Season 2012

This year we are offering 3 different sizes to better meet the needs of our members. A full size share will feed 4 Adults or a family, a half share will feed 2 Adults or a small family, a single is for 1 Adult.    Our full share box is valued at $725.00 for the season or over $36 per week of vegetables.  We start out with the cool weather crops and increase the varieties as they ripen.  You get a wide assortment of fresh, tasty, local vegetables, all grown with no chemical herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers.   

Val's Veggies Box

6-20 different veggies depending on availability, packed and delivered each week to your pick up site.  

Full Share:  $650.00 or $600.00 if paid by April 1.

Half Share:  $400.00 or $350.00 if paid by April 1.

Val's Custom Box

6-20 veggies depending on availability.  You custom build your weekly box by going to the web site and choosing what is available and the amounts listed for your size share.  The list will be updated Sunday and you must get your order in by Monday eve. or you will receive a regular Val's Veggies Box.

Custom Full Share $700.00 or $650.00 if paid by April l.

Custom Half Share $450.00 or $400.00 if paid by April 1.

Val's Single Box

3-6 veggies depending on availability.  Not as much variety as the other boxes but the same fresh local veggies. Sized for a single adult.  Comes in a cotton shopping bag and delivered each week to your pick up site.

Single Share:  $325.00 or $275.00 if paid by April l.

Delivery:  Midweek farmers market is the location for pickup of your share.  If you cannot pickup your share you need to ask a friend or neighbor to do it or make prior arrangements.  Any shares not picked up will be given to the local food bank.

Members may purchase additional produce for a 10% discount off of retail price.

We are offering fruit shares from Eagle Creek Orchard again this year.  For more info go to the fruit share page.

Vals Veggies CSA

Join our CSA program and support local agriculture while eating the freshest, tastiest veggies.

You pay up front for a season of produce and we in turn supply you with 20 weeks of the best vegetables. Our season this year will start June 12 for La Grande and Pendleton, June 13 for Baker City and end October 23 and 24, 2012

This allows you to connect directly with the source of your food and create a truly sustainable local food system.

Benefits:
For the eater, you get to start with the first fresh greens of spring, baby beets, young crisp green onions, and peas and on to midsummer with the lucious heirloom tomatoes and juicy corn on the cob, and on into fall with fresh taters, winter squash, and pumpkins. Every week there will be from 6 to 18 different items in your box depending on what is ripe in the garden.  Not only do you get the freshest vegetables that were picked just that morning but you are helping to keep your local economy thriving.

For us, the growers, we benefit by getting the money at the time of year we need it most, to buy seed and pay our employees.  We also can grow alot more varieties and try new things each year.  This year we will have over 80 varieties of tomatoes and over 60 varieties of winter squash and pumpkins.

This year we are offering 3 different sizes to better meet the needs of our members. A full size share will feed 4 Adults or a family, a half share will feed 2 Adults or a small family, a single is for 1 Adult.    Our full share box is valued at $725.00 for the season or over $36 per week of vegetables.  We start out with the cool weather crops and increase the varieties as they ripen.  You get a wide assortment of fresh, tasty, local vegetables, all grown with no chemical herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers.  

Val's Veggies Box

6-20 different veggies depending on availability, packed and delivered each week to your pick up site. 

Full Share:  $650.00 or $600.00 if paid by April 1.

Half Share:  $400.00 or $350.00 if paid by April 1.

Val's Custom Box

6-20 veggies depending on availability.  You custom build your weekly box by going to the web site and choosing what is available and the amounts listed for your size share.  The list will be updated Sunday and you must get your order in by Monday eve. or you will receive a regular Val's Veggies Box.

Custom Full Share $700.00 or $650.00 if paid by April l.

Custom Half Share $450.00 or $400.00 if paid by April 1.

Val's Single Box

3-6 veggies depending on availability.  Not as much variety as the other boxes but the same fresh local veggies. Sized for a single adult.  Comes in a cotton shopping bag and delivered each week to your pick up site.

Single Share:  $325.00 or $275.00 if paid by April l.

Delivery:  Midweek farmers market is the location for pickup of your share.  If you cannot pickup your share you need to ask a friend or neighbor to do it or make prior arrangements.  Any shares not picked up will be given to the local food bank.

Members may purchase additional produce for a 10% discount off of retail price.

We are offering fruit shares from Eagle Creek Orchard again this year.  For more info go to the fruit share page.

We offer farm fresh eggs from our free range hens.  Our flock of around 140 hens and 1 busy rooster,  consists of Barred Rock, Production Red and Golden Comets.  Our new ladies that are just starting to lay are Production Reds and Golden Comets.  They are beautiful birds that lay dark brown eggs with dark orange yokes. 

They eat lots of bugs and grass.  We also feed a grain mix that is non GMO and contains no soy, antibiotics or animal by-products.  

We are offering Spring and Summer Egg shares now.  The Spring Egg share starts on March 6, 2012 and goes to May 29, 2012.  The Summer Egg Share starts on June 5, 2012 and goes to Oct 30, 2012.   Pick up will be at the designated location for your area.

Sign up for Spring share closes on March 1, 2012 or when full.

Sign up for Summer share closes on June 1, 2012 or when full.

Spring Share

Full Egg share: 1 dozen eggs per week  for 13 weeks      $42.25

Half Egg Share:  1 dozen eggs every other week for 7  weeks   $22.75

Summer Egg Share

Full Egg Share:  l dozen eggs per week for 22 weeks      $71.50

Half Egg Share: 1 dozen eggs every other week for 11 weeks    $35.75

Once a month delivery will be how many dozen you need times $3.25.

You can customize your share if you need more eggs per delivery at $3.25 per dozen.  All shares will be paid before delivery starts. 

Extra eggs can be ordered as available for #3.75/dozen

Winter Squash

Inventory remaining as of 1-25-12

Acorn: There are 5 different varieties of green acorn

 Carnival   Table Queen  

Thelma Saunders:  Cremey smooth no string flesh like mashed potaotes

Large Pink Banana:  Old time favorite, fine flavored, sweet, orange flesh

Black Futsu:  Golden orange flesh with taste similiar to hazelnuts. 

Delicata:  very sweet flesh      

Sweet Dumpling: Sweet, tender, orange flesh is a favorite of many. 

Red Kuri:  Japanese squash with golden smooth, dry, sweet and rich flesh.   

Hubbard:      Green             Red              Blue

                   Famous old time heirloom.  Delicious golden flesh for baking or pie.

Green Kabocha:  Rich sweet orange flesh is dry and fiberless. 

Jarrahdale:  Popular Australian squash.  Great for pies, baking, etc.

King of Mammoth:  Heirloom pumpkin very good for pies.  Rare 

Sunshine: Tender flesh is smooth, sweet, and bright orange for baking, mashing, and pies.  

Boston Marrow: Very dry, fine-grained, and for sweetness and excellence, unsurpassed.

Sucrine Du Berry:  Very juicy floresent orange flesh, savory.

Triamble:  Very rare Australian squash, sweet orange fine grained flesh.

Long of Naples:  Excellent for soups, very good flavor.  

KiKuza:  Wonderful smooth flesh with a spicy flavor. 

Golden Delicous: This variety is excellent for cooking, canning, and its initial intention, Baby Food!

Butter Cup: Very sweet, dry flesh.  Deep orange flesh with green skin.

Blue Ballet: Smooth-skinned, blue-gray fruits are medium size, avg. 4-6 lb., with sweeter, bright orange, fiberless flesh.

Nacaise Pumpkin:  Brilliant red-orange skin, very flat and ribbed with a netting.  Sweet and moist, excellant for pies and baking.

Upper Ground Sweet Potatoe: Has some what of a sweet potatoe flavor.

The delivery point will be Tuesdays at the

Health Nuts  25 SE Dorion.

The season will start on June 12 and go thru October.

Check out the CSA share page for more info.

LaGrande Farmers Market

Max Square corner of Adams and 4th St.

Tuesday 4:00 p.m. to 6:30p.m. starting June 12

Baker City Farmers Market

Geiser Pollman Park corner of Campbell and Grove St.

Wednesday 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. starting June 13

The Health Nuts

25 SE Dorion

Pendleton OR

Tuesday after 12 noon

Shares will be packed in a box that you may take with you and bring back for exchange 

the next week or you may bring your own container and repack it.

Shares not picked up or prior arrangements made, will be donated to the local food

bank.

Geiser Pollman Park corner of Grove and Campbell

Wednesday 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.

LaGrande Farmers Market

Max Square corner of 4th and Adams

Tuesday 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.

Come out and see if you can find your way through the corn maze and answer corn trivia questions on the way.

Then head over to the pumpkin patch and pick the perfect pumpkin for carving.

October 29 and 30 are the final days for the maze and pumpkin patch.

Saturday night will be 7 p.m. til 10 p.m.  Use glow sticks and find your way through the maze and then enjoy hot cider and cocoa around the fire.

Friday Oct. 28 we are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday Oct. 30 we will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.  There will be face painting for the kids and hot dogs, chips, and drinks available. 

Pumpkins are on sale this week:   $2.00 for medium and large, $1.00 for the small ones.

Admission is:                                                 

$8.00/person

ages 12 and under are $5.00/person

ages 3 and under are free.

Kiddie Maze available for ages 6 and under for $3.00/person

Hours:

Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Mon-Thurs. 10a.m. to 4p.m by appointment only for groups

Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. only

Night maze is for ages 15 and up unless with a parent.  Glow sticks will be available for purchase.

Group rates available upon request.

Directions:  Hwy 203 to Medical Springs, at mile marker 26 turn on Blue Mt. Ridge Road, go half mile and turn Rt on Houghton Creek Rd go 2 miles and maze is on left.

Please call 541-853-2358 or email valsveggies@gmail.com