Growing Life Skills

Seedling CSA Preorder

Meet Devynn!  She’s 15-years-old, a second-year Dream Maker, and as the business “owner” she and the GaitWay Garden team will be bringing you an array of homegrown goodies. From starter plants to take home and plant into your own gardens, to fresh produce to make delicious meals with, to gorgeous cut flower bouquets, the GaitWay Garden will be there to support you as you enjoy gardening season this year.

Scroll down to learn more about our Devynn and her team, our CSA program, or all the wonderful products.  Or if you are ready to order just click the button!

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From the ground UP

At GaitWay we teach our girls more than just horsemanship, we teach them an array of essential life skills, like entrepreneurship, teamwork, fiscal responsibility, planning, and time management … all of which they will get to experience this spring and summer as they build their GaitWay Garden business from the ground up (pun intended).

Their First Fundraiser

Devynn and her garden team’s first fundraiser this year will be selling seedling/start plant bundles for you to plant into your own gardens after the last frost. They’ll be offering a Basic Vegetable Garden Bundle, a Salsa Garden Bundle, and an Herb Garden Bundle.

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What is a CSA?

Notes about a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. The definition of a CSA is a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community’s farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of agricultural growth.

Grow with Us

When you buy into GaitWay’s Seedling CSA via your donation, you are sharing the risk of growing with Devynn and her team. For example: if you purchase the salsa bundle and Devynn doesn’t get any of her tomatillo seeds to germinate and turn into seedlings, you will receive two less plants than the bundle states. There won’t be a refund for those plants, as she as the farmer used those funds to purchase the soil and the seeds.

***We want to be very clear that when you donate to the Seedling CSA, you are taking a risk that you may not get all the plants listed.

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GaitWay Gardening to Her Success

GaitWay Dream Makers - Responsibility

From the ground UP

At GaitWay we teach our girls more than just horsemanship, we teach them an array of essential life skills, like entrepreneurship, teamwork, fiscal responsibility, planning, and time management … all of which they will get to experience this spring and summer as they build their GaitWay Garden business from the ground up (pun intended).

GaitWay Dream Makers - Teamwork & Communication

Their First Fundraiser

Devynn and her garden team’s first fundraiser this year will be selling seedling/start plant bundles for you to plant into your own gardens after the last frost. They’ll be offering a Basic Vegetable Garden Bundle, a Salsa Garden Bundle, and an Herb Garden Bundle.

GaitWay Dream Makers - Perseverance & Grit

What is a CSA?

Notes about a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. The definition of a CSA is a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community’s farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of agricultural growth.

GaitWay Dream Makers - Work Ethic & Discipline

Grow with Us

When you buy into GaitWay’s Seedling CSA via your donation, you are sharing the risk of growing with Devynn and her team. For example: if you purchase the salsa bundle and Devynn doesn’t get any of her tomatillo seeds to germinate and turn into seedlings, you will receive two less plants than the bundle states. There won’t be a refund for those plants, as she as the farmer used those funds to purchase the soil and the seeds.

***We want to be very clear that when you donate to the Seedling CSA, you are taking a risk that you may not get all the plants listed.

Spring Seedling CSA Preorder

Select Your Bundle

Basic Vegetable Garden Bundle

$84 – 28 Plants

Slicing tomato:  6 plants (Red Delicious, Beefsteak, Rutgers Mix)
Cherry tomato: 6 plants (Yellow Pear, Red Cherry, Sweetie Mix)
Cucumbers: 6 plants (Armenian, Lemon, Marketmore Mix)
Bell peppers: 6 plants (Wonder Bell)
Jalapenos: 2 plants
Hot pepper: 2 plants (Assorted)

Salsa Garden Bundle

$72 – 24 Plants

Slicing tomato:  4 plants (Roma, San Marzano, Beefsteak Mix)
Bell peppers: 4 plants (Wonder Bell)
Tomatillos: 2 plants (Rio Grande Verde, Pineapple Mix)
Hot pepper: 2 plants (Random Assortment)
Jalapenos: 2 plants
Onions: 6 plants (White Grano/White Sweet Spanish Mix)

Herb Garden Bundle

$63 – 21 Plants

Chives – 3 plants
Thyme – 3 plants
Cilantro – 3 plants
Oregano – 3 plants
Sage – 3 plants
Basil – 3 plants

Basic Vegetable Garden Bundle

$84 – 28 Plants

Slicing tomato:  6 plants (Red Delicious, Beefsteak, Rutgers Mix)
Cherry tomato: 6 plants (Yellow Pear, Red Cherry, Sweetie Mix)
Cucumbers: 6 plants (Armenian, Lemon, Marketmore Mix)
Bell peppers: 6 plants (Wonder Bell)
Jalapenos: 2 plants
Hot pepper: 2 plants (Assorted)

Salsa Garden Bundle

$72 – 24 Plants

Slicing tomato:  4 plants (Roma, San Marzano, Beefsteak Mix)
Bell peppers: 4 plants (Wonder Bell)
Tomatillos: 2 plants (Rio Grande Verde, Pineapple Mix)
Hot pepper: 2 plants (Random Assortment)
Jalapenos: 2 plants
Onions: 6 plants (White Grano/White Sweet Spanish Mix)

Herb Garden Bundle

$63 – 21 Plants

Chives – 3 plants
Thyme – 3 plants
Cilantro – 3 plants
Oregano – 3 plants
Sage – 3 plants
Basil – 3 plants

Spring Seedling CSA Preorder

Select Your Bundle

Details and important dates of the Seedling CSA Preorder

  • Orders must be purchased through the online donation link by 6pm on March 29, 2024.
  • The GaitWay Garden team will be starting all the seeds for the bundles on March 30th, 2024.
  • Seedling bundles will be available for pickup at Grit & Grace Ranch in Hillsboro, MO on May 18, 2024 from 1-3pm.
  • Can’t make it that day/time? You can send someone to pick them up for you, or email Garden@gaitwayinc.org to set up an alternate time for pickup during Grit & Grace Ranch’s normal business hours. ALL SEEDLING BUNDLES MUST BE PICKED UP BY 8 PM TUESDAY MAY 21, 2024 OR THEY WILL BE DONATED BACK TO GAITWAY AND PLANTED IN OUR GARDEN FOR THE SEASON.
  • If you have any questions we haven’t covered here, please email garden@gaitwayinc.org and Devynn will get back to you as soon as possible.

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