Colchester Farm CSA

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2006 Annual Report

Washington college students and other volunteers working on high tunnel. Washington College

CFCSA has developed some new relationships this year. From July through November we sold vegetables to the Washington College Dining Service, (visit their website at….to see pictures of the farm). You can see pictures on their website touting their new relationship with Colchester Farm. Happily for their students, their new chef, William Goldman is dedicated to buying fresh pesticide free vegetables from local growers as much as possible. This year we have been selling William everything that is left over on Monday, after we have distributed as much as possible to our shareholders.

Shannon Holste is the Sustainability Intern at the Center for Environment and Society at the College. She has been working closely with Emily Richardson who is President of the Student Environmental Alliance. Shannon has been instrumental in getting several WC classes out to the Farm, including an advanced drawing class taught by Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Monika Weiss. Check out their website at http://ces.washcoll.edu/beyondtheclassroom_colchester.php

Emily and four other Envir Soc members came our several Saturdays and helped us build our new high tunnel in September. They worked hard and we all had a great time. Many thanks to Washington College for all your support of CFCSA.

Completed high tunnel.

Thank you to the following people for cash donations to Colchester Farm CSA in 2006.

Maryland Heritage Area Grant

In September CFCSA received word from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority that our grant application had been approved! We now have the funds to spend a year, 2007, seriously evaluating the future of Colchester Farm. Several activities have been funded:

“Working the Land, Working the Water” is an oral history project designed to preserve the memories of people who have worked this land and the Sassafras River that flows beside it.

“Preserving our Resources” is a nature trail around Colchester Farm designed by Wayne Bell of the Washington College Center for Environment and Society.

Some serious numbers-crunching by Thomas Point Associates of Annapolis will decide whether a working farm like Colchester, with a CSA, can also include a heritage tourist component on site. A series of community participation workshops led by Peter Lane of the Conservation Leadership Institute will insure that by the end of 2007 we will have a plan for the future and will know what elements we need to make it come to fruition.

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