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Annie's Acres is now beginning it's third year! We're looking forward to getting our gardens tilled and the planting done and it looks like the weather will finally cooperate. Our planting schedule this year will hopefully be a little more towards the "normal" side with the last two years being more than just a little challenge. We'll be planting a similar variety of items but with more focus on vine goods this year. We'd like to go into fall able to offer pumpkins and squash in plentiful quantities. We are also continuing the planting of more apple trees with the Wolf river trees having gone in last spring. This year we'll be adding Honey Crisp as well as four additional varieties. It will still be awhile before these trees start to bear fruit but the orchard has been started with the future in mind. Other things going in this year will include horse radish, berries, and grapes.

We've also teamed up with Nature's Bakery in Madison in order to add a new dimension of offerings though an expanded "Annie's General Store". Products available from Nature's include: 1.) An assortment of breads including unleavened sourdough, pita, and essene. 2.) eight varieties of granola. 3.) Trail mix. 4.) Four varieties of cookies. 5.) Three varieties of veggie burgers. 6.) And Spinach Cheese Calzones. We encourage you to visit Nature's Bakery's web site at www.naturesbakery.coop to learn more about their products. We'll tell you more about how to order and how these products are delivered in the next Annie's newsletter.

Annie's General store will be expanded to carry some of the essentials for sustainable cooking. For instance, we will offer wheat berries from Natural Way Mills, a certified organic grower in East Grand Forks, MN. These will be made available in small quantities so you can grind your own, fresh flour or sprout the berries for salads or cooking. Annie's General Store will also be adding a few simple appliances such as a hand operated mill such as the one pictured below (picture on mailed version only). There is nothing better than home made bread baked with fresh ground flower! Our goal is for Annie's General Store to offer some of the basics for the kitchen conveniently and at a good price. Again, there will be more information in the upcoming Newsletter.

Otherwise, much will remain the same with Annie's acres. We'll continue to focus on providing great, safe food for a right price. We want to provide "real food for real people". To us, that phrase means you shouldn't have to pay more to have food grown right! We'll also continue to do the right thing for the soil using sustainable practices, without using harmful pesticides, herbicides, and artificial fertilizers.

So once again, we invite you to become a part of what we are doing. Annie's Acres is much more than a business to us. Your teaming up with us allows us to do something right for the environment with an approach that works with the creation around us and does not force it. You can also feel good about keeping your dollars local and not promoting destructive agricultural practices. The money you spend on membership with Annie's Acres stays in the community in a very efficient manner. Now more than ever, that is important. For more information on the practices we use, visit us at www.1887brand.com and follow the links to Annie's Acres.

To become a member, you can fill out the enclosed membership application form that is part of our brochure and return it in the enclosed return envelope. Please note the flexible payment option that include NO PRICE INCREASES AGAIN FOR THIS YEAR! The cost of being a member of Annie's Acres is comparable to supermarket prices and is almost half the cost of other CSA's in the area. We've also enclosed an extra brochure in case you run across someone who would like to join. We also want to remind you to have your first payment in by May 1, 2009. That will help us get off to a rolling start with the spring costs we incur.

Again, We thank you and look forward to being . . .

Your Gardeners,

Mark and Annie Ranum

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May 1, 2009 Application forms with first payment due.

Week 1, about June 1, 2009 - "Normal delivery" week for all customers.

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