparisons

• You are rarely offered food hours fresh off the vine at the supermarket
  • picked under-ripe for transporting
  • harvested before peak life-energy 
  • nutritionally underdeveloped

• The healthiest food is biodynamically locally grown, harvested peak ripe

• How many food recalls are you going to endure? Contaminated food, tainted, mislabeled, etc., ...

• Many unique and some common varieties, grown  for their flavor or texture, or specifically the higher health packed nutritional content of varieties not offered at supermarkets.

Fresh vs. Old

• Varieties grown for supermarkets are selected for uniform look and durability to survive handling and shipping and still look great on the shelf for a day or two until you buy it

• Tender heirloom varieties do not transport well.. Fresh natural food full of whole-earth life-energy.  Naturally grown beyond organic standards. We seek to provide the healthiest food possible

• Many varieties are often tough and tasteless but they look like "great stuff, for not a lotta money"! when you hear this enough you believe it tastes like great stuff (Yes! great stuff - not great food) 

• Members living near or driving by one of our farms stop in and pick up shares of food, no extra petroleum products are used to transport the old food to you. This cuts our dependency on Oil.

• How many tons of hydro carbons are you going to allow be pumped into the earth atmosphere for corporate profit to transport OLD FOOD to our tables. 

• Money spent on fuel to pickup or deliver food will be spent in your local economy.

• Only a small percentage of the transportation cost is put into your local economy 

• Step vans, pickup trucks deliver or your car conveniently picks up your Fresh food.  Small vehicles distributing Fresh food in local networks. Transportation costs remain in the local economy

• Huge trucks and trains and ships pour tons of pollution into our earths atmosphere, water and soil to bring you old food, "great stuff, for not a lot a money". And you still have to drive to pick it up.