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. • <br />it <br />r.4 - w.^'- ■• t^f*>f.,r tQ^inmuhity farms share an organic return to roots■" -wmm•.ijfi ' 4‘K m _i>Tvsr-: 1rasMia■>*ii^'i* <br />/ » <br />f -I <br />'%■ <br />'■^-1. <br />V V <br />* v» %'„m <br />T<^'S »; <br />’’'T :'-♦^» ■ <br />«' rT Staff Photo by Marlin Levison <br />* ./• Aj» -\.- » ^ <br />w--'‘.. Dan Quenthner and Margaret Penninas, with a little help from Anne Guenthner, 6 <br />' V^i’^^htha. watered organically grown plants, part of a community-supported farming <br />program, in a greenhouse near Long Lake. <br />By Karin WInegar/Staff Writerhere's still frost in the■ ground, but the frogs areB singing love songs in the■ ponds among the oaks at Red Cardinal Farm. David Washburn and Meg Anderson raise flowers, vegetables and berries on this 35- acre organic farm just east of Mahto- <br />medi. In a month or two. the hillside <br />behind the small green barn will <br />bloom with peonies, coral bells, as- <br />tiibes, scaoiosas, irises and coneflow- <br />ers. And the raspberry canes and <br />blueberry bushes will burst up <br />through the pine-needle mulch behind <br />the chicken coop that has been con­ <br />verted to an office. <br />This is Washburns' and Anderson's <br />third season as community shared <br />agriculture (CSA) farmers. They plan <br />to offer .TO fruit and vegetable <br />"shares " — customers pay $395 in <br />advance for 14 to 16 weeks of pro­ <br />duce. They also are selling 50 shares <br />FARMS continued on page 6E <br />V • <br />'^*1 '■•t » -» t <br />TJ •f ^