Sweet Land Farm CSA, Ithaca, Trumansburg NY, sustainable agriculture

Sweet Land Farm CSA 2010 Season

We have plenty of room left in the 2010 Summer CSA!
Sweet Land beets and bachelor's buttons
SLF Summer shares are now PRO-RATED
~Join Today~
with your down payment of $50!

Ithaca CSA

The Piggery www.thepiggery.net
offers delicious, world class charcuterie shares at Sweet Land's
Friday distributions. Go to their website and sign up for their
share today! This is good eating.


Sweet Land greenhouse cukes

early greenhouse cukes


Sweet Land distribution barn scene ~ Strawberry Festival June 2010.



~Read about and Join~


Sweet Land's 2010 Summer,
Winter and Egg Shares!


Carrot washing at Sweet Land Farm
Paul is operating the root veggie washer.
Set on an incline, it rotates
while spraying the muddy carrots with water
as they roll down and gently fall, bright orange
and clean, into a blue bin (photo below). The
carrots are then ready for packing into
a Winter CSA box.




Sweet Land Farm distribution barn
distribution barn still-life


Sweet Land Farm peppers
Oh yeah ~ Sweet Land's sweet red peppers









Sweet Land organic farm CSA
Sweet Land's cabbage!



delicata squash



Sweet Land laying hens
a pair of Sweet Land laying hens, Sadie Mae and Elma Jo

Sweet Land Leeks
Sweet Land leeks


Sweet Land farm sustainable agriculture Ithaca CSA
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. CSAs are de-
signed to provide a close connection between a farm, the farmers,
and a community of shareholders. The farm and farmers feed the
shareholders by providing weekly produce. The shareholders
financially support the farm and become an integral part of small
scale, local agriculture. CSA is a life-affirming movement that
redeems our inter-action with the earth by providing a structure
within which we can personally determine the way we want our
food to be grown and distributed. The community farm is a
place to rekindle our vital connection to our food and the
land on which it is grown.

everyone BENEFITS IN A CSA

the FARM
Sweet Land Farm is located in Trumansburg, NY, an area rich in farming history and now enjoying a farm-
ing revival. The native soil here is deep, dark, and luscious. Sweet Land’s 34-acre farm shares property
boundaries, a spirit of co-operation and pleasant neighborliness with a certified organic dairy farm.

A third of Sweet Land’s 34 tillable acres is in annual vegetables, with an acre or so in perennial and bi-
annual fruit and the balance in cover crops. We believe that the backbone of a healthy, thriving farm is
healthy, thriving soil. To accomplish this, we rotate annual crops every two years. A given field is in
vegetables for two years, then put in a two-year sod of clover and grass and back to vegetables again.
Our long-term goal is to have animals grazing on the sod.

the SHAREHOLDERS
Shareholders receive fresh locally grown vegetables and fruit. As CSA members, you will know exactly
where your food comes from, who grows it and how it is grown
. Members can come out any time
and pick flowers and tomatoes with their children, or show them carrot tops sticking out of the ground.
The shareholder has the satisfaction of taking an active role in preserving farmland and supporting the
rare breed of family farmers. By supporting organic agriculture, your are supporting a farm that does not
use chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers.

the FARMERS
A CSA is a farmer-friendly model. The farmer develops a stable, long-term relationship with reliable
customers. This makes it easier for the farmers to plan each year’s crops because they know what and
how much of each crop their customers want. The CSA model also allows farmers to do most of their
marketing in the slow winter months, so that when the growing season rolls around they can spend more
time producing excellent produce. The stability a CSA provides allows the farmers time to run a truly
vibrant farm
. It provides the farmers with a viable business, an essential element in sustainability.

the SOIL
Don’t forget the soil that’s growing all this bounty! Healthy soil grows healthy plants, and healthy plants
grow healthy people. Just as plants grown on rich soil have fewer diseases, pest and growth problems,
people who eat this nutritious food experience radiant health. At Sweet Land Farm we rotate our crops
into land that has been cover cropped for a full two years, allowing pest and disease cycles to be inter-
rupted and to allow roots, earthworms and soil microbes to create a rich crumbling soil structure.


SLF toddler and mom

SLF fall pot luck fun

mom and baby subscribers
Strawberry Festival fun
Sweet Land organic tomatoes
Sweet Land tomatoes

Sweet Land Farm boy-howdy
Boy-Howdy, its munch-time on the farm!

Sweet Land spinach
Sweet Land spinach

Sweet Land Farm Ithaca CSA

For our Sweet Land Farm members who live in the
Cortland County area and beyond, we would
like to introduce you to the

Cobblestone Valley Farm

Preble, New York
607-749-4032

Cobblestone Valley Farm is an organic
dairy. They also offer the public excellent
organic eggs, beef, pork, chickens, turkeys

strawberries and compost!
~Visit their website~
http://www.cobblestonevalley.com/


~Directions to their farm~
www.cobblestonevalley.com/directions.htm
Sweet Land Eggplant
our French cousine, Auberginey

Trumansburg, Ithaca CSA organic peppers
early July 2008 peppers
Ithaca CSA

For information and to receive a
Sweet Land Farm brochure,
call 607-387-3702 or send an email
to evangelinesarat@gmail.com



For a version of the
~Join Our Sweet Land CSA~
form that you may print and
mail in with your check,
click the link below:
Join Sweet Land CSA!


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Ithaca, Trumansburg, Tully, Cortland,
Homer, Dryden, Senca Falls, Waterloo,
Geneva and Watkins Glen, New York,
and more!

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