275. Flower and Vegetable CSA | Eastward Gardens | Larry and Michelle Lesher | Hardinsburg, Indiana

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We were city kids, he was a professional skateboarder and neither of us had a background in farming.

There’s just the two of us but we do it for a living.

I think I found you on Floret. How big is your place?

I’m going into my 3rd season growing flowers. We’re going on selling vegetables etc on 3 years. I was a nurse with the dream I could leave my job.

took us a while

try to make it quick

We moved from Seattle to louisville so I could go to grad school

that’s when Larry started interning on a farm. He’s been farming ever since then.

I just joined full time in June I quit my job. That’s when I bumped up the flower production.

I can do more with it

a lot of flowers

we grow on 2 acres

our farm is 16 1/2 acres

We crop rotate

we only have, theres about 6 acres of workable we rotate it and do about 2 at a time.

We sell

• Vegetables
• fruit
• culinary herbs
• micro greens

We sell a lot of micro greens through the winter, we sell a lot of microgreens through the winter months.

Culinary herbs who do you sell those to and do you want to tell listeners the diffeence between culinary and medicinal?

we just specific culinary

herbs people cook with

• rosemary
• thyme
• sage
• sorrel
• parsley
• basil

Who do you sell to? A CSA?

• 20 week CSA
• 2 famers markets a week
• local health food store

small scale because there’s just the two of us

have

health food store we consistently

20 week CSA program

2 farmers market

May or June – Oct

• radishes
• turnips
• arugula

flower share this year for the first time

flower bouquets

in with vegetables

• ranunculus
• anemones

Start April

4-6 weeks once they start

more veggies I can...