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Ongoing Plant Sale: Buy 1, Get 1 or 2 Free
Find us at Perrysburg Market Thursdays 3-8 PM
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Bench Farms, St. Rte. 2 Where gardening friends gather. |
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Shared Legacy Farms, a subsidiary of Bench Farms, is offering an exciting new form of agriculture this year known as a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), piloted by eldest son Kurt Bench in Elmore. Through this program, customers pay a fee to subscribe to a weekly box of Bench Farm vegetables or fruits for 18 weeks. You can visit the Shared Legacy Farms CSA website to find |
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Shared Legacy Farms CSA |
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Kurt works the gardens. |
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Contact Us: David and Cindy Bench 9151 Jerusalem Road (St. Rte. 2), Curtice, OH 43412 Phone: 419-836-9443 |
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out details about this vegetable subscription program and to fill out a sign up form. Two memberships are available for 2010. The Standard Vegetable Share costs $680, and is enough to fill 2 grocery bags and feed a family of four. This amounts to about $35 per week for all your produce needs. The Fruit Specialty Share is $385 and includes local fruits from neighboring farms as well as fall decorations and pumpkins. In return for your pre-harvest investment, each week of the harvest starting June 15, the Bench family picks fresh, delicious produce from their fields at the peak of ripeness and carefully packages it into their members’ individual boxes. As crops rotate throughout the seasons, weekly shares vary by size and type of produce. Members also receive a weekly newsletter featuring a vegetable of the week, recipes to try, tips for preparing or storing your produce, and general news about the farm. You’ll also be invited to special farm events throughout the season to rub shoulders with their farm and the Bench family. These include Spring Planting days, a Corn Boil and Potluck, a Canning Event, a Star-Gazing and Bonfire Event with a Pumpkin Hunt, and a Gleaning Day at the end of the season to pick through the leftovers on the field. Members have the option of gathering their share at one of three locations: the Perrysburg Farmer’s Market on Thursdays, Bench Farms (Curtice) on Fridays, or Shared Legacy Farms (Elmore) on Wednesdays.
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