L & R's trip to the farm

Ryan and I have been members of a local CSA for almost two years now (or at least that's what I think, our time here in Merced has all just merged together). The farm we get our weekly produce from, Rancho Piccolo, is about 7 miles away from where we live. It's located between Merced and Atwater and is run by Michelle and David Silveira, who are thoughtful, socially conscious farmers who are dedicated to sustainable ag practices.

We headed out to the Silveira's farm for a fall open house yesterday. We took a hayride through the 63 acres to check out the produce growing, met some of the other members (membership is now up to 200 people and a lot of those out at the farm yesterday were from out of town in Modesto and even Stockton), and had some soup that Michelle had made.

It was lovely visit and a great opportunity to get a sneak peak at what we can expect from our CSA box in the next couple months!

Here's a couple of pics from the day:

Farmer David leading a hayride tour of the farm.

Looking out over all the yummy produce growing.

There were so many kids at the farm yesterday. Here they are making bird feeders. The boy in the back is Antonio, one of the Silveira's boys. It's funny, we think we know Antonio because Michelle writes about him and his brother Joseph all the time in our weekly newsletter but he has no clue who we all are.

Ryan getting his soup on!

Paintings all the kids did while out at the farm.