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		<title>2012 CSA Registration: PVF West is Now Open!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 2012 CSA! Before you register, please be sure to read all about it and check out our CSA Terms and Conditions to make sure it&#8217;s the right fit for you. PVF West is open for new and returning member registration as of Wednesday, February 1. Sign up before March 1 to take advantage of the early bird discount. If you&#8217;re a returning member, refer a friend and receive a $25 coupon for the Purcellville roadside stand. Register now! PVF East&#8217;s CSA registration will open up for new members  on February 15, 2012. Keep an eye on this page for the registration link. Returning members: You&#8217;ll receive a registration message delivered to your email inbox on February 1. You’ll have 10 days to sign up before we open up to new members. There are always a few folks who forget to sign up on time, and it is getting harder to hold those spaces. Please remember to mark a calendar for February 1 if you want more of this CSA experience. If our message gets dumped into a junk mail box or your address has changed we won’t know, so send Hana a message at hana@potomacvegetablefarms.com if you don’t hear from her by February 2.]]></description>
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		<title>CSA Registration for New Members Opens February 15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everyone! Inquiries have begun to trickle in about CSA registration for 2012. Registration for new members will open up on February 15, 2012. Mark you calendars! Returning members: please watch for a registration message delivered to your email inbox on February 1. You&#8217;ll have 10 days to sign up before we open up to new members. There are always a few folks who forget to sign up on time, and it is getting harder to hold those spaces. Please remember to mark a calendar for February 1 if you want more of this CSA experience. If our message gets dumped into a junk mail box or your address has changed we won’t know, so send Hana a message at hana@potomacvegetablefarms.com if you don&#8217;t hear from her by February 2. As we get closer to the date we&#8217;ll update our CSA information page with information about the 2012 season including drop off locations, share sizes, share options, and dates. I hope everyone had a happy holiday season. We wish you all peace, happiness, and good veggies in the new year.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2012/01/csa-registration-for-new-members-opens-february-15/</link>
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		<title>Autumn CSA Registration Has Closed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Autumn 2011 CSA Shares are sold out. Registration for the 2012 season will open on February 15, 2012. There is no waiting list. For more information about our CSA, please see the CSA information page.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/08/autumn-csa-registration-is-open/</link>
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		<title>PVF Open Houses, July 24 and August 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 24, PVF-West held their CSA open house. It was sparsely attended due to the 100+ degree weather. Don’t worry, we can practically guarantee better weather for the PVF-East open house that will take place on August 7 from 4 to 6. Bring a light snack to share and enjoy a tour of the farm (including a hayride) with your fellow CSA members. &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/08/pvf-open-houses-july-24-and-august-7/</link>
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		<title>PVF West Open House &#8211; July 23, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday: the PVF West Open House, July 23, 2011, 4-6pm at 38369 John Wolford Rd, Purcellville, VA!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/07/pvf-west-open-house-july-23-2011/</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Onions (or Hana Has A Lot To Say About Onions)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…grown without herbicides or pesticides or chemical fertilizers By Hana Newcomb We are breaking our own records with our onion crop this year – they have never been so consistent, so large, so healthy, and there have never been so many!  The secret this year was probably in the super wet April we had.  Onions love water, so once we got them into the muddy ground, they just took off and kept going. It took us a few years to develop our current onion growing techniques.  Back in the olden days we used to buy “onion sets” and plant the tiny little bulbs in wobbly rows that we marked with a hoe.  This made it very hard to keep them weeded, and onions grow so slowly that weeds are always a problem.  We learned through trial and error that mulching onions with hay is a bad idea (the onions died) but mulching with leaf mulch is a great idea. After talking to other more successful onion growers, we began to grow our own onion plants, starting them in the greenhouse in the middle of February.  Onions grow slowly from the very beginning.  The seedlings are ready to plant after about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/07/the-joy-of-onions-or-hana-has-a-lot-to-say-about-onions/</link>
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		<title>PVF Roadside Stands Open July 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both PVF East and West will be opening our roadside stands on Friday, July 1. Opening the roadside stand signifies a huge shift in seasons. It’s truly summer! You can find a great and ever-growing assortment of goodies at both stands. There is, of course, our beautiful, ecoganic produce. Look for summer squash, chard, cabbage, onions, beets, garlic, cucumbers, basil, and green beans this first week. Peppers are starting to show themselves, and tomatoes are just around the corner. Because we know you have needs that we just can’t fill, we’ll also bring in berries, corn, peaches, and melons. Yum! We’ll continue to have our fun selection of jams and preserves as well as assorted savory canned goods from McCutcheon’s in Frederick, MD. I look forward to their berry preserves and beet balls every year. Honey will be coming in from Kelley’s Apiaries to satisfy your sweet tooth. Both stands will continue to carry our unequaled farm-fresh eggs. PVF West’s roadside stand will offer a variety of meats this year: chicken and pork from Haskins Family Farm in Middletown, VA, lamb from Willow Hawk Farm in Lovettsville, VA, and beef from Roxley Farms in Kearneysville, WV. How exciting is that? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/06/pvf-roadside-stands-open-july-1/</link>
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		<title>May Was for Planting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what happens in May. In February we plan and goof off in the greenhouse. In March we&#8217;re serious in the greenhouse and a few things meet the earth. By April, we&#8217;re masters in the greenhouse and green things are meeting the soil with some regularity. But then there is May, and in May plants are swiped out of the greenhouse, plopped outside to harden off for a couple of days, and then thrust into the dirt with a good drink of water and the order to GROW. And grow they do. I think you remember that it was a wet Spring this year. PVF East fared pretty well. We kept on schedule. But PVF West&#8230; PVF West was doused. Soaked. Soppy. Muddy. Wet. Every time East got a half inch of rain, West got three. It was a little bit of a scary out there, with the greenhouse bursting at the seams and no way to get a tractor into the waterlogged fields to even begin the planting process. In fact, it wasn&#8217;t until the week of May 9 that Stacey and Casey were able to gather their workers, get out there and really start spading, spreading compost, making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/06/may-was-for-planting/</link>
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		<title>CSA Begins in June!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attention all CSA Members: Get your cookbooks ready; CSA us about to begin! For PVF East, whether you&#8217;re picking up from one of our dropoff locations or picking up at the farm, CSA will begin Monday, June 6. For PVF West, CSA will begin on June 14. If you&#8217;re picking up at the farm: you should have received an email from one of us letting you know what day you&#8217;re picking up, how it works, and general guidelines to remember. If you&#8217;re picking up from a dropoff location: you should have received an email from your host letting you know the pickup address, hours your share will be available, general rules and guidelines for that location, and contact information for your host. If you have not received an email, please contact becky@potomacvegetablefarms.com and we&#8217;ll get you sorted out. We will send a weekly list of what we predict we will be picking and a few recipes.  If you do not read at least the first few sentences of these weekly messages you might miss some important news &#8212; like when we have extra canning tomatoes available to be ordered, or whether we are cutting down a tree and we have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/05/csa-begins-june-6/</link>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the perks of living in the &#8220;country&#8221; is being able to have bonfires on a regular basis. But now that Loudoun County is considered part of the Metropolitan DC air pollution area, we must curtail such activities to the months of October through April. So, to celebrate the super gigantic full moon, the beginning of Spring, and the general letting go of the past, we lit a match on Saturday night to our humble pile of trimmings. The raspberries and asparagus needed complete buzz cuts to remove all standing plant material. The wisdom is that doing so will remove habitat that has overwintering insects hiding inside. Stacey and Casey lovingly clipped and snipped and brought the brush over to our usual burn area. Other brush is hiding underneath, including our Christmas tree. One match later and Voila!, a fire is born. We invited some friends and relatives to enjoy this event. It&#8217;s surprisingly HOT at first while the flimsy stuff burns quickly. Then the heavier wood gets going. That&#8217;s when we pulled up the lawn chairs and awaited the arrival of the Big Moon. May your Spring Cleaning be so much fun! &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/2011/03/spring-cleaning/</link>
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