What's Up Down on the Farm?
Farmall cultivating tractors being prepped for the season.
During the winter we plan (field plans, seed orders, crop fertility planning), repair equipment and buildings, harvest winter greens, wholesale storage crops, and hire new employees. In March we start ramping up for the summer: seasonal staff return March through April; transplant greenhouse seeding starts in early March, we tidy up outside, and hope to get out onto the tractors by the end of the month.
snapdragons
Fast forward to April, and our propagation greenhouse is brimming with vegetable plants. Flowers are started for the PYO field (and for the annual plant sale coming up May 11 and 18.) Planting seeds is a full time job! We replaced our decrepit wood pellet furnace with a new unit, and are upgrading our tunnels to automated ventilation sidewalls. We are working to install our electric fences before the deer eat our crops.
Field prep.
Cabbage, kale, spinach, carrots, and head lettuce will hit the fields in a week or so, with broccoli, beets, scallions and onions not far behind. If all this green wasn’t enough for anticipation, the winter planting of arugula in the high tunnels is busting out for winter shares, with lots of curly kale, spinach, and radishes on the way.
Our summer shares are nearly sold out. We start the sign-up period in January because it takes a while to process 650 orders and we need to plan. If you didn’t sign up for Trent’s Bread, Pigasus Eggs, or Does’ Leap goat cheese, do it now before you forget! Form is here.
Help clean up at ICF!
Tables that rafted out to our hoop houses.
Intervale Community Farm would love your help as we clean up and reset after widespread flooding on July 12 & 13.
If you would like to help out please register yourself at this signup form.
We do not have a regular volunteering schedule, but will email you ahead of time as we schedule workdays. If you are able to come, we’ll put you to work!
Cleanup work can be physically and emotionally demanding: lots of scraping, rinsing, cleaning, lifting, dragging and carrying. If those sound like activities you can embrace, please join us.
We recommend anyone joining us wear clothing you are happy to dirty deeply, and are prepared to wash thoroughly. If you have them, rubber boots are recommended, along with work gloves. long pants, and long sleeves. Sun-protective hats, sunglasses, sunscreen, and bug-spray are also recommended along with a water bottle. All children must be accompanied by an adult, and not all tasks will be suitable for youngsters.
2023 Summer Share Sign-Up is Open: Join Us for Our 34th Year!
Dear ICF CSA member,
Though it barely feels like winter, the staff at Intervale Community Farm are busily preparing for a productive, restorative, and extraordinary 2023 season. We know the vegetables, flowers, and herbs are ready to grow. Share in the determination of a seed and sign up now for your 2023 summer share.
To sign up for a 2023 summer share, visit our website here. You can find out more specific information about the offerings on our Summer Share page. In 2022 we regrettably turned away many ICF CSA members who did not sign up in time. Avoid this fate and enjoy other benefits by joining Intervale Community Farm Cooperative as a co-op member-owner. See sidebar graphic for details.
Rising input prices and a continued effort to improve farm wages has us raising share prices around 8%, roughly $2.50/week for small shares. We appreciate payment in full for those who are able, as it allows us to offer more flexible payment plans to those who need them.
Please watch for emails and information from Intervale Community Farm and please add kathie@intervalecommunityfarm.com to your allowed email. We will let you know what is happening on the farm and keep you informed about our upcoming summer season.
If you have friends, family, or colleagues who are interested in a summer share at ICF, now is the time to send them our way. Find out more information via the links above, call us at 658-2919x1, or email us.
On behalf of the Intervale Community Farm staff and Board,
Andy Jones, Farm Manager
2022 ICF Board Election Results
We are pleased to announce the results of the recent Intervale Community Farm Cooperative Board Elections. While we had more candidates than usual, the voter turnout was light. We’re pleased to report that Mieko Ozeki and Maja Smith were re-elected for three year terms. Pamela Kraynak will be the new member of the Board, also for a three year term (left to right below: Ozeki, Smith, Kraynak) Their new terms will begin in January 2023.
Thank you to all of the candidates willing to run for the board of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative. Your willingness to serve on the board is what has built ICF into a strong community farm. Thank you also to the members of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative for taking the time to vote in the election and demonstrating your enthusiasm and support for ICF.
Not a co-op member? You can become one here.
2022 ICF Board of Directors Elections
Electronic ballots were emailed to all co-op members in good standing on November 10. To be in good standing, your equity contributions must be paid in full ($200) or current to 2022 (at the rate of $25 per year since your date of joining the cooperative.)
Candidate Statements may be found here.
The link to the ballot was included in the email you received.
If you think you should have received a ballot and did not, please do the following:
check Spam folder
check Promotions folder if you have a Gmail address
contact Kathie to check your co-op status.
You can join the ICF Co-op at any time! If you join before the expiration of the 2022 voting period on November 23rd, you may still vote in this election. Go here to find out more about becoming a member of the ICF Cooperative.
ICF is Collaborating with the Intervale Food Hub
Again this year! We are partnering with the Intervale Food Hub (IFH) to offer Intervale Community Farm members a wide selection of Vermont proteins, dairy, and provisions to round out your meals. Shop online at the Intervale Food Hub and collect your order at your ICF winter share pick-up. There is no order minimum or requirement to place an order every week. IFH has over 200 products from over 80 Vermont producers available in their online marketplace.
Featured products in this program include:
Dairy: Milk from Sweet Rowen Farm, Butterworks Cream, butter from Ploughgate Creamery and Vermont Creamery, and cheeses from von Trapp Creamery, Sweet Rowen, Shelburne Farms, and Stony Pond Farm.
Meat/Seafood: Wild-caught Alaskan salmon from Starbird Fish and Honeywilya Fish, pastured pork from Pigasus Meats, grassfed beef from Grass Cattle Co and Health Hero Farm, and chicken from Misty Knoll.
Plant-Based Proteins: Beans and bean burgers from Vermont Bean Crafters, New Deal Seitan, tofu from Vermont Soy, tempeh from Rhapsody Naturals, and cashew milk from Nutty Life.
Bakery: All Souls Tortilleria corn and flour tortillas, bread from Red Hen, granola from Butterfly Bakery, and crackers from Castleton Crackers.
Pantry and Provisions: Coffee from Brio and VT Coffee Co, tea from Free Verse Farm, chocolate from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Butterfly Bakery and Pitchfork Farm hot sauces and ferments, flour and cornmeal from Nitty Gritty Grain Co., dressings and vinegars from Eco Bean + Greens and Red Wagon Plants, jam from V Smiley Preserves, and much more.
Logistical Details
Browse the offerings, set up your account now, and place your orders as follows:
Group 1 may place orders starting October 26
Group 2 may place orders starting November 3
Food Hub orders will be available to pick up with your normal winter share group
Orders must be placed by 9:00 a.m. Wednesday preceding your Thursday pick-up (next day pick-up is new this year!!)
Product selection, packing, billing, and questions are handled by the Intervale Food Hub
intervalefoodhub@intervale.org
Sign up at intervalefoodhub.com
select "pick up"
select your ICF group
The Intervale Food Hub is a social enterprise of the Intervale Center delivering proteins, produce, and provisions from over 80 local producers in the greater Burlington, Vermont area.
Pumpkin Day at ICF is October 1, 10:00-2:00 - please check here for weather updates Saturday morning
Pumpkin Day. Saturday, October 1, 10:00-2:00.
Rain date Sunday, October 2
Please join our annual pumpkin patch picking, always one of our favorite days at ICF! Meet at the summer pickup area and hop a tractor-drawn wagon for the 15-minute ride to our field of jack-o-lanterns, pie pumpkins, and decorative gourds. This is included in your ICF CSA share.
Walking to the pumpkin patch is also a lovely stroll past our greenhouses and salad crops, and we will happily transport your pumpkins back to the pick-up area so you don’t have to carry them.
If you do not attend October 1st, you may pick-up your pumpkins from the courtyard during our regular pick-ups, beginning Thursday, October 6th.
2022-23 Winter Share Sign-up is Open
It’s that time again and already!
You can sign up for your winter shares now on our web page and then just sit back and wait!
Order your bread, eggs, and goat cheese supplemental products at the same time as your winter share. For more information on the products go here. We will have a limited number of items for sale on site so it’s much better to set up a pre-order.
As always winter pick-ups are every two weeks on the opposite side of the road from the summer area. You’ll have selections of root veggies, plus squash, cabbage, and weighed greens.
Group 1 will start November 3 and go until May 11. Group 2 will start November 10 and go until May 18. Please note that Group 2 has a date change to the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Check out the calendar widget here so you don’t miss any of your dates!
Watch our web site, blog, and Facebook pages for any winter share updates, revised Covid procedures, (hopefully we are past the worst!) and reminders of the first pick-ups.
We’re looking forward to seeing you in the snow!
Volunteering at ICF: September Weekends Have Been Added
We’ve had such an amazing spring and summer of volunteers working on weekend projects that Bonnie Acker has added 4 more dates.
Saturday September 3 & Sunday September 4
Saturday September 10 & Sunday September 11
Contact Bonnie Acker to let her know you’re coming down (anytime between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. City Market worker hours may be earned. See the original volunteer announcement for what to bring, where to meet, etc.
Weeding carrots
So far this summer many beds of carrots (over 4000 feet) and scallions have been weeded, tomato cages installed, edges of strawberry beds were cut back, old fencing in the corral was removed, and one day was assisting the Intervale Center with pollinator plantings.
Bonnie writes about one special group of volunteers:
Members of the Black Youth in Action group.
There's a program at the Y, Black Youth in Action, and the coordinator Jervaughn Scales brought down some fellas this past Saturday and the Saturday before. This batch of teenagers gets together for a community service project once a month and our Farm was a perfect place for helping out. Along the way, in the midst of pulling huge weeds in the Abenaki corn and squash and PYO parsley, and then smaller weeds in some very very long rows of carrots and beets, these young people and Jervaughn got to hear about our Farm and how food is grown on a large scale and how tons of beautiful veggies get to many food shelves around the state.
I also think that having several of us together for side-by-side weeding, that made a deep impression on these teenagers for how people can love field-work and thrive on this sort of endeavor. One of the fellas asked me, "So, do you really like working down here?" I answered, "Yup, I really love being here and I think when you really love something, it doesn't seem like work." The fella nodded his head in complete agreement.
Strawberry field weeding.
Just a note to everyone, these mornings for volunteers wouldn't be continuing without Mark's amazing dedication (it's so true Mark!) and without the amazing help of two new Farm members Richard and Emily Moore (you Richard have come to every single weekend morning and Emily has come to most!)! It really has been "taking a village" to keep these times so enjoyable and productive. Thank you so much Mark and Richard for the mornings with these teenagers who now have such meaningful memories of making a difference!
Thank you to everyone who has come to the volunteer days so far. We look forward to seeing you for any of the four final days of the season.
2022 Annual Meeting and Pizza Party!!
We’re excited to announce we’ll be having our 2022 Annual Meeting of the Intervale Community Farm Cooperative….IN PERSON.
Saturday, September 10, 5:00-7:00 at the summer pick-up area at the farm.
Join the Intervale Community Farm staff and board for an evening of pizza, produce, and sociability, interspersed with brief presentations from ICF staff and Board members.
ICF will provide food, plates, cutlery, napkins, and water, but feel free to bring your own reusables and drinks if you like!
Cash beer available from Full Barrel Cooperative Brewery, no outside alcohol permitted.
Bring chairs, blankets, bug spray, hats.
Please leave your pets at home.
All ICF CSA members are invited and encouraged to attend.
Please RSVP here.
Annual Meeting Agenda
We will also have a short annual meeting of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative interspersed during the evening, featuring:
Farm business report
ICF community activities report
Intervale Community Farm Board of Directors report
Member open forum
Board elections will be held electronically at a future date.
ICF Staff 2022
We always post a picture of our staff as close to the first pick-up day as possible. Some work part-time so we do the best we can to have everyone at the farm on picture day.
Missing: Silas Branson, Samantha DuPont, Sophie Perry (new in 2022.)
From left to right, kneeling: Georgia McDougall, Kathleen Sueltz (new in 2022), Colin Swanson, Sarah Howe, Andy Jones.
From left to right, standing: Will Pearl, Bella Palmieri, Maya Bower, Aly Martelle, Kathie Sullivan, Chris Spencer.
Summer Shares Will Begin Soon (and how we got to this point)
The workings of any farm are a series of cycles and a pattern of rhythms, tweaked slightly from year to year but otherwise, certain tasks and events can be counted on every year.
The winter is a time for farmers to evaluate the prior year’s crops (failures, successes, improvements) and design the crop plan for the coming year. They evaluate equipment needs and repairs, building repairs, staff roles. There is always something going on behind the scenes.
What members see are winter pick-ups, sign-up forms for the summer, and then they wait, anxiously, to be told when summer shares begin.
Summer share pick-ups will begin on Monday, June 6 and Thursday, June 9. Both days from 2:00-6:30.
But how did we get here?
March
The propagation house (the heated greenhouse) opened on March 7 and onions were the first seeds in the pots. Each week another crop is seeded until the tables in the house are jam packed with trays of little green shoots.
·As of May 26, the greenhouse is largely empty since the plants have gone into the ground. A second round of seedlings has been started.
April
In April, direct seeding to the fields happens. Spinach, carrots, and beets are sown in rows and covered for warmth. At the same time, head lettuce, kale, cabbage, broccoli, herbs, and onions are transplanted to the fields. And the first beneficial critters were ordered to keep the bad bugs at bay!
Most of the seasonal staff returned. We had an all-staff meeting to go over policies, food safety procedures, etc. Volunteer workdays were announced. The winter share survey was distributed to members.
Irrigation lines are repaired and placed.
May
May transplants include baby lettuce, zucchini, yellow squash, more head lettuce, chard, more broccoli, more onions and herbs, flowers. Also in May, tomatoes go into the high tunnels and cucumbers are planted.
·While the planting continues, this year we had to repair the damaged hoop houses on the summer side of the farm. Repairs were completed and peppers were transplanted to all 6 houses.
·In the shop, tractors are inspected, hoses and gears are checked. All fluids and filters are replaced.
The farmer training program at UVM included a visit to the farm and the first work rotation began.
Bonnie Acker hosted Aziza Malik's 5th grade class from Champlain Elementary School at the farm to paint 18 new signs for the pick-your-own crops and the class also planted the Kids’ Garden. (See below.)
·Electric fencing is placed once crops are in the field.
The first volunteer workday was held and the corral fencing was pulled down.
And the weeding in fields started: flamers were used to kill surface weeds before planting and row covers were placed for warmth and to limit weeds.
The administrative tasks, behind the curtain, ramp up in mid-January and just keep going: it’s a lot of tweaking, balancing, communicating, informing, and orienting for 650 shares (and up to 1000 families.)
We are looking forward to seeing you and your families again and growing healthy food for you. See you in a very short time!
Volunteer Opportunities at ICF
For the third year, Board members Bonnie Acker and Mark Twery will be coordinating weekend work mornings for ICF and City Market members and volunteers.
Tasks will be both useful and enjoyable for everyone! Most weeks will entail weeding while there may be opportunities to tend some of the crops connected to the Abenaki Land Link Project.
City Market members may earn member-worker hours by contacting City Market for details.
The Particulars
WHERE: Intervale Community Farm is in Burlington just past Gardeners Supply. Follow Intervale Road downhill until the pavement ends. The ICF is the first driveway on the left. We'll meet in the parking lot right there!
TIME: 7:00-11:00am
Please feel free to come down for the entire time or any part. Every moment of your helping will be treasured!
DATES: Two weekends a month:
Saturday & Sunday: May 21-22
Saturday & Sunday: May 28-29
Saturday & Sunday: June 18-19
Saturday & Sunday: June 25-26
Saturday & Sunday: July 23-24
Saturday & Sunday: July 30-31
Saturday & Sunday: August 20-21
Saturday & Sunday: August 27-28
WEAR: Durable work-clothes and footwear, sun-protective hats, sunglasses and bug-spray are very helpful for farm-projects!
BRING: A water bottle, work-gloves, clippers and loppers if you have these but we'll have extra gloves and tools to share.
CHILDREN: All will be very welcome as long as there's an adult with them!
MASK-POLICY: The ICF will continue to be a mask-friendly place where everyone can feel free to wear one!
RSVP & QUESTIONS:
To sign-up or obtain more information, please contact ICF Board member Bonnie Acker.
Signing-up helps us organize tasks and tools, notify you if a morning is cancelled due to challenging weather, and inform you if there is a limit on the number of participants. We're really looking forward to seeing you this summer!
Abenaki Land Link Project
In 2020, the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation partnered with the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) and Rooted in Vermont, a program of the Vermont Farm to Plate Network, to tackle the problems of food security and food sovereignty among native peoples in Vermont. The Abenaki Land Link project was then born. The idea was to distribute native seeds of Algonquin squash, Koasek Calais Mix corn, Calais Flint corn, True Cranberry beans, Skunk beans, and Vermont Mohawk beans to gardeners, homesteaders, and farmers around the state. They would then grow vegetables to be returned to Abenaki people via three food shelves as part of the food security program of the organization, Abenaki Helping Abenaki.
In its pilot year, 2020, the focus was to grow crops for seed, to increase the quantity of seeds available for these rare indigenous crops. Fifteen gardeners, homesteaders, and farmers from around the state were provided seeds from the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation. With such a successful first season, the program expanded to 40 growers in 2021.
In 2021, ICF was lucky enough to be a part of the project. We grew Algonquin squash, Calais flint corn, and True Cranberry beans. You may have unknowingly passed them on your way out to pick hot peppers and cherry tomatoes. With the help of volunteer community members on weekend work days, the farm grew and harvested over 800 pounds of vegetables to be given back to the Abenaki people. Our harvest, along with the harvests of the other 39 grower participants, were gathered and collected by the Abenaki Land Link Project. In early November, volunteers threshed and winnowed the beans as well as husked and shelled the corn. The squash was distributed fresh throughout the fall and what was left over was processed and frozen to be distributed throughout 2022.
To reinforce our commitment to the Abenaki people, we have worked with Chief Don Stevens to state our intention at each meeting of the ICF Board by reading the following statement aloud:
We are on the land which has served as a site of meeting and exchange among indigenous peoples for thousands of years and is the home of the Western Abenaki Peoples. The Intervale Community Farm honors, recognizes, and respects these peoples, especially the Abenaki, as the traditional stewards of the place where we gather today. In that spirit, we acknowledge that we are guests on this land. We need to respect and help protect the lands and waters within our use.
In 2022, ICF hopes to deepen its relationship with the Abenaki Land Link Project and the Abenaki people. The Abenaki people have been on this land, the land where our farm exists, for 1000’s of years. For millennia, the Abenaki grew food in the same soil where we grow food. The kale or carrots in your CSA share is grown on the same land where Abenaki people once grew Calais flint corn and True Cranberry beans to sustain themselves. The Abenaki Land Link Project has brought these indigenous seeds back to their home. We are honored and humbled to be able to grow these treasured seeds to produce food for native peoples throughout the state.
ICF Farmer Chris Spencer contributed to this story.
2022 Summer Share Sign-Up is Open: Join Us for Our 33rd Year
Dear ICF CSA member,
Though 2022 is off to a chilly and bumpy start, rest assured that the staff at Intervale Community Farm are hard at work busily preparing for a productive, restorative, and extraordinary 2022 summer season. Despite our human uncertainties, the vegetables, flowers, and herbs are primed and ready to grow. Share in the determination of a seed and sign up now for your 2022 summer share.
To sign up for a 2022 summer share, visit our website here. You can find out more specific information about the offerings on our Summer Share page. In 2021, demand for shares continued to rise rose, and we regrettably turned away many ICF CSA members who did not sign up in time. Avoid this fate and enjoy other benefits of being a co-op member-owner, by joining Intervale Community Farm Cooperative as a member-owner. See sidebar graphic for details.
A word about 2022 share prices: rising costs for inputs and supplies combined with a desire to improve farm wages has us raising share prices more than usual, around 7%, just shy of $2/week for small shares. We have also eliminated our paid-in-full pre-payment discount, as it generally favors those who can easily pay entirely up front. That said, we do appreciate full payment, and hope you will continue to do so if you are able.
Please watch for emails and information from Intervale Community Farm and please add kathie@intervalecommunityfarm.com to your allowed email. We will let you know what is happening on the farm and keep you informed about our upcoming summer season. Thank you everyone who contacted us after the recent vandalism of our greenhouse tunnels and the neighbors' beehives. We are truly uplifted by the outpouring of community support.
If you have friends, family, or colleagues who are interested in a summer share at ICF, now is the time to send them our way. Find out more information via the links above, call us at 658-2919x1, or email info@intervalecommunityfarm.com.
On behalf of the Intervale Community Farm staff and Board,
Andy Jones, Farm Manager
Wrapping up 2021: Annual Crop Review
Farm Manager Andy Jones summarizes the highs and lows of our recent growing season.
With the 2021 outdoor growing season in the rearview mirror, I can say I am grateful that Intervale Community Farm was able to have a fairly normal year, despite ongoing adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeing members picking strawberries, cutting flowers, chatting with farmers, was a happy sight after 2020. The busy sandbox and plastic-car traffic jams in the courtyard were a big emotional lift. Thank you all for sticking with ICF through a challenging and uncertain time; your enthusiasm and support have been a big lift to the staff and board.
As usual some crops did very well: strawberries (remember those?) were the best we’ve seen in a decade, with good productivity, a longer season, and excellent quality. Onions were well above average, and the flowers were beautiful and bountiful. Our aim to extend the picking windows for cucumbers and peppers bore fruit, churning out fruit for long stretches of the summer. Going into winter share 2021-2022, we have full stores of nearly all of our storage roots and such, with baby greens, kale, and herbs, all looking good.
While some crops did well, others flirted with or fully embraced failure. We struggled with many of our “B” crops this year: basil, beans, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts. I could tell you a long and sad tale about each of them, but the common thread through all were insects and/or weather. ICF saw more insect pressure overall than any other season in recent memory, and wetter summers and autumns always foster foliar diseases.
Share values for our 2021 summer share and 2020-2021 winter share were right around our targets. Though these analyses are only reflective of the aggregate experience, not the individual share that you selected off of the tables and out of the fields, it does show some relationship to the wider produce pricing arena. The following charts show the sticker price of a full-price share in blue, with the additional value of produce beyond that price in red. For the summer share this includes a portion of the pick-your-own crops, as many people do not pick all of the available PYO.
2021 ICF Board Election Results
We are pleased to announce the results of the recent Intervale Community Farm Cooperative Board Elections. Almost half of the eligible cooperative members voted for incumbents Lis Mickenberg and Mark Twery and for newcomer Mandy St. Hilaire. Their new terms will begin in January 2022.
Thank you to all of the candidates willing to run for the board of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative. Your willingness to serve on the board is what has built ICF into a strong community farm. Thank you also to the members of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative for taking the time to vote in the election and demonstrating your enthusiasm and support for ICF.
Not a co-op member? You can become one here.
Reminder: Vote for the ICF Board of Directors
Intervale Community Farm is owned and controlled by the 300+ members of Intervale Community Farm Cooperative. ICF Co-op is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors. Three board members are elected annually to serve a three-year term.
The candidates prepared videos which were played at our virtual annual meeting on November 3. You can see the videos by clicking on a candidate name below.
Kathy Connolly
Lis Mickenberg (incumbent)
Mandy St. Hilaire
Mark Twery (incumbent)
Only members in good standing of the Intervale Community Farm Cooperative are eligible to vote in this election and received an electronic ballot. If you are unsure of your status please contact Kathie.
If you would like to become a member of the Cooperative go here for more information.
2021 ICF Cooperative Annual Meeting: Recording is Now Available
If you missed our virtual annual meeting on November 3 you can Watch the entire meeting here.
We have posted a recording of the meeting which includes the slideshow and annual report from Farm Manager Andy Jones, Board of Directors Candidate videos for our current election, and several other tidbits.
You can review the videos of the Board candidates directly below:
Lis Mickenberg (incumbent)
Mark Twery (incumbent)
If you are a member in good standing of the ICF Cooperative you received a link to the ballot via email. If you did not receive a link or are unsure of your co-op status, please contact Kathie.
It’s not too late to become a member of the Co-op! Find out more here.
2021 ICF Board of Directors Elections
Immediately following the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Intervale Community Farm Cooperative electronic ballots were emailed to all co-op members in good standing. To be in good standing, your equity contributions must be paid in full ($200) or current to 2021 (at the rate of $25 per year since your date of joining the cooperative.)
If you think you should have received a ballot and did not, please do the following:
check Spam folder
check Promotions folder if you have a Gmail address
contact Kathie to check your co-op status.
You can join the ICF Co-op at any time! If you join before the expiration of the 2021 voting period on November 17, you may still vote in this election. Go here to find out more about becoming a member of the ICF Cooperative.