Village Acres Farm

Village Acres Farmhas a mission of connecting people to their food, the earth and each other. We are committed to growing food and building relationships that are sustaining, restorative, and transformative for our customers, employees, and selves. Celebrating over 30 years of farming, 20 years of Organic certification and 15 years of serving the community through a CSA model, Village Acres operates as a diversified system, integrating vegetables, berries and pastured livestock. Village Acres offers on-farm pick-up of produce, eggs, and chicken for CSA members, as well as distribution to State College, Lewistown, Selinsgrove, and Harrisburg. We also serve breakfast the first Saturday of every month (April-November) and live music several evenings a year in our Food Shed. Located just off Route 322 near Mifflintown - about 45 minutes from State College and Harrisburg - the 30 acre farm is centered in the village of Cuba Mills, nestled along the banks of the Lost Creek close to its confluence with the Juniata River. Read about our farm in Grid Magazine's Farmbook... Posted by Debra Brubaker :: Tuesday, January 19 :: 8:47am Greens Share:Spinach,  Braising greens (3 types of Kale and a little chard), White Salad turnips with tops, pea shoots. Full Share:Onions, Potatoes, Beets, Carrot, Garlic, Acorn Squash, plus the greens share items Please remember to return share boxes/liners and egg cartons! Also we happily reuse quart and pint mason jars. Please note this weeks' Delivery times. On Farm/Lewistown: January 19th 3-6:30 PM State College: January 19th 4-6:00PMLate pickup at 323 Keller St. Harrisburg: Friday January 22nd  12PM-6PM It's the start of a new year and it has been packed with activity so far.  This past week our family was deeply immersed in Pennsylvania's 100th Farm Show in Harrisburg.  Hannah, in her position of Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, oversees the Farm Show, and therefore was also very involved in pulling off this week long celebration of Pennsylvania's agriculture.  New this year, she coordinated a "Know Your Farmer" area of the complex, that included a farmer's market display of all the seasonal fruits and vegetables available in PA in January, a beautiful collage of PA's agriculture, an activity station by Rodale institute teaching kids about soil health and microbes, a indoor high tunnel showing the possibilities for season extension (done they PA vegetable growers Association), and a hydroponic tunnel displaying the work of a school to table program at Steelton High School, and booths by Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and the Pennsylvania Farmers Union.  For more pictures from activities in the Know your farmer area, check out this photo album. In addition to helping set up and tear down this area, our family spent much of Wednesday at the Farm Show as welling, cheering on Chandler as she competed in the sheep to shawl competition there, spinning to her heart's content :-) In addition to the work and excitement of the Farm Show, we have also been trying to keep up with all the work at home.  Seeding has begun in the greenhouses which means that wood stoves require frequent tending to maintain the proper temperatures for the newly emerging seedlings.  We have also been fine tuning our seeding schedule for the year, making sure we have all supplies on hand.  Dad have been a trooper tending the hens in these cold days, taking fresh (unfrozen) water to them several time a day. Just this past week we moved the hens to a pasture closer to the buildings were they also have access to a small high tunnels with provides them with some additional warm space to scratch and eat during the day.  They are hardy little birds and we are so grateful to have them and their eggs. I mentioned in my initial email last week, that our salad greens are a little sparse at the opening of this winter CSA season due to the fact that the mild December triggered early growth (ie great surplus for the