Our Local Foods | Berry Book Drawing | Pictures Galore!
Hello to all our "Berry Good Friends"!
It's been so fun to see word continue to spread about our tasty nickel-size blueberries! Already we've had a huge surge of interest, orders, and pick-your-own reservations. If you haven't placed your order or reservation yet, be sure to do so soon - when we're sold out, we're sold out!
In this issue of our newsletter we've got lots of great information and pictures to share, as always, so keep reading, and if you get a chance, pass this email on to a friend! We want to share with you:
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Recent happenings like media coverage and Lance's talk at Botanica.
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How to enter our drawing (several ways) for a copy of The Berry Bible!
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Pictures of us working to spread netting as protection against birds, giving our Wichita Garden Show winner her blueberries, and of our berries at market!
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Info about Our Local Food - we're proud to be charter members!
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Excerpt from an upcoming blog interview with Paula Miller of Love Local Food.
Be sure to watch our website and Facebook Page for the latest updates! Let us know if you have any questions or comments, thanks for reading, and have a great day!
~ Lance and Elizabeth Chastain
Chautauqua Hills Farm
"Home of the Nickel-Size Blueberries!"
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Recent Happenings
Lance spoke at Botanica at the beginning of the month, sharing about Chautauqua Hills' history, our growing practices, showing pictures from the fields & farm, and taking questions from an audience of about 40 people.
We were featured recently in a full front-page article in the Independence Daily Reporter. We also had a brief mention appear in The Wichita Eagle, and we were a featured farm in Our Local Food's email newsletter this month. We have many new subscribers who just learned about our farm through the newspaper - welcome to our new Berry Good Friends!
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Spreading netting over the blueberry bushes to protect against birds.
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Our Local Food
We're Charter Members!
This new and important organization has 3 important objectives as part of its mission:
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Increase awareness and promote food raised on local farms.
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Promote locally grown food and availability at local businesses.
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Growing the local economy.
As a customer of Chautauqua Hills Farm, you have an interest in purchasing locally grown food. Guess what? You can be a part of Our Local Food too! They have a "Vocal Local" program specifically designed for individual consumers to support locally grown food in South Central Kansas.
Our Local Food upholds the same values and principles we share at Chautauqua Hills Farm. We encourage you to check them out!
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Photo Credit: Tim Tucker of Tuckerbee Honey, Independence Farmers' Market
Where to Buy
We'd love to have you come out to the farm and experience the joy of picking fresh blueberries from the field yourself.
We also make it convenient for you to order blueberries online and pick them up at Food for Thought in Wichita, KS.
But did you know that you can also taste our nickel-size blueberries at many fine restaurants or purchase them at area farmers' markets? Here's a handy list!
Retail Locations:
Farmers' Markets:
Restaurants & Other Establishments:
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A handy pavilion near the blueberry field so you can take a break in the shade!
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Berry Book Drawing!
As an email subscriber, you're automatically entered!
(But if you'd like to earn more entries, keep reading.)
Ways to Enter:
Prize:
The Berry Bible: With 175 Recipes Using Cultivated and Wild, Fresh and Frozen Berries by Janie Hibler
Rules: All current email subscribers as of 11:59 p.m. (CST) on June 30, 2011 (when contest ends) will have one automatic entry into drawing.
Additional entries made be made as listed above and submitted by sending us an email letting us know you followed or "liked" us with the subject line "Berry Book Drawing Entry."
Already following us on Twitter or "liked" us on Facebook? Still counts for an entry - just let us know as noted above. We'll note referrals as email signups occur - no need to send a separate email.
Drawing will be made using Random.org no later than noon on Tue., July 5th, 2011, and winner announced on the blog and on Facebook by Wed., July 6th, 2011. You do not need to be an email subscriber to win. |
Blueberry Prize Winner!
Jenny Long of Wichita, KS
Back in March we shared a booth with Home Grown Kansas at the Wichita Garden Show and hosted a drawing for 2 gallons of blueberries - the berries are ripe now and our winner, Jenny Long, was excited to receive her prize last week! Here she is with Lance Chastain, Chautauqua Hills Farm Owner. |
Love Local Food!
Guest Interview with Paula Miller
Below is a brief excerpt from an upcoming guest interview on our blog - be sure to check our website on Sunday, June 19th, for the full interview!
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I grew up on a farm 45 minutes from Wichita. I am a KSU grad trained in nutrition. After college I joined the Army, saying I'd never return to Kansas, but after six years away realized I truly love home and returned. Here I met my husband, Chris, who is a chef, and shares my passion for good food.
So what exactly is Love Local Food and how did it get started? I have taught nutrition for a local college for the last few years. One September, after viewing "Food, Inc." my husband and I realized our food choices make a huge impact in things other than taste and nutrition.
That semester, I started talking to my students about the benefits of choosing locally sourced foods and found they were excited about choosing these foods, but when they asked where to purchase them, I wasn't sure what to tell them. After all, I got my food from my farming family, but we didn't have enough for my class.
I realized there was a need to connect consumers to producers even when farmers' markets aren't in season. Therefore, Love Local Food and the Wichita Area Local Producers List began. Love Local Food is the name we have given to our endeavor of increasing local purchasing of foods in this area. (to be continued...)
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