Welcome!
This blog is a source of UK-CSA member resources and production resources.
Member resources include weekly CSA newsletters, event announcements, vegetable profiles as a way to “get to know” your share contents, recipes and preservation tips by crop.
CSA production resources include links to our CSA Production Manual (HO-127), YouTube videos, Flickr photo galleries, workbooks, and more.
The UK-CSA project is an integral part of the Sustainable Agriculture Undergraduate Curriculum at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture and links local community members (shareholders) with the Organic Farming Unit located at the UK Horticulture Research Farm.
The CSA project is not a commercial farm and is not managed for profit. The CSA operates as a working classroom where UK students and interested community members come together to learn the fundamentals of sustainable agricultural production and marketing. The CSA also serves as a demonstration project for Kentucky farmers looking to establish similar operations across the state.
Please visit the UK-CSA website to learn more.
All financial proceeds from the sale of CSA shares support the production of food during the growing season and student educational activities at the Horticulture Research Farm.
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Get to Know the 2022 CSA Crew
Read on to learn about the 2022 CSA Crew.
Name: Diane Crossfield
From: Lexington, KY
Major: Sustainable Agriculture, Plant & Soil Sciences
Hobbies: Creating cocktails and the chemistry behind what makes a good cocktail; propagating my houseplants; writing letters
Favorite Vegetable: Garlic; bitter greens rossed raw with thinly sliced radishes and dressed with simple vinaigrette
Books: cocktail books, Eli the Good by Silas House
Music: Kris Kristofferson; Billy Bragg with Joe Henry; Alejandro Escovedo; Swamp Dogg with John Prine
Family: One husband, four kids, two grandsons, two dogs, two cats, four chickens
Favorite farm tool: I love the scuffle hoe
Name: Kristi Durbin
From: Birmingham, Alabama; Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Lexington, KY
Major: Philosophy & History of Math and Science at St. John’s College; Sustainable Agriculture at UK; M.S. in Integrated Plant & Soil Science
Hobbies: Reading; photography; running; biking; hiking; baking bread; Russian language and Russian lit
Favorite Vegetable: Brussels sprouts
Books: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Family: Husband, Trevor; daughter, Vesper (8); son, Levin (6); dog, Luna Lovegood (4)
Favorite farm tool: Hot Bed Weeder; Finger Weeder
Name: Aaron German
From: Ramona, California
Major: Philosophy and German minor at California State University, Chico; M.A. Philosophy at UK
Hobbies: Growing food used to be a hobby; Current hobbies include brewing beer; landscaping my yard; travelling with my wife
Favorite Vegetable: Fresh picked sweet pepper eaten raw
Books: John Steinbeck; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Samuel Beckett
Music: Aldous Harding currently enjoying; Frank Zappa; The Melvins; Will Oldham; Van Halen
Movies: Eddie and the Cruisers
TV: UK basketball and football; Coach Cal press conferences and interviews; farming videos; The Wire; Bojack Horseman; any show about bad people doing bad things
Family: One wife, two cats
Favorite farm tool: Collinear hoe; Finger Weeder
Big shout out to our volunteers at the farm:
Karen & Zayd Rignall
Alli Rankin
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