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So, just what is Lindemann Gardens? My main garden is half an acre and two others are a few hundred square feet. No herbicides or pesticides are ever used.

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CSA of vegetables, herbs, and fruit lovingly grown in west Boise and delivered every three weeks to your door, April - Oct (8 deliveries $480, 5 deliveries $300). It is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) that lovingly grows vegetables, herbs, and fruit on small plots of land in neighborhoods in Boise. I plan, plant, water, w**d, worry, harvest, wash, pack, and deliver almost all of the items

you receive. Things I don't grow (fruit, microgreens, and specialty veggies) are produced by other small local growers that I partner with. Over the years the CSA has become a fun little community. I love using organic materials (horse manure, leaves, grass clippings, straw, and cover crops) to help build the soil to support abundant harvests. Members pay an upfront fee for a share of summer veggies. This allows members to share in the joys and trials of small-scale local food production. This past year, each delivery consisted of 12-20+ different varieties of seasonal vegetables, fruit, and herbs. Lindemann Gardens 2021 (the CSA's 7th season) was a big success but turned out to be more challenging than I had anticipated. Covid cancelations of kids activities in 2020 gave me abundant free time to work in the garden. This time and flexibility evaporated in 2021 as sports, church obligations, and school routines made a return. An extended period of extreme temps and the logistics of an additional delivery day was more physically and mentally stressful than I had planned for. But luckily I had awesome springtime help from Evan, Alicia, David, Marilyn, Amy, and Jake to prepare beds, plant, and construct new caterpillar tunnels. Past investments in building garden soil paid huge dividends and the veggies hardly noticed the record-setting temps and early departure of irrigation water. The limit-pushing season motivated me to come up with more sustainable solutions to these challenges and excitement to try new things in 2022. As in previous years, encouraging notes and emails from members kept me going as the boxes continued to be a fresh collection of color, aroma, and taste. This is the fifth year I have partnered with Alicia, a local small-scale egg producer (26 chickens), to offer organic eggs as an add-on for some members. I have also continued partnerships with other small local producers High Noon Farm for specialty veggies and Spyglass Gardens for melons. After canceling the 2020 end-of-the-year celebration due to covid, 2021's celebration took appropriate precautions by staggering attendance throughout the afternoon. The celebration was highlighted by Fusion Frites Food Truck serving fabulous food, fresh-pressed cider, a garden scavenger hunt, and field tours. I am so thankful for all of the support and encouragement I've received this year. The kind words really are instrumental in keeping me going through the long haul of the season. As with anything garden-related, no two years are exactly the same. Here are a few details on the upcoming 2022 season.
- Membership will continue to grow to up to 60 member families. (we had 58 in 2021, 51 in 2020, 42 in 2019, 32 in 2017, and 20 in 2016). Current members get first dibs, but please tell your neighbors so we can fill up the new spots!
- The season will run from mid-April to mid-October. Delivery to your door will be every 3 weeks (8 deliveries total for the Garden Share $480 or 5 deliveries total for the Seasonal Share) on Monday or Thursday evenings, between 7-9pm.
- The boxes will continue to contain a wide variety of fresh locally grown produce, herbs, and fruit each week. Boxes will have some veggies familiar to you (peas, beans, cukes, zukes, tomatoes, potatoes... etc) and also some you may not have cooked with before (bok choy, kohlrabi, parsnips, pie pumpkins, red noodle beans, daikon radishes, celeriac). Some members say each delivery is like opening a Christmas present :)
- Newsletters and emails will include kitchen hints, recipes for items that may be new to you, and suggestions about using/storing/preserving the contents of the week's box. I love supporting other local food producers. If you know of another small egg producer, vegetable grower, or beekeeper with honey to sell, let me know. Enjoy,
Aaron

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Eagle Road And McMillian Rd
Boise, ID
83713

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The Lindemann Gardens Story

So, just what is Lindemann Gardens? It is a small CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) that lovingly grows vegetables and herbs on small plots of land in west Boise. My main garden is half an acre and a handful of others are a few hundred square feet. I plan, plant, water, w**d, worry, harvest, wash and deliver all the veggies you receive. I love using organic materials (manure, leaves, grass clippings, straw and cover crops) to help build the soil to support abundant harvests. No herbicides or pesticides are ever used. Families pay an upfront fee for a share of summer veggies. This allows members to share in the joys and trials of small-scale local food production. This past year, each delivery consisted of 15-20+ different varieties of seasonal vegetables and herbs. Lindemann Gardens was established in 2105 and membership consisted of nine friends who were ready for the adventure. Membership grew to twenty families in 2016 and thirty-two families in 2017. Running a CSA has been quite the adventure. It has been very satisfying to deliver the finished boxes each week. I strive for a nice collection of color, aroma and taste. It was a lot of work to put it all together and quite a juggling act at times, but it was awesome. The past two years I have partnered with Alicia, a local small-scale egg producer (9 chickens), to offer organic eggs as an add-on for some members. In the spring of 2016 my friend Elisa and I took a class with other beginning farmers. In the class I was fortunate to meet and later partner with Jeremiah and Jen to include fruit from their orchard (Ribier Gardens) in the deliveries. The weekend after Labor Day, we hold a Harvest Festival for members and partners. Each year I am blown away at the table settings my wife and friends put together. It is fun to show off the garden, w**ds and all :) I am so thankful for all of the support and encouragement I've received throughout the years. It has been a lot of fun. As with anything garden related, no two years are exactly the same. I've got tons of ideas running though my head, but here is the general format of a Lindemann Gardens CSA membership.

The season runs from early May through late October.

Veggies are lightly washed, lightly packaged and delivered to your door every 2 weeks (12 deliveries total) or monthly (5 deliveries total) on Monday and Thursday evenings, usually between 7-9pm.

Each box contains a wide variety of fresh locally grown produce, herbs and fruit harvested that morning or the previous morning. Everything is grown by me or other small farmers I partner with. Boxes contain a mix of veggies familiar to you (peas, beans, cukes, zukes, tomatoes, potatoes... etc) and also some you may not have cooked with before (bok choy, kohlrabi, parsnips, pie pumpkins, red noodle beans and diakon radishes to name a few). Some members say each deliver is like opening a Christmas present :)

Writing a newsletter about garden happenings and musings running through my head while working in the early morning hours have become surprisingly satisfying to me. Although I may not have time to do so all season long, I also try to include kitchen hints, recipes for items that may be new to you and suggestions about using/storing/preserving the contents of the week's box. I love supporting other local food producers. If you know of another small egg producer, vegetable grower or beekeeper with honey to sell, let me know.

(Photo credit: Ken Carrothers, 2017 Garden Party at Happy Apple Orchard near Overland and Five Mile in Boise, ID)

That was the garden story. If you’re still interested, here is the story of the farmer :)

I grew up on a farm in North Dakota. My dad grew corn, wheat, barley, soybeans and sunflowers on some of the darkest, richest soil I have ever seen. I didn’t realize how special it was at the time, but I am so jealous of that soil every time I now visit the farm. My mom helped out on the farm and was a substitute teacher at the local school in addition to trying to keep my two brothers and I in line. Shortly after graduating with a Computer Science degree from NDSU (Go Bison!), my wife and I moved to Boise and we have been loving it here ever since.

With limited space in the city, I've been growing veggies in our backyard and flowerbeds and whatever lawn I could covertly convert to garden. I finally took the leap and started the CSA three years ago. In 2015 we had nine member families, last year 20 and this year 32. That pretty much maxes out my time. I also work 32/hr week at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a software engineer and we have 12 and 7 year old kids. The CSA is a ton of work (physically and emotionally) but I absolutely love it and spend almost all of my free time planning, worrying and working in my gardens. I'm thinking about garden ideas constantly. My plots are all 1/2 acre or less and are located in west Boise. In 2017, I planted seeds in eight different locations totaling just under an acre of cultivated space. That was too many locations to manage and 2018 will see a consolidated number of gardens still with just under an acre of plantings. I enjoy naming each garden, including Goats Are Gone, Church Garden, Garden Bell, Happy Apple Orchard, WGN (Willow’s Garden), Home Garden and Blue Jeans Delight. Mention one of them when we meet and I’d be happy to share you the story behind it.

Enjoy,

Aaron