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Organic Farm's Produce Now At Roadside Stand
Tribune photo by ROBERT BURKE
Steve Shrump of Wimauma works in one of his greenhouses filled with zucchini being hydroponically.
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Published: May 14, 2008
WIMAUMA - Heirloom Organics, a year-round organic specialty farm that has been selling wholesale to vegetable brokers, is opening a produce stand at its farm for the public to buy its heirloom tomatoes and other vegetables.
It is also starting a produce club that will grow products to meet members' yearly produce needs, said Steve Shrump, one of the farm's owners.
The produce club is similar to community-supported agriculture, or CSA, in which the food-buying public establishes a relationship with a farm and receives a weekly basket of produce at market prices.
Membership in the Heirloom Organics Produce Club is $38, Shrump said.
"It will allow members to buy what they want and to customize their orders," he said. "They provide us with a wish list of what type of produce they want, and I or another organic farmer will plant it and supply it. Ordinary people will be able to buy produce that normally only brokers or high-end restaurants would have access to."
The produce for club members will be available at the farm and at area drop-off points, he said, so that membership is convenient for people who live outside the Wimauma area.
Shrump said the farm is also a regular vendor at the St. Petersburg Farmers Market, held in the downtown area from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
The new produce stand is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday at the farm, 8822 State Road 674.
For information, contact Shrump at sshru@aol.com.
Reporter Liz Bleau can be reached at (813) 865-1557 or lbleau@tampatrib.com.
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