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Dalew Farms
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Dalew
Farms Email
10781 Hwy 64, Lavigne, ON, P0H 1R0
Phone: (705) 594-1823
Join Chantal and Dave at Dalew Farms
for a very rewarding food experience.
Feast on the bounty of summer with a
wide array of fresh and delicious produce
and meats. Enjoy farm tours with hayrides
to see the animals, and other special
events. Take pleasure in knowing that
your families’ food was produced without
chemicals or artificial fertilizers,
by your own personal farmer, in a safe
and environmentally friendly fashion.
Receive the regular Dalew Farms newsletter
with updates about the farm, as well
as a special once a week email bulletin
(The Dalew Farms Blurb) for CSA subscribers.
We are nearly organic, but not certified
organic. We use absolutely no chemicals
or artificial fertilizers, we don’t
grow or feed any GMO’s (genetically
modified organisms) and all of our animals
are raised on pasture during the spring
summer and fall.
Why aren’t we certified organic? Our
farm has been free of chemicals and
fertilizers for more than the 3 required
years for transition to organic certification,
but sometimes we use non organic seeds
to get varieties that perform well and
are disease resistant, allowing us to
avoid using chemical fungicides. We
use plastic row covers to get vegetables
ready earlier in the season, but don't
use the biodegradable kind, because
we don’t want to leave any unnatural
residues in the soil. We will attempt
to either re-use the non biodegradable
plastic, or recycle it. We also feel
that the “certified organic” sector
is becoming more industrialized and
is more about marketing for large corporations,
than it is about an environmentally
friendly local food system and thus,
we are opting out of the certified organic
empire building process!
DALEW FARMS CSA 2008 Subscription Details:
Cost: $600.00 per season Delivery will
start the first Wednesday in July, and
end the last Wednesday in October, except
for one final week in November, which
will be a delivery of some storage items
like carrots, potatoes, cabbage, onions
etc. Produce will be delivered to the
Sudbury Farmers market on Wednesday
evenings. Notification is sent by email
on Monday evenings of the vegetables
that will make up the box for that week,
and subscribers have until Tuesday evening
to place orders for additional Dalew
Farms items.
In addition to the vegetables offered
in the CSA subscription, Dalew Farms
also has meats available. Chicken, pork,
beef, and lamb, all processed at licensed
facilities. (For more information about
these products please read below.) When
available, these products can be purchased
and delivered at the same Wednesday
evening time as your CSA delivery at
no extra delivery cost, or through the
Eat Local Sudbury Buying Club. Also,
we have additional locally produced
items (e.g.: Fresh ground flour) at
our farm store available for delivery
at the same time as our vegetable subscriptions.
We also have monthly open houses during
the summer at the farm to see the garden,
animals etc, and of course you are more
than welcome to come out for those.
We were able fill the 50 subscriptions
that we set as our goal for 2008. A
$100.00 deposit reserved the subscription
and the subscriptions were taken on
a first come, first serve basis. You
can add your name to our 2009 waiting
list by calling or emailing us.
Our Vegetable List for 2008 will include:
· Beans, green and yellow · Broccoli
· Brussels sprouts · Cabbage, red, green,
savoy · Carrots · Cauliflower · Cucumbers,
slicing and pickling · Kale · Lettuce
(and other salad greens) · Onions, green
and cooking · Peas · Potatoes red and
white · Pumpkins · Red beets · Spaghetti
Squash · Sweet corn · Sweet potatoes
· Swiss chard · Tomatillos · Tomatoes
· Zucchini, green and yellow · And More!
We are always adding new vegetables
to the garden here at Dalew Farms so
there was an extra surprise or two of
new items to test your taste buds throughout
last season. We enjoyed connecting with
our subscribers over the course of the
summer, and learning more about what
we can do to even further improve the
taste and nutrition of our produce.
Please don’t hesitate to call or email
us if you have any further questions!
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