As many of you may know that as co-founders of Quail Springs Permaculture and Wilderness Youth Project, my wife Cyndi and I started with our family and a few friends a farm near to Carpinteria that is based on permaculture design, family values, and economic return.  Casitas Valley Farm, a Regenerative Earth Enterprise, is a for-profit family farm that is dedicated to bringing ecological and community benefit and doing it in a way that is economically viable.  We are located just over six miles from Carpinteria, California on Highway 150 between Santa Barbara and Ventura near to the coast on the way to Casitas Lake and the Ojai Valley.

Our hundreds of fuyu persimmon trees have lost their leaves and the fruit is hanging there like beautiful sweet jewels waiting for the harvest.   We will begin harvesting this coming week and need volunteers to help with the picking.  From this Wednesday to Sunday, December 4th-8th, from 10am-4pm each day.  You can join us for all or part of each day or for every day if you like and you can take home persimmons as a thank you gift to feed and enjoy with your friends and family.  At the end of each day, we will offer a tour of the farm to those who helped pick so you can see what we are doing to create this financially viable permaculture endeavor.  We have integrated systems with pigs, a fully licensed organic cow's milk cheese creamery, avocados, apples, walnuts, berries, initial testing of broad scale understory orchard plantings, family garden, a future market garden site, a wedding site, and a thriving roadside farm stand.

Please RSVP by replying to this email (warrenbrush@mac.com) and let me know right away if you can participate and when you can come during those times.  Also, if you have other kindred people you know who might be interested please forward this request to them or check in with them directly.  For some of you, this may also qualify for community service hours as we are a farm dedicated to community and ecological benefit.

What you will need: