The Open Gate Farm On Camano Island, Washington

Dear Friends,

If you looked out your window and studied your thermometer this week and concluded the 2010 produce season at The Open Gate Farm has ended, you have the makings of a real farmer.  Frozen is the word for the garden this week.  With that ending, we are making a subtle change in the offerings for those enjoying the “Saturday Box” program.  We are deleting the produce, continuing the bakery, and adding a “From the Heart” column.  This will be for gifts you may want to give yourself or someone special!   So let us know…any of you…and we’ll have it ready Saturday morning at 10!

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Dear Friends of the Farm:

Gosh we wish we’d planted more lettuce as summer was slowing down!  We could sure use it now, with the response to our “box” program!  It’s growing faster than the produce.  In fact, the beets have said they want to take a couple weeks off to see if they can put on more weight, the carrots have just about given their all and the dinosaur kale has gone into hibernation.  The leeks finally decided to join the produce parade and are a great addition to soups or sliced on salads.   At least the bakery can chug on through the winter months!  So here’s what we have available this week:

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Dear Friends of the Farm:

Thank you for the pause!  Refreshed and ready are words too weak to describe what it did for us!  More on that below.

This week, the boxes will be back and ready for your orders.  Again we have gone to the garden and discovered the items listed below.  All you have to do is send this email (or another one) back to us noting on it how much of what you would like and we’ll have it fresh and ready for you on Saturday morning by 10:00 a.m. in a bag or box with your name on it up inside the stand.  The green tackle box will be out there for your money.  We may be around or we may be down the island cutting some firewood.  Winter’s coming!

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Dear Friends of the Farm:

Boxes are popular around here!  Especially those in the produce stand on Saturday mornings around 10:00 a.m. with your names on them!  Thank you all for your great response to this new program.  We’re having fun with it and hope you are too.

But for one week we are going to hit the pause button.  Not because we’re sold out, but because we’re going out.  Your friendly farmer is going to run up to Seward, Alaska to visit a dear buddy and Mrs. Farmer has some visiting to do closer to home.  We’ll be back next week though, and if the weather continues like this, we’ll have beets and kale on the list again along with the large heads of lettuce you love!  So nurse the goodies you got last week for a bit longer and we’ll be ready for orders again next week.  We thank you for your patience.

When you have ducks, you do have to be careful what you say.  They have their own way of putting what they hear into practice.  Take the kale for instance.

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