Time seems to tick by faster and faster and we need to remember to take a breath and enjoy everything around us. Despite a few bumps we had a great year at Intervale Community Farm, A few highlights:

• We celebrated our 30th year growing vegetables with a September party attended by over 200 people. Music, wood-fired pizza, and delicious food made with ICF produce complemented the perfect weather and enthusiastic crowd celebrating our common success. We’re already planning our 40th!

• Our “$30,000 for 30 Years” campaign kicked off at our anniversary party, underpinned by a $15,000 donation challenge offered by former ICF board member Mark Kuprych. Mark is offering to forgive his $15,000 member loan to ICF if we can collectively match it. We have $8000 committed and I urge you to consider what you can do to support ICF for the long-haul. Check out our campaign info.

• Despite a late start after a chilly and wet spring, we had a very solid growing season. Our balance of crops was better than ever, with cucumbers, sweet peppers, carrots, and baby greens particular 2019 standouts. With over 630 summer shares, we saw 1200-1500 people weekly at ICF. We also continued our efforts to donate many tons of fresh vegetables to the emergency food system.

• We felt that community love when our emergency call for volunteers on November 1st resulted in 30-40 people joining us throughout the day to harvest 12,000 lbs of carrots before they were inundated by flood waters. With all of the parsnips, spinach, kale, Brussels sprouts, turnips, and rutabaga we harvested, we finished the day with all of our coolers packed to bursting. The ICF staff and Board were so grateful to all of our super volunteers who showed up on short notice and labored until we finished.

• We had a successful online election (approximately 200 participants) and selected three board members for terms beginning January, 2020. Mae Quilty (newly elected), Maja Smith (re-elected), and Andrea Solazzo (re-elected) will bring their expertise to the board and join the continuing members Diane Abruzzini, Bonnie Acker, Kara Buchanan, Christoper McCandless, Liz Mickenberg, and Mark Twery. We bade farewell and thank you to outgoing board member Madelyn Cataford.

We hope you’ll join us for our 31st year in 2020, but we’ll see some of you at the winter pick-ups or the December 19 pop-up market! As always, we love to hear from you if you have any thoughts or concerns!