Sunny Days Ahead Get your organic veggies & bedding plants, annuals & perennials now!

Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center is a certified organic farm on conserved land along the Connecticut River in East Thetford, Vermont, minutes from Norwich, Vermont, and Hanover, New Hampshire. Farmstand open Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5, Hello Café open daily 8-5, May-October. Get directions to the farm in Thetford, Vermont . . . Download a 2012 calendar of events for your fridge . . . Sign up for a 2012 CSA through May (or sold out!)

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  Fresh from the Field

  Farmstand opens Saturday, May 5! We’ll have fresh salad greens, and our own dried beans — pinto, kidney, King of the Early, black turtle, and Tiger Eye, and more! Organic spring veggies & bedding plants, annual & perennial flowers, soil amendments & more! photo: Karen Rogers

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  CSA: Share the harvest!

  2012 is our ninth year of CSA! Summer, Fall, and Bouquet Shares are available through May, or until sold out. Sign up online. CSA Farmstand Dollars can be purchased at any time throughout the season. Learn more

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  Harvest Festivals

  2012 will be our 10th Annual Strawberry and Pumpkin Harvest Festivals! These family events are rain-or-shine harvest celebrations. 2012: Strawberry Festival is Sunday, June 24 and Pumpkin Festival is Sunday, October 7. Learn more

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  Pick Your Own

  We’ll have organic strawberries in June, organic blueberries in July, a cut-your-own flower patch in August & September, and organic pumpkins in October. We update this box regularly in season: make sure to check back often!

Farm News

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  Mother’s Day All Weekend At the Farm!

  Looking for a great gift for Mom?  Every girl loves flowers, especially ones that bloom all summer. Our friendly staff will help you pick out a gift that will impress her for months to come such as our certified organic strawberry hanging baskets already spilling over with sweet berries! or gorgeous hanging baskets, beautiful annuals and cold hardy perennials, certified organic herb and vegetable starts, vibrant Mexican pottery and our own certified organic veggies! Free gifts for Mom on Saturday and Sunday. In addition to our other goodies in the farmstand and coffee shop, we’ll have fresh arugula pesto, lavender chocolate pudding, and lemon thyme and rosewater cookies to celebrate the moms! Farmstand open Monday - Saturday 10-6, Sunday 10-5. Coffee Shop open daily 8-5.

  2012 CSA Shares: Deadline approaching!   Cedar Circle Farm CSA shares are available through May. Choose from Summer,  Fall, or Bouquet CSA Shares - - - another great gift for mom! Three easy ways to sign up: visit us at the farmstand; download a brochure and mail it to the farm; or sign up online.  Learn more about our CSA.

  Your Farmstand Dollars Cards  The farmstand is now open for the season Monday- Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 10-5. If you purchased a Farmstand Dollars CSA Account, come on down to the farmstand and activate your card. You can purchase a CSA Farmstand Dollars Account and save 10% on all your purchases at the farm all season long! To purchase a card, visit us at the farmstand, download a brochure and mail it to the farm, or sign up online. 

  Dinners In The Field   Register early to reserve a seat at one of our popular Dinners In the Field. Join us for Kitchen Table, an intimate outdoor celebration in July, or our two larger celebrations in August: Big Night: Dinner and a Movie; and Kate & Will’s New Orleans Night . Our 4th Annual Tomato Tasting will take place in our fields the afternoon of Saturday, August 25. Learn more or sign up now!.

  Cooking and Gardening Classes   Sign up early for these classes: This Rots! Demystifying Compost, Flower Basics: Design for Containers and Gardens, and Wild!  Wild Foods Cooking & Foraging. Check out our full summer series of gardening and cooking classes here. Sign up here!

  Volunteer School Garden Spring Work Day  Join Cat Buxton and the TES Garden Committee at 3:15pm on Friday, May 11th at Thetford Elementary School. We will be moving plants, adding soil to raised beds, and other fun projects to get the gardens ready for some serious growing this summer. Bring shovels, wheel barrows, gloves and a favorite hand tool for weeding…or just bring yourself! Meet us in the gardens behind the school. Experience in gardening is not necessary, this is a great time to learn!

  Celebrate with us!   Join us for Rural Vermont’s 2012 Annual meeting and celebration at the Wilder Center in Wilder, VT from 6:30-9:30 PM on Wednesday, May 16. Rural Vermont will be honoring our own Will Allen for his vision, energy, and the dedication he has displayed in promoting organic agriculture and working toward social justice for farmers, and most recently his critical role in Vermont’s 2012 GMO labeling bill. Celebrate Rural Vermont’s recent progress towards Vermonters Feeding Vermonters over potluck food and cash bar with live and local music. Keynote address by Ben Hewitt. Free for Rural VT members; $5-$10 all else. Many of our farm staff will be attending this festive event.

   

   

  [ 2012 May 9 ]

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  This is the Start of Something Beautiful!

  Come on down to the farm early on Saturday, May 5 for our opening day! Get the best selection of healthy young plants for your gardens, kitchen window sill, porches, and patios. We have all the makins’ for a delicious spring salad of radishes, arugula, and spring salad mix fresh from the field!

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  [ 2012 May 3 ]

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  Growing and Learning Down On The Farm

  Come on down to the farm this week and get the choice pick on hardy plants. Sneak Peek The farmstand and greenhouses officially open on May 5, but you can come on down to the farm this week and get a peek at the colors and scents of summer sprouting in our greenhouses! Sneak Peek Saturday 10 to 3 and…

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  [ 2012 April 23 ]

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  The Farm is Coming Alive!

  Anna and Cat will have fresh greens and more at Flavors of the Valley at Hartford High School, this Sunday from 11-4 PM 2012 CSA Shares  Cedar Circle Farm CSA shares are still available, choose from Summer,  Fall, or Bouquet CSA Shares, or a CSA Farmstand Dollars Account.. Download a brochure and mail it to the farm or sign up online. …

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  [ 2012 April 10 ]