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Have a look at Neshaminy Valley. They’re in Ivyland, PA and do deliveries throughout NJ (as well as Ct, MA, NY, PA, DE, MD, DC and VA for anyone else who might be interested). For NJ there’s a $350 min order but most I know who have ordered via Neshaminy do it with friends.

I’ve never ordered from them (though I’m about to) but I’ve heard good things about Neshaminy from others.

Here’s a link to their catalogue:

http://www.nvorganic.com/catalog/catalog_may.pdf

-nicole
(also in NJ)

http://applejackcreek.com/blog/index.html

So, here’s a link to my longer post with some pics:

Independence Days Week 1

Planted: yet more spuds, lettuce, chard, spinach, filled in the holes where peas hadn’t sprouted.

Harvested: about 6 carrots that had over wintered unnoticed — very sweet.

Preserved: nil

Storing: nil

Prep: found the file I brought to sharpen the spade.

Managed/deculttered: put together makings for a salvaged crib quilt all in once place. Got out 2 large bags of clothes to families making sure that what was in them was excatly what they had requested or confirmed by email they wanted.

Cooked something new: Well, I made pot of soup from frozen broch. I gleaned. Rest of household claim it smells like boiled cabbage, and realized (once I tasted it) that it tasted like over-boiled cabbage. Decided I’d take it to work for lunches.

Work on local food system: asked permission at church to plant 10×20 foot bed of spuds for soup kitchen. Everyone expected it to be approved. Everyone expressed horried fastination tinged with disbelief that little old me could double dig that much. They ain’t seen nothing yet!

Compost: Just the usual.

Skill: nil need to learn how to sharpen spade etc.

Outreach: found out curtain to make another 8 school kits for MCCC. Delived stolen ham, 25 coloring kits and 50 mini hygine kits to soup kitchen. helped put in small garden for friend. Forced large amounts of seed potatoes on innocent friend. Humped what seemed like endless amounts of firewood saving for friend with who need a cord last year to heat and cook off the new potato bed where the tree cutters dumps them from my nieghbors dead tree.

Misc. Ingnored large, large heap of wood chips in from of house.

Sort of make seven.

MEA

Planted: my sweetie didn’t plant anything new in the garden that I’m aware of. However, I broadcast the oat groats with hulls still attached that I sorted out from my CSA oats. I’m not sure if they’ll grow, but I will soon be harvesting wheat that grew from doing this last year. It’s scattered all over my yard!

Preserved: Cooked up one of the last pumpkins from last fall. Will be freezing the puree leftover today after baking a couple batches of muffins for snacks.

Storing: Packed bulk foods into 5 gallon buckets with dry ice.

Prepped: Picked up more candles at a yard sale.

Managed: Collected another few boxes of clutter from about the house for yard sale this coming weekend.

Cook Something New: Merged two recipes to make so-so pumpkin pancakes.

Work on Local Food Systems: Nothing this week, but starting to think about guerilla gardening.

Compost something: Picked up 12 HUGE free bags of pine needles and oak leaves from craigslist. Adds important variety to mulch and compost.

Learned a skill: Not a new one, but will be re-learning an old one today when I remat two paintings. One will be sold, the other hung on the wall.