All the CSA members from 2009 will receive an e-mail on Monday, February 1, giving the link to the registration page for 2010.  If you are a returning customer and you do not hear from us then, please write to us and we’ll send a message to your correct address.  Returning customers will have until Feb 10 to sign up.

If you subscribe to PVF-West, please read all the new information on this website.  There are changes — we have one share size and one season length now.  Much simpler.  PVF-East continues to maintain its complicated structure, with three share sizes and two seasons.  Read all about it.

We have been resting and getting energized for the next season, going to conferences, reading seed catalogs, reading the regular newspaper.  We don’t mind cold, wet weather in January one bit, since it keeps us inside and guilt-free.  We are looking forward to spring, but we are in no particular hurry.

While all appears to be asleep at PVF, the farmers are inside, cozily planning the 2010 season. Most of the seeds have been ordered and are arriving daily. We are making changes to the CSA: tinkering with share sizes, delivery sites, and getting ready for the February onslaught of registering new customers. We cherish this time of the year, enjoying the relative ease of these short days. We are trying to keep in shape, going to the gym, practicing yoga, splitting wood, so that when April comes we will be ready to bend over and plant the first babies in the ground.

Here’s a photo from that tremendous snow of late December. We went out over and over to keep moving the snow off the hoophouse so it wouldn’t collapse. That puts a whole new meaning to snowstorm. We also turned the heater on in the big greenhouse for the same reason. All structures survived the weather. I always think that these super cold nights are freezing our insect enemies in the ground. That’s another way to enjoy the winter, especially when I can stay inside and watch.