Summer Shares Continue
As summer slips into September and we welcome this spell of warmth and sunshine, we want to update you on our CSA shares.
Summer CSA shares continue as planned, 2:00-6:30 pm on Mondays and Thursdays (except for our change from Monday to Tuesday 9/5 for the Labor Day holiday.) We now have tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, and salad greens, and within the next 2-3 weeks we expect to add some broccoli, kale, chard, cilantro, and possibly sweet peppers. If you haven’t been coming to pick-ups, we miss you and look forward to your return!
2023-2024 Winter CSA share sign up will open shortly. While we lost some winter share crops, we will still have most of the greens and herbs we usually grow in our greenhouses, as well as many root vegetables. Winter Share prices will drop accordingly. More details coming soon!
We remain humbled and appreciative of the volunteer hours, financial contributions, food gifts, and kind words as we navigate this unusual season. Your efforts keep us growing today and toward the future. We know you joined ICF for a sense of community, and in times like these, community-supported agriculture is good for all of us.
As always, your enjoyment, sustenance, and safety are top priorities, and we appreciate the opportunity to discuss them if you have any questions or concerns.
August Farm Update: Post Flood Recovery Process
We want to update you and reassure you that your Intervale Community Farm is on the road to a resilient recovery. Since the flooding three weeks ago, we've been turning heartbreak into hope. Your belief in ICF continues to be so inspiring.
We are so grateful to all of you for staying with ICF this season. Your summer share payments are keeping Intervale Community Farm growing and rebuilding. We also thank you so much for your donations to our GoFundMe fundraiser and to those donations sent directly to the Farm, totaling over $60,000. We are keeping abreast of other local, state, and federal support programs as they develop and we pinpoint our future needs.
Your financial support will allow us to retain our farmers for the season, an impossibility for many flooded farms in Vermont. As Farmer Aly said at pickup last week, "No farmers, no farm." Keeping our staff whole means the world for this season and for ICF’s future.
ICF staff have heard a few questions about food safety at Farm pick-ups. Since the flood, our farmers have spent many hours consulting with experts at UVM Extension and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture to learn how to follow US Food and Drug Administration rules about crop safety. Intervale Community Farm was founded in 1990 to provide delicious, nutritious and safe food for our community, which we have done through threats and floods, large and small. Food safety and food integrity are very important to us.
If you have any questions or comments about produce safety, the outlook for this summer, our plans for the winter, or the ways that the ICF is planning for resilience over the long haul, please don't hesitate to speak with a staff member at pickup or contact our Farm Manager Andy Jones. All would really enjoy speaking with you!
We thank you all so much!
Your ICF Board of Directors
Bonnie, Christopher, Emily, Lis, Maja, Mandy, Mark, Mieko and Pamela
Wednesday, July 19 Flooding Update and Pick-ups Will Resume
Little Free Library near the grape arbor.
We wanted to share some highlights of how our farm is recovering and going forward. As your Intervale Community Farm Board of Directors, we are so grateful and humbled by the generosity and support from you and the wider community.
PICK-UPS ARE RESUMING
We look forward to seeing our Thursday Shares tomorrow, July 20, and our Monday Shares on Monday, July 24. Our parking lot is patched up (thank you Intervale Center!), our pick-up barn & coolers are clean, and ICF staff are busy prepping veggies for your shares, tending our surviving tomatoes and cucumbers, and replanting crops as our fields dry out.
Colin and Will planting baby lettuce.
We expect to continue summer CSA shares through October, though with far fewer vegetables. For the next 3 weeks or so, we expect to have 6-7 crops available; then for another 1-2 weeks, we may have only tomatoes and cucumbers. By late August, we expect to add back salad greens & herbs, and then more crops through September and October. Bread, eggs, and goat cheese will be available throughout. We’ll update you on specific crops as the season progresses.
FUNDRAISING & VOLUNTEERING
The donations coming in are highlighting the deep belief that supporters have in ICF. Thank you! We are also so grateful for our volunteers, and those who hope to help in the future. Continue to support us by registering to volunteer, mailing a check or contributing to our ICF GoFundMe, and/or supporting recovery of the entire Intervale.
COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
The CSA model of farming enables farmers and eaters to share the bounty and the risks of each season. Most years, ICF members have received far more food than the price paid for their CSA Share. In a few unusual years, the value of the vegetables has been less than the price of the Share; this is sadly the situation this summer.
The ICF Board and staff know that for some members, an unexpected reduction in the amount of vegetables presents a significant financial hardship.
To assist our Supported Share households, Intervale Community Farm will automatically refund an amount reflecting the reduction in the produce received. For other members who will be harmed by losing food dollars, we encourage you to request a pro-rated refund by emailing info@intervalecommunityfarm.com, leaving a voicemail at 802 658-2919x1 or by speaking to a staff member at pickup. We want you to make this request if need be. We hope that everyone requesting a refund will do so thoughtfully and carefully, with ICF’s well-being and future in mind.
Longtime ICF member Tom Berry puts it this way:
Bella pruning and trellising tomatoes.
“It grieves me to see our lovely Intervale Community Farm take this most devastating blow. But our strength is that ICF members have joined together to share the risk. While it will be a hardship for each of us to have less food from the ICF for the next several months, it is a loss that most of us can manage. I am proud to share the risk and the loss so that our farmers and members can dig into the work of recovery and restoration at our Farm.”
ICF’s wonderful staff will be happy to answer any questions you might have about the length of this season, refunds, and anything else on your mind. Feel free to email, call, or chat at pick-up. We on the Board will also be very glad to answer any questions you might have.
Thank you so much for your continued support and being confident in the Intervale Community Farm’s resilient future!
In cooperation,
Bonnie, Christopher, Emily, Lis, Maja, Mandy, Mark, Mieko and Pamela
Saturday, July 15 Flooding Update: How You Can Help ICF
Wednesday morning
Late Monday evening, July 10, the Winooski River began to flood Intervale Community Farm and adjacent farms. Floodwaters began to recede around 10:30am Wednesday morning. Virtually the entire farm was flooded.
The ICF Board has reached out to all members with some suggestions for helping the ICF staff in the short term, with the goal of cleaning up the farm and moving forward.
Dear ICF members,
It’s been quite a week at Intervale Community Farm. We value our members and appreciate your patience and support.
What We Know
Intervale Community Farm sustained catastrophic flooding Tuesday and Wednesday this week, engulfing 99% of Intervale Community Farm, the worst disaster of our 34 years. We’ve lost many crops. A few crops may recover, but it is too soon to tell. Our farmer neighbors suffered similar fates.
Through the combined efforts of ICF staff and volunteers, we were able to rescue many crops before the flooding. These crops, alongside our greenhouse cucumbers and tomatoes, will sustain our summer shares for some weeks.
Expect an update next Wednesday with more information about our summer CSA shares, which will resume at their regular time and place on Thursday, July 20.
What We Are Doing
As your Board, we represent you, the ICF members, in making decisions to sustain the health of our cooperative farm. We value how Intervale Community Farm feeds our community delicious organic vegetables, sustaining all of us while donating many tons of fresh produce.
We are also proud employers of some of the smartest, friendliest, and hardest working people anywhere. Our team put their bodies and minds into growing our food day in and day out, year after year, laboring through heat, cold, rain, mosquitoes, floods, and even a pandemic. With the extensive flooding, we have a special concern for their wellbeing.
We want all of you to know today that our Farm will recover and thrive, and that all of our efforts are directed towards that end.
How You Can Help Now
While we chart the path forward, we would value your support to help retain our talented staff and proceed with cleanup and restoration efforts. You can help in several ways:
Financial
Donate to the ICF, GoFundMe, which is easy to share. (Or mail a check, of course!)
Support our neighbors and ICF together with a donation to the Intervale Recovery Fund. (Select Recovery Fund rather than General Support.)
Volunteer
We know that some of you would like to help us at ICF. Cleanup and restoration can be muddy, dirty, and disagreeable tasks and we would truly appreciate and value your help. Please register your interest here and we will keep you informed of volunteer opportunities as they arise.
Moral support
Your words and messages of support are important and encouraging to the staff and Board. We also know that the staff love food and cookies. While we are doing our best to retain our staff, some may need to seek other work and many need winter jobs. If you have a good opportunity, please send it our way.
We are honored to help steward this farm that is central to so many of us. Though the waters are muddy, with your support we will persevere.
In cooperation,
Bonnie, Christopher, Emily, Lis, Maja, Mandy, Mark, Mieko, and Pamela,
Intervale Community Farm Cooperative Board
Wednesday, July 12 Flooding Update and CSA Status
Wednesday morning
Late Monday evening, July 10, the Winooski River began to flood Intervale Community Farm and adjacent farms. Floodwaters began to recede around 10:30am Wednesday morning. Virtually the entire farm was flooded.
Intervale Community Farm will cancel tomorrow’s 7/13 Thursday pickup, and the Monday 7/17 pickup. We will resume CSA distribution at the farm for Thursday members at Thursday pickup, 7/20.
Due to the valiant effort of ICF staff and 30-40 community volunteers on Monday, we harvested and stored thousands of pounds of produce for CSA distribution over the next few weeks. Our first tomatoes, carrots, beets, and sweet onions are on the way, along with many greens, cucumbers, zucchini and summer squash.
With the farm still under water, we are unable to provide a good picture of the remainder of summer CSA shares. The Intervale Community Farm Board and Staff will continue to evaluate and communicate with you over the next week or so as the overall impact becomes more clear. That said, it is likely that our summer season will be abbreviated somehow.
All the staff and board truly appreciate the support and encouragement we have received from all of you and the wider community. Expect further communications from us about future CSA pickups and how you can help if you are so inclined.
Tuesday, July 11 Flooding Update
The amazing ICF staff after a long day of rain, mud, and vegetables.
ICF had an amazing day yesterday with more than 30 volunteers showing up alongside our hardworking staff to harvest thousands of pounds of carrots, beets, onions, greens, and squash in advance of rising floodwaters. It was a heroic effort of many hands, which was mirrored at neighboring farms throughout the Intervale. We are humbled and grateful for all of the community support and love. Thank you.
You can see some of yesterday's action in the Intervale from local media here:
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/.../volunteers.../Content...
https://www.vermontpublic.org/.../vermont-experiencing...
https://vtdigger.org/.../volunteers-turn-up-in-droves-at.../
At this time we do not need additional help, though we will let you know if and when we do. Please do not come for a visit right now, as water is streaming across Intervale Road and into our parking lot. All pick-your-own is closed.
As of 9:00am this morning, floodwaters are beginning to enter our fields, with forecasts suggesting an Intervale crest after sunset tonight. We will not know the full extent of things until Wednesday or possibly Thursday. We hope we will be able to continue with a semi-normal Thursday pickup and will let you know if we need to cancel or postpone.
2023 Summer Share Pick-ups Are Starting
It’s Time! Summer Pick-ups Are Starting
Monday, June 5 and Thursday, June 8
2:00-6:30 PM
We can't wait to see you! Pick-ups are on the west side of Intervale Road, the first gate and parking lot on the left after the road turns to dirt. The address is 281 Intervale Road. Please observe the lined parking areas and handicapped spots (pull right up to the flags, ropes, cones, or trees.)
Please remember to bring your bags to collect your produce.
Did you walk, ride a bike, or car pool? Let us know when you check-in and get a Green Stamp!
Check "This Week's Pick-up" each week to see what we anticipate having available for you, including pick-your-own (PYO) items. Remember, PYO may be done at any time during the week if the regular Monday pick-up time doesn't work for you. If you do come at another time, please make sure to check the electric fence switch! Ask a staff member about the switch at pick-up.
It's not too late to order bread, eggs, and cheese add-ons for the season. We'll have a few items for sale on site each week.
Be sure to check our web site blog, Facebook page , or Instagram on a regular basis for farm updates! Burning questions? Email Kathie or Ask a Farmer at pick-up.
We are looking forward to seeing you and starting our 34th year of growing organic food for you.
Learn more about how pickup works on our website.
20th Annual Plant Sale
For 20 years, Intervale Community Farm grows a small selection of high-quality, certified-organic vegetable, herb, and flower transplants for you to enjoy in your home garden. This even has marked the official end of winter (for the farm) and adds to the excitement and anticipation of the new summer share season. If it’s nearly time to be planting your home gardens it means we’ve been in the fields for a few weeks already.
The plants we have for sale are the same stock used by ICF for our summer shares. We grow a few extra items because we know how much fun it is to walk into your backyard and pick something for dinner, whether herbs or flowers for your table.
Quantities are limited and the inventory changes on a regular basis so we’re unable to provide a list of what will be available ahead of time. That is, some plants may not size up for the first week or we might sell out of something. We’ll have two flatbed wagons full of beautiful plants and you’ll find something interesting, we have no doubt.
This year we're adding sage and oregano to the selection of herbs. And we’re adding sunflowers and calendula to the flower selection.
Prices
Flowers 4 pk $4.50 plus tax
Flowers 4" single $3.00 plus tax
Flowers 6pk $7.00 plus tax
Veggies or herbs 4 pk $4.50
Veggies or herbs 4" single $3.00
Veggies or herbs 6 pk $7.00
If you are current ICF member you may charge your account.
Otherwise, payment may be made on site, checks or cash.
Plants will be available during the normal time (2:00-6:00) for our winter share pick-ups on both days.
Fresh Greens All Winter?
The crew at ICF have been busy harvesting abundant winter greens out of the tunnels. People often ask how the farm is able to supply fresh kale, spinach, lettuce, and herbs consistently through a Vermont winter. It’s hard to believe that the lettuce we harvested this week that just went through an 87°F high in mid-April, is from the same plant that survived the -15°F low in early February.
Our winter greens are grown in the four large tunnels that can be seen across the parking lot from the winter pick-up area. We transplant and direct seed the plants in October and November. The crops grow during the late fall months with the waning heat and sun of the season. From December to mid-February, the plants grow very little because there are cool temperatures and short days. By March, once the days are longer and brighter, the greens start to grow quickly, and we can get a second (or third!) harvest off the plants.
The tunnels are not actively heated. Instead, the tunnels are insulated by air filled between two layers of plastic. The types of winter greens we grow are all extremely hardy and can survive freezing temperatures. When it is going to be very cold, we cover the plants with a blanket made of thin material, called Reemay or row cover. This cover offers a few degrees of insulation and protection from the wind.
Now, in April, the winter crops are at an all time growth spurt and the winter CSA tables are filled with a variety of greens. Winter growing in the Northeast is relatively new, and each season it is exciting to experiment with new crops and varieties to see what’s possible.
Shortly the tunnels will be turned over to tomato, cucumber, and pepper plants for the summer bounty, and summer greens will be grown in the open fields.
Contributed by Maya Bower, ICF staff since 2016.
What's Up Down on the Farm?
Farmall cultivating tractors being prepped for the season.
During the winter we plan (field plans, seed orders, crop fertility planning), repair equipment and buildings, harvest winter greens, wholesale storage crops, and hire new employees. In March we start ramping up for the summer: seasonal staff return March through April; transplant greenhouse seeding starts in early March, we tidy up outside, and hope to get out onto the tractors by the end of the month.
snapdragons
Fast forward to April, and our propagation greenhouse is brimming with vegetable plants. Flowers are started for the PYO field (and for the annual plant sale coming up May 11 and 18.) Planting seeds is a full time job! We replaced our decrepit wood pellet furnace with a new unit, and are upgrading our tunnels to automated ventilation sidewalls. We are working to install our electric fences before the deer eat our crops.
Field prep.
Cabbage, kale, spinach, carrots, and head lettuce will hit the fields in a week or so, with broccoli, beets, scallions and onions not far behind. If all this green wasn’t enough for anticipation, the winter planting of arugula in the high tunnels is busting out for winter shares, with lots of curly kale, spinach, and radishes on the way.
Our summer shares are nearly sold out. We start the sign-up period in January because it takes a while to process 650 orders and we need to plan. If you didn’t sign up for Trent’s Bread, Pigasus Eggs, or Does’ Leap goat cheese, do it now before you forget! Form is here.
Help clean up at ICF!
Tables that rafted out to our hoop houses.
Intervale Community Farm would love your help as we clean up and reset after widespread flooding on July 12 & 13.
If you would like to help out please register yourself at this signup form.
We do not have a regular volunteering schedule, but will email you ahead of time as we schedule workdays. If you are able to come, we’ll put you to work!
Cleanup work can be physically and emotionally demanding: lots of scraping, rinsing, cleaning, lifting, dragging and carrying. If those sound like activities you can embrace, please join us.
We recommend anyone joining us wear clothing you are happy to dirty deeply, and are prepared to wash thoroughly. If you have them, rubber boots are recommended, along with work gloves. long pants, and long sleeves. Sun-protective hats, sunglasses, sunscreen, and bug-spray are also recommended along with a water bottle. All children must be accompanied by an adult, and not all tasks will be suitable for youngsters.
2023 Summer Share Sign-Up is Open: Join Us for Our 34th Year!
Dear ICF CSA member,
Though it barely feels like winter, the staff at Intervale Community Farm are busily preparing for a productive, restorative, and extraordinary 2023 season. We know the vegetables, flowers, and herbs are ready to grow. Share in the determination of a seed and sign up now for your 2023 summer share.
To sign up for a 2023 summer share, visit our website here. You can find out more specific information about the offerings on our Summer Share page. In 2022 we regrettably turned away many ICF CSA members who did not sign up in time. Avoid this fate and enjoy other benefits by joining Intervale Community Farm Cooperative as a co-op member-owner. See sidebar graphic for details.
Rising input prices and a continued effort to improve farm wages has us raising share prices around 8%, roughly $2.50/week for small shares. We appreciate payment in full for those who are able, as it allows us to offer more flexible payment plans to those who need them.
Please watch for emails and information from Intervale Community Farm and please add kathie@intervalecommunityfarm.com to your allowed email. We will let you know what is happening on the farm and keep you informed about our upcoming summer season.
If you have friends, family, or colleagues who are interested in a summer share at ICF, now is the time to send them our way. Find out more information via the links above, call us at 658-2919x1, or email us.
On behalf of the Intervale Community Farm staff and Board,
Andy Jones, Farm Manager
2022 ICF Board Election Results
We are pleased to announce the results of the recent Intervale Community Farm Cooperative Board Elections. While we had more candidates than usual, the voter turnout was light. We’re pleased to report that Mieko Ozeki and Maja Smith were re-elected for three year terms. Pamela Kraynak will be the new member of the Board, also for a three year term (left to right below: Ozeki, Smith, Kraynak) Their new terms will begin in January 2023.
Thank you to all of the candidates willing to run for the board of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative. Your willingness to serve on the board is what has built ICF into a strong community farm. Thank you also to the members of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative for taking the time to vote in the election and demonstrating your enthusiasm and support for ICF.
Not a co-op member? You can become one here.
2022 ICF Board of Directors Elections
Electronic ballots were emailed to all co-op members in good standing on November 10. To be in good standing, your equity contributions must be paid in full ($200) or current to 2022 (at the rate of $25 per year since your date of joining the cooperative.)
Candidate Statements may be found here.
The link to the ballot was included in the email you received.
If you think you should have received a ballot and did not, please do the following:
check Spam folder
check Promotions folder if you have a Gmail address
contact Kathie to check your co-op status.
You can join the ICF Co-op at any time! If you join before the expiration of the 2022 voting period on November 23rd, you may still vote in this election. Go here to find out more about becoming a member of the ICF Cooperative.
ICF is Collaborating with the Intervale Food Hub
Again this year! We are partnering with the Intervale Food Hub (IFH) to offer Intervale Community Farm members a wide selection of Vermont proteins, dairy, and provisions to round out your meals. Shop online at the Intervale Food Hub and collect your order at your ICF winter share pick-up. There is no order minimum or requirement to place an order every week. IFH has over 200 products from over 80 Vermont producers available in their online marketplace.
Featured products in this program include:
Dairy: Milk from Sweet Rowen Farm, Butterworks Cream, butter from Ploughgate Creamery and Vermont Creamery, and cheeses from von Trapp Creamery, Sweet Rowen, Shelburne Farms, and Stony Pond Farm.
Meat/Seafood: Wild-caught Alaskan salmon from Starbird Fish and Honeywilya Fish, pastured pork from Pigasus Meats, grassfed beef from Grass Cattle Co and Health Hero Farm, and chicken from Misty Knoll.
Plant-Based Proteins: Beans and bean burgers from Vermont Bean Crafters, New Deal Seitan, tofu from Vermont Soy, tempeh from Rhapsody Naturals, and cashew milk from Nutty Life.
Bakery: All Souls Tortilleria corn and flour tortillas, bread from Red Hen, granola from Butterfly Bakery, and crackers from Castleton Crackers.
Pantry and Provisions: Coffee from Brio and VT Coffee Co, tea from Free Verse Farm, chocolate from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Butterfly Bakery and Pitchfork Farm hot sauces and ferments, flour and cornmeal from Nitty Gritty Grain Co., dressings and vinegars from Eco Bean + Greens and Red Wagon Plants, jam from V Smiley Preserves, and much more.
Logistical Details
Browse the offerings, set up your account now, and place your orders as follows:
Group 1 may place orders starting October 26
Group 2 may place orders starting November 3
Food Hub orders will be available to pick up with your normal winter share group
Orders must be placed by 9:00 a.m. Wednesday preceding your Thursday pick-up (next day pick-up is new this year!!)
Product selection, packing, billing, and questions are handled by the Intervale Food Hub
intervalefoodhub@intervale.org
Sign up at intervalefoodhub.com
select "pick up"
select your ICF group
The Intervale Food Hub is a social enterprise of the Intervale Center delivering proteins, produce, and provisions from over 80 local producers in the greater Burlington, Vermont area.
Pumpkin Day at ICF is October 1, 10:00-2:00 - please check here for weather updates Saturday morning
Pumpkin Day. Saturday, October 1, 10:00-2:00.
Rain date Sunday, October 2
Please join our annual pumpkin patch picking, always one of our favorite days at ICF! Meet at the summer pickup area and hop a tractor-drawn wagon for the 15-minute ride to our field of jack-o-lanterns, pie pumpkins, and decorative gourds. This is included in your ICF CSA share.
Walking to the pumpkin patch is also a lovely stroll past our greenhouses and salad crops, and we will happily transport your pumpkins back to the pick-up area so you don’t have to carry them.
If you do not attend October 1st, you may pick-up your pumpkins from the courtyard during our regular pick-ups, beginning Thursday, October 6th.
2022-23 Winter Share Sign-up is Open
It’s that time again and already!
You can sign up for your winter shares now on our web page and then just sit back and wait!
Order your bread, eggs, and goat cheese supplemental products at the same time as your winter share. For more information on the products go here. We will have a limited number of items for sale on site so it’s much better to set up a pre-order.
As always winter pick-ups are every two weeks on the opposite side of the road from the summer area. You’ll have selections of root veggies, plus squash, cabbage, and weighed greens.
Group 1 will start November 3 and go until May 11. Group 2 will start November 10 and go until May 18. Please note that Group 2 has a date change to the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Check out the calendar widget here so you don’t miss any of your dates!
Watch our web site, blog, and Facebook pages for any winter share updates, revised Covid procedures, (hopefully we are past the worst!) and reminders of the first pick-ups.
We’re looking forward to seeing you in the snow!
Volunteering at ICF: September Weekends Have Been Added
We’ve had such an amazing spring and summer of volunteers working on weekend projects that Bonnie Acker has added 4 more dates.
Saturday September 3 & Sunday September 4
Saturday September 10 & Sunday September 11
Contact Bonnie Acker to let her know you’re coming down (anytime between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. City Market worker hours may be earned. See the original volunteer announcement for what to bring, where to meet, etc.
Weeding carrots
So far this summer many beds of carrots (over 4000 feet) and scallions have been weeded, tomato cages installed, edges of strawberry beds were cut back, old fencing in the corral was removed, and one day was assisting the Intervale Center with pollinator plantings.
Bonnie writes about one special group of volunteers:
Members of the Black Youth in Action group.
There's a program at the Y, Black Youth in Action, and the coordinator Jervaughn Scales brought down some fellas this past Saturday and the Saturday before. This batch of teenagers gets together for a community service project once a month and our Farm was a perfect place for helping out. Along the way, in the midst of pulling huge weeds in the Abenaki corn and squash and PYO parsley, and then smaller weeds in some very very long rows of carrots and beets, these young people and Jervaughn got to hear about our Farm and how food is grown on a large scale and how tons of beautiful veggies get to many food shelves around the state.
I also think that having several of us together for side-by-side weeding, that made a deep impression on these teenagers for how people can love field-work and thrive on this sort of endeavor. One of the fellas asked me, "So, do you really like working down here?" I answered, "Yup, I really love being here and I think when you really love something, it doesn't seem like work." The fella nodded his head in complete agreement.
Strawberry field weeding.
Just a note to everyone, these mornings for volunteers wouldn't be continuing without Mark's amazing dedication (it's so true Mark!) and without the amazing help of two new Farm members Richard and Emily Moore (you Richard have come to every single weekend morning and Emily has come to most!)! It really has been "taking a village" to keep these times so enjoyable and productive. Thank you so much Mark and Richard for the mornings with these teenagers who now have such meaningful memories of making a difference!
Thank you to everyone who has come to the volunteer days so far. We look forward to seeing you for any of the four final days of the season.
2022 Annual Meeting and Pizza Party!!
We’re excited to announce we’ll be having our 2022 Annual Meeting of the Intervale Community Farm Cooperative….IN PERSON.
Saturday, September 10, 5:00-7:00 at the summer pick-up area at the farm.
Join the Intervale Community Farm staff and board for an evening of pizza, produce, and sociability, interspersed with brief presentations from ICF staff and Board members.
ICF will provide food, plates, cutlery, napkins, and water, but feel free to bring your own reusables and drinks if you like!
Cash beer available from Full Barrel Cooperative Brewery, no outside alcohol permitted.
Bring chairs, blankets, bug spray, hats.
Please leave your pets at home.
All ICF CSA members are invited and encouraged to attend.
Please RSVP here.
Annual Meeting Agenda
We will also have a short annual meeting of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative interspersed during the evening, featuring:
Farm business report
ICF community activities report
Intervale Community Farm Board of Directors report
Member open forum
Board elections will be held electronically at a future date.
ICF Staff 2022
We always post a picture of our staff as close to the first pick-up day as possible. Some work part-time so we do the best we can to have everyone at the farm on picture day.
Missing: Silas Branson, Samantha DuPont, Sophie Perry (new in 2022.)
From left to right, kneeling: Georgia McDougall, Kathleen Sueltz (new in 2022), Colin Swanson, Sarah Howe, Andy Jones.
From left to right, standing: Will Pearl, Bella Palmieri, Maya Bower, Aly Martelle, Kathie Sullivan, Chris Spencer.