CHS Updates

Tick-tock, tick-tock! Time is running out to sign up for the Centennial CSA

JOIN BY JUNE 1 to save 5% off your total CSA share price. We need more CSA members if we're going to be able to help all of the local families who need assistance this season. The Zahradka Farm (the Centennial CSA farmer) will donate one free share for every 15 members who join the CSA. Please consider joining today. CSA sign-up information is at www.thezahradkafarm.com/members.

Centennial CSA: Purchase a CSA share by JUNE 1, save 5%

CSA is 24 weeks:  "Farmer's Market-style" produce pick-up
                                           every Thursday --   JUNE  7  through NOVEMBER 15

PURCHASE a SMALL, MEDIUM or LARGE Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) SHARE  by FRIDAY, JUNE 1 and take 5% OFF the TOTAL SHARE price.

SMALL SHARE:  4 items/week @ $15/week = (just 14.25/week with 5% discount)
MEDIUM SHARE: 8 items/week @ $28/week  =  (just $26.60/week with 5% discount )
LARGE SHARE: 12 items/week @ $39/week  = (just $27.05/week with 5% discount)

The Zahradka Farm, the Centennial CSA's farmer, offers this CSA in a "mini farmer's market" format, which permits you to choose the produce that you want from the selections available that week -- a welcome departure from most CSAs, which send you home with whatever the farmer has on offer. And, the Centennial CSA offers "add-on" options such as free-range eggs, bread, meat and specialty items, available for an additional fee.

Further details posted at "Community Supported Agriculture" link on the CHS PTSA website (visit by clicking here.)

Centennial CSA: NEW discount offer

CSA runs JUNE  7  through NOVEMBER 15 (24 weeks)

SIGN UP FOR a small, medium or large Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share and pay for it in full by FRIDAY, JUNE 1 and you'll enjoy a 5% DISCOUNT off the share price.

SMALL  share: Four (4) items/week @ $15/week = $360
MEDIUM share: Eight (8) items/week @ $28/week  = $672
LARGE share: 12 items/week @ $39/week  = $936

The Zahradka Farm, the Centennial CSA's farmer, offers this CSA in a "mini farmer's market" format, which permits you to choose the produce YOU want from the selections available that week -- a welcome departure from most CSAs, which send you home with whatever the farmer has on offer. And, the Centennial CSA offers "add-ons" options such as free-range eggs, bread, meat and specialty items, available for an additional fee.

CSA PICK UP: THURSDAYS, 4 - 6:30 PM, BMMS school bus parking lot

For more information, visit the Zahradka Farm (www.thezahradkafarm.com); click here for Centennial CSA flier; click here for CSA FAQs. Questions, please send an email to centennialcsa@yahoo.com. 

For every 15  shares purchased, the Zahradka Farm will donate one (1) CSA share to a local family in need; the Centennial CSA provides support to The Domestic Violence Center and the CHS PTSA also.

Deadlines today: CSA discount, Eagle Spirit Bricks orders

 TODAY is: 

.  .  .   your last chance to  save 10%   off your produce share price when you join the Centennial CSA. You’ll get 24 weeks of the freshest, best-tasting produce around. Add on bread, eggs, meat, poultry and specialty items too.  Sign up today to save money and be entered in a a drawing to win a  FREE MEDIUM SHARE.   For every 50 members who join the CSA, a winner will be chosen - - so get your friends and neighbors to sign up, too!   (have them list your name in the "notes" section). Go to www.thezahradkafarm.com,  email centennialcsa@yahoo.com or call Bonnie Sorak , 410/465-0427 for more information.

The Centennial CSA benefits local families, the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County and the Centennial High School PTSA.

.  .  . the DEADLINE to order Eagle Spirit Bricks for Spring installation

EAGLE SPIRIT BRICKS are a Centennial Boosters Legacy Project fundraiser which, year after year, supports the high school's athletic and student activities programs. The personalized, engraved Bricks beautify the campus and are an enduring means of commemorating CHS people and events.

ORDER DEADLINE for Spring installation in the Stadium walkway: TODAY! MONDAY, APRIL 30

Visit Boosters' Eagle Spirit Bricks webpage (click here for it) for details and ordering information.

 

Deadline day

MONDAY, APRIL 30 is:

• The 10% discount deadline to purchase (payment in full) a share in the Centennial CSA program. Also, everyone who signs up before the April 30 deadline is eligible for a chance to win a FREE MEDIUM SHARE.  (If you aren't paying in full, you can use their easy payment plan. There will be additional winners for each 50 Centennial CSA shares purchased, so tell everyone you know to sign up too, and add their names to the "Notes" section on the Zahradhka Farm's CSA webpage (www.thezahradkafarm.com/members). Questions, and/or to receive detailed flier, e-mail Bonnie Sorak (centennialcsa@yahoo.com).

The Centennial CSA benefits local families, the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County and the Centennial High School PTSA.

• The Centennial Boosters' Eagle Spirit Bricks (for Spring installation in the Stadium walkway);

• The application deadline for The Matthew W. Watson Memorial Scholarship at UMCP, available only to Centennial High School seniors.

Centennial CSA sign-up discount deadline approaches

 The Centennial CSA runs for 24 weeks -- JUNE 7 - NOVEMBER 1, 2012

NEW! Choose your own veggies at pick-up.

The ZAHRADKA FARM Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program will be set up like a "mini farmer's market"  where, unlike  most CSAs, where you take home whatever the CSA farmer gives you, you get to choose the items you want from selections available fresh that week.  

For details, visit the Centennial CSA webage (click here for it) found on the CHS PTSA website.

Sign up for the CSA by MONDAY, APRIL 30 to receive a 10% discount on the price of your Small, Medium or Large CSA share.

Centennial CSA* 2012 (June 7 - November 15)

 * Community Supported Agriculture

 NEW!  THE ZAHRADKA FARM CSA will be set up like a "mini-farmer's market"  -- you  get to pick the items you want from selections available fresh that week (unlike  most   CSAs, where you get whatever the farmer gives you). Choose from three (3) levels of Shares:  Small (four items), Medium (eight items) and Large  (12 items); there’s a right-sized share to suit everyone’s needs.  You can add on options such as eggs from free-range, pasture-raised chickens; bread, meat and specialty items, all  offered separately for the season for an additional fee. 

 Sign up for a share by MONDAY, APRIL 30 and receive a 10% DISCOUNT off the total   price of the share.

   For more information, visit (www.thezahradkafarm.com) or send an e-mail to centennialcsa@yahoo.com. CSA FAQs is here,  detailed CSA flier is here.  

Centennial CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) 2012

Choose your own veggies at pick-up!

THE ZAHRADKA FARM CSA will be set up like a "mini farmer's market," so you   get to pick the items you want from selections available fresh that week -- unlike  most CSAs, where you get whatever the farmer gives you!

   The CSA is 24 weeks -- JUNE 7 through NOVEMBER 15

 There are three (3) levels of Shares: Small (four items), Medium (eight items) and Large  (12 items), so there’s a right-sized share to suit everyone’s needs.  CSA shareholders can “add on"   options such as eggs from free-range, pasture-raised chickens; bread, meat and specialty items, all  offered separately for the season for an additional fee.

 CSA "mini farmer's market" pick-up: Make your CSA selections EVERY THURSDAY  AFTERNOON, 4 - 6:30 PM, in the Burleigh Manor Middle School school bus  parking lot.

 For more information, visit (www.thezahradkafarm.com) or send an e-mail to   centennialcsa@yahoo.com. CSA FAQ is here,  detailed CSA flier is here.

  Similar programs are available for the Clarksville and Oakland Mills communities. 

 

Centennial CSA: Winter Program

WINTER  CSA: DECEMBER 23, 2011 - APRIL 22, 2012.

 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE your own selection of  locally-grown, farm-fresh 
  vegetables delivered right to your door during the coming months? 

BY PURCHASING A WINTER SHARE in the Centennial Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program, you get to order a customized box of produce that will be conveniently delivered directly to your home or workplace. Visit the website of  Centennial's CSA Farmer, the Zahradka Farm, for Winter CSA details and sign-up, or send an email to (centennialcsa@yahoo.com).

Centennial CSA proceeds benefit the CHS PTSA and local families in need.

Salvation Army Club canned goods drive

MANY THANKS to everyone who made the special effort before we went on Thanksgiving Break to donate items specific to Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Please keep donations of canned goods and other non-perishable items (including household paper products, etc.) coming! FINAL DAY day to send in donations to First Period classrooms is THIS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30.

CLICK HERE to see the Howard County Times feature article which highlights this joint community service endeavor between the CHS Salvation Army Club and the Centennial CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Program.