275. Flower and Vegetable CSA | Eastward Gardens | Larry and Michelle Lesher | Hardinsburg, Indiana

Full show notes coming soon! How do we connect with you? eastwardgardens on Instagram We were city kids, he was a professional skateboarder and neither of us had a background in farming. There’s just the two of us but we do it for a living. I think I found you on Floret. How big is your place? I’m going into my 3rd season growing flowers. We’re going on selling vegetables etc on 3 years. I was a nurse with the dream I could leave my job. took us a while try to make it quick We moved from Seattle to louisville so I could go to grad school that’s when Larry started interning on a farm. He’s been farming ever since then. I just joined full time in  June I quit my job. That’s when I bumped up the flower production.  I can do more with it a lot of flowers we grow on 2 acres our farm is 16 1/2 acres We crop rotate we only have, theres about 6 acres of workable we rotate it and do about 2 at a time. We sell Vegetables fruit culinary herbs micro greens   We sell a lot of micro greens through the winter, we sell a lot of microgreens through the winter months. Culinary herbs who do you sell those to and do you want to tell listeners the diffeence between culinary and medicinal? we just specific culinary herbs people cook with rosemary thyme sage sorrel parsley basil Who do you sell to? A CSA? 20 week CSA 2 famers markets a week local health food store small scale because there’s just the two of us have health food store we consistently 20 week CSA program 2 farmers market May or June – Oct radishes turnips arugula flower share this year for the first time flower bouquets in with vegetables ranunculus anemones Start April 4-6 weeks once they start more veggies I can...