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A Community Supported
Agriculture Farm
13607 Woodinville-Redmond Rd. www.rootconnection.com
(425) 881-1006
Mailing
address: PO Box 267 Woodinville
WA 98072
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Root
Connection wins award!
King County Executive's
2012 Rural Small Business of the Year
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Buy
Your Food Where It’s Grown!
For
info on what’s in a share, how to sign up,
drop-site locations, and U-Pick, go to the CSA
Information page.
The Root Connection is
Washington State’s first CSA farm. Since 1987, we
have been growing local, chemical-free food for
the community at our 20-acre site in the Sammamish
Valley between Woodinville and Redmond. For those
26 years, we have offered our members the best of
seasonal vegetables, herbs, and flowers grown
right here, for pick-up right here, on the same
day they are harvested.
Our harvest season is 21 weeks
from June through October. Members can pick up
their vegetables within four hours of when they
are picked from the ground! This means that you
are getting the highest quality produce possible,
with superior flavor, texture, and nutrition.
Produce is not stored and transported for days
before it reaches your mouth. In addition to farm
pick-up in Redmond, we have drop sites in Seattle
and Lynnwood.
One
of the biggest benefits of joining the Root
Connection is that in addition to your weekly
share, members can “U-pick” dozens of types of
greens, herbs, and flowers for free! This adds
even more value to your share. Share cost is only
$33.95 per week!
We’re More Than a Box
Would you like to…
- Enjoy
walking
the paths through the growing crops?
- Observe
our growing techniques?
- Visit
the farm chickens and horses?
- Help
your children pull a few carrots from the
children’s garden? Teach them where veggies come
from and how they are grown?
- Pick
some flowers to take home? (free to members)
Have you ever…
- Smelled
the
sweet aroma of corn pollinating?
- Looked
out
over 3,000 sq. ft. of lush basil to find just
the right stems to clip for dinner or to make
pesto? (free to members)
- Stood
in
a quarter acre field of assorted greens and
kales on a crisp fall day to choose just the
right ones to pick and freeze for the winter?
(free to members)
What Makes the Root Connection
So Special?
The
Root Connection isn’t just a place to pick up your
weekly vegetables. Members can fully experience
the farm and see how we all are connected to the
soil and the gifts it gives. It is also a place
for people to come together and feel like they’re
part of a community. Members exchange recipes,
ideas about health, nutrition, organic farming.
Other member benefits include a children’s garden
and free cooking classes
The
Root
Connection CSA is owned by farm members. For
information on becoming a part owner, click
here.
Newsletters:
We are now archiving our newsletters. To read the
most current and archived newsletters click
here.
Root Connection Blog:
You can read more about the farm on the web at: http://rootconnectionfarm.blogspot.com/
Twitter Feed:
Catch the most up to date tweets from the farm at: http://twitter.com/#!/freshnyummy
More blogs:
Read Kristin Martin's CSA blog, complete with photos
and recipes, here:
Share
the
bounty from local farms through
Farms for Life charity. To find out
more, click
here.
"A walk through the farm makes your day
end in a smile."
"We
all
feel more connected with the earth and with
the life that springs forth from it to
nourish our beings. I felt like the veggies
came from a friend's garden."
"Thanks
for
giving me an invaluable gift for 13
years!"
"We
love the farm! It's a very important
part of our week and helps instill the
right values in our children."
“I just finished cleaning the 12 gallon bag
of organic produce we get each week during
the summer from the Root Connection…If
you’ve never tasted really fresh produce,
you’re missing out on one of life’s great
treats. Furthermore, the varieties of
produce are optimized for flavor, not
shelf-life like virtually everything you get
in the grocery store. The carrots are
amazingly sweet and crisp (the kids won’t
eat store-bought carrots anymore), the
lettuce tastes like something more than
crunchy water, and the corn (later in the
season) is like nothing you’ve ever had.
Plus, everything is organic, so no scary
poisons for the family, the environment, or
the farm workers.
I’m also happy that the boys can see where
food comes from. There are u-pick fields and
kids gardens plus flowers and herbs for
members. I don’t want the kids to be so
ignorant of where food comes from…If it were
just great produce, our farm share would
still be a good value. It’s good for the
kids, good for the land, and just makes me
happy…”
THE ROOT CONNECTION
Mailing address: P.O. Box
267, Woodinville, WA 98072, phone: 425-881-1006
(24 hours)
Farm location: 13607
Woodinville-Redmond Rd. (no mail to this address,
please!)
Directions
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