PHOTO BY TIMOTHY TEAGUE
CSA
The Farmer and the Cook also runs a Community Supported Agriculture Program.
CSAs provide their members- who buy a season's share in the farmer's produce-
with monthly boxes of the harvest.
Our CSA has pickups every week, and the produce we harvest hasn't been out
of the ground or off the stalk for more than 5 or 6 hours, when our members pick up on time.
CSAs are enormously beneficial to both the farmers growing the food and the members
"supporting" them. With the money from shares in our CSA, we buy water, tools and
seeds, and pay our lease on the land and our tractor payments.
This is the freshest way to buy produce in the Ojai Valley, as well as a great way to
"know your grower", and in doing so, support the local economy, decrease oil
dependence, and express your power to build community!
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For more information, prices and availability, call Steve at 805.290-0988
HOW THE CSA WORKS
Pickups are on Wednesdays or Thursdays at the Farmer and the Cook, so you can do
your shopping in one stop. We grow year around for our members,
and invite CSA members to visit the farm to help out or to just learn more
about this regions agricultural heritage.
Everything in the box is "CCOF" certified organic, and grown without manure.
The only sprays we use are neem, kelp, and bacillus thuringiensis. We also
include a weekly farm newsletter with recipes. We wash and reuse the same set of totes every week.
Examples of what might be in our box at different times of year are below.
Winter/Spring Box:
Our Lettuce Mix, Spinach, Radicchio, Broccoli, Cabbage
Nantes Carrots, Bok Choi, Fennel, Golden or Crimson Beets
French Breakfast Radishes, Green Garlic, Arugula
Cilantro, Rainbow Swiss Chard, Curly Kale, Collard Greens
Fennel, Endive, Peppermint, Spearmint
Summer/Fall Box:
Our Salad Mix, Spinach, Heirloom Tomatoes, Cucumbers
Summer Squash, Sunflowers, Lebanese Squash, Rainbow Swiss Chard, Red Russian Kale,
Collard Greens, Broccoli, French Breakfast Radishes, Arugula, Cilantro, Basil, Chamomile,
Peppermint, Spearmint, Various Hot Peppers, Bell Peppers, Garlic, Beets
CSA NEWS
STEVE SPRINKEL is the farmer & each week he writes about life on the farm...
click on this link to readpast issues of the FORAGER
FARM VOLUNTEERS
YES, WE NEED LOTS OF HELP AT THE FARM AND VOLUNTEERS ARE MUCH APPRECIATED
AND WELCOME. FIRST YOU MUST MAKE PRIOR CONTACT AND BE PREPARED TO PICK, PLANT SEEDS,
WEED OR PACK THE CSA BOXES.
WE OFFER YOU SOUP & SALAD BAR AT THE FARMER AND THE COOK,
IN EXCHANGE FOR AROUND 3 HOURS OF WORK.
THERE IS A CAMPGROUND CALLED LAKE CASITAS ABOUT 3 MILES DOWN THE ROAD
IN CASE YOU ARE TRAVELLING THROUGH AND NEED A PLACE TO STAY WHILE YOU VOLUNTEER.
E-MAIL US AT: FARMERANDCOOK@GMAIL.COM
AND REMEMBER TO BRING A WIDE BRIMMED HAT
PHOTO BY SUSIE SPRINKEL
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VISITING THE FARM PLEASE CONTACT:
Steve Sprinkel, farmer Farmer and the Cook 339 w. El Roblar Ojai, CA 93023 805-290-0988
or
Ojai Center for Regenerative Agriculture david@ojaicra.org or (805) 390 0747
The educational program is supported by Food For Thought and the Center for Regenerative Agriculture;
visit their websites to read about the programs they have initiated and the support they offer to
enable your class to visit the farm. We have had over 500 students and adults come out to
visit the Farmer and the Cook's Gozo Farm in 2008. Thanks go out to Grace Bueti, David White and
Marty Fujita for making it HAPPEN! We have worked with people ages 5-65 and have had a
variety of programs, from classroom tours to workshops and work parties. TV turnoff week also
saw schools visiting Gozo farm. We have covered topics from definitions of organic
and sustainable agriculture, to planting and harvesting techniques, GMOs, farm worker
justice, perceptions and perversions of "local", the history of pesticides and fertilizers,
and gender inequality in agriculture. We have worked with students from CSU
Channel Islands, Thacher School, all the public elementary schools in the Ojai Valley,
UCSB, Oak Grove School, Valley Oak Charter, and a troop of Boy Scouts.
Call us to arrange a visit...
here is a map that will help you find us,
turn into the farm from Baldwin road
where the sign says HELP OF OJAI,
then veer to the left and park under the large oak tree.
View Baldwin Rd & S Rice Rd in a larger map
805-290-0988
