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https://www.snakeriverseeds.com/ (Snake River Seed Coop )and http://earthlydelightsfarm.com/ (Earthly Delights Farm) http://earthlydelightsfarm.com/internships/ (Internship Program) Monday, Martin Luther King Day, January 21, 2019 You are going to love her blog http://earthlydelightsfarm.com/ (Earthly Delights Farm), at but I invited her here because she runs the https://www.snakeriverseeds.com/ (Snake River Seed Coop ) so here’s Casey O’Leary. Tell us a little about yourself. https://www.snakeriverseeds.com/ () I’m in Boise, ID I don’t own my own land but I farm on a  3 acre in the city. I farm on about acre and half and share with the landowner who runs a nursery and other farm projects. On our farm we grow about 100 varieties of seed crops for the https://www.snakeriverseeds.com/ (Snake River Seed Coop )  We also have a CSA program I have been doing for the last 15 years, spring and summer 18 week CSA 45 members going a different route, we’re just gonna do a fall CSA pickup. Just one big pickup in the fall of storage crops and instructions on how to store them. Also, spring garden box shares for people who have small urban gardens, we’re making  4×4 garden boxes of seeds and starts I just want to make sure I am understand, you are actually giving them a 4×4 garden bed with the lumber etc, or just the stuff that goes in them? No, we’re assuming they already have the boxes and the soil in those boxes It’s a pretty common thing for Urban gardeners to have some sort of  4×4 or 4×8 box just a way to maximize the amount of food they get out of it and use locally grown seeds Is this your first year offering that? Yes it’s the very first year It’s interesting, you had mentioned in starting market farms I’m in an interesting place because I’ve been running a CSA for 15 years I am getting to the place where I am burnt out In the past I have run this massive internship program that is really involved and a CSA with a lot of moving pieces and a serious commitment all season long. I’ve been wanting a bit of a break, us farmers can’t just take time off in the summer, but just not having to harvest for CSA every single week would feel really nice to me Trying to provide myself more flexibility this summer and see how that goes first time we already grow our own seeds and starts I’ve gotten decent at doing that and thought it would be offering that to other people Like the fall CSA, instead of offering harvest and succession plant every week from May-Sept carrots potatoes onions garlic root storage crops do the work of growing those on a less rigorous schedule, if I want to take a few days off and go camping, I am not locked into harvesting every week.  doing this one pickup in the fall ease my constant need to be on the farm I might miss it, not know what to with myself. You have no idea how timely this is, I’m working on this free garden course and a workbook to go with it, as I’m finishing it, every page I’m thinking how to help my listeners get from one-to-done in the easiest way possible that they have started their organic oasis, and at the end of this year being able to enjoy it, and this weekend I wrote a whole page on time commitment. Realistic Time Commitment Thinking about what are you really going to be able to do. I told you in the pre-chat I am more the eater then the gardener. I like to go hiking, and I usually have a full time job. So, I was saying in the spring you get fresh rain and water from nature. Those crops are best for people who want to go hiking in summer. The other part is I’m always telling my husband that I think selling organic starts would be huge. The thing I was excited about was I thought you were selling the boxes because I feel like my listeners frequently say one of their barriers is building the physical...