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Happy May!  Here we are on the other side of a long winter.  The snow is gone, the birds are back, the grass is green, and we are ready for our ninth season farming at Ripley Farm! 

What does CSA stand for?  C-ommunity S-upported A-griculture! 

Those three words mean a lot to us at Ripley Farm...

They mean local people coming together from Greenville to Hampden to Lakeview Plantation to Corinth and everywhere in between to support our farm. 

They mean friendship, smiles, warm hugs, and uplifting conversations week after week, year after year. 

They mean sharing good food with people who appreciate the hard work that goes into producing it. 

"We'll be there on Friday at 8am to start setting up," they said.  And they weren't kidding!  Just as our employees got here to start work that morning, several more cars rolled into the farm drive.  Soon after I could hear sounds of persistant banging on metal.  Sounds like they're working on the railroad, I thought to myself.  Clink, clink, clink... and I looked out of the window to see a white party tent being erected between our large hoophouse and the PYO flower garden.

This spring has a very different rhythm for me.  Of course, at the farm, things are going just as planned.  The big list of “things to do” for April has been whittled right down.  All of our seeds have arrived on the farm and the first few of them like peppers, tomatoes and leeks are already showing their little faces.  The seed potatoes are piling up in our living room, presprouting prior to planting.  This week more lettuce heads will be sown.  The hoophouse has been rototilled again in preparation for planting those tomato seedlings in May.  Oh, and how