Community Supported Agriculture :: CSA
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**We are sold out of our winter shares for 2018-2019! Thank you! Consider signing up for next summer! Winter Bounty! With so many ways to find local food these days, why choose a Community Supported Agriculture share? When you directly support a farm through your CSA subscription, especially in the “off” season, you help us weather the financial highs and lows of a typical growing cycle. The majority of our farm expenses happen long before a season starts, and your subscription allows us to invest in the upcoming months without taking on more debt. Though we may sell wholesale to the Coop or local restaurants, CSA members are the heart of many small farms, including ours. Your membership sustains us for the long term! Thank you! • Receive the freshest produce in the heart of an unusual season. Try some new recipes! • Receive fruits and vegetables grown without synthetic herbicides, insecticides, fungicides or fertilizers. • Directly support a local farm dedicated to building healthy soils, open-pollinated seeds, and biodiversity. • Support our local economy – for every dollar you spend with a local farmer, the majority gets spent again in the community. If local consumers spent just 10% more of their food budgets on local food instead of products imported outside the area, we would create several hundred million dollars more for the local community and thousands of jobs. • Reduce the food miles of your produce and help lessen our impact on the climate. What goes in the weekly winter box? All the produce that you will receive in the winter box is grown in Chequamegon Bay, and most of it is grown at Elsewhere Farm. The weekly greens are harvested right from our greenhouse throughout the winter. • Greens: You’ll get a bag of salad mix, a bouquet of braising greens, and/or sunflower sprouts every week, cut fresh from our winter greenhouse. • Fruit: Dried apples, fruit preserves, and frozen cider make up our winter fruit offerings. • Storage Veggies: You’ll get a rotation of beets, carrots, daikons, garlic, onions, potatoes, squash, and a few other goodies grown for the winter. • Other Treats: You can also relish cheese (chevre or feta) from Sassy Nanny and Happy Hollow, fresh and dried herbs, flavored vinegar, organic eggs from our flock, and pickled products. How will I get my weekly produce? We’ll arrange a convenient pick-up site near you. On Wednesdays your box of fresh produce will be there by 3:00 p.m. in Chequamegon Bay and 4:30 p.m. in Duluth. We’ll provide all the details to you in a pre-season email, after we have finalized our membership. Winter CSA Logistics In order to participate in the CSA, you’ll need two mid-sized coolers (about 38 qts each) labeled with your name. You’ll leave an empty cooler when you pick up your weekly delivery, and we’ll pick it up to fill for the next week. Coolers are important because the produce will be moving in and out of a car and other staging areas in all sorts of winter weather…. We want to avoid frozen greens! The CSA will run from the first week in December, 2018 through the last week of March, 2019. Seventeen weeks of fresh local produce in the heart of winter! Deliveries will be Wednesdays every week with some double boxes to avoid holidays. We’ll email a short newsletter most weeks that gives some recipe suggestions, general farm and food news, and CSA logistical announcements, so please provide your email when you sign up. The total cost for a winter CSA share is $580.00. (That’s $33 per week.) You can send us a check (make it out to Clare Hintz and mail it to the address at the top of the website page), or you can use the PayPal link below (there is an additional $20 fee for paying through this method because of PayPal fees and handling.) |
Winter CSA 2019
$600.00 with PayPal fees |
Summer CSA 2018
$635.00 with PayPal fees; subtract $20 if you mail a check |
Full Year CSA 2018-2019
$1200.00 |