We’re truly happy that living up here in the sticks provides us with more than the usual opportunities for Community Supported Agriculture - that is, sharing the risk with local (in our case, mainly organic or biodynamic) farmers by buying a share of their harvest before the start of the season. This gives us two key advantages.

First, we get the very freshest fruits and vegetables all summer long, into the autumn. Second, Corinna’s gets to have the finest quality produce and fruits for our products.

To that end, we just bought two shares of the CSA at Threshold Farms, a local biodynamic orchard that does sensational apples, pears and peaches. We bought a third share for our family.

Threshold does three white peach varieties (raritan rose, White Hale and Bell of Georgia) and three yellow (Bisco, Harbrite and Red Haven). It also does Paulared, Gala, Cox Orange Pippin, Jonafree, Jonagold, Macoun, Liberty,  Golden Delicious, Fuji, Idared and Baldwin apples, and Clapps, Bartlett, Bosc and Comice pears.

For more information about Threshold, which doesn’t have its own website, visit their listing on greenPeople.org. We’ll write more about suppliers in the near future.