Organic Local Agriculture
"Stewarding the land for future generations"
Siskiyou Sustainable Newsletters 2006
Below you will find links to the Newsletters in the Share Box each week.
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Week 1 - June 8 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Lettuce
- Ask the Farmer s...
"What is the most challenging aspect of growing
organically?"
Week 2 - June 15 2006
- What's happening on the farms this week?
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Peas
- Ask the Farmer s...
"Is farming financially sustainable?"
Week 3 - June 22 2006
- Vegetable of the Week: Kale
- Announcements
- Ask the Farmer s...
"Why did you choose to farm organically rather than conventionally?"
Week 4 - June 29th 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Carrot
- Announcements - Bison
- Ask the Farmer s...
"Is pest control all preventative, or do you use some kind of natural
solution for killing or controlling insects, bugs and pests like slugs and snails? " - CSA member corner:
Week 5 - July 6th 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Beets
- Announcements
- Ask the Farmer s...
- "If you wanted to supplement a farm share with edibles beyond native
and bio-diversity-mass plants, what would you choose for the Rogue Valley, in a 30"X 30" plot?" - CSA Member Corner
Week 6 - July 13th 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Potatoes
- Announcements
- Ask the Farmer s...
"How has close contact with the earth impacted your life?" - CSA Member Corner
Week 7 - July 20th 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Garlic
- Announcements
- Ask the Farmer s...
"When farming, how much do you use your own gut instinct in your decisions?"
Week 8 - July 27th 2006
- 2006 Produce to Senior Program Begins this Week - ACCESS
- Announcements
- Ask the Farmer s...
"How are you able to provide such beautiful lettuce heads in the midst of such hot weather?" - CSA Member Corner
Week 9 - August 3rd 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Green Beans
- Announcements - Goat Products
- Ask the Farmer s...
"Do you have a suggested method of preparing soil for a future small herb
garden? Recommended reading?" - CSA Member Corner
Week 10 - August 10th, 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Cucumbers
- Announcements
- Ask the Farmer s...
"When did you know you wanted to become an Organic Farmer? What was
your inspiration?"
Week 11 August 17th, 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Eggplant
- Announcements - third farm day
- Ask the Farmer s...
"Do CSA Co-ops have any entity or association on a state or national level that's function is political activism?" - CSA Member Corner
Week 12 - August 24th, 2006
Week 13 - August 31st, 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Basil
- Announcements - THRIVEs Eat Local Challenge 2006
Week 14 - Sept 7th, 2006
- Featured Fruit of the Week: Peach
- Announcements - www.rogueflavor.org
- Ask the Farmers..
"Is there a home for wayward snails? We have a terrible snail infestation."
Beer traps don't catch enough of them and I don't want to squish them. What do the pros do about snails?? Do people feed snails to their chickens?"
Week 15 - September 14th, 2006
Week 16 - September 21st, 2006
- Featured Fruit of the Week: Apple
- Ask the Farmer s...
"What is the most satisfying part of farming for you?"
Week 17 - September 28th, 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Winter Squash
- Ask the Farmer s...
- “How has the E. coli outbreak in spinach affected you? How do you prevent
such bacteria from infection your crops?” - “What kind of irrigation system do you use? Why?”
Week 18 - October 5th, 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Parsnips
- Ask the Farmer s...
"What do you do in your free time?"
Week 19 - October 12th, 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Turnips
- Ask the Farmer s...
"What is the strangest insect you have seen this season?" - Two Bug Books
Insects of the Pacific Northwest by Peter Haggard and Judy Haggard
Timber Press Field Guide,
The Butterflies of Cascadia by Robert Michael Pyle
Seattle Audubon Society,
Week 20 - October 5th, 2006
- Featured Vegetable of the Week: Pumpkin
- Ask the Farmer s...
"How has your experience this season impacted your planning for next
season?" - Announcements - End of CSA's for this season.