Angelic Organics is a 1300 member Biodynamic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) vegetable and herb farm. All market sales are through the CSA shares. In 2007, the farm is entering its 18th year growing organically and 15th year as a CSA. For more information, visit the farm website at www.AngelicOrganics.com.

Angelic Organics strives to make the farm a place where people, buildings, equipment, and land are all well taken care of - placing great importance on order and beauty. Angelic Organics explores and expresses the spiritual underpinnings of farming through biodynamics. CSA Shareholders (members) are given an intimate expression of farming through the vibrant vegetables and herbs they receive, the farm stories shared in weekly newsletters, and through shareholder visits to the farm (see separate profile for information about Angelic Organics Learning Center’s shareholder outreach programs).

John Peterson has lived on the farm his entire life. He farmed conventionally until the early 1980’s. He started organic farming in 1990 (see “Circuitous Journey” at AngelicOrganics.com/ciruitous). Angelic Organics currently supports 6 full time year-round staff members. During the season, the field crew consists of 1-3 on-farm Growing Assistants, 2-3 on-farm Summer interns and approximately 10 local hourly workers.

The 100-acre farm devotes 25 acres to vegetables and herbs, 47 acres to cover crops, 5 acres to woodland and 1-2 acres to prairie. The acreage is a combination of owned and leased land. Through Angelic Organics’ non-profit partner, Angelic Organics Learning Center, small-scale livestock are being reintroduced to the farm.

The farm is quite mechanized including: extensive tillage equipment, 10 tractors (including 3 Allis G’s with several cultivators and a 5-row Planet Jr. seeder), a vacuum seeder, a water wheel transplanter, a power wiggle hoe, a carrot harvester, a veg-veyer, two walk-in coolers, a root washer, miscellaneous washing equipment, and a mechanical block maker.