We regret that limited farm inventories due to weather have forced us to cancel January's Basket-A-Month pickup. We ask for your understanding in this very difficult month to organize a suitable basket of local fresh produce. 

We still aim to do 12 baskets in 2010, but like January 2009, we are unable to put together a high quality local food basket that you would value. We may expect this to be a continued pattern each year, although we have done several January baskets and they turned out nice in years past.  This year is hopefully an exception.

If you received BAM as a holiday gift and were expecting your first basket in January, we hope you will accept our deepest apologies.  You will still have three baskets owed to you; your subscription will begin in February (inventories permitting). Please let us know if you have any questions. 

For a good selection of what is available locally, please go to the CAFM Online Market. We hope you will note 7 Doves Creamery will be delivering to the Argenta Online Market pickup and they need your continued support since January BAM is cancelled. You may place orders at the online market until Wednesday afternoon.

Thanks for your continued support!

Jody Hardin
Foodshed Farm, Basket A Month CSA
www.ArkansasFood.net
www.cafm.locallygrown.net

2009-2010 CAFM Annual Market Report
From: Jody Hardin, President
Certified Arkansas Farmers Market, Inc. (CAFM)

Dear directors, members, and friends of CAFM:
Four years ago when we started Foodshed Farm and the Basket-A-Month (BAM) Community Supported Agriculture program, we dreamed that it would last forever, supporting many family farms and, equally, the families who want to eat local, fresh, seasonal foods from them.  We also wanted a consistent, twelve-months-per-year market for Arkansas' small and medium-sized farms, with policies in place that kept it strictly local and farmer driven.  Today we can say we have the foundation laid as BAM goes into its fifth year and the CAFM goes into its third year.  CAFM and BAM have served more than 40 farmers this past year, who in turn, served hundreds of local families fresh, clean food from their small family farms.

I have waited patiently for a long time to say this:  Construction on Argenta Maket has begun!  On December 14, the new Argenta Market went under the hammer, and a complete remodeling job will transform the space into a beautiful, warm and well organized community grocery store--FINALLY!!!