 to the new virtual home of Green Peak Farm. The farm is located in Dorset, Vermont, at the southern foot of Mt. Aeoulus, also known as Green Peak. The 2009 season is underway, and the farm is producing over forty varieties of familiar staples of vegetables, fruits, and herbs, as well as a few new favorites to keep things fun and interesting in the kitchen. I will also be growing a limited number of roasting chickens on a subscription-based system, and a selection of annual flowers to help liven up your living space.
 Green Peak farm is the partnership of Jim and Marilyn Hand, and grower Megan Osterhout. The Hand family has long been active in community development, energy efficiency, and sustainable living in the Manchester area. The creation of Green Peak Farm may well be their most delicious venture to serve their neighbors! Megan Osterhout has spent the past three seasons growing organic produce and flowers for market, raising a variety of livestock, and maple sugaring as an apprentice farmer in Lake Placid, NY, Silverton, and Hood River, OR. One acre, one farmer, two hands. For you. Green Peak Farm hopes to have a minimal impact on the natural world by keeping things small and working within a series of size- and scale-related boundaries. You can rest assured that your produce is of the highest quality and that the impact of the farm is striving to be positive: no greenhouse or tractor, electricity generated by photovoltaic cells, biking-distance Farmer's Market participation, as many re-purposed goods as are usable, as well as a commitment to investing in the local economy and other similarly small and well-intentioned organizations. All of these principals help to define the ethics of Green Peak Farm, and further its goal of food with integrity.
 The farm will be offering a "First Flight" Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership for the 2009 season. Subscription is limted to 6 families for a share in our farm's produce. Each week you will be able to pick up your portion of the harvest at the farm, which will include a selection of vegetables and access to a Make Your Own bouquet station. In addition, you will receive four fresh or frozen dressed chickens during the season.
Learn more and sign up for the 2009 First Flight CSA
CSA Folk, please fill out a survey for this year's season to help make next year even better! Scroll down to the bottom of this page to view the survey attachment. Thank you!
At the bottom of this page you'll find a downloadable attachment to Mego's presentation, "Advanced Placement Home Economics: Eat year-round from your Garden" given September 5th at Live Green 2009 in Manchester, VT
Green Peak Farm in the news! Read more in the Sewickley Herald here.
Find us and our produce this season at the Dorset Farmer's Market on Sundays from 10am - 2pm
 Readings, ramblings, and thoughts. Check out the Mixing Bowl for updates from the farm, as well as the blog at www.greenpeakfarm.blogspot.comNOFA Vermont's Farm Share Program is now accepting applications for supported CSA shares!
The program offers income eligible customers a 50% subsidy to help pay the cost of a CSA share with many CSA programs around the state. With the help of a Stratton Foundation Grant, the program is particularly targeting farms in the towns surrounding Stratton, VT. If you are interested in participating in the Vermont Farm Share Program as a customer, farm, or supporting member, please contact Jean at NOFA Vermont by calling 802-434-4122, or emailing jean@nofavt.org and let them know you'd like to sign up with Green Peak Farm! Slideshow from the early, early season
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