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.