The Crooked Carrot Farmstand is open today from 9 AM until 1 PM.

Look for:

• Romaine lettuce
• Carrots
• Red Butterhead lettuce
• Beets
• and more

The farmstand is located at 40792 N. Rattlesnake Rd., San Tan Valley.

Hope to see you there.

Crooked Carrot Farmstand

Good news, our farmstand will open this Saturday from 9 AM until 1 PM.

The fresh Crooked Carrot Farm grown veggies that will be available:

•   Romaine lettuce
•   Red Butterhead lettuce
•   Beets
•   Kale
•   Swiss chard
•   Carrots
•   Maybe more

The farmstand is located at 40792 N. Rattlesnake Rd, San Tan Valley.

Bring cash as we can not accept credit cards at this time.

CSA Sign Up Details

How to Sign Up

Send an e-mail to clark@crookedcarrot.com with the following information:

1. How many shares?  1, 2, 3... there is a 3% discount for multiple shares.
2. Name, e-mail address, and phone number?
   
   
   

We will email you the bill once we have confirmed that there is still space available.  Shares are sold on a first come first served basis which allows us to concentrate on growing during the growing season, instead of marketing, bookkeeping and billing.

DETAILS:

Shares

Single Share

This is the option for individuals who don’t cook in large quantities, or people who just want a sampler of what the farm offers.

 Double Share (3% discount applies)

For two people or single person who does lots of cooking consider buying two shares.

Three or More (3% discount applies)

As many shares as you can use in a week!

Seasons

We have two eight week seasons planned:

March 17^th – May 5^th
May 12^th – June 30^th

 Soon after the first season starts we will be opening the sign up for the second season, first season members will be first on the list.

          Payment

Payment for the first season is due by March 3rd when most of our expenses are incurred (seed, soil amendments, bags, etc.).

Payment is by check.

Once you are signed up for the CSA your payment is transferable but not refundable.  You are welcome to find someone else to take over your share.

Price

Single eight week share   $80

Signing up for multiples helps reduce our administrative work which in turn helps reduce the cost of the share for you.  A 3% discount is applied to orders of two or more shares.

Pick Up

Saturday weekly pick up will begin on March 17, 2012 at the Crooked Carrot Farm farmstand.  

Shares (bags) will available starting at 9:00am and must be picked up that day.

Crooked Carrot Farm
40792 N. Rattlesnake Road
San Tan Valley  AZ

If you have more questions after reading through the details below please contact me at clark@crookedcarrot.com

CSA at Crooked Carrot Farm!

Community Supported Agriculture at Crooked Carrot Farm!

Be one of the first to join our unique "mini" CSAs designed for the single veggie lover or small family of veggie nibblers. For $10/week you will receive 4-5 different kinds of seasonal veggies in your bag.

We are going to start of with two manageable eight week seasons beginning with the first veggie bag pick up on Saturday, March 17th. The cost of one eight week subscription is $10/ week times eight, or $80, payable in advance. If you think you want more than the single bag provides, receive a 3% discount on your full order if you subscribe to two or more bags up front.

E-mail me for more info or to put your name on the list. We are going to cap this first season at 20 subscriptions, so hurry!

Thanks,
Clark Furlong, Owner
Crooked Carrot Farm
Clark@crookedcarrot.com

If you need more info on the popular CSA movement, take a look at this link from Localharvest.org.

http://www.localharvest.org/csa/

Job Opening

We have a need for a farm worker on our three acre organic farm in San Tan Valley, AZ.

Position Summary: Mostly field work working with your hands preparing soil, mulching, composting, planting, harvesting, packing, etc...

Requirements: Ability and willingness to work hard in the extreme Arizona weather. Ability to speak and understand English, take direction, and work independently. Available 8-10 hours per week two mornings per week (Monday and Thursday for now).

Opportunity: Learn small scale, no-till, biological farming and enjoy the freshest free veggies.

If you or anyone you know is interested please call or e-mail me (Clark) at 602-615-6892 or clark@crookedcarrot.com.

Job Opening

We have a need for a farm worker on our three acre organic farm in San Tan Valley, AZ.

Position Summary: Mostly field work working with your hands preparing soil, mulching, composting, planting, harvesting, packing, etc...

Requirements: Ability and willingness to work hard in the extreme Arizona weather. Ability to speak and understand English, take direction, and work independently. Available 8-10 hours per week two mornings per week (Monday and Thursday for now).

Opportunity: Learn small scale, no-till, biological farming and enjoy the freshest free veggies.

If you or anyone you know is interested please call or e-mail me (Clark) at 602-615-6892 or clark@crookedcarrot.com.

Gilbert Farmer's Market

If you need a fresh, juicy, locally grown tomato with real old fashioned tomato flavor (and who doesn't), then get on down to the Gilbert Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 7 - 11 AM in downtown Gilbert. You can find our tomatoes at the Lilly's Farm booth alongside their own homegrown yummy veggies. Make a donation to the Ironwood Pig Sanctuary and buy a cool aloe plant while your there.

You can also find our tomatoes for sale at the deli in Queen Creek and inside Chef Blake's scrumptious offerings.

Breakfast at the market and lunch at the deli, the perfect day!

Last Market Today

Today is the last chance to get our juicy vine ripe tomatoes at the deli Farmer's market. Along with the toms we will have our farm fresh summer squash, cucumbers, and as always our popular , all-natural, homemade soaps.

The market will be back in the fall so stay tuned for details. In the meantime, you can still enjoy our veggies while eating at the deli. We will still be making weekly deliveries to Chef Blake.

Have a great summer!

Farmer's Market at the deli in Queen Creek this Saturday

Join us this Saturday and following Saturdays from 9 AM until 1 PM at the deli in Queen Creek for the new weekly Farmer's Market at the deli. The market will feature local and non-local veggies plus our handmade soaps and other goodies.

Come, buy veggies, then eat lunch!

Hope to see you there!

Crooked Carrot Farm

Meet us at the deli

We will be selling our yummy sweet and crunchy romaine lettuce at the deli in Queen Creek this Saturday (3/12/11) from 11 AM until around 2 PM. Not only is the lettuce sweet and crunchy, but it will have been harvested on Saturday morning, FRESH! Along with the lettuce we will have green onions, our handmade soaps, heirloom tomato plants, and a few other goodies.
Come on down, have lunch, buy some lettuce and soap, and learn more about our farm.

Sunflower shoots and looking for interns

Intern(s) Needed:

We are partnering with the deli in Queen Creek to resume farming operations in the fall at our Queen Creek location. We need one or two hard working interns to help us with this endeavor. This will be a volunteer opportunity (no monetary compensation) assisting with field work. Duties may weeding, planting, soil prep, harvesting, composting, irrigation, etc. Hours will vary as needed and will be somewhat flexible. This is a wonderful opportunity for students seeking practical field experience or anybody that has a few extra hours, a couple days a week, to learn more about farming and gardening.

If you or anyone you know is interested or would like more information please feel free to call or e-mail Clark at clark@crookedcarrot.com or (602) 615-6892.

Sunflower Shoots at the deli

We dropped off some freshly harvested, nutrient dense, and organically grown sunflower shoots at the deli this week. According to Christopher J. Kline at suite101.com, sunflower shoots are a nutritional “super food” made up of almost 25% protein and are a rich source of vitamins A, B complex, D, and E minerals including calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, and zinc. Yes, but can they leap tall buildings in a single bound?

Maybe you should leap on down to the deli in Queen Creek and give them a try. Ask Chef Blake for the special with the “sunflower shoots” from Crooked Carrot Farm.

Backyard Gardening and Sunflower Shoots

Backyard Gardening

Our families backyard garden is in full swing. We are harvesting fresh lettuce, cabbage, swiss chard, broccoli, bok choy, green onions, beets, and more. Also eggs from our four chickens happily housed in our portable chicken tractor. We also have tomatoes, squash, peppers, melons, cucumbers, and garlic growing for future harvest, all in our 288 sq. foot of raised beds. This shows that you can grow much of your own veggies even in a small backyard.

We would like to see more people growing their own food. Future blogs will have updates on specific crops, chickens, etc.... in an effort to inspire you to GROW!

Sunflower Shoots

Look for our sunflower shoots in a sandwich special at the deli this week.

From the Crooked Carrot Folks

New appetizer at the deli

Chef Blake Mastyk at the deli tells us the corn fritters featuring our corn shoots were a hit. This week try his "Shrimp, Prosciutto & Corn Cakes with a Creamy Fresh Herb Sauce", also featuring our corn shoots.



This week we are growing sunflower shoots for Chef Blake. Sunflower shoots are popular in our home. They add a crunchy nuttiness to salads and sandwiches. So look for sunflower shoots in next week's special at the deli.

For those of you who loved our soaps, they will soon be available at the deli as well.

Thanks,

From the Crooked Carrot Farm Team

Popcorn shoots at the deli.

We are now custom growing microgreens and popcorn shoots. Our popcorn shoots are being featured in the appetizer special, sweet corn fritters, at the deli in Queen Creek this week. Please stop by the deli and tell Chef Mastyk that we sent you.

Popcorn shoots are baby popcorn plants and are extremely sweet. We grow them organically in a nutrient rich compost mix and harvest them the day they are delivered.

Please stay tuned for updates and more information on new products that we will be offering.

Thanks,

The Crooked Carrot Team.

Hello, and welcome back to the Crooked Carrot Farm blog. We have been away for a while but now we're back and with big changes, for us and the farm.

Crooked Carrot Farm is now on an indefinite hiatus while we explore new ventures. Our newest is a partnership with a group of experienced farmers who want to preserve our farming heritage and introduce the community to the joys of backyard gardens and "real food". Please check us out at www.CityPlantations.com


Many of you may remember our CSA (community supported agriculture) when we first started our farm. That is the direction we are moving again. - only not using our land but using yours!

What kind of fruit, veggie, or egg is fresher and more nutritious than one from your local farmer's market? Once that is grown in your own backyard!

Gardening can be somewhat frustrating here in the low desert. That is why we are focusing our farming/gardening expertise on developing the most beautiful and productive backyard gardens that we can and sharing what we learn and grow with you, our loyal customers and blog readers.

City Plantations kicks off on September 12 - don't miss the fun!

We hope you have all had a great summer and we look forward to an abundant fall!


The Furlongs

Septembe 20, 2008

Welcome to Fall!

Quite a bit has happened since we last sent out a blog (but not out in the fields because it has been so hot).

Seedlings are being transplanted into the ground and we are looking forward to a great harvest. We are not planting at Crooked Carrot this fall. All of our farming is currently at Agriptopia (northwest corner of Higley and Ray). While Agritopia has always grown their produce organically, we are now in the process of becoming a certified organic farm. That is exciting for us.

We don't have an exact date that the farm stand will open here in Agritopia but we are estimating mid October. Even more great produce than what was available at Crooked Carrot but grown with the same care and attention.

We will send out another blog when we have exact dates for the opening. In the meantime, Agritopia has an e-mail alert of their own and you can get on that e-mail list by sending a request to gayle@agritopia.com. We are setting up an Agritopia blog and will let you know when that is available, but for now it is still via e-mails.

If you haven't visited us here at Agritopia, please do. It is a beautiful, peaceful farm.

We are not closing our Crooked Carrrot Farm down. We expect to plant there in the spring but everything is still fairly tentative. Our farm stand at Crooked Carrot will not be open at all this fall - we are sorry for any inconvenience but the drive to Agritopia will be well worth it.

We hope you all had a great summer and we look forward to seeing many of you here at our new home.

The Furlongs

Update

Can you believe June starts tomorrow?



Sadly enough our season has come to an end. Our farm stand will close this weekend. We will be open all day Saturday and Sunday with the following produce available:

• cabbage


• garlic


• carrots


• squash (costata romanesco, zephyr, raven)


• tomatoes


• green onions


• bulb onions


• cucumbers


• beets


• fennel

Clark has been hired on as the head farmer at The Farm @ Agritopia in Gilbert. Agritopia is a housing development located at the northwest corner of Higley and Ray that has incorporated a farm into the development. He will be managing both Agritopia and Crooked Carrot farms as one. We haven't quite worked out how the farmstand at Crooked Carrot will fit into this yet. It is our desire, if practical, to reopen the stand in the fall.

For those of you who live close or are willing to make the drive, the Agritopia farm stand is currently open on Saturdays from 8:00 - 1:00. You can check out their website at:

The Farm at Agritopia

Also please sign up for Agritopia's e-mail updates. Just send an e-mail to Gayle at gayle@agritopia.com.

We appreciate all our loyal customers this past year - we hope to see many of you at Agritopia. Please feel free to e-mail us with any questions. We will keep you posted through our blog about what is going on at Crooked Carrot Farm.

Thank you~

The Furlongs

Update

New Summer Hours:

Closed Monday

Tuesday 7:30am - 12:30pm

Wednesday 7:30am - 12:30pm

Thursday 7:30am - 12:30pm

Friday 7:30am - 12:30pm

Saturday 7:30am - 12:30pm

Sunday 7:30am - 12:30pm

Thank you from coming out in this heat!

The Furlongs

Update

Wow - it has been a while since we have sent out a blog. We've been a busy family and farm. You may have noticed the continuining improvements to the front corner of our farm. We welcome Greene Nursery as they are a big help with out compost and other farm related items.

We are continuing to tweak our farm stand hours of operation. We want to provide safety for our honor system while also allowing for ease of access for you all. While we will be open at dawn today (Saturday), our hours are still 10 AM until 6 PM daily, closed Mondays.

If the box is open with the "CLOSED" sign in place please do not leave money. If need be you can swing by and pay again when the farm stand is open or you can send us a check to:

Crooked Carrot Farm

1541 S. Malabar Lane

Gilbert AZ 85296

Thanks for your patience. It is our intent to stay open until mid/late June.

Harvesting This Week

Broccoli

Spring onions

Green Onions

Cabbage

Carrots

Squash (zucchini, raven, zephyr)

Garlic

Beets

Fennel

Radishes

Growing In The Fields
Tomatoes
Eggplants
Cucumbers
Peppers (bell and hot)
Okra
Melons

Farm Stand Info
The farmstand is self-serve and open 10 AM until 6 PM, closed Monday. We make an effort to stock the stand most every morning so that you will have the freshest veggies and herbs. We round all our prices down to the nearest quarter to make things easier for you (and us) as we do not make change. Checks are accepted.


Thank you for supporting our farm stand and giving us the opportunity to farm!

Have a great second half of May.

The Furlongs

Update

You may have noticed a few changes at the farm. Unfortunately, the honor box in the farmstand has been broken into three times in the past week. We are in the process of changing the farmstand hours so that someone can be around when the stand is open. If the honor box is open and unlocked please do not leave money in it - if you really need the veggies you can take them and then pay us the next time you come.


Our tentative hours are set at 10 AM till 6 PM daily, closed Monday. We apologize for the recent inconsistencies in hours and veggies.


If you've been by recently you have noticed the new sign for Greene Nursery on our property. Derick Greene, the owner, is leasing the corner of our property to retail his plants and trees. His nursery is located just up the street from us on Rattlesnake Rd. He should be open for business any day now. If your looking for a landscape plant check out Greene Nursery.


Many have asked when the tomatoes will be ready. The plants are about thigh high and are sporting marble size toms. You can probably expect a few full size ones by mid May.


Harvesting This Week:
Salad Mix
Carrots
Radishes
Broccoli
Cabbage (red & green)
Green Onions
Beets w/greens
Green Onions
Cauliflower
Baby summer squash (limited amount)



In the Hoop House (2" and/or 4" pots):
thyme
oregano
mint
chives
Mexican mint marigold (can be used as substitute for french tarragon)
tomato plants
eggplant plants



Growing In The Fields:
Kohlrabi
Bulb Onions
Cucumbers
Garlic
Tomatoes
Peppers
Eggplant
Squash
Okra
Melons (several varieties) and more....



Farm Stand Info:
The farmstand is self-serve and open from 10 AM until 6 PM daily, closed Monday. We make an effort to stock the stand most every morning so that you will have the freshest veggies and herbs. We round all our prices down to the nearest quarter to make things easier for you (and us) as we do not make change. Checks are accepted.


Thank you for your patience and for your continued support of our farm stand.



Have a great week!


The Furlongs

http://www.crookedcarrot.com/