Community Supported Agriculture :: CSA

Summer 2019 CSA Shares Now Available!

As a CSA shareholder, you are deeply connected to your farmer, and help provide her livelihood.  The majority of farm expenses are due in the spring; your share cost helps the farm cash flow cycle.  While there are many ways to access local foods today, your direct involvment with this farm is at the core of its ability to remain in business.  Most of your share money is then spent in the local community!  You share the risks and joys of the farming season directly with the farm. 

We are a woman-owned business committed to:
  • The freshest possible produce you can buy.
  • Growing nutrient dense foods in healthy soils.
  • Growing on a human-scaled, carbon-conscious farm (minimal use of large, fossil-fuel-driven equipment, and powering the farm through solar!).
  • Growing less common fruits high in antioxidants and minerals.
  • Growing open-pollinated crops and preserving our seed heritage.
  • Raising rare breed livestock.
  • Fruits and vegetables grown without synthetic herbicides, insecticides, fungicides or fertilizers.
  • Biodiversity, including pollinators.
  • Supporting the next generation of farmers through our internship programs.
  • Supporting local sustainable economic development (the majority of our business purchases are local).

Eat Well
Each week you’ll enjoy six to ten different crops picked at the height of flavor and freshness:
  • Greens: You’ll get a bag of salad mix, a head of lettuce, or a bouquet of braising greens every week
  • Fruit: fruit preserves, strawberries, raspberries, saskatoons, currants, elderberries, cider, and other organically-grown fruits in season.
  • Veggies: beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, radishes, summer squash, winter squash, tomatoes, and turnips, oh my!  As weather permits.
  • Other Treats: You can also relish cheese from Happy Hollow Creamery, fresh herbs, sprouts, eggs, and occasional pickled products.

How will I get my weekly produce?
We’ll arrange a convenient pick-up site near you in Ashland, Bayfield, Duluth (five neighborhoods), Herbster, Iron River, Port Wing, Superior, and Washburn.  Every Wednesday your box of fresh produce will be there by 3 p.m. (4:30 in Superior/Duluth) for pick-up.  We’ll provide all the details to you in a pre-season email, after we have finalized our membership.

How It Works
The CSA will run from Wednesday June 5, 2019 through Wednesday, October 16th, 2019.  Twenty weeks of fresh local produce!  Deliveries will be Wednesdays to Ashland, Bayfield, Duluth, Herbster, Iron River, Port Wing, Superior, or Washburn.

We’ll email a short newsletter regularly that gives some recipe suggestions, general farm and food news, and CSA logistical announcements, so please provide your email when you sign up. 

The price for a summer CSA share is $620.00.  (That’s $31 per week.) 
 
Make the check payable to Clare Hintz and mail to the address at the top of the screen or you can use the PayPal option below (there is an added fee for processing with this option.) 

You can also get on our pig list for next year's whole or half shares of pork.  Contact the farm for smaller quantities!

American Guinea Hog Pork
It's bacon with a conscience!  These friendly guys are the fertility behind our fruits and vegetables and they also do a great job weeding and eliminating insect pests in the apples, making it way easier to grow organically.  Your purchase of pork allows us to select only the best animals for reproduction as we rebuild this threatened breed.  The pigs are raised on pasture and get a small supplement of 100% certified organic grain.
Winter CSA 2019
$600.00 with PayPal fees
Summer CSA 2019
$635.00 with PayPal fees; subtract $15 if you mail a check
Full Year CSA 2019-2020
$1200.00