268. Snake River Seed Coop | Earthly Delights Farm | Cultivating Success Farm Mentorship Program | Casey O’Leary | Boise, ID

Snake River Seed Coop and Earthly Delights Farm

Internship Program

Monday, Martin Luther King Day, January 21, 2019

You are going to love her blog Earthly Delights Farm, at but I invited her here because she runs the Snake River Seed Coop so here’s Casey O’Leary.

Tell us a little about yourself.

I’m in Boise, ID

I don’t own my own land but I farm on a 3 acre in the city. I farm on about acre and half and share with the landowner who runs a nursery and other farm projects. On our farm we grow about 100 varieties of seed crops for the Snake River Seed Coop

We also have a CSA program

I have been doing for the last 15 years, spring and summer 18 week CSA 45 members

going a different route, we’re just gonna do a fall CSA pickup. Just one big pickup in the fall of storage crops and instructions on how to store them.

Also, spring garden box shares

for people who have small urban gardens, we’re making

4×4 garden boxes of seeds and starts

I just want to make sure I am understand, you are actually giving them a 4×4 garden bed with the lumber etc, or just the stuff that goes in them?

No, we’re assuming they already have the boxes and the soil in those boxes

It’s a pretty common thing for Urban gardeners to have some sort of

4×4 or 4×8 box

just a way to maximize the amount of food they get out of it and use locally grown seeds

Is this your first year offering that?

Yes it’s the very first year

It’s interesting, you had mentioned in starting market farms

I’m in an interesting place because I’ve been running a CSA for 15 years

I am getting to the place where I am burnt out

In the past I have run this massive internship program that is really involved and a CSA with a lot of moving pieces and a serious commitment all season long.

I’ve been wanting a bit of a break, us farmers can’t just take time off in the summer, but just not having to harvest for CSA every single week would feel really nice to...