Willoway Farm

3 CSA Shares are left!

2011-03-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. We are still accepting CSA applications. We have only 3 CSA shares left!

NEW DROP off locations

2011-03-11T08:21:00.000-08:00

We do have 3 new drop off locations this year on THURSDAYS.

Residence*Maplewood Ct. Mequon about 2.5 north of Brown Deer Road east of Rte 43. THURSDAY delivery

WEEDS in Cedarburg on Washington Ave. THURSDAY delivery.

Settlers Park Local Market in historical downtown West Bend. THURSDAY delivery.

TUESDAY stay the same at People's Book COOP & Garden Room and Anaba Tea Room. in the MIlwaukee Area.

Urban Ecology OPen House for Local Farms

2011-03-10T05:34:00.000-08:00

We will be at this event this weekend with eggs and some sprouts & off course CSA applications & info!

Local Farmer Open House

Saturday • March 12th
11a.m. - 4 p.m.
1500 E. Park Place, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Free

Learn more about Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) and buying directly from local farmers and producers
Meet and sign up with farmers
Learn how you can join a CSA farm (purchase a share of the harvest) and get a box of fresh produce each week during the season

Find out how you can buy meat, dairy, cheese, and eggs directly
from local farmers. Some food will be for sale during this event.

Why buy directly from local farmers?

Enjoy fresh, tasty and healthy food
Ensure fair compensation for family farmers
Build a stronger local economy
Encourage sustainable growing practices

SPROUTS AT WEEDS IN CEDARBURG

2011-01-25T10:33:00.000-08:00

SUNFLOWER SPROUTS AND SPICY RADISH SPROUTS AT WEEDS IN CEDARBURG> delicious and nutritious!!!

Milwaukee CSA Assistance Fund : Would you like to donate?

2011-01-25T06:52:00.000-08:00

Milwaukee CSA Assistance Fund

Logistics:

- Farmers can voluntarily participate in promoting and gathering money for the program each year

- Participating farms would include language and space on their CSA registration form and on their website asking their members to donate to this program. Donated money will be collected by the farmers.

- Farmers will send/deliver money for the fund to Jamie Ferschinger at the Urban Ecology Center

- All farmers attending the Open House will be sent language to include on their brochures/website to inform low-income people about the funding that is available and how they can inquire

- Inquiries will be directed to Jamie. Funding will be granted on a first-come-first-serve basis to those who meet the criteria listed below

- Recipients will be required to work out details directly with the farmer they choose

- Assistance money will be sent from the UEC directly to the chosen CSA farmer after details are confirmed by each party

Brief description of the program that could go on CSA brochures/website:

YES, I would like to contribute $__________ to the Milwaukee CSA Assistance Fund. The Milwaukee CSA Assistance Program provides financial assistance to help low-income households purchase CSA shares. By contributing to this fund, you will be helping increase access to fresh, sustainably grown food from our local CSA farms to low income families. For more information about the program or how to receive assistance, contact Jamie Ferschinger at the Urban Ecology Center 414-964-8505 or jferschinger@urbanecologycenter.org

To qualify for Assistance, an applicant would need to meet 1 of following criteria:

1. Annual income below $25,000*

2. Uses Medicaid

3. Uses SSI

4. Uses Food Stamps

5. Lives in public housing

* If a student, participant would need to be a full-time student with an income below $25,000 and dependents

Additional Details:

- Primary source of funding would be CSA members who can choose to donate money to this fund by marking a box on their CSA registration form. Farmers would collect from their members and send to the UEC. UEC will also contribute to the fund, solicit additional donations, and administer the program.

- The assistance would be $300 or up to 1/2 of a CSA share

- The recipient could join any CSA farm

- The Assistance Fund would pay the CSA farmer and the participant would make arrangements with the farmer to pay the remainder of the share

- The Fund would be publicized before the Open House so people can apply and get approved before the event (that way they can meet and make arrangements with a CSA at the Open House).

Jamie Ferschinger

Community Program Coordinator

Urban Ecology Center

1500 East Park Place

Milwaukee, WI 53211

414.964.8505 ext. 114

www.urbanecologycenter.org

Market Saturday, Dec. 11th 10 am till 2 pm at Discovery World, Milwaukee & Coupons for CSA 2011 being distributed at the market.

2010-12-09T15:55:00.000-08:00

Come join us at Discovery World in Milwaukee on this Saturday where many local Wisconsin vendors will be selling goods. We will have an array of heirloom vegetables and some homemade knitted, loomed, feathered items.

WE WILL BE DISTRIBUTING A DISCOUNT OUPON FOR THE 2011 VEGETABLE CSA PROGRAM. 10 am till 2 pm

Buy from any vendor there and get a $10 discount on Discovery World admission.

Happy Holidays!

2010-07-31T16:11:00.000-07:00

FIND OUR PRODUCE , HERBS AND FLOWERS AT THE FOLLOWING MARKETS:

East Town Association Farmer's Market at Cathedral Square Saturdays 8 am till 12:30

Here we are located on the grass on the west side of the market.

Riverwest Gardeners Market: Located on Locust between Fratney and Bremen on Sundays 10 am till 2 pm

We also sell produce to Buckley's Restaurant on North Cass St. in Milwaukee, Riverwest Coop on Fratney St. in Milwaukee.

WE WILL BE AT SLOW POKES on Tuesday , August 3rd at 5 pm till 8 pm also.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR OPEN HOUSE OCTOBER 3rd, 2010 from 3- 5 pm

Willoway Farm at Market Today 10 am -2pm Discovery World Milwaukee

2010-03-27T04:46:00.000-07:00

Today between 10 am and 2 pm Willoway Farm will be at the Discovery World selling spinach, watercress, some onions, sunflower shoots, and thyme. Also we will have some handcrafted items made by Jacqui and friend Jaymie which include hand loomed rugs, beautiful feather from native fowl hair accessaries, and some homegrown gourds decorated birdhouses. Please come if you can and see the goods, everything was harvested fresh after 4 pm yesterday. Least I forget, we will be selling are yummy eggs which with the blues an green would be great for Easter or any holiday.. Hope to see you there!

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:38:55 -0500

We are still accepting applications

2010-03-16T08:05:00.000-07:00

We are still accepting applications since there are shares available for the CSA. Flower share also still has openings. Happy Spring and Happy St. Patrick's Day.

We are also getting a new addition to the farm...a pup arriving on St. Patrick's Day. We are excited here.

2010-02-02T09:15:00.000-08:00

Hello Lovebirds,

Consider the Flower Share for your Sweetheart. 20 weeks of rare, popular and heirloom flowers with no herbicides or pesticides. The cost is $130 and the bouquets can be picked up at one of our drop off locations. You do not have to be a produce CSA member to sign up for the flower share. A purty Valentine note will be made for those doing this for their sweetie. Contact us if you are interested. The Flowers are cut fresh the morning of delivery. Happy Valentine's Day from your Farmers Dan and Jacqui

2010-01-05T11:11:00.000-08:00

WEDDING FLOWERS INCLUDING BOUQUETS, CENTER PIECES, BOUTONIERS. AVAILABLE ONE WEDDING PER WEEK SO BOOK SOON! HEIRLOOM PERENNIALS AND ANNUAL FLOWERS. NO PESTICIDE OR HERBICIDES USED AND ALL FLOWERS ARE GROWN ON FARM PART OF OUR FARM ECOSYSTEM PROMOTING BENNEFICIAL INSECT HABITATS.

FLOWERS ARE AVAILABLE IN MAY 2ND WEEK-4TH WEEK. CONSIST OF MOSTLY TULIPS.

FLOWERS ARE NOT AVAILABLE 1ST WEEKEND OF JUNE. (3rd week of June-Peonies)

FLOWERS ARE AVAILABLE FROM JUNE 2ND WEEK-SEPTEMBER 30TH.

FOR AN EXAMPLE of flowers PLEASE GO TO THE WEBSITE : www.weddingcabaret.blogspot.com/2009/08/real-wedding-lizzy-scotties-family.html

contact Jacqui with inquiry at the Willoway Farm contact info listed at our website: www.willowayfarm.net

2010-01-05T11:01:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND NEW SEASON> WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!! PLANS ARE A BREWING A NEW SECTION IN THE GARDEN IS IN THE MAKING> 40 FULL SHARE MEMBERS is OUR LIMIT for 2010. APPLiCATIONS AND PAYMENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECEIVED.

LIMIT 12 egg shares is AVAILABLE for 2010.

WE ARE PLANNING ON ADDING more small scale livestock top the farm.

More Recipe Collections will be posted to the website in the future. We are staying warm and busy. Dan is making shingles for our new Timber Frame Vegetable wash building Dan raised this past summer. All manures were spread throughout the garden in the fall so spring time we will be getting busy planting.

POETRY SHARE FOR SMALL FEE. WEBSITE WILL BE UPDATED FOR POETRY SHARE. THE POETRY SHARE WILL BE WITH THE BASKET NOT VIA EMAILL. WHAT DO YA'LL THINK OF A POETRY SHARE WRITTEN BY YOURS TRULY DAN & JACQUI.

WILLOWAY FARM OPEN HOUSE SEPTEMBER 27 th 1-3pm

2009-09-19T12:16:00.000-07:00

Grilled Goodness

2009-07-23T12:53:00.001-07:00

Grilled Willoway Farm veggies! Marinated in some hemp & olive oil, and balsamic vinegar with a few spices. With the herbs from the farm added it was delicious.

Click to have a closer look.

Yeah Willoway!

Thanks,
Dave in Mequon

Week 2

2009-06-12T12:10:00.001-07:00

The leaves in the little bag is Anise Hyssop. This is a mint like plant that have a flavor similar to black Licorice. It can be steep for tea, added to a desert, It can be also dried for tea but actually in the tea world, I believe whole fresh leaves are preferred. The crushed leaves of tea we are used to seeing is actually a lower grade of tea. Anise hyssop as a tea is good for sore throats , or so I read. The herb bundle is thyme, oregano and Lovage. Lovage is also known as poor man's celery, it has a distinct flavor you can add this to a salad or a pasta you can create with greens and oil. The other bunch of the bluish leaves is Kale. This is our first harvest of Kale...it is a good healthy green that can be steamed or wilted at the end of a saute'. Some people will eat kale raw but most cook it.Kale is often used in soups, omelets.... Some even juice kale. In the fall when light frost it it can be sweeter. I hope that answers the questions of the unknown greens. Dan and I hope the pea plants will start dropping their pods...the plants have buds on them. The weather hasn't been encouraging to much to grow....the cool weather but today is gorgeous and I suspect some growing will be happening. Otherwise all is well in the garden . Things are really taking shape as the majority of the garden is planted. Jacqui

1st Basket

2009-06-04T06:44:00.000-07:00

We want to take this moment, on a wet day, to tell you that you are very important to our farm operation. Without the certainty of your membership we must rely on the uncertainty of week to week sale to float our boat. You all provide some stability to what is in all reality something only moderately so. Your membership also provides us what is most valuable to us - more time for us on farm, tending the crops, which should be reflected in a higher quality product. So, your investment in us allows us more time to invest in the farm which, in turn, we hope will make for a better farm – better food, better fuel and nutrition for all of us. So thank you so much because the role you play is no small part. And we have big hopes and dreams for our humble place and I hope you’ll take the time this summer to pay us visit and see first hand where your veggies live, and perhaps we’ll get a chance to talk of hopes and dreams - food and health and the human part. And perhaps we’ll figure some things out or merely stimulate some much needed conversations, questions, and curiosities. Or perhaps you simply want your food, tis your choice. Anyway, I want you all to know that we certainly appreciate your investment, your taking a chance with us, for coming season, and thank you. We are very hopeful for our best yet.

Hello

2009-06-04T06:43:00.001-07:00

Hello 2009 Willoway Farm CSA member! I hope you are as excited as we are for the coming season. And thank you so much for choosing us to be your farmers. This marks our third growing season at Willoway and, if I can trust my hunch, it will be our most fruitful thus far. As I sit and type the garden is growing and this spring has been very fair - a good mix of rain, sun, cool, warmth.

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2009-06-01T06:28:00.001-07:00

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