2010 Garden Shares
Available

City Farm Boy is a small CSA urban farming
adventure in the heart of Vancouver, BC. We're unique in that our produce is grown on a collection of front and back-yard plots owned by Vancouver resident neighbors.

What this means is that City Farm Boy harvests travel few miles from our ground to your table. We provide you with fresh, healthy vegetables from our beautiful, bountiful gardens adorning our neighbor-hood yards. We offer our community fresh, new vibrant connections with food, farmers, land and each other.

City Farm Boy models a feasible way to bring much needed change to our increasingly ineffective and wasteful ways of producing and distributing food. Your support by membership and volunteering in this sustainability movement, will be a voice for overall community health.

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Day 91 : Package Free Veggie Bin
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The Clean Bin Project
"For one year we will not buy any material goods. We will buy only consumables, and everything we buy must come in recyclable or compostable packaging."

What's in a share?

March 25, 2010 : Each weeks harvest will vary as the seasons change. In general there are 10 to 12 different crops harvested each week. A weekly share is about $30 per week of veggies. Early in the season there will be lots of cool season leafy greens like lettuce and arugula, spinach, radish and turnip. Rhubard is an early crop, herbs like mint & oregano will be cut early. Carrots come online in June. I have at least 6 different types of carrots in the ground this year. The garlic crop is looking awesome, the fava beans are poking their heads up right now. Potatoes have been planted. I planted Warba and Red Pontiac this year. Multiple varieties of tomato and pepper transplants have germinated and are growing. Parsley, chard, kale, cabbage, lemon grass, scallions, red onions and joi choy are all being grown for transplant in a few weeks. Other crops like squash, corn, or basil will be started when the weather warms up. Overall there will be over 50 different crops grown for the CSA Garden Share

The harvest will vary during the growing season, but here are some examples of a share:

June
Sugar snap peas, spinach, lettuce, flowers, baby carrots, basil, swiss chard, radish, zucchini, scallions

August
Cherry tomatoes, summer squash, carrots, broccoli, salad greens, chard, cucumbers, pole beans, fresh garlic. potatoes

October
Romaine Lettuce, beets, sprouts, winter squash, pumpkin, beans, potatoes, onions, lettuce, swiss chard, flowers

The Nitty-Gritty

Members buy a share at the beginning of the season. This money is used by the farmer to purchase seed and grow a crop of vegetables.
In return, each member receives :

Twenty Veggies Bins
Over a 22 Week Growing Season
Harvests run starting May 26 thru to mid October, weather dependant.
Pickup is every week on Wednesday or Thursday after 5:30 PM
(Some flexibility in pickup times.)

Financial sustainability: Payment is due at the beginning of the season. In doing so, the customer places their confidence in our farmer and agrees to share in the risks and variability of harvest.
Membership is limited and they will sell out quickly.

Community satisfaction: In a well-functioning CSA, with Mother Nature's cooperation, shareholders can expect to receive more than their money's worth of healthy and fresh vegetables throughout the growing season.
Early spring could produce very little if mother nature does not cooperate, however mid summer there is generally more than you can carry home. Each season brings a new harvest, so the crops will vary.

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City Farm Boy CSA Membership Application