Can you help us invest in safer and more reliable equipment?
August 26, 2024
Dear 2024 CSA subscribers,
We have a challenge for the CSA class of 2024. We need your help to buy a new tractor. The total cost is $60,000 and we have a commitment for $35,000 to get us going. We are seeking 100% donor participation from our CSA subscribers this year. If you’ve donated already, thank you! If you haven’t, the time is now! Let’s pull together and buy this tractor.
What a season it’s been. YOU make it possible. YOU have commitment to your community. YOU support the farm by buying your share up front. YOU are building a resilient local and regional food system by being a CSA member. Thank you!
We have 330 CSA families, so if everyone in the 2024 class donates $75 each we can buy the tractor. If you can donate more, please do!
We rely on our equipment not only to get things done in the fields (tilling, planting, cultivating), we also use our equipment to safely train our crew of young farmers. Each season we invest in our fleet, purchasing either a new tractor or implement that will increase efficiency or enhance our training program. This year, adding another high horsepower tractor to the team is at the top of our priority list.
While the summer high season may be coming to a bittersweet conclusion, there are still many months to go in this year’s farming season. Our farm crew will plant 15,000 garlic cloves and harvest tens of thousands of pounds of root crops, winter squash, and sweet potatoes all by hand. As fields are cleared we’ll sow winter wheat and winter cover crops to protect and enrich our soils.
Meanwhile, our kitchen will be busy making soup for local food pantries and our market will continue to be open 7 days a week year-round. We are continuing to fundraise for our programs so save the date for our Oktoberfeast harvest party on Saturday, October 19th.
Let’s do this.
Thank you for all you do for our community and our farmers.
With deepest gratitude,
Katie & Amanda
(Our two tractors are 40 and 50 yrs old. They are always in the shop - 10 yrs ago in Amagansett, NY)
