Farm Updates 5/3/23
Hello Boulder!
Life is teeming at the farm. Lots of plants are growing and the spring rains have made our pasture fit for the luckiest of animals! Here are some updates the farm has seen since our last email:
We have harvested kale, lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, and basil.
We have been doing practice runs to make sure our harvesting, washing, and packing procedures are dialed in so that we can best serve you!
We finished our mobile, refrigerated trailer that will allow us to send you your food as cold and fresh as possible
We have discovered compostable “biobags” do not keep our produce as fresh as long as we had hoped and are searching for other sustainable alternatives
We had our first, on-farm blessing and processing of pigs. This day carried weight, but it opened our eyes to how to ethically raise meat and do things with utmost integrity.
We forged new partnerships which will allow us to bring you a wider array of products to the CSA pickup table
We set up, and then re-set up our CSA payment plan (sorry for those who had to do it twice)
We added our apparel to the website (hats, beanies, hoodies)
We are very excited to announce that some of our add-on products are available on our website. You will see mushrooms, coffee, honey and more to come! These products can be purchased any time before WEDNESDAY on the week of pickup at 11:59pm and they will be added directly to your share. Don’t fret if you forget though, we will also have these products available for purchase at pickup. Give our “add on” shop a visit here.
Start-up farming is a difficult endeavor. It is a complicated system and it can be challenging to make sure everything is ready at the exact time. To best serve you, there may be times where we reach out to peer farms to fill any gaps in your produce share. More on this will come, if it becomes necessary.
Wild Child Farm Chicken is increasingly becoming a focus of the farm. A mentor of mine, Marcus McCauley, recently closed his operation and has made us one of very few (if any) regenerative meat chicken operations in the county. Due to popular demand, we are now offering our chicken outside of the meat CSA model as an add on for existing produce or egg share members.
For those who are interested in replacing the other proteins they purchase and consume with local, regenerative, humanely raised meat, we still have CSA meat shares available. Our pasture- raised pork is truly incredible, and helps us to take food waste out of the system by feeding it to our (extremely lucky) pigs. Our beef is coming from friend and rancher extraordinaire Andy Breiter and Grama Grass. We ask you to kindly refer anyone you know that might be interested. We are offering a $25 credit for each referral made by existing customers. If you refer someone, please email us to collect your reward!
Our model is one of education. We have swiftly onboarded 3 farm interns who live together in community. Our interns are currently studying permaculture design with the Boulder PDC. They are given the opportunity to self-guide their educational interests in regenerative ag, and each intern has leadership duties on the farm. What a cool way to connect people with the land and sow the seeds of young farmers in Colorado and beyond.
Don’t forget to mark your calendars for June 3rd for a Farm tour and meet and greet. You can register here.
Wild Child Farm has an herbal medicine component in the works. For several years we have been cultivating medicinal plants and herbs for our personal use. This year, we will be launching several products made from herbs we grow here on the farm. Stay tuned to hear more!
Good Growing,
Farmer Miles