Gaia's Food

02/25/2025

Hello Bereans, I am offering a 25-week CSA produce subscription from May to October. If you subscribe a share of my CSA, you will receive $20 of the freshest produce harvested from my no-till, no-spray organic urban farm.
All spots are filled up for now. If you would like to get on the waiting list, please sign up link and more info here 🌱: https://forms.gle/rrGLLhynCCGCz3aH8

02/24/2025

Gaia’s first day working at Gaia’s Food urban farm. She did a great job cooing all sorts of encouragement while I transplanted onions. Then she demanded to be fed and put to sleep before I could finish transplanting the whole tray 🙃

02/23/2025

Hey!
I am offering a 25-week CSA in 2025 from May 5th to Oct 20th for $500. All spots are filled up for now. If you would like to get on the waiting list, please sign up here! https://forms.gle/rrGLLhynCCGCz3aH8

What is CSA?
CSA is short for Community Supported Agriculture. In a CSA, a customer pays for the produce in advance and receives a weekly bag/box of fresh produce.

When are the 25 weeks?
From May 5th (Monday) to Oct 20th (Monday).

What’s included in my weekly CSA?
$20 worth of fresh produce (Example: One head of lettuce, one bunch of green onion, six carrots, three beets, one lb of tomatoes, and one lb of cucumbers).
Here is a list of my 2025 crops: Asparagus beans, Basil, Beets, Bush beans, Carrots, Cherry tomato, Cilantro, Cucumber, Dill, Edamame, Garlic, Garlic chive, Green onion, Heirloom tomato, Jalapeno peppers, Kale, Lettuce, Mustard green, Onion, Pole beans, Radish, Snack peppers, Snow peas, Sugar snap peas, Spinach, Summer squash, Sweet corn, Sweet melon, Sweet potato, Watermelon.
We also offer craft chocolate bars from organic, fair-trade ingredients, you can add a chocolate bar to your weekly CSA bag by paying an additional $300 for 30 chocolate bars.

How can you get your food?
Porch pick-up from my farm (214 Laurel Drive, Berea) from 3 pm to 7 pm on Mondays.
Pick up from my booth at Berea Farmers Market from 10 am to 1 pm on Saturdays.

Can I choose what’s included in my CSA?
Yes, please message me about your preference at least two days before the pick-up day.

How to pay me?
I accept cash, card, check, PayPal, and Venmo. You can pay me the full amount $500 before April 15th, but you are also welcome to pay $250 by April 1st, and the rest $250 by May 1st. If you are interested in trading services like farm work or childcare, please do not hesitate to reach out.

What happens if you are out of town for a week?
There are many options:
1) You can pause your CSA for that week and can get double the amount of produce the week before or after your travel.
2) You can share your produce with a friend and ask them to pick up your produce.
3) You can ask me to donate your produce to a community member or the Food Bank.
Once you know your travel plan, simply text me at 859-693-3091.

Sign up here! https://forms.gle/rrGLLhynCCGCz3aH8

Thank you for joining my CSA! Please type down your contact information and produce preference. Gaia’s Food 2025 CSA FAQ I am offering a 25-week CSA in 2025 from May 5th to Oct 20th for $500. What is CSA? CSA is short for Community Supported Agriculture. In a CSA, a customer pays for the produce i...

01/20/2025

Maybe yellow beets and red beets are named after the colors of their seedlings. Right now, it’s snow, ice, and 6 degree F out there, but in a week, it will be sunny and in the 50s. Believe it or not, the growing season is on the way. What a miracle❄️🌱

12/13/2024

Here is a concrete study showing the harm of grain-fed beef on human bodies, especially in forms of “oxidative stress, inflammation, and cardiovascular health.”
If you want some locally raised, organic grass-fed, grass-finished beef, check out Oak and Barrel Meats at Berea Farmers Market

Background/Objectives: Cattle-feeding systems may have health implications for consumers of beef products. Organic grass-fed (GRA) and conventional (CON) cattle-feeding systems may result in beef products with differing metabolite profiles and therefore could impact the postprandial metabolomic resp...

12/01/2024

Hello, December ❄️
Blueberry bush
Garlic plants
Baby spinach
Baby green onions
Baby carrots
Baby lettuce
All happily growing in the hoop house or under a snow blanket.

11/24/2024

I finished reading Miraculous Abundance last night. It’s such an amazing read: poetic writing style, deeply personal, and so stubbornly hopeful on farming, eating, and living in ways that make this world more livable for all species.
It makes me feel so validated about the way I farm and the vision of farm that I want to create in a year or two.

11/11/2024

Garlic germination. When we sow seeds, we sow hope. Keep steady, and keep on doing the most mundane things in life.

11/01/2024

I am taking a break from farmers market this winter because I am finishing up growing a human in me.
But, I’ll come back in April 2025 with CSA and Farmers Market produce!
May all of you have a restful and crispy winter🍁🍂🪵🐿️

11/01/2024

I won’t be there for this winter’s farmers market because I am finishing up growing a human in me.
But, I’ll come back in April 2025 with CSA and Farmers Market produce!

Happy Halloween from the BFM✨🦇
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Join us this week for the first winter market of the season for a variety of fresh produce, local meats, fresh baked goods, unique artisan goodies, and so much more!

**don’t forget, our winter hours are now 10am-1pm!

10/05/2024

I got sweet corns and edamame. Come see me

10/01/2024

Wow, What a read! I borrowed this book from Richmond library one and half a month ago, and I finally finished it tonight.
It’s packed with solid research data and examples delivering a simple yet often neglected fact that the way we produce our food directly impacts our health and the health of Mother Earth. A few take aways:
1. Eat no-till food. Soil microbial communities feed the plants, and the plants feed them. Tillage destroys the microbial communities and robs plants of their allies and nutrients.
2. Eat no-spray food. Spraying pesticide and herbicide kills beneficial lives in and above the ground. Moreover, it stops plants from absorbing indispensable nutrient groups like magnesium.
3. Eat pasture-raised, grass-fed, and grass-finished animal products, including milk, fat, and meat. Grain-fed animals contains high levels of omega-6 fats that are responsible for chronic inflammation in human bodies, from brain to heart.
4. We are a part of nature. When we harm nature, we harm ourselves. When we heal nature, we heal our health as well.

09/28/2024

Come see us Berea Farmers Market and try out one of these yummy brownie cupcakes! Whisper the secrete code of “brownie cupcake” 😉

09/28/2024

It’s a bit rainy and chilly, but is still open. I have sweet corn and spicy arugula, England orchards has eggs, baked goods, and fruits, and Mr. Best brought a lot of Cherokee purple tomatoes.
Come see us and let your kids play in the puddle!

09/16/2024

CSA #13, only two more to go! My very pregnant body is definitely ready to the end of my summer CSA. In this week, I offer you:
1. Two lb of upper gourd sweet potato pumpkin
2. Two small cucumbers or a summer squash
3. One bunch of asparagus beans
4. One bunch of herb (holy basil/basil/cilantro)
5. Four green peppers
6. One head of lettuce
7. 7.5 oz of green beans

09/09/2024

For week 12, I have the following items for my CSA customers:
1. 2 lb of candy roaster squash
2. Two small cucumbers or one zucchini
3. One bunch of asparagus beans
4. One bunch of basil
5. Two green peppers
6. One head of lettuce
7. 6 oz of green beans
8. One head of garlic

Now, it’s time to have some me-time on my birthday.

09/05/2024

I love it when nature does q***r stuff, like these two daisy flowers growing into one.
Thanks to Chris, I was able to get some farm work done while tending to a toddler and my pregnant body.
Farm work on 09/05:
1. I pruned tomato plants
2. I pulled weeds in the hoop house
3. I applied 5 buckets of compost in the hoop house to get ready for winter growing
4. I fixed the leaks in my drip irrigation
5. I watered the farm
6. I put away my summer seeds and brought out my fall/winter seeds
7. I broadcasted buckwheat seeds in future garlic beds

09/02/2024

I am loving this fall weather and taking my time to say farewells to this challenging yet generous growing season.
For week 11, I have the following items for my CSA customers:
1. One lb of tomatoes
2. Two small cucumbers
3. One head of garlic
4. One bunch of asparagus beans
5. One bunch of cilantro
6. Three green peppers
7. One bunch of cooking greens made of butterfray spinach, red kale, turnip greens, mustard greens, mizuna, and arugula