We offer many other shares from other local farmers. The shares are available to members of Happy Heart Farm CSA. Below you will find a description for each share.

Prices shown below do not include tax unless clearly stated.

Shares

Egg
Beef
Chicken
Fruit
Berry
Honey
Mushroom
Coffee
Winter Veggie 

Eggs

Local delicious, free range eggs are provided by Stan Wamhoff. A limited number of shares are available. Priority will be offered to those who subscribed to the egg share this past winter and spring.

Winter Egg share will run from November 3, 2011 - March 29, 2012 (22 weeks). $5 per week.

Shares are distributed on Thursdays 1-7 pm at Happy Heart Farm

Summer Egg shares runs from Tuesday May 29 - October 16 (20 weeks) $5 per week or $100 for a 20 week share.

Shares are distributed on Tuesdays from 12-7 pm at Happy Heart Farm.

Also you can recycle your egg cartons by bringing them to the farm.

$5.00 One Dozen Eggs

 Beef

Beef and Pork from our free range cows and happy pigs.

$6.00 - One Pound of deliciously lean ground beef from our grass fed cows. (Frozen)

Grass-Fed Beef

Buying Heart J grass fed beef from Sylvan Dale Ranch assures you that your beef has non additives. NO steroids, NO hormones, and NO antibiotics!

There is a wonderful crew of working members at the Happy Heart Farm that supports the farmers, apprentices and the regular subscribing members. Many of the tasks at the farm are done by hand. Our working members are the visible manifestation of the adage: ”Many hands make light work”. We are grateful for their friendships and help in growing delicious healthy produce.

Applicants must schedule an interview with Dennis (interviews will begin in early Febuary) or be a returning working member.

Benefits of a working member

• Fresh air, being in sunshine and weather of all kinds
• Learning and participating in many farm activities from planting in the greenhouse, transplanting in the fields, weeding, harvesting, washing produce in preparation for the weekly distribution
• Meeting other kind and interesting community-minded folks
• A sense of satisfaction and community is gained through group efforts and accomplishments
• Discount of $250 is deducted from your share price and we share our farm experience and knowledge with you

Past members have expressed that their working service at the Farm is a form of therapy: a pleasant compliment to their regular jobs and routines. Feeling a part of the cycles of nature allows you to feel more connected to yourself, the land and the rhythms of the seasons

Working Membership Requirements

1. Interview with Dennis Stenston
2. Tthree hours a week for the growing season (approximately five months)
3. Being in good enough physical condition, (backs and knees especially), to handle the needed tasks

What to bring

1. Sturdy work shoes, boots, or rubber boots
2. Good work gloves
3. Favorite kneeler or short gardening bench i fyou like
4. Drinking water, a hat, sunscreen, mosquito repellant, and whatever you need to be comfortable in various kinds of weather

In the fall or early spring, when the weather turns fowl, we might need additional help to cover plants ahead of a strong wind or an early frost.

Available spring work shifts: 

• Monday evenings 5-8 pm
• Tuesdays 6-9 and 9-noon 
• Thursdays 9-12 am and Thursday 2-5 pm

Summer Shifts

Monday evenings 6-9 pm
Tuesdays 6-9 am and Tuesdays 9-12 am
Thursdays 9-12 am and Thursday 3-6 pm

If you are ill or are going on a vacation, please let us know by phone: 970-482-3448 and let us know when you plan to make up your hours.

There is a wonderful crew of volunteers at the Happy Heart Farm that support the farmers, apprentices, working members and the regular subscribing members.  Many of the tasks at the farm are done by hand.  Our volunteers are the visible manifestation of the adage: ”Many hands make light work”.  We are grateful for their friendships and help in growing delicious healthy produce.

Volunteer Hours Log - Please complete every time you volunteer. We appreciate your time!

Please print and sign liability waiver

Benifits of being a volunteer:

• soaking up the fresh air
• being out in sunshine and weather of all kinds
• learning and participating in many farm activities including planting in the greenhouse, transplanting in the fields, weeding, harvesting, and washing produce in preparation for the weekly distribution
• meeting other kind and interesting community-minded folks

A sense of satisfaction and community is gained through group efforts and accomplishments.  Past volunteers have expressed that their working service at the Farm is a form of therapy: a pleasant compliment to their regular jobs and routines. Feeling a part of the cycles of nature allows you to feel more connected to yourself, the land and the rhythms of the seasons.

Children: If you plan to bring children under 10 years old, we ask that you bring a partner, or friend to help supervise them.  Children tend to lose interest in the work at hand and then begin to wander and this could pose a safety hazard.  We are in ‘work mode” during our shifts, which means we work quickly as possible with a focus on the task at hand.

Requirements for volunteering:

• Minimum of three hours (which is the standard work shift)
• Being in good enough physical condition, (backs and knees especially), to handle the needed tasks
• Log your volunteer hours in the distribution house

What to bring to your shift:

• Farm footwear, sturdy work shoes or boots are usually best.  Some days mud boots are needed (we have some to lend for standard foot sizes). 
• A good pair of work gloves that can get wet (not leather). King Soopers, and Safeway offers a variety. 
• Favorite kneeler or a short gardening bench, you might consider bringing it, we are often in a stooping position in the fields where these tools could be helpful.
• Drinking water, mosquito repellant, and whatever you need to be comfortable in various kinds of weather
• Hat, sunscreen

Available summer work shifts: 

• Monday evenings 6-9 pm
• Tuesdays 6-9 am and Tuesdays 9-12 am
• Thursdays 9-12 am and Thursday 3-6 pm

A map to our Happy Heart Farm is located on our website. We are within biking distance from CSU, and on the bus route.

When intending to volunteer on any day of the week, we ask that you send us a quick email or a quick phone call so we know that you are on your way over to volunteer.  Doing so will help us know who is volunteering for that day and also help us log your volunteer hours.

We are so grateful for your efforts to support local food sustainability at Happy Heart Farm CSA.

Dennis and Bailey Stenson
2820 W. Elisabeth St.
Fort Collins, Co 80521
970-482-3448

Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 15, we'll start offering the 6am to 9am early morning shift.  I know this  is late notice, but make it if you can and want to be on that shift for the summer.

We'll also have that 9am to 12 noon shift for Tuesday, tomorrow.

Monday nights' crew has voted to go 5-8 pm, starting next Monday, May 21.

Thursday still looks like 9am to 12noon or 2-5pm, so far.

Can you send me your choice of which shift you'll commit to for the season, and if you'll be willing to change to another shift if we need to get the weighting and balance we need to make the thang go?

Thanks!

Dennis

• Membership is required of all farm members whether you have a regular share or a working share.
• Each split share partner pays the membership fee.
• Membership fees are nonrefundable.

Full Veggie Share: $500.00

Happy Heart Farm traditional veggie shares are available from June to November. We now have a Hoop House that should extend out season! Distribution days are on Tuesdays 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm at Happy Heart Farm

The balance is due on or before the first veggie distribution on Tuesday May 29, 2012.

Split Share: $250.00 - each

• Please provide contact information (Name, Email, Phone Number, Address) of the second party for Split Share. You will need to have this information to sign up for a split share.
• Your Split Share will become effective when both parties are signed up.
• Each party is responsible for the Annual Farm Membership Fee.

*** You must interview with Dennis Stenson before requesting a Working Member Share: $250.00

You must schedule an interview with Dennis Stenson (interviews will begin in early March) or be a returning working member. Shifts will start in March.  

Happy Heart Farm CSA's First Ever Off Farm Distribution Site

Vegetable distributions at Equinox Brewing Company are scheduled for Wednesdays from 4-7 pm.

Only full veggie shares will be distributed from this location (no split shares). 

To sign up for this location complete your registration and then go our Other Shares page under Shop at the left side of the page.

Additional Shares

We also offer shares in:

• Egg
• Honey
• Mushroom
• Berries (fall)
• Fruit
• Beef
• Chicken

To sign-up:  Follow the link: 2012 Farm Membership.

New members please take a look at our 2012 New Member Packet for more information.

All members should look at the 2012 Happy Heart Farm Brochure for information about the farm.

We've got so much coming from the Hoop House that we need for you to come out this early in the spring to help eat it!  Next Thursday, April 5 from 3-6, we invite all 2012 members to stop out to the farm for lettuce, spinach, cilantro, kale, and chard.  This isn't the start of our formal every week ditribution, but a winter- to- spring gift for all of you that have signed up early.  Let us know if you'll be able to share with us.  Yum!

Bailey and I got to participate in the BioDynamic Assn. international Fellowship of the Prepartion Makers annual conference, this year in Paonia.  What a bunch of Magic!  The short of the long story on that meeting for the Farm is that we are very priveleged and honored to tell you that a 30+year dream of mine came tue; we have already sprayed the first buffalo (bison) horn manure (prep #500) on our Farm and in our region.  For those of you following the mystic with me, this is an amazing deepening for our community's soils and soul.  I know; it's more questions than an answer, but ask me when you get the chance. 

Congratulations to Rachel Rambo who was chosen as volunteer of the month for February.  She will recieve a copy of the A-Z cook book.  If you are a volunteer and want to enter the monthly opportunity for a gift, please register your volunteer hours online on our web site.

Farm Vegetable Shares- So far we have sold about half of our vegetable shares for 2012.  We invite you to let others know about the farm!  Your enthusiasm is the best sales pitch ever!  Please remember our Refer a Friend program- if you refer someonesewho signs up for a full share you will recieve a farm credit of $50. We will be offering tours of the farm on Tuesday, Thursdays or by appointment in the next several months, so interested folks can call us for an tour.

Let's start a working members Schedule next week!  This a temporary spring schedule which will change as we get closer to aour regular season distribution schedule in May.  Let Dennis (dennisstenson@aol.com) know which of these 3 hour shifts you'll attend for next week: Mon.4-7; Tuesday or Thursday 9-12 or 1-4.  Thanks to all the wonderful folks who have volunteered all thru the winter to make the Hoop House so abundant for the beginning of Spring!

Upcoming Events- 

Friday March 30- The Holler! performs performs at the Mishawaka.  A portion of each presold ticket  and the proceeds from an exciting raffle will go directly to the Feeding the Families program.  Can I hear a Holler!!!

Wednesday April 25- "Growing Green" a fundraiser for the Feeding the Families program at Odell's brewing company, 7-9 pm, cost $10 which includes tokens for two beers, light snacks and music by the Honey Gitters.Help us to reach our goal fo feeding 24 families this year!  If you would like to volunteer, please contact Caludia at claudia@happyheartfriends.org or

Thursday, April 5 from 3-6, we invite all 2012 members to stop out to the farm for lettuce, spinach, cilantro, kale, and chard. 

Earth Day at Civic Center Park- We will be having a booth at the Earth Day event sponsored by the Sustainable Living Association on Saturday April 21 from 11-5pm.  If you would like to volunteer for this event please contact Bailey at info@happyheartfarmcsa.com.

From our friends at Home Grown Food 

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/home-grown-food/topics

 
Natural Backyard Beekeeping for Beginners

Bee Guardian <ksadenwater@gmail.com>

Hi all,

We are reaching out to sustainable groups and those interested in learning about bees. We will be in Fort Collins this Saturday, March 31st giving a beginner's backyard beekeeping course. BackYardHive and Corwin Bell have been caring for bees naturally for over 17 years. Corwin practices a holistic approach in caring for bees that focuses on enhancing the bee’s immune system through attentive listening, right timing and sustainable methods.

This beginner class is for those just getting started. We will cover basic bee ecology, how the bees communicate with each other in the hive, explain why bees are a super-organism, we'll cover setting up the hive, getting bees, catching a swarm and getting the bees into the hive. We will demonstrate how to work with the bees in an altruistic, gentle manner so that a symbiotic relationship is formed with the bees.You can find out more information on our website and also register for the class.

                     http://www.backyardhive.com/Natural_Beekeeping_Classes_Colorado/

 Hope you can join us!
happy spring,
Karen

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