May Day Celebration at Peacework Farm

(photograph for Peacework Farms by Thomas Ruggiero)

Please join our May Day celebration on Sunday, April 29 from 2 to 6 pm at Peacework Farm, Welcher Road (across from 2232 Welcher, but that is a private home so use our parking areas). At 2 pm, popular local fiddler Kit Fallon will accompany the dancing around the May Pole. No previous dance experience necessary! Next, we will have tours of the land, the old Humbert dairy farm, now owned by the Genesee Land Trust and leased to Peacework Farm. Then Leona Lauster will lead a wild flower walk in the woods, a nature preserve open to the public. At 4:30, we will have a potluck supper. Please bring a dish to pass, a place setting and folding chairs. The farm will provide drinks. All are welcome!

If you would like to join in Community Supported Agriculture and get a share of Peacework produce every week from mid-May through November, please come early to the local orientation meeting. The sign up meeting will be on Sunday, April 29 at 1 pm at the farm. The Peacework farmers grow over 200 varieties of 70 crops to supply weekly packets for close to 300 families in Wayne and Ontario Counties and the greater Rochester area. Joining the CSA is a good way to save money if you want to feed your family organic produce at a reasonable price.

New members are welcome to join Peacework’s Community Supported Agriculture cooperative. Every week of the 27-week season, members receive a packet of fresh produce: from 7 to 10 vegetables in a Full share, and 4 to 5 in a Partial share. Pick up is at the farm. The price for Full shares is $14 to $25 a week, on a sliding scale (the farm aims at providing at least a $17 a week value), and $11 a week for Partial shares. So that no one is excluded because of inability to pay, scholarships for as much as $8 a week are available. Members agree to share the risks and benefits of the season with the farmers and to work three 4-hour shifts during the season helping with the farm work. Peacework welcomes families with children and offers special Children’s Days when Roland Micklem, Wayne County’s own naturalist, leads the children on nature walks.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Henderson at 315-331-9029, or by email – ehendrsn@redsuspenders.com or go to the website at: www.gvocsa.org/gvocsafaq.html#Farm_Location