Your Farmers

Many hands over the years have fed and worked our soils, nurtured and cared for our animals, planted, cultivated, watered, and harvested pounds and pounds of produce, fixed fences, moved compost, covered frost sensitive plants, uncovered frost sensitive plants, moved greenhouses, fixed silos, fixed tractors, fixed freezers, fixed frustrations, planted seeds, washed bins, bagged greens, picked weeds, picked rocks, picked flowers, picked up food waste, and participated in the many other tasks that move your local farm forward all while growing phenomenal, tasty, high quality food for our local community.

We are thrilled to have 16 phenomenal individuals making sure that everything runs smoothly, the chaos is organized, and the produce makes it into your kitchens. These are YOUR farmers, the ones who have been working hard this season to make it all happen!

The vision of Pick Your Own Blueberries and Compost morphed into a full fledged diverse beyond-organic farm very quickly after Tim started Meadowstone Farm in 2004. His leadership, vision, passion, and hard work permeate the community and north country food system. He has made it possible for the dedicated team to do what we do.

We are psyched to have Evrald back for his third season. He comes with a wealth of experience. Evrald’s work permeates all aspects of the farm. He has a detailed eye when it comes to all tasks, especially pruning, harvesting, cultivating, and just knowing what has to be done.

Vegetable Manager and Flower Guru extraordinaire, Mikaela has been with the farm for 11 years now. She is the “Organized” in the “Organized Chaos” of the farm. She also brings good humor, good tunes, hard work, and passion and Addison who you will notice makes an appearance in a few photos! Addison is our youngest future farmer in the bunch.

Tim with Mikaela’s daughter Addison. As founder, owner, and director of loose ends (and so much more!) of the farm. Tim has created a positive, thriving, productive work culture with employees, nourished the soil with a focus on regenerative and organic agriculture, and works hard to continue moving toward making MSF an agricultural center in the community.

Having been at the farm on and off his entire life, Jeb can do just about anything. He was a go-to for special projects this summer or wherever we needed something done. We are all psyched to have his presence as part of the team this summer. When not at the farm look for him on any rock climbing wall or cliff in NH.

Eggs are the results of Jim’s thoughtful care when it comes to our chickens. He puts his heart into all that he does on the farm: asparagus, mowing, chicken care, egg packing and more.

Wyatt moves with purpose as he navigates the tasks of the farm. In addition to harvesting, weeding, and running the weed-wacker, Wyatt can be found running super fast and prepping for college!

When not writing CSA newsletters, Sam can be seen moving quickly around the farm attempting to keep the chaos organized. He enjoys moving tarps around and planting greens.

A Cilantro, Parsley, and Swiss Chard harvester (she also harvests just about everything too), Jaime also welcomes our CSA members each and every pickup. She brings hard work, laughter, and organization to our farm team.

As one of our Farm stand gurus, Jess, brings a positive, welcoming presence to the farm with all who meet and interact with her. She also brings hard work and an eye for the details.

We so appreciate Sophie’s hard work, relaxed demeanor, and her excitement around all that is happening on the farm. Not only does she welcome everyone with Jaime at CSA pickups, she can be found harvesting, cultivating, planting and transplanting, running experiments on our potting soil and welcoming school groups here at the farm.

At the farm Colin is an integral part of the team connecting with area restaraunts, schools, and stores to collect food waste. You can also find him n the farm stand, wash center, and with the chickens. “Off Campus” Colin can be found scaling various climbing routes on cliffs in the north country, and prepping for more school at Plymouth State.

After two months with us last fall, we are thrilled to have Jav back for the entire season. As the animal whisperer Jav cares for our critters with care and dertailed eye. Pigs, donkeys, goats, and cows all come running to say hi to Jav. Like all of us, they appreciate his humor, positive energy, and hard work.

Ani has been here since before she can remember and we are psyched to have her as an integral part of the day to day. She helps in the stand, packing room, and in the fields.

Jeannie is the glue that keeps us all together. She embodies the MSF vision and spirit as she welcomes farm visitors, bags and labels at the packing table, maintains the books, and connects with employees.

Shawn comes with insight, hard work, and versatile skills. We appreciate his tractor skills, harvesting, and detailed perspective on how the crops are doing.

Having grown up on the farm, Cole comes with hard work, humor, dedication, and a historic perspective on the farm and the changes over the year. Psyched to have Cole back at the farm this season for a bit!

Pickup

Come anytime between 3 pm and 6 pm to choose your share on the day you chose when you signed up, so either Monday or Thursday.

Please bring your own bags or box to gather your choices.

If you signed up for an add-on, don’t forget to pickup your Coffee, Flowers, Eggs, and Pork sausage.

 Remember to contact us in advance if you will be unable to pick up on Thursday, so that we can store your share in our walk-in refrigerator to keep it fresh. You can email or call us to let us know. Thank you to all of those who have already arranged another time to pickup!

School is back in session!

Woodland Community School, who shares the same address as us, is back in session. Please be careful of kids and parents as you enter and exit the farm for pickup!

Here's what you will find in this weeks share:

Full shares receive 12 choices and

Small shares receive 8 choices.

Please use the tally sheets to keep track of the number of choices you are taking at pickup. We want to make sure you receive all 8 choices if you are a small share and 12 choices if you are a large share!

We have run out of MSF Potatoes (we literally grew new potatoes just for you our CSA) and are now bringing in Sparrow Arc farm potatoes. They are local out of VT and are not organic. They limit spraying, and grow as naturally as they can.

Lyman View corn is also from off the farm. Dick has been as central part of the Littleton Farmers Market and phenomenal corn growing in the local area for 30 years. He is not organic.

Pounds of Basil ($15/lb) and flats of B-grade tomatoes and or Roma Tomatoes($30/15 lb flat) are available as supplies last. Let us know and we can have them ready for you to pickup on your CSA day. Email us to reserve yours!

Want some recipe ideas?

CHECK OUT THE CSA RECIPE PAGE!

Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, Cole, and Jess)