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This
directory is also available as a
PDF document. CSA VIDEO: Ever wonder what it's like to belong to a CSA farm? Check out this new three-minute video by Larry Schmidt and Katy Podolinsky: Community Supported Agriculture: What to expect when you join a farm. What
is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)? What
does CSA membership involve? Although each CSA farm makes its own arrangements with its members and has its own expectations of them, being involved with a CSA operation always means sharing the rewards as well as the risks of farming. The rewards include: enjoying the freshest produce available, often harvested the same day you receive it; knowing where, how and by whom your food is being produced; having a direct connection with the people who produce your food; and supporting the kind of stewardship that is good for the land as well as its people. The risks include weather and pests. Though formidable for small, self-sustaining farmers, these risks are bearable when shared by a group of subscribers. By linking together through CSA operations, farmers and consumers alike can benefit from an agriculture that provides beautiful and bountiful food while preserving the ecological and social basis necessary for coming generations to be so blessed. The
Farms in this Directory But it has become clear in recent years that the CSA model is no longer exclusive to the metro area. Numerous farmers have determined they do not need to deliver their products to the Twin Cities to remain viable, and have found a supportive market closer to home. That’s why the publication of the 2011 CSA Directory marks the first time that LSP is featuring not only farms that deliver to the Twin Cities, but also operations that deliver only in outstate Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The farms delivering to the Twin Cities are listed on pages 6-68. The farms delivering to outstate Minnesota and western Wisconsin are on pages 70-85. The farms listed in this directory have paid a fee to the Land Stewardship Project to be included. The Land Stewardship Project is not a certification agency for Community Supported Agriculture farms and does not guarantee customer satisfaction. Please keep in mind that while membership in a CSA farm means sharing in the bounty of the season, it also means sharing in the risks. At times, raising food in the Upper Midwest can be made quite challenging by inclement weather, pest infestations and other factors beyond the farmers’ control. We encourage you to contact the farms directly and ask questions to determine what best fits with your needs, lifestyle and schedule. We recommend reading the “Selecting a CSA” and “Questions to Ask the Farmers” guides on pages 3 and 4 before beginning your search for a CSA operation that fits you best. Good luck as you take that first step into an exciting sector of our food system! Selecting
a CSA
*Ideas and wording used for this list taken from MACSAC, the Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition. Questions to Ask a CSA Farmer Below are a few questions that should be asked of any farmer you are considering entering into a CSA relationship with. Potential CSA members should not be shy about asking such questions — and a good CSA farmer should be forthcoming with answers. After all, this is about creating a trusting relationship built on good food, good stewardship and good friendships.
A Quick CSA Guide To purchase a share of fresh food for the season, contact any of the following farms directly. Click on a link for more information about that farm. *FARMS SOLD OUT OF SHARES FOR THE SEASON ARE NOTED BELOW
Farms That Deliver to Outstate Minn. & Western Wis.
Farms That Deliver to the Twin Cities Axdahl’s Garden Farm & Greenhouse Twenty weekly shares will begin in June with fresh herbs, salad bowls, flowering hanging baskets and bedding plants. Summer veggies include sweet corn, green and wax beans, zucchini and yellow squash, cucumbers, regular and heirloom tomatoes, grape and cherry tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant and more. Fall brings a cornucopia of pumpkins, hard squash, Brussels sprouts and fall decorations. Weekly drop-offs will be available at our garden center in Stillwater, at the River Market Co-op in Stillwater, and at select centralized locations for groups of 20 members or more by request. As a special gift for our CSA members, we will provide a membership card which offers a 15% discount on any regular priced product we have at our garden farm April through December. Call, e-mail, and/or check out our website for program prices and more details. Big
River Farms CSA Our 18-week season runs mid-June through mid-October. Your membership gets you a weekly box of the season’s finest, delivered to neighborhood sites across the greater metro area. The veggies we pack into your box each week will vary with the rhythms of the growing season. This means that in the early boxes you might see snap peas, broccoli, scallions and greens (among others). The heat of the summer will bring along garden favorites like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, potatoes, summer squash and more. As we wind into fall, look for different varieties of winter squash, lots of roots and greens. We also participate in a program called Harvest for the Hungry, which works with regional farms to get fresh produce into local food pantries. Donations are matched 100%, and the money is used to purchase food from our farmers-in-training for the food pantries. Donations to either MFA or Harvest for the Hungry can always be added onto share prices. Please call or visit www.mnfoodassociation.org for more information on farm tours, CSA share details/sign-up, and MFA workshops/events. Big Woods Farm A full share includes 18 weekly distributions (8-30 pounds, depending on time of the season) of produce, available beginning in mid-June, at four locations: at the farm on Mondays, at Just Food Co-op in Northfield on Mondays or Thursdays, at Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville on Thursdays and in South Minneapolis near Lake Nokomis on Thursdays. Two festivals are held each season: a height-of-the-summer garlic and vegetable cookout, and a fall pumpkin and winter squash harvest potluck. At the latter, members help pick the squash and pumpkins, and take home a cache for the winter plus jack-o-lanterns for the doorstep. Members are welcome to visit the farm most anytime to work up a sweat in the garden or to simply wander about, enjoying the countryside. The chance to pick-your-own flowers, cherry tomatoes, basil and green beans, available as the summer progresses, is included with your share. Bike Farm Located in the beautiful rolling countryside of Cushing, Wis., our delivery area includes the St. Croix River Valley and Twin Cities metro area. This season we will be offering CSA shares in two different size boxes. A full share (3/4 bushel box) consists of 7-12 varieties of vegetables; while a half share (5/9 bushel box) will contain 5-9 varieties. We have approximately 50 shares available, with a limited number of half-shares. Several delivery options are available. We offer delivery to your doorstep (via the amazing bicycle, where applicable), group drop-sites (three or more boxes to a single location), or on-farm pick-up. Price breaks will be given to boxes dropped to group sites or picked up on the farm. Our season spans 18 weeks with vegetables delivered every Thursday from mid-June until early October. A weekly newsletter will accompany each box with farm news, photos and recipes. It’s been our experience that the most important part of the CSA model is the “C.” Community is what sets this apart from other consumer/producer relationships. We want you to come out to the farm and see where your food is grown and meet the people that grow it. We look forward to bringing our work to your table. Bistro Farm In addition to your share box, our drop-sites are full of self-serve baskets of fresh herbs and salad greens. Special deliveries in-season may include fresh flowers, a week of the finest sweet corn and the fall harvest box. Deliveries begin in June and run every Thursday for approximately 14 weeks. We serve the Uptown Minneapolis and St. Paul areas with easily accessible and centrally located drop sites. Please visit us at www.thebistrofarm.com for more information. Blackberry
Community Farm A share (5/9 bushel, average box 16 pounds) of seasonal, sustainably grown produce is delivered for 18 weeks (mid-June through mid-October). We will deliver more than 40 kinds of vegetables, fruits and herbs. The focus will be on the basics, but members will also receive strawberries, raspberries, apples, and two Jacob’s Lip & Body Balms. Free pick-your-own flowers and wild blackberries will be available. There will be eight Tuesday pick-up sites: 1) Farm; 2) Menomonie Market Food Co-op in Menomonie, Wis.; 3) Prochel’s, 782 Holly Ave. in St. Paul); 4) Patagonia, 1648 Grand Ave. in St. Paul; 5) Seward Co-op, 2823 E. Franklin in Minneapolis; 6) Eastside Co-op, 2551 Central Ave. NE in Minneapolis; 7) Ecopolitan, 2409 Lyndale Ave. in Minneapolis; 8) Lucia’s Restaurant, 1432 W. 31st in Minneapolis. Members are welcome to visit or volunteer. There will be a strawberry festival and a fall festival. Our farm practices are all sustainable, without harmful chemicals. We invite you to share God’s beauty and abundance of the land and the love of our labor! • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Burning
River Farm We have 200+ memberships available for the 2011 season, which runs 18 weeks from early June until mid-October. Deliveries are made every Thursday to a drop-site or directly to your home or work in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas. We have two box sizes. The 3/4 bushel family share is ideal for two veggie-loving adults or a family of four, and the 5/9 single share is ideal for one to three people. Deliveries include a farm newsletter with stories from the field, a rundown of the week’s offerings and recipes for the week’s produce. Please contact the farm for a complete list of what will be growing and to see if you are within the delivery area. You can also find us every Saturday at the Mill City Farmers’ Market. Everything is grown naturally without harmful chemicals. We had a great season last year. Please join us for another! • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
At Celestial Harvest, we grow produce with utmost care for the land. We use only natural methods to grow over 40 varieties of herbs, fruits and vegetables. We are committed to grow exceptionally tasty and nutritious produce. We use no pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers or genetically modified organisms. You will receive a box each week for 18 weeks. Choose a half share — 1/2 bushel (for two) — or a full share — 3/4 bushel (feeds four). Each box contains a variety of vegetables, herbs, fruits, berries, apples, melons and our weekly newsletter. We also offer payment plans. Your purchase of a “food share” assures you a share in our growing season — mid-June through mid-October. Over the course of the season, you will end up paying wholesale prices. Pick-up sites are in Minneapolis (multiple sites), Golden Valley, Edina and the farm. Limited delivery for 10 or more orders within the Twin Cities. We also sell to co-ops and a limited number of restaurants.
We grow 40+ different vegetables and herbs with an emphasis on the traditional favorites of green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, onions and carrots. We typically deliver for a 19- to 20-week season, beginning the middle of June and ending in October. In addition to our regular vegetable share, we offer a fruit share. We have drop-sites in 13 Twin Cities locations, including Minnetonka, St. Louis Park, South Minneapolis, the Seward and Longfellow Neighborhoods, and the Merriam Park and St. Anthony Neighborhoods of St. Paul. We have a fall festival each year that includes a potluck. Our members are welcome to visit the farm at any time. Our members often tell us that the simple act of eating locally is something that gives them hope. Consider joining us in eating well from the goodness and bounty of the earth. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
Several options available. Twenty weekly boxes are delivered from June-October. Boxes come in two sizes: “family” or “couple.” Winter shares are also available (4 deliveries every-other-week November-December) with two options, Basic Vegetables or Great Eating (veggies plus pickles, jams, fresh bread and cookies). We also have a gluten-free bakery option and a fresh bread and cookies option that can be delivered right along with your summer vegetable box. Everything is made right here on the farm. Simple eating! Additional items can be purchased online weekly and added to your weekly standard vegetable box including: fruit, jams, pickles, beef, pork, lamb, bread, cookies, gluten/dairy-free baked goods and cards. Deliveries are made to 10 sites in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Maplewood, Shoreview, Stillwater, Somerset and Osceola. No work or driving required. Visitors, families, groups and classes are very welcome to our organic dairy farm, gardens and community! Several festive events are planned throughout the year. Community Homestead is a nonprofit community of about 40 people. Families live together with adults with developmental challenges. Between homemaking, bakery, woodshop and crafts, the farm and garden, there is an important place for everyone. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Cramer
Organics Our season starts mid-June and goes to mid-October with a weekly 3/4 bushel box of over 70 varieties of vegetables, fruits and herbs, including many heirloom varieties. Our pick-up sites are Tuesday afternoons at the farm, and Thursdays at another location in Minneapolis. First-time members will receive the cookbook From Asparagus to Zucchini to help with using all your vegetables as well as providing storage tips and maintaining nutrient content. Additional recipes, farm updates, health tips and a list of box contents can also be found on our website. We hope you’ll join us! Crazy Boy Farm We grow certified organic heirloom vegetables for our CSA market. We are working to continually expand our offerings to meet our customers’ needs. Our season begins late-June and runs for 16 weeks until mid-October. Each week we provide you with a box of only the freshest, in-season, certified organic produce. We try to vary the offerings weekly and include items you are familiar with as well as interesting and exciting heirloom varieties, including items from the Slow Food USA “Ark of Taste” and Asian vegetables. Boxes vary by season. Mondays are delivery days. We offer on-farm pick-up (14220-B Ostlund Trail North, Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047), the Eastside of St. Paul (35E and Maryland), and other dropsites upon request. We offer full-time, part-time (full boxes every-other-week) and peak season (mid- July to mid-September) shares.
Join us, from the beginning of June until the middle of October, for a CSA season you are sure to never forget. Our boxes are chock-full of those vegetable goodies that you just can't get enough of such as sweet corn, tomatoes, melons and broccoli (plus much, much more!). This year we are excited to offer organic sunflower oil shares, organic grass-fed beef packs and two vegetable storage boxes in time for the holiday season. All of this, plus a newsletter with recipes and stories from the farm, and a fall harvest party to boot; does it get any better than that? Starting in June, we offer every-week shares (20 boxes) or every-other-week shares (10 boxes) and we are excited to offer SEVEN pick-up sites in the Twin Cities area: St. Paul (Hamline University Area — Thursday p.m.), Eagan (Yankee Place — Blue Cross/Blue Shield employees only — Thursday p.m.), Minnetonka (Ridgedale Mall Area — Thursday p.m.), Linden Hills neighborhood (Washburn Ave. — Thursday p.m.), the Seward neighborhood (35th Ave. S. — Thursday p.m.), Downtown Minneapolis (110 N 5th St. — Thursday p.m.), and The Eastside Co-op (Friday all day). For more information and pricing, please check out our website at www.driftlessorganics.com. Our shares fill up fast, so order yours today!
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Dance Farm For the 2011 season, we offer 150 memberships in the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Rochester areas. Grapes and sweet potatoes will be new crops in the boxes this year. A limited number of egg shares are also available. Our chickens are pastured and naturally fed. Our season runs from mid-June through October with deliveries on Thursdays. We offer some individual home deliveries and also have host family drop-sites. We encourage members to visit the farm: work in the fields, walk the woods or relax by the stream. We gather in the fall to celebrate the harvest, our lives and our relationships. Please contact us with any questions or to schedule a visit. We are Norm Gross, Laurie Nelsen, Noah Nelsen-Gross (18) and Adriana Nelsen-Gross (14). We are excited about offering the freshest, tastiest and cleanest produce that we can. Although we are not certified, we would never consider using any methods that were not organic. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
Our farm has been in Josh’s family for four generations. It was a working dairy farm until the 1980s, and we’re working hard to revitalize the farm and raise a family by growing vegetables and livestock sustainably. We have a passion for building restoration and re-use, and many of our farm buildings have been moved in or re-built from salvaged materials. Our farm is 40 acres, including wooded ravines, pasture, fields and the farm-site. We have a deep appreciation for the natural world and ecology, which is why we have chosen organic certification. Most of our fields were certified organic in 2009, with an additional 1.5 acres in transition until 2012. The soil is alive, and it is our responsibility to maintain that life, ultimately helping us grow nutritious and healthy crops. Pick-up sites are in Minneapolis, Henderson, the St. Peter Food Co-op and at the Farm.
Full and half shares are available—both are delivered weekly. Deliveries start the second week in June and continue for 18 weeks through the second week in October. Delivery sites: Fresh and Natural Foods in Hudson, River Market Co-op in downtown Stillwater and Hampden Park Co-op in St. Paul (928 Raymond Ave.). Each share includes 30 to 40 varieties of vegetables, a small selection of herbs and Eener’s ultra-hip weekly newsletter The Spinning Turnip. Eener grows pretty much all the classic garden veggies plus a few oddities. As an added bonus, full share members sporadically receive Eener’s free-range chicken eggs. Lamb, goat, pork or beef meat may be available for sale in the fall. Everything grown on Eener’s Farm is done so in a sustainable manner without the use of chemical herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers. Please see Eener’s website for share rates, more CSA details and whacky farm antics. Members are not required to work on the farm. They are welcome to visit and encouraged to attend the Big Fall Harvest Party Fest, which is held at the farm in October and involves a bonfire, food, farm tours, hay rides, pumpkins and wildlife fun. Fazenda Boa Terra Our years of experience have taught us that one of the greatest responsibilities a farmer can take on is to become a CSA farmer. With this immense devotion in mind, we strive relentlessly to provide our members with astounding shares brimming with food that is all manner of flavor, color, size, shape and texture week-after-week. With 90 varieties of vegetables, we hope to surprise you week-after-week with something new and exciting. With any luck you will be overloaded, leaving lots of extras behind that we can donate to those in need. If you want it all, that’s okay too—just don’t forget to help yourself to some fresh cut flowers and herbs from your u-pick garden when you pick up at the farm. For more information, please visit www.fazendaboaterra.com and learn all about who we are and where to find us this spring. We hope you will join us for 20 Friday festivals of food, June through October, when you get your weekly due of Fazenda Boa Terra in a box. • Products: We grow 90 varieties of vegetables plus u-pick flowers and herbs for CSA members. We also offer sweet corn and watermelon-fed pasture-raised chicken. Featherstone Fruits &
Vegetables The summer season runs 21 weeks from June through October and distributes Grande and Chica shares of fruits and vegetables in pre-packed boxes. Our winter shares extend the season for shareholders with eight boxes distributed November through February. Shareholders keep in touch with the farm through activities, receive a weekly newsletter in-season, get cooking tips from our CSA cooking blog, and regular Facebook updates. Shareholders are invited to set up a visit with their family by advance call and are also invited to attend farm-organized events, including a spring Strawberry Social (u-pick) and Fall Harvest Party. We offer an array of more than 40 vegetables; including leaf lettuce, salad mix, heirloom tomatoes, asparagus, broccoli, onions, peppers, carrots, peas, beans, potatoes and sweet corn. We also provide fruits like strawberries, raspberries, cantaloupes and watermelons. We round out the boxes with a selection of herbs throughout the season, including basil, dill and rosemary.
Chad Forsberg (owner) grew up south of Minneapolis and began growing vegetables there. It was an interest in self-sustenance and sustainability with a concern for world food security that propelled him into agriculture. It was in the Twin Cities where he began working with local chefs to provide them with the finest produce possible, searching out rare, unusual, beautiful heirloom vegetables of all kinds. Footjoy Farm produce is loved and used widely throughout the best restaurants in the cities, and it is this same produce that you will receive each week in your CSA share. Throughout the season there may be other treats that find their way into the shares when they are available, such as wild mushrooms, alpine yellow strawberries, raw honey, cuke nuts, dry beans or anything else delicious that may be grown or foraged. We have been planting a lot of various fruit trees, shrubs and vines. It is unclear Our focus is on the quality of each share and therefore the number of shares is limited. Enjoy! Fox & Fawn Farm In 2011, we will be growing 213 total varieties of 84 different crops — everything from acorn winter squash to zebra tomatoes. This year we will be adding 16 apple trees to our existing nine trees, 20 grape seedlings, 25 asparagus crowns and another 75 raspberry canes. Don’t worry—blueberries will be coming in 2012! All of our produce is available through our CSA program. CSA farms sell the bounty of the season’s harvest to interested shareholders who pay for their produce up front (when the ground is covered in snow drifts) in exchange for weekly shares of produce throughout the growing season (when the ground is covered in snow peas). Our CSA offers the bounty of the season for 18 weeks, garden-fresh recipes, stories of our triumphs and travails, and a connection to the food on your plate with farm visits and a harvest celebration in September. We deliver to Chanhassen, Chaska, Excelsior, Minneapolis (Bryn Mawr), Minnetonka, Mound, St. Paul (St. Anthony Park) Victoria, and Waconia. We offer full shares (3/4 bushel) and half shares (3/8 bushel). Deliveries start in mid-June and run until mid-October. Fall shares may also be available, weather permitting. Foxtail Farm
Foxtail Farm is located in the St. Croix River Valley south of Osceola, Wis., about 50 minutes northeast of the Twin Cities. For the 2011 growing season we have 300 memberships available. Weekly shares include 7 to 12 different vegetables and weigh 15-30 pounds. We are heavy on the basics like genovese basil, sweet corn, Yukon Gold potatoes, tomatoes and salad greens. In addition, we include a little of the unusual. A weekly newsletter is also included. We also host a Kids’ Day and an annual Fall Harvest Festival. Boxes are delivered on Thursday afternoons in the northeast metro area, including much of St. Paul, Minneapolis and the St. Croix River Valley towns of Taylors Falls, Osceola, Marine on St. Croix and Stillwater. They are delivered directly to our members’ homes or workplaces, and a reduced price is charged when multiple boxes are dropped at a single location or if the shares are picked up at the farm. Former members have first option, and after Feb. 21 remaining shares will be available for new folks. Our season runs from approximately mid-June through mid-October and averages 19 weeks. Half shares are not available. We do not require our members to work but you are always welcome on the farm. A limited number of partial work-share memberships are available. Payment plans can be arranged. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Freedom Farm This year we’re increasing our season extension with our new fifth high tunnel, expanding sales of our farm kitchen’s products — canned goods such as salsas, pickled veggies of all sorts, sauerkraut, and other lacto-fermentations. Also, we’re starting pastured hogs, upgrading our root cellar, rejuvenating the legacy vineyard, and prepping land for orchards and nut trees. We look forward to another great year. Commune with us at apple cider squeezing time. We belong to Buy Fresh Buy Local-St. Croix Valley and trained with the Minnesota Food Association and the Land Stewardship Project. We are a collective of immigrant family farmers with local international interests. Drop-off sites will be in Stillwater, St. Paul and on the farm. Fresh Earth Farms Nestled in the quiet, scenic Lower St. Croix River Valley just south of Afton, Fresh Earth Farms is just minutes from the hustle and bustle of the Twin Cities. We grow food close to our customers — just minutes from your table! At Fresh Earth Farms, we provide both deliveries to local drop-sites as well as pick-up at the farm. With on-farm pick-up, you choose the produce you take home with you. With drop-site pick-up, you have the convenience of receiving your produce close to your home. With either program you can choose either a CoupleShare — good for two people, or a FamilyShare — good for a family of three to four. We also have a solution for single person households. Our produce selection each year is both traditional and unusual. We provide food that is familiar and comfortable for most families. However, we also experiment with the unusual; we grow varieties that aren’t generally available in local stores or not typically grown here in Minnesota. At Fresh Earth Farms, you will find more than 20 varieties of tomatoes, seven varieties of potatoes and 10 varieties of garlic. Many varieties are heirlooms. We grow over 150 different fruits, vegetables and herbs. Be adventurous and try something new! In addition to our delicious vegetables, we also resell certified organic fruit; certified organic coffee; grass-fed beef, pork and chicken; and raw cheese from grass-fed cows — all from small, family farms, ranches and orchards! Gale Woods Farm The CSA operation at Gale Woods is unique because it involves teenage youth from the nearby suburbs and the cities in growing produce for the shares. In addition to learning about sustainable agriculture, they are given leadership-training opportunities and are inspired to create positive change in their home communities. Produce is also provided to needy families through the Mound West-Tonka foodshelf. Shareholders are encouraged to get involved with the farm for events such as maple syruping, lambing and calving in the spring, as well as assisting the youth farmers on workdays. The produce season runs from mid-June to early October. There are also egg and meat shares available. Shares are picked up at the farm. Grass Run Farm And it’s no secret that we’ve bet our business on the rewards of low-stress animal management, sustainable land stewardship and the common sense of growing a local food system. Our meats are processed and neatly packaged at USDA-certified facilities and have a spotless E.coli testing record. They contain no antibiotics or hormones and are processed without nitrites or MSG. Want to try before you buy? Check out our burger, bacon, hotdogs and steaks at Seward Co-op, Linden Hills Co-op, Valley Natural Foods and Mississippi Market on Selby. Our Meat CSA consists of five deliveries: once per month, May through September. Each box will contain: (4) 10-oz ribeye or New York strip steaks; (4) 8-oz top sirloin steaks; (2) pkgs of all-beef hotdogs; (4) 1-lb pkgs of ground beef; (4) 8-oz pork chops; (3) pkgs of our famous bacon; and a newsletter containing farm news and cooking suggestions. Our pick-up locations are: Seward Co-op, Linden Hills Co-op, Harvest Moon Co-op and more. Pick-up times include convenient afternoon and evening hours. Also, members may pay monthly through auto-deduct. Sign up at www.grassrunfarm.com/csa. Curious to see how we roll? Schedule a farm and warehouse tour!
We are Certified Naturally Grown, which means our produce is grown in strict accordance with the national organic standards. We grow a variety of traditional fruit and vegetable favorites, along with some unique heirloom vegetables. Our current delivery day is Monday and our drop-sites are at our farm in Prior Lake, Valley Natural Co-op in Burnsville, Mississippi Market Co-op in St. Paul and coming soon we will also have drop- sites in Bloomington and Minneapolis! We love knowing where our food comes from — who’s your farmer?!?
Starting out the vegetable season with fresh salad greens and herbs, and adding all the mid-season favorites of green beans, tomatoes, broccoli, cucumbers, peppers and more, the season will close with fall squash, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage and additional cool season vegetables. We choose varieties well-liked for their flavor. Our vegetable gardens are interspersed with flower beds and we also offer beautiful bouquets of specialty cut annual and perennial flowers. From summer pastels to hot dazzlers and autumnal jewels, our bouquets include favorite flowers such as bachelor buttons, lilies, sunflowers, zinnias and daisies with old-fashioned and new varieties. Our flowers carry no chemical residues, as we use none. 2011 is the 11th season of offering our nutritious fare to our farmer-members. Our season will run for approximately 16 weeks, with shares beginning in mid-June and ending in October. Vegetable shares average a half-bushel. A floral share is a generous bouquet. Pick-up sites are available at the farm, Cedar Summit Dairy Farm in New Prague, Chanhassen Lakewinds Co-op and at the St. Peter Food Co-op in St. Peter. A market share is available at the Prior Lake Farmer’s Market. We also have a few work shares available. Gullywash Gardens is committed to environmental farming practices, social responsibility and a sustainable food system.
Choose a 30-week share (May-December), a 20-week peak season share (June-October), or choose the weeks that you receive a box with our flex plan! We also offer a popular fruit share full of outstanding fruit produced by organic growers from across North America; certified organic Angus beef and pastured pork; certified organic Kickapoo coffee; and a cheese share featuring a selection of high quality organic cow and sheep’s milk cheeses produced by local dairy farms! Every delivery includes a newsletter with reports from the farm, plus recipes and tips from our farm chef. We offer several payment options and 12 Twin Cities delivery sites including: Bloomington, Plymouth, Linden Hills/Fulton, Lyn-Lake/Kingfield, Powderhorn/Corcoran, Northeast Minneapolis/Windom Park, Como Park, Whittier, Eden Prairie, St. Paul and Rosemount. We also deliver to our local Wisconsin area with sites in La Crosse, Onalaska and Viroqua. Members are welcome to join us for lunch and a day at the farm anytime during the season. Our meadow is always available for overnight camping and we have several member events each season, including a strawberry picking day, a summer barn dance and our fall harvest party potluck. Hog's
Back Farm Our regular season share is chock full of over 40 different crops, including lettuce, corn, carrots, beans, tomatoes, peas, squash, potatoes, garlic, broccoli, beets, onions, melons and more. Our main season runs for 18 weeks, from June to October. Our share comes in a large reusable crate which, depending on the time of year, contains from six to 26 pounds of produce. Your share also includes our informative newsletter that tells you what’s in the box and what’s going on at the farm. We also offer out popular winter shares so you can extend the good eating later into the year. The winter share consists of four deliveries every-other-week from October through Thanksgiving. The winter share overflows with cold-hardy crops like spinach, broccoli, cabbage and kale, as well as storage crops like carrots, potatoes, beets, squash, onions and garlic. We deliver shares on Thursdays to pick-up sites in Minneapolis, St. Louis Park and St. Paul. Please visit our website for a sign-up form, to read the past year’s newsletters, or to contact us if you’d like to receive a brochure by mail. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
We raise all the usual vegetables that you grew up with, but we love to raise things like ground cherries, patty pan squash, purple carrots and yellow fleshed watermelon to make sure that your eyes and taste buds are more then satisfied.
Our offerings are dynamic — what we grow is based on the feedback of CSA members and the results of trials with new crops. Salad mix, tomatoes, potatoes, sugar snap peas, broccoli, spinach and carrots are perennial favorites. We offer a great variety of veggies through our seasonal farm shares, and members find themselves eating well! An e-newsletter with preparation tips, recipes and an update from the fields is included with your weekly share. In addition to our Summer Share, we also offer a Fall Share, Winter Share (frozen), and Chicken Share (offered in the summer and fall). The Fall Share (Oct. - Nov.) contains the best of the fall crops with plenty of veggies that can be stored throughout the early winter. Our frozen Winter Share contains many of the favorite summer and fall vegetables, as well as prepared foods such as soups and pasta sauces. Vegetables for the Winter Share are harvested and processed at their peak of freshness and frozen for delivery in December and January. All of our shares are delivered to the pick-up sites mentioned above. Please visit our website (www.lafincacsa.com) for more information about our farm shares. Bring more organic vegetables and fruits to your table in 2011 by joining La Finca CSA!
Quality produce is our goal. You’ll also receive a weekly CSA Loonletter, chock-full of favorite recipes, produce tidbits and farm news. Two harvest gatherings, farm tours and u-pick opportunities are offered in the summer and fall for members. Additional produce for preserving and canning is offered to members at wholesale prices throughout the season, along with the option to extend the season with a Fall CSA Share. CSA pick-ups are at our farm a few miles west of Hutchinson, at our booth at the Mill City Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, at the Applehouse in Chanhassen, and at Harvest Moon Co-op in Long Lake. More information is available at our website: www.loonorganics.com. Marshwatch Farms Members pick up their shares at the farm’s walk-in cooler on the day they select. This is intended to eliminate rushing to meet time requirements. But more importantly, it is a way for members to connect with their “Personal Farmer” and to receive help with recipes, etc. Members also receive Chef Joe’s recipes, along with Terrie’s preserving and canning tips in the weekly newsletter, The Mews. There are periodic events planned for members to participate, including a class in canning. Members are invited to visit the farm and enjoy the educational opportunities, including the bluebird walk, a children’s garden, a butterfly garden, herb and sunflower gardens. CSA: Mid-June to October McKinley Community CSA Founded by concerned neighbors in 2010, last year we grew 32 crops in over 120 varieties. Our inaugural shareholders expressed an appreciation for the regular inclusion of familiar vegetables such as carrots and lettuce in their shares, as well as enthusiasm for new introductions to their tables like lemon cucumbers, pea shoots and kohlrabi. We farm to grow biodiversity in our soil and cropland. We do not use synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. Starting mid-June and ending in October, you will receive a three-quarter bushel box of seasonal vegetables once a week for an anticipated 17-week season, a newsletter with updates on the growing season and recipe ideas, and invitations to our end-of-the-season Harvest Supper and skill-building events, such as how to build a solar food dryer or cooking demonstrations. We envision a series of pocket-farms throughout the McKinley neighborhood that at peak production will serve over 600 households in the CSA model, enhancing and preserving open green space and dramatically improving the economic reality of our community. You can sign-up with us online at http://mckinleycommunity.csasignup.com/members. Mhonpaj’s Garden Farm
If you answered yes to these questions, then sign up for our CSA at www.mhonpajgarden.biz, or call us directly at 651-278-1009. Learn more about us and our local education about Hmong and authentic Asian greens, along with your traditional vegetables in Minnesota. My Minnesota Farmer As your farmers, we strive to offer the best, freshest and most delicious produce around. We offer more than 30 different varieties of fruits and vegetables over an approximately 18-week CSA season, but our main focus is growing fruits and vegetables that most people know and enjoy. We also have weekly egg shares during the CSA Our farm is situated on 40 acres, 30 miles south of the Twin Cities metro area. Over the past six years we have been growing the farm piece-by-piece, each year growing more food on healthier soils. We are committed to growing our food free of chemicals in a natural and sustainable way and providing that food to you in its freshest, simplest form. We offer delivery to eight Twin Cities and outstate locations, or pick-up at the farm where you can bring home any “extras” we have been blessed with. We celebrate with three farm events, but welcome members anytime because we love to show you how we grow your food. Allow us the opportunity to become your farmer. Nitty Gritty Dirt Farm We are intentional about our chemical-free, sustainable farming practices, including maximizing soil health through green and animal manures, compost, mulch, cover crops and crop rotations. We also use pesticide-free pest management to naturally monitor, prevent and control insects and other pests, and maintain animal health and well-being through the use of loose housing and pasture rotations. We are also intentional about creating community and personal well-being through our connections with the land and its abundance — we invite you to share in that with us. Three farm festivals provide opportunities for visiting the farm to meet the farmers, as well as learn about chemical-free farming, good land stewardship and sustainable living. Other farm activities include workshops on farm crafts and music. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
Philadelphia Community
Farm Families are encouraged to bring their children to work, learn and play in nature...as we have also been pioneers in the movement to address nature deficit disorder in children. Through biodynamic agriculture, we nurture the farm as a whole organism, building a regenerating circle of soil, plant, animal and human life. Located one-hour northeast of the Twin Cities on the St. Croix River, we serve the St. Croix Valley and Twin Cities. Members take turns driving to bring shares to the drop-sites. Delivery to your home or business by Simple Provisions (carter@simpleprovisions.com) can be arranged for an extra fee. Shares start in mid-June and go until Thanksgiving, and include over 40 types of vegetables and herbs as they come into season. Extra vegetables for preserving are included when available. A solar/geothermal greenhouse extends our season. We donate surplus to food shelves. Benefits: visiting the animals, exploring the 300+ acres of preserved forest, prairie, streams and waterfall. Festivals are held in June and September. Piney
Hill Farm This year we will offer 18- or 24-week full shares or a 9-week bi-weekly share. We have drop-sites in St. Paul near Hamline, Uptown (28th and Lyndale), South Minneapolis (near Xerxes and 50th), and locally in Wisconsin. Available as a separate add-on to your share is a Thanksgiving storage share. We emphasize variety and quality, including over 10 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, various types of greens and salad mixes, and a few new things each year to make it interesting. This year, we are strongly encouraging all members to come help on the farm during a scheduled work day, doing things like planting, harvesting garlic or onions, hoophouse construction, weeding, etc. We look forward to building the “community” that should be part of a “community-supported” farm. An Autumn Hootenany with live band, cider pressing and pumpkin harvest will take place in late September. We are constantly adapting our growing practices to be as sustainable as possible and use no chemical inputs...because vegetables are supposed to be good for you! Please e-mail us at pineyhillfarm@gmail.com for a brochure and a full list of produce we grow. Ploughshare
Farm Ploughshare Farm was founded in 1998 and has been operating as a CSA since 2002. We have adequate infrastructure — including proper irrigation, washing facilities and cultivation equipment — to operate our size farm properly. That being said, our operation is still young enough that we are not “set in our ways.” We are continuously asking ourselves how we can do things better. Weekly deliveries to our CSA members include an array of garden staples, gourmet and specialty crops. As a family of six ourselves (four young boys under the age of 14), we keep in mind what families want to eat. In order to assist families with the basics of eating “in-season” vegetables, we offer interactive web resources, weekly e-newsletters, recipes and cookbooks. We have opportunities for members to participate in a “hands-on experience” during our Fall Festival and our June Pea Pick. We deliver weekly over a period from early-June to late September for our regular summer shares. In addition, we offer fall storage shares and winter frozen shares delivered October through March. We have drop-sites at central locations in Minneapolis, Minnetonka, New Hope, Rogers, St. Paul, St. Cloud, Fergus Falls and Alexandria. If you are interested in hosting a drop-site, we offer great incentives. Prairie Sun Farm We provide sustainably grown vegetables June through October (18 weeks) in both half share and full share sizes. Each 3/4 bushel box contains many varieties of vegetables, including a few you probably haven’t tried before — all organically grown and picked at their peak for freshness. A weekly newsletter will keep you informed of what’s going on at the farm and provide tasty recipes to try. The farm, which was primarily corn and soybeans before we purchased it, sits on 40 acres with wetlands and prairie surrounding it. During the last 5 years we have been transitioning it from a conventional, monoculture farm into a diversified, productive landscape. Cover crops are used to enhance the soil and provide weed control, and 10 acres of prairie provide opportunity for wildlife and beneficial insects. The weekly or bi-weekly shares will be available for pick-up in downtown Chaska at Dolce Vita Wine Shop on Wednesdays, or at the farm on Thursdays. Come join us and share in the rewards of healthy eating. Call, e-mail us or visit our website at www.prairiesunfarm.com for more information. Riverbend
Farm All of our produce is certified organic and sustainably grown through cover crop and crop rotation systems, composting and use of green manures. We are active in the Local Fair Trade Network as well. You can be sure that your CSA share will support your health as well as the health of our community. Our 18-week delivery season will provide you with a diverse array of delicious, fresh-from-the-fields, seasonal produce. We also grow many heirloom varieties to ensure that your meal-plan will never lack in color, flavor or an abundance of choices. In addition, we offer extra produce (at an additional cost) for families interested in canning, freezing, etc., to ensure that their diet is as local as possible year-round. Shares are available for pick-up at the farm Tuesday evenings and at local co-ops on Wednesdays. Contact us or visit our website at www.rbfcsa.com for more information. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Rock
Spring Farm Our summer vegetable share contains eight to 12 items in meal-sized quantities. Many of our CSA members find themselves eating more vegetables because of the freshness, flavor and cleanliness of our produce. In addition to the standard CSA share, we offer extended-season shares so that you can get fresh, local vegetables year-round. We also offer a fruit share as an add-on item. Our Friday afternoon delivery sites include Grand Avenue in St. Paul; 50th and France in Minneapolis; Seward Co-op and Linden Hills Food Co-op in Minneapolis; Lakewinds Natural Foods in Chanhassen; and Rochester. A weekly newsletter with farm news, information about the produce, and original recipes from our kitchen accompany every box. Our produce is certified organic by the Midwest Organic Services Association, and our farm has been certified to meet the USDA’s voluntary standards for the safe production and handling of fresh produce. Roselawn Heritage Farms All extra produce goes to support our local food shelf. Please contact us at www.roselawnheritagefarms.com or via e-mail at p_karpe@msn.com. SEEDS Farm To accomplish these goals, we strive to integrate our farm into the surrounding community by participating in the Riverwalk Farmers' Market, working with the Community Action Center food shelf, providing internship opportunities to college and high school students, and supplying fresh produce to local schools through the Farm-to-School program. At our farm, we offer four ways to get involved. The first is both full- and half-share CSA memberships. We partner our CSA with a Junior Farmer Program to get children excited and involved with the outdoors through hands-on activities. Next we have the Community Garden—for $25, you get your own personal gardening plot for the season. The Communal Farm is a great option for those who want a hands-on experience in the farm. Please feel free to contact us at seedsfarm@gmail.com or learn more by visiting our website at www.seedsnorthfield.com and our blog at www.seedsfarm.blogspot.com. Sleepy Root Farm Servicing the Twin Cities and the west-of-the-metro areas of Delano, Buffalo, Howard Lake (and any towns between!). Our focus is to cultivate meaningful connections between people and their food. The greater our understanding of what sustains us, the deeper our relationship, the better it nourishes us body and soul. We offer 18 weeks of a full share of vegetables, herbs and fruit (enough for a family of four or two very enthusiastic vegetable eaters). We also welcome people to come out to the farm for special events or to simply visit. Included with the share is a weekly newsletter that will aid in further exploration of food, how to best use it, and the profoundness of our relation to the greater edible ecosystem. Visit our website, www.sleepyrootfarm.com, to find out more about us and to sign up for the CSA. Sogn Valley CSA We offer two types of weekly shares. The full share is meant to serve a family of four with a good appetite for vegetables. A half share would feed a couple. We also offer a salsa share, which is a one-time box of everything you need to make salsa, as well as a flower share, which is a weekly bouquet of flowers. Our season runs from early June to the beginning of October, with one week off for our family vacation. We also sell at the Cannon Falls Farmers’ Market and the Riverwalk Market Fair in Northfield. For more information, e-mail us at sognvalleycsa@frontiernet.net or call Leslie at 507-263-7422. Spring
Hill Community Farm We grow over 35 different vegetables and herbs and round out our vegetable production with a few beehives and a sugar bush for maple syrup. Our Standard Share typically includes 18-20 weeks of vegetables with an emphasis on the basics—carrots, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, onions and lettuce. We also offer an Every Other Week Share and a one-time Winter Delivery. Joining Spring Hill includes a work requirement. Each household comes to the farm at least once during the season to harvest and wash vegetables, visit with the farmers and other members and delivers packed bags of fresh veggies to the Twin Cities. Members are also welcome to participate in workdays and seasonal celebrations. We invite you to join us in our 20th season. You’ll experience the richness of this community, knowing the land on which your food is grown, and eating incredibly fresh, tasty vegetables. Sunshine Harvest Farm We offer our CSA shares year-round in full (20 lbs.) and half (10 lbs.) quantities in three- and six-month increments. Each monthly box contains chicken, eggs, beef and/or pork. Delivery is once a month to various metro area locations. On weekends from May to October we can be found at the Mill City Farmers’ Market on Saturdays and at the Kingfield Farmers’ Market on Sundays. Both markets are also CSA pick-up locations. Please see our website for a typical box example, delivery locations and more information. Call or e-mail with questions or to subscribe. If you are looking for your own personal farmer to provide you with meat and eggs, then please join us for another successful season. Sweet M’s Farm Our products are minimally processed, nitrate-free, MSG-free and gluten-free, and utilize organic ingredients whenever feasible. We have fantastic traditional offerings such as our succulent pork chops and steaks, bacon and hams, in addition to unique and innovative products. We welcome visitors to the farm for customer appreciation events and meals, retail hours and tours. Our CSA shares are flexible so they meet almost any household size and needs. You can even give us a list of your preferences so you are guaranteed satisfaction with your share every month! Choose from pasture-raised pork, free-range chicken, or grass-fed beef and/or a combination of two or more. One meat share equals 10 pounds of meat per month, but half shares and mixed shares are also available. Egg shares equal two-dozen eggs per month. Additional meat can be purchased for delivery with your share — this is especially helpful around the holiday season for gift-giving and holiday meals. We make monthly home and drop-site deliveries March to December to the Park Rapids, St. Cloud and Twin Cities areas. Join any time of the year. Yearly fees can be paid in full or split into two or four payments. We accept cash, checks and credit cards via Paypal. Sylvan
Hills Farm Join the Garlic Celebration in July for fun in cleaning circles and supper provided by our professional chef. Survey Monkey rated us high for quality and dependability. Members may option to help harvest surplus bumper crops to can or freeze. We grow soils and biota that create healthy plants and produce, resulting in high nutrition. Most inputs to soil are our own compost grown on the farm, or certified organic amendments to make sure soil is balanced and has important trace minerals. To assure you’re getting the highest standard of quality, we are certified organic to guarantee you as a customer that you’re getting what you paid for. Multiple varieties of carrots, corn, beans, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, garlic, squash, broccoli, cabbage, beets, peppers, kale, chard, herbs and more. Drop points include: Summit Ave. and Fairview in St. Paul, downtown Minneapolis by the Dome, University of Minnesota (West Bank), Linden Hills neighborhood in Minneapolis, Lowry Hill East in Minneapolis, South St. Paul, Hudson Wis. and Menomonie, Wis. Tangletown Gardens CSA We are committed to sustainable agriculture on our 40-acre farm in Plato, Minn., and grow the best quality vegetables, herbs and fruits for you, while respecting the earth and yielding an amazing array of varieties and intense flavors. Each week your share is accompanied by a newsletter providing useful information and recipes. We also host a CSA Day at our farm during the summer so you can see firsthand the land from which your shares have been carefully grown. Full shares are best suited for a family of four. Half shares are ideal for two vegetarians. Shares are delivered to Tangletown Gardens between Wednesdays and Saturdays from 3 p.m. to close. Sign up by going to www.tangletowngardens.com, stopping by our store, or calling 612-822-4769. Tangletown Gardens is a full-service garden center and CSA servicing the Minneapolis Metro area. We offer over 3,000 perennial varieties, an incredible annual and heirloom vegetable selection, unusual woody shrubs and trees, and an extensive array of aquatic and indoor plants. Keep an eye out for the opening of our new restaurant across the street serving fresh, homemade food from our farm in a casual setting for dine-in or take-out. The Farm of Minnesota The boxes are delivered to their designated pick-up locations, near you, on Tuesdays. We have multiple pick-up locations in western Minneapolis. We believe in sustainable farming and work to provide nutritionally dense food. We are a transitional farm and should have the entire farm certified organic in a few years. Season extension is a growing part of what we do. In the future we will have shares available for each month of the year. Come join the fun and enjoyment of weekly fresh food. Our signature crop is strawberries. We have many other fruits like raspberries too. Our farm is located west of the cities near the town of Hutchinson. Please visit our website at www.thefarmofmn.com to get complete details. You may find our FAQ’s page most helpful. Thank you for your interest in our CSA. We have many pick-up locations and can create a pick-up site at your work if enough people there join our CSA family. The Long Siding Farm Close proximity to the Twin Cities enables us to deliver to the metro area daily. We grow a wide variety of USDA certified organic fruits and vegetables. We’re happy to be able to offer everything from arugula to zucchini. In 2010 we had a great season and we’re looking forward to an even better 2011. Our farm includes a high tunnel, enabling us to plant earlier and grow later. Currently drop off locations are available in Minnetonka, Blaine, New hope and Savage. As the spring progresses, more locations may become available. Two CSA options are available. A full share (over a bushel) is better for a larger family or those who wish to do some preserving/canning. The half share option may be better for small families or couples. Visits to our fields can be arranged. Thorn Crest Farm At Thorn Crest we have been growing produce without the use of herbicides and synthetic pesticides for over 20 years, and in 2011 will enter our fourth season of offering CSA shares. We are committed to caring for our land and providing our members with a wide variety of fresh, nutritious, great tasting produce. Membership includes a weekly share of produce (enough to typically feed an average family of four; two adults and two children, depending on individual vegetable consumption; over a bushel at peak season), for about 18 to 22 weeks, depending on the growing conditions. Members can pick up their produce shares at the farm or at a drop-site located at Just Foods co-op in nearby Northfield, or at Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville. Pick-your-own opportunities are available at the farm at different times throughout the season. Members are invited and encouraged (at no additional charge) to take advantage of these extras, including peas, green beans, basil, strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, and occasionally others. Members can cut their own bouquet from the cutting garden as the season progresses. Chicken and turkey shares are also made available to members, as well as a limited number of egg shares. Members are encouraged to stroll around the farm and enjoy the beautiful countryside. We hope you’ll join us for the next growing season. Growing produce is our passion; we’d love to be your farmer! Tiny Planet Produce We are located in the scenic St. Croix River Valley on a 20-acre farm just across from Deere Lake. 2011 marks the second year that Tiny Planet Produce will offer shares for our CSA. We focus on the staples, but enjoy growing a wide variety of heirloom and specialty crops. With a combined 10 years experience in growing food, we love what we do and it shows! You can visit us at our local St. Croix Falls Farmers’ Market on Saturdays or in Minneapolis at the Kingfield Farmers’ Market at 43rd and Nicolett on Sundays. Our CSA runs for 17 weeks and consists of a ¾ bushel box stuffed with top-notch quality produce. Each week you will also receive a newsletter with farm updates, pictures and brief description of each item, along with recipes. We offer boxes available to be picked up on the farm or delivered directly to your doorstep. Discounts are given for drop-site locations that consist of five or more boxes. Members of the farm are also invited to celebrate the harvest with us at the end of the season during our annual harvest party. Full season members are also offered first dibs on bulk items for canning or freezing, and are the first to know about the availability of fall shares. For drop-site locations and more information, visit us at www.tinyplanetproduce.com. Treasured Haven Farm We only include vegetables that we have personally grown so you are guaranteed of their origin and highest standards in naturally-grown farming practices. Our goal is to exceed your expectations in educational opportunities, quality, quantity, service and value. From our many options, you can create what best fits your family’s lifestyle and budget, and pick up at one of many conveniently located metro drop-sites. Our farm website has detailed information. Also available: harvest boxes, pumpkins, eggs, chickens, turkey, beef and more. Coming in 2011: fruit shares. We are an easy trip up I-35 to help in the gardens, walk or run wooded trails, see the animals, or just enjoy the open countryside on 400 acres. Our members are welcome to pitch tents or bring their camper. Watch the process of building a log home with a large gathering room for farm events. We also host seasonal cross-country running races on the farm trails, which are open to everyone! Check www.treasuredhavenfarm.com for more details. Thanks for reading about Treasured Haven Farm! Turnip Rock CSA
Uproot Farm 2011 is our first season at Uproot after having spent three years apprenticing on vegetable farms learning how to grow veggies. The land we’ll be farming was previously in conventional production, so we are in transition to organic. We are excited about our first season as Uproot Farm and hope you’ll join us in our adventure!!! Your share will be a weekly delivery of a ¾ bushel box. It is designed to feed two veggie-loving adults or four veggie-liking people, and each box will contain between six and 12 kinds of veggies, depending on that week’s harvest. Each week you will receive a newsletter with recipes, storage and handling advice, and news from the farm. You will pick up your box at the drop-site of your choice on the specified delivery day.* *If you are interested in hosting a drop-site, please contact the farm. Webster Farm Organic We specialize in a greater variety of nutrient-dense foods in smaller amounts, much of which can be eaten fresh and simply. We meet members Thursday evenings in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and host at the farm Friday evenings. We have multiple opportunities to visit the farm, and publish weekly newsletters and recipes. We will make substitutions for food allergies. With Salad Days, everyone eats well. Visit us at www.websterfarmorganic.com for photos, schedules, sites, information and sign-up forms. Will Heal Farm We offer wide varieties of vegetables throughout the growing season, starting June 1 and ending October 1. Salad greens, snow peas, wild edibles, carrots, heirloom tomatoes, zucchini, winter squash and garlic are just a few vegetables that we offer. A variety of medicinal herbs are now available at the farm or Grass Roots Co-op in Anoka. We harvest shares on Tuesdays and Fridays. Choose which day is best for you to pick up at the farm. A limited number of shares are available for pick up at Grass Roots Co-op in Anoka on Tuesday afternoons, as well as Fresh and Natural Foods in Roseville on Saturdays. Would you like to help at the farm? Willing workers get a discounted share for helping to bring in the harvest. Many of the past volunteers have really enjoyed the one to two hours a week they spend learning where their food comes from and how it grows. Kids are welcome. Check out our website at www.willheal.com for more information about our CSA, available produce, medicinal herbs and composting red worms. Winding Road Farm Our season at Winding Road Farm runs from mid-June through late October. You will receive a 3/4 bushel reusable box of fresh, delicious produce delivered once-a-week for approximately 18 weeks. Each box will contain roughly enough veggies for a family of four. Every week’s box will also contain our exciting and educational farm newsletter with tips for storing and preserving that week’s items, as well as recipes and farm updates. Women's Environmental
Institute WEI provides a weekly delivery of certified organic produce to our members for 18 weeks. Each box contains an array of seasonal vegetables, herbs and sometimes fruit. A farm newsletter with recipe ideas is included in each week’s box. Our autumn season boxes (late September and October) will contain a variety of delicious certified organic apples from our orchard. Our delivery day is Thursdays (beginning mid-June) in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area, as well as in Forest Lake, White Bear Lake, Coon Rapids, Cambridge and North Branch. Home deliveries are available if the drop includes at least six boxes. Please call us for more information about this option. This year CSA members will also enjoy the opportunity to add more value-added products (e.g., fresh-milled flour, honey, maple syrup, artisan organic bread and cookies, etc.) to their box through the WEI online ordering page at our website. More detailed information on pricing and delivery sites will be posted as it becomes available at www.w-e-i.org, or call 651-583-0705.
AtoZ Produce & Bakery Our small (30 member maximum) CSA picks up at the farm. Each week’s vegetables go into the walk-in cooler, which functions as the members’ farmers’ market. Each member chooses among the available produce to fill either a half (1/2 share) or whole (full share) bushel basket. Pick-up is flexible and can be arranged Friday p.m. to Tuesday p.m. We start at the end of May-beginning of June, and go until mid-October with a one-week break and final pick-up of larger quantities of storage vegetables. We also offer a 6-week Spring Share of salad greens and fixings from our field tunnels, starting in March.
We are serving Fergus Falls, Underwood, Battle Lake, Perham, Frazee, Vergas, Pelican Rapids, Fargo/Moorhead, Barnesville and Breckenridge/Wahpeton. Members are invited to stock up for winter and connect with the farm at numerous harvest events in addition to the box deliveries.
Our veggies, fruit and herbs are chosen by people like you, and we like requests! We offer a variety of traditional vegetables like green beans, tomatoes and carrots, plus some others to challenge your culinary skills! (Don’t worry, we provide tips and recipes on how to enjoy them!) Each box contains up to 14 different vegetables and fruits. For example, June is lighter and August more plentiful; though we do our best not to leave you hungry or overwhelm you. Besides vegetables, new members choose a gourd birdhouse or handmade button jewelry. Members also enjoy our weekly newsletter, optional volunteer days, a harvest celebration and stay in touch with us online on Facebook and Twitter! All members get a 10% discount on bulk purchases. Our full share is enough for a family of four or two adults who love veggies and want to have extra to preserve. You can split the share with a buddy or we offer a half share — delivered every-other-week for a total of 10 boxes for 20 weeks. Pick-up sites: Mankato and Blue Earth. Imagine: getting to know where your food comes from, supporting enthusiastic farmers and eating fresh, sustainably-grown food daily!
We believe in the natural process of growing our food. We are driven by our commitment to provide our family and our customers with the highest quality natural, fresh food. Our love of the land drives our pledge to always grow the food we eat in ways that do not harm the earth. Time tested methods; hard work, family and laughter surround our gardens. We love the land we farm and we love to farm together. Our growing season starts in mid-May and continues through October. We offer summer CSA shares in 3 different sizes to suit your family’s eating needs. Each week’s delivery includes 9-12 different varieties of homegrown goodness, as well as recipes and a farm newsletter. In addition, we offer eggs, honey and flowers when you pick up your share on the farm. We also offer extra produce to our members who are interested in canning and freezing to fill the freezer. We invite you to join us in a summer (and beyond!) of the freshest food you have ever enjoyed!
GRG employs sustainable methods of crop production through the use of composts, manure, mulches, green manures, cover crops, crop rotations and minimal use of pesticides. Many varieties of produce are grown that have better flavor and/or nutrient value than those most commonly available. All GRG CSA members are welcome to come tour the farm at any time throughout the season and we have a fall festival/harvest celebration on the farm in September for all members. GRG CSA shares will include the following crops, in-season: asparagus, beans, beets, blueberries, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, currants, herbs, gooseberries, kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, radishes, raspberries, rhubarb, spinach, squash, strawberries, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, watermelon and zucchini. Kitchen tested recipes are included each week to help utilize those products you may not be familiar with.
We grow and sell our fresh-picked fruits and vegetables, berries, herbs, eggs, honey and cut flowers at area farmers’ markets, as well as through our CSA program. Depending on weather, weekly deliveries start mid-June and run through mid-October. First boxes are packed with cool season crops like salads, snow peas, spinach, asparagus and strawberries. As the season progresses, standards like tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and zucchini will be offered abundantly. Also available are shell beans, winter squash, potatoes (six different varieties), carrots and parsnips, which can be stored throughout the early winter. When the season allows for abundance, we will provide it. Our selection is both traditional and unusual. We grow vegetables that are familiar to most customers. However, we like to try and experiment with the unusual—some of our vegetables are not readily available in local stores. Egg shares are available year-round. We offer full shares (3/4 bushel) packed every week for 16 weeks. Half shares are one full share packed every-other-week for eight weeks. Drop-sites: farmers’ markets in Marshall on Saturdays, Tuesdays in Madison, Thursdays in Dawson. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Keppers’ Pottery & Produce Two of us operate the farm — small enough for detail, but large enough to meet demand reliably. For 15 years we have provided generously packed boxes of vegetables. We have never missed a delivery. All the produce you receive was grown by us on our farm. We offer variety, but emphasize the familiar. So that you receive the freshest vegetables possible at peak nutrition, we practice same-day harvest. There are no large refrigeration storage units on our farm. We harvest, rinse and deliver to you. Each year the farm hosts a garden tour, spring and fall events. Members are welcome when visits are arranged in advance. You choose on which weeks of our 35-week harvest schedule you want vegetables — we give you our harvest schedule and you choose the number of weeks you get vegetables. This allows you maximum flexibility to meet your schedule needs. Our passion and commitment to building healthy soil translate to superior nutrition and flavor for all we serve.
Shepherd’s Share — receive a variety of our yarn that includes lace weight, fingerling, worsted, aran, gurnsey, lopi, bulky, handspun, hand-painted and art yarns. It’s a mix that will satisfy knitters, crocheters, felters and weavers. Spinner’s Share — receive a variety of our fibers as washed wool, locks, roving, sliver and spinning batts. We’ll sneak in crumbles, glitz, silk, corn, angora and mohair just to make things really exciting. Each share comes in three levels: half, full and double. The 2011 season begins with lambing and the first shipment is in April. Shipments or deliveries will be made every-other-month for the rest of the year: June, August, October, December and February.
Our CSA garden is 100% chemical free. We raise over 100 varieties—heirlooms for their incomparable flavor and high nutritional value, and hybrids for their productivity in our northern climate. Produce is picked at the peak of ripeness, then delivered within hours for maximum immune system boosting. We do not grow any GMO crops, nor do we buy seeds from any Monsanto company. We offer three share sizes:
Members receive a weekly e-newsletter with garden reports, recipes featuring the upcoming week’s harvest, fun facts about unusual varieties and anecdotes about Midheaven Farm life. When we have more of a veggie crop than we can pack into the share boxes, members can pick-their-own for free. New in 2011—Egg Share. Chicks bought last October will start laying this spring. They’ll range in the garden with protection from predators. Their grain ration is homegrown biodynamic wheat, oats and barley, with supplemental organic soybean meal.
As a family with small children, we pay close attention to the health of our soils and ourselves, never utilizing chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Our CSA season runs for 16 weeks from Mid-June to Mid-October, and we offer both full every-week shares and every-other-week shares. Besides produce, members can also arrange for Organic Valley dairy from “the world’s smallest dairy route,” and purchase whole chickens we raise on pasture. We deliver directly to your home or business in our local area between Pelican Rapids and Detroit Lakes on Friday afternoons.
Our CSA runs for 18 weeks from mid-June through mid-October. We offer both full and half shares. Half shares are a full box of produce delivered every-other-week throughout the season. Delivery sites are at the St. Peter Food Co-op and on Good Council Drive in Mankato. We also have pick-up at the farm. We offer a wide selection of vegetables, herbs and fruit. We grow all of the standard vegetables like juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce and carrots, and tender broccoli to name a few, but we also grow a few of the under-utilized veggies like tomatillos and rutabagas. In our weekly newsletter, we give tips and recipes for that week's produce. In the end, the CSA members ultimately decide what we grow with their feedback. We have worked hard to grow what our customers want and in quantities that are useful to them. We also offer tomato preserving shares and a fall share. We hope that you will join us in celebrating how good food can be when it is grown with a love of the soil and eaten with a mind towards the idea that food connects us all.
During the season you will find over 40 different vegetables, fruits and herbs in your share. We delight in bringing our members several varieties of different crops such as tomatoes, peas, carrots and potatoes, including many heirloom varieties. We sell full and half shares, delivering on Monday or Thursday to drop of locations in the Bemidji area. The vegetable garden only takes up about four acres of our 160- acre farm. A quarter of the farm is maintained as wildlands, including a tamarack swamp, floating sedge bog and hardwood forest. On the rest we raise highland cattle for beef (and fertilizer!), bees for honey and heritage chickens for eggs and meat. Beef, honey, eggs and chicken can be purchased as additions to our shares.
In 2004, Leah Nesbitt and her husband Sam Miller started working at Nesbitt’s full time, and in 2005 we opened a retail space in which we provide locally produced and sourced products. In addition to the multitude of our own Food Alliance certified apples, produce (we started our CSA in 2009) and fresh pressed cider, we offer syrup, honey (harvested from our backyard) Fair-Trade and organic coffee, homemade ice cream, local art and music. We also offer breakfast, lunch and pastries in our new café, Oasis Eatery. Purchasing a share allows you to enjoy one 10-15 lb box of produce each week of our growing season. We start around the first week of July and finish toward the end of September—approximately 12 weeks. In addition to our “bread and butter” produce, we include herbs, squash, sugar pumpkins, apples and fresh-pressed cider in our CSA! If something were to happen during the growing season — weather, hail damage, etc.—you would be reimbursed accordingly. If you received produce for 25% of the season you would be reimbursed 75% of your share crop, or if you received 50% of your produce we would give back 50% of your share crop, so on, and so forth. Each box of produce will include recipes, and a wonderful resource for recipes! If a share seems too much for you, feel free to split the box. We contact you one week before the produce is ready.
As both teachers and farmers, we have always enjoyed the opportunity to work outside with the rhythm of the seasons. After nine seasons of combined experience interning, volunteering and managing at different farms, we began our own farm business in 2010. In 2011, we will be offering full and half CSA shares from June through October. Full shares consist of a ¾ bushel box of produce every week for 18 weeks and half shares consist of a ¾ bushel box every-other-week for 18 weeks. We raise many of the most popular vegetable and herb crops, along with a few heirloom varieties for flavor and a change of pace in your kitchen. Each share box includes a newsletter with delicious recipes that will get you excited for turning your share box into tasty meals and snacks for your family. First and foremost, we strive to provide you with fresh, chemical-free produce that looks great and tastes delicious. We prewash your produce and most of your produce is harvested fresh on the day we deliver to you. We are in the process of transitioning our land to be certified organic. For more information, please visit our website: http://prairiedrifterfarm.wordpress.com.
As a shareholder, you’ll receive a weekly e-newsletter that includes history about the veggies you receive each week, as well as recipes, news from the farm and a projection of the following week’s share contents. Shares include an assortment of tasty, sustainably grown vegetables, herbs and melons as they mature throughout an 18-week season. Occasional flower bouquets are also included. Share size will vary throughout the season, based upon crop yields and seasonality (they’ll be heavier and with greater selection as the season progresses). A full share should provide for the vegetable needs of a family of four (two adults/two children), or a vegetarian couple. Half shares include roughly the same assortment, but less of each item. This season we have decided to discontinue selling at local farmers’ markets in order to focus more fully upon and expand the CSA. We are now offering share pick-up in Albert Lea and Owatonna, in addition to our previous pick-up location options of Waseca or here at the farm. Please contact us to inquire about becoming a shareholder for the 2011 season.
In 2011, we are offering a Summer Veggie Share, an Egg Share and a Winter Veggie Share. We also raise pastured pork, free-range chicken, and honey for folks to buy à la carte. Our CSA shares are available for pickup Monday or Friday afternoons on our farm. Each member will take home their products in handmade, reusable “farm bags.” Full and 1⁄2 shares available for Veggie Shares. The Summer Veggie Share runs for about 20 weeks, from early June to the end of October. It includes all the favorites—greens, broccoli, green beans, carrots, summer squash, cabbage, tomatoes, melons, corn, eggplant, peppers, winter squash, onions, potatoes and more. In addition, members can u-pick flowers and herbs each week. Each week, Egg Share members will receive a dozen eggs from our heritage breed chickens. Our Winter Veggie Share will have four pick-ups—one each in November, December, January and February. Throughout the course of the winter, members will receive salad greens, carrots, beets, onions, dry beans, potatoes, squash and cabbage, as well as a variety of frozen vegetables—everything from green beans to corn and eggplant to broccoli. We strive to create a community-centered farm, and we love visitors! Come by any time. We offer classes in partnership with local organizations, and we are hoping to increase the scope of our classes and create some youth programming for next season.
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For more information, contact us or see our website at www.threshingtablefarm.org.
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Resources • The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association has a national listing of CSA farms; phone: 1-888-516-7797; website: www.biodynamics.com/csa.html. • From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh, Seasonal Produce, 3rd Edition is a low-cost resource for anyone interested in using seasonal produce. This book contains more than 370 recipes and features 46 different vegetable and herb sections. To order this 200-page book, call 608-226-0300, or log onto www.macsac.org. • Harvest for the Hungry is a program of the Emergency Foodshelf Network (EFN) that provides fresh, locally-grown produce to households facing hunger in our community. Harvest for the Hungry relies on donors and CSA members to help purchase produce from Minnesota and western Wisconsin farmers at wholesale prices. Your contribution will be evenly distributed among Harvest for the Hungry’s local farm partners, or you may designate your entire donation to a specific farm. For more information, visit www.emergencyfoodshelf.org or call 763-450-3860.
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more information, contact us at: Land Stewardship Project’s Regional Food Work • The Stewardship Farm Directory The Directory is available in pdf format at www.landstewardshipproject.org/foodfarm-main.html#sfd. Paper copies can also be obtained by contacting LSP’s Twin Cities office at 612-722-6377 or info@landstewardshipproject.org. More Information |
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